#copies of copies of copies. yknow

[mildmayfoxe]

today im watching the maltese falcon for the first time and the way they all talk so fast is incredible. also bogart calling falcon girl his "own true love" after knowing her for approx two days AND while his ex-partner's widow keeps calling the office over and over because SHE thinks he's in love with her is absolutely astounding

#me 🤝 humphrey bogart: calling people angel #also cool to see peter lorre in the flesh after seeing so many different caricatures of him in other movies #its funny to think about the layers of references cultural touchstones acquire over time #copies of copies of copies. yknow #i'm not exactly articulating what i mean but you know what i mean. #chatpost #ive watched over half the number of movies this month than i did the entire last YEAR! isnt that crazy #but im on a roll its old movies month #i like the blonde receptionist a lot

[solargeist]

I know you mainly draw Evo smp but I would like to see how you draw Tango Tek, your art style is very nice on my eyes

thank u ! I actually watch Tango I like him !!!

This is kinda quick and messy but ! Him !

#I rly like how that one artist draws him like a bug but I don’t want to copy AUGH #it’s weird drawing tango as a . Man. He’s a Bug . Where he snout yknow #my art #ask #Tangotek #hermitcraft #sketching #but yeah I’m caught up on his season rn >:D I like his raspy voice and how giggly he is #I think character Tango is one of the shortest hermits too . Like. 5’4 💀

[wuntrum]

orville on orville

#orville peck #my art #in the words of geoff rickley. making copies of copies fr #but yeah. yknow. had to draw it <3

[lavenoon]

Gunmar the Black(light)

Because I cannot resist the purple, and what better way to make this guy more terrifying than making him glow with what kills (other) trolls?

Less glowy version below the cut:

#post let luce #tales of arcadia #trollhunters #gunmar #gunmar the black #eyestrain #my art #[organizational tags end. do not copy further. please do not copy “post let luce” or “my art”] #character with the moniker “the black” still glowing had to give me ideas yknow #making this guy make sense keeps me from going insane among the horrors™ #this is not about making sense tho this was magpie brain deciding to draw something beyond my skill level #i'm still not “back”/ ready to be super social on here again but im proud of this and wish to share

[hamable]

Hhhh bnha 419… Deku has given this fight everything he has. What happens next is literally out of his hands.

#bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha leaks #bnha 419 #rambling followed by a tldr: #I’m sure he’ll get them back #either Eri rewinds him or Shigaraki unlocks the record struction part of his quirk which I saw some people theorizing #but yeah. Deku has faught physically as much as he possibly can. he has transferred all of OFA to Shigaraki and attampted to connect #with his mind. the boy once entrusted with the responsibility to destroy AFO now has to rely on others to finish this battle for him #unless the leaks are fake in which case carry on as usual #bc I also have gripes with him losing his arms #theres a lot of arm/hand imagery and symbolism in bnha #the all night I Am Here fist in the air #Katsuki’s whole hand holding thing #the recent thing about relief in reaching out to someone in need and them taking your hand #ffs the last few chapters Deku literally had to plow through shigaraki’s mutant finger chiton to get to his core. #his early recklessness resulting in permanent scarring and deformity in his hands as a reminder fight smarter not harder #and to adapt and be his own kind of hero and not keep trying to be an all might copy #I’m rambling but yeah. hands. losing them means losing some important symbolism but losing is also its own symbolism yknow? #TLDR #he’s gotta trust his fellow heroes to step in where he can’t but also if he doesn’t get to do a classic all might pose after all this istg #needs to accept he did everything in his power but also if he and Katsuki don’t finally take each others hands after this ISTG

[tianhai03]

saw a pic of a piece of pizza with bones in it on twitter today and i was very inspired to make a dumb little comic about it ft. the dmc gang. just a very normal gang of people finding out that there’s bones in their pizza 🍕

#wasnt gonna post this on here bc its a bit long and i cant just copy and paste it into a post like i can with twitter #but i think its really funny and a lot of people found it funny too so i figured why not lmao #devil may cry #nero(dmc) #lady(dmc) #trish(dmc) #vergil(dmc) #dante(dmc) #long post #the ladies are gone halfway through bc they simply chose to not deal with the twin's bullshit #theyre at the side slowly picking out the bones in the pizza so they can eat it. yknow. like a reasonable human being #so nero's left to deal with the twins on his own <///3 #allyart

[rosalinesurvived]

Old men yaoing

#ok they’re not old here they’re like thirties but yknow #actually they’re not old in the canon either. hm #bsd #shitpost #fukuzawa yukichi #fukumori #zskk #zenki soukoku #bungo stray dogs #also i want people to know that Mori is so dazai-ing his response here #wHaT aRe yOu sO mAd AbOuTtt that is so dazai. this opens up the possibility that dazai copies mori.

[anistarrose]

This isn't something I would describe as a prominent or even intentional theme, but there's something fascinating to me about how TAZ Balance characters associated with composing and performing music are almost entirely correlated with either being forgotten, or having an incredibly warranted fear of being forgotten.

Johann is obviously the latter. I have an ongoing fic about his parallels with Barry — who plays piano, and who is the character we see spend the most time knowing he has been forgotten by people dear to him, and grappling with it. And I've seen the Johann and Lup dynamic get well-deserved attention in AUs where she lives, and they get to relate to each other as violinists — yet the parallels are at their strongest in canon, where Lup is the "most" dead of all the undead characters, the "most" forgotten, the most reduced to a near-invisible specter haunting the narrative, and the most like Johann's worst nightmare.

There's even a parallel with Davenport, who is a beautiful singer, and whose life story and dreams and achievements are all completely erased. So that's three different characters whose forgotten stories — which Johann obviously does not know — still serve to silently justify Johann's fear of the same fate, emphasizing just how likely it is that it could come to pass. How yes, it would be that horrifying.

And as a non-musician, but an artist of a kind myself... it all resonates. The fear of one's legacy being forgotten is a common fear in general, but it has a particular type of teeth to it for us creatives, who shudder in terror at the thought of a masterwork — that feels like a piece of one's soul — being forgotten, let alone cut short by untimely tragedy.

But that's why I treasure, so dearly, that all of these musically inclined characters — Barry, Lup, Davenport, Johann — are not forgotten permanently, but instead immortalized by the Story and Song, no matter the varying degrees of alive and dead that they wind up in the end. I treasure the parallels between these characters that say being forgotten is a grounded, reasonable thing to fear; that it is scary — but that no matter what, memory will still find a way.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #taz meta #johann taz #barry bluejeans #lup taaco #davenport taz #really kravitz is the only character associated with music who doesn't have memory-related baggage #...but with him the music is more of an informed interest/ability #this isn't just an excuse to talk more about my fic but it is somewhat overlapping with themes i explore within it #and honestly (you can reblog this post but don't copy next tags) i have been having a Rough Health Year while writing it #not “gonna actually die” rough but “enough to catastrophize as someone with anxiety” rough for sure #so that somewhat naturally led to thinking about legacies. for yknow. macabre reasons #but my good friends johann and barry have helped me get to a place where i can feel a little better about it

[mishapen-dear]

almost all the badboyhalos i drew last year + one i never actually posted ! the character i have drawn the most of Ever. especially when you consider . this:

#there's ~125 frames in the animatic and even though bbh isn't in every frame he does appear multiple times in some of them #there were points i copy-pasted him from frame to frame but i think its safe to say i drew him 80+ times for that thang #again im. not usually the sort of person to draw a character over and over again okay but his design is just so EASY and FUN #badboyhalo #mishapen draws #art recap #yknow my style is WAy more consistent than i thought it was #i have GOT to get weirder #and also play around with brighter colour schemes LMAO

[mmyashas]

i think nothing is truly gone considering theyre literally 100k blocks away lol .theyre just going to move builds after a bit <- or atleast thats what it seems like to me

#considering they were trying out how to copy over a million blocks #idk m. I hope everytjing is resolved Gotbles #hence why they asked which builds to keep yknow #Idk #if it was a new server slash island then the coords wouldnt be that insane

[mmmwafflesart]

flipping through old notebooks and learning my first loz “fanart” was himekawa’s version of four swords shadow link

#it was me trying to copy a panel #yknow I don’t remember if I ever finished reading the whole thing #I was like 15 or something? #wafflestxt

[cupiidzbow]

ough my goodness .

#i kinda dont like how him and dk are like carbon copies of eachother with minor differences. So let me change a few things #I was thinking lemme tweak how I draw him a lil yknow ??? #I was like. he’d probably be tanner. he’s a beach guy right . #and I was like….. I like the idea of him being a lil fatter . So I gave him a lil tummy #and then i just unleashed psychological damage on myself without even realizing it. lort have mercy on me #txt #🦍🏄‍♂️🌊 #wip

[clouvu]

It’ll leave you breathless, or with a nasty scar~ ♥️ 🔪

#genshin impact #Columbina #Arlecchino #arlebina #so i was rewatching the harbinger trailer for like the khajillionth time today #still cant believe columbina really splayed her body over signora's casket while smiling and happily singing her theme song #she's crazy she's unhinged she's insane I Do Not Doubt She's Also Posessive #hc that signora and arlecchino were in a relationship together until yknow signora got one shotted by the raiden shogun #While arlecchino in the trailer was just bitter and grieving over her lost lover #I just KNOW that while she was singing; columbina was reveling in the fact that she has arlecchino all to herself now I just know it #side note but who needs titles for drawings when you could just copy paste songs that you had on repeat while drawing said thing /taps head

[phantom-phoenixx]

Fucked up but interesting idea

Everyone thinks that Vlad knows so much about halfa biology and growth due to his years of experience which is partially true.

He had time on his side to figure out powers but his own inner workings? His now completely messed up biology? And he has duplication as one of his main abilities?

All im saying is the man is an ex-scientist, he's got a fully stocked lab with all the fixings and sharp slicey tools and he can make as many copies of himself as he wants for test subjects.

TL;DR Vlad in order to find out more about his halfa biology performed vivisections on himself in the name of science :)

#danny phantom #danny phantom headcanon #vlad masters #vlad plasmius #dp vlad #i dunno its somethin that i think he would do in the pursuit of information #plus maybe at the time yknow self experimentation seemed his only option to know wtf was up with him #plus u can spin it to be super fucked up if u have the hc that duplicates amd the originals share the same feelings #so vlad actively cuttin open a copy of himself as a form of self harm #i dunno visually its really cool amd horrific to me

[gibbearish]

ive seen ppl saying smth in the wider plagiarism discussion to the tune of "don't worry anxious people, it's impossible to accidentally plagiarize!" and i feel like that lacks a lot of nuance that anxious brains like mine latch on to to just dismiss the possibility outright, as well as a lack of life experiences fueling it.

it is possible to "accidentally plagiarize" in that you can read something, forget about it, then a while later have your brain spit the ideas back out without telling where it got them. so of course you just assume they're yours and share them as such, because That's Where Most Of The Thoughts In Your Head Come From! and it both is and isn't plagiarism, you weren't /intending/ to pass someone's else's work off as your own, i'd even say in a way you were just as much a victim of misinformation as your audience. but you very much so did still resuse the work of someone else, even if you don't remember it.

but in my experience, this kind of thing also happens to a lot of people. you tell a friend a joke then wake up in a cold sweat two days later realizing the reason they didnt laugh was because they'd told you that joke a month ago. you reply to a friend's text and after sending you realized you ended it with the same exact phrase as theirs. you're writing edgy poetry and write a line you really like only to see it in a text post two days later saying youve already liked the post. like, it happens. so if it DOES happens and you're just honest and explain, people will understand. something like "oh shit im sorry, i totally have read that, i mustve forgotten and only remembered bits and pieces and just thought they were mine. thank you for letting me know and for the source" works wonders.

people know you can forget things. people won't automatically doubt your apology just because all true plagiarists say it was accidental. HOPEFULLY people can understand the nuance between a genuine remorseful explanation, and a thief who hoped no one would find out scrambling for excuses for why they did it. and those who can't, that's a them problem, not a you problem, you've taken responsibility for your actions as much as you can. they think the answer is simple, that the only thing stopping you from saying "yes i did it on purpose, i knew the whole time and deliberately copied them" is shame/inability to admit to your actions. but sometimes things AREN'T that simple, so imo ppl who are shitty to you for not following the script they made up for you in their head should be ignored

#youre allowed to make up scripts for people in fact good luck stopping yourself since thats kinda just part of how conversation works #is you try to predict how your audience will react to a certain statement #and my therapist actually encouraged me to practice run stuff i wanna talk about in sessions because That Makes It Easier To Talk About #like who cares if it's rehearsed‚ it's still the truth‚ yknow? #however that only applies to the things /you/ want to say. you are the only one aware of this script and the only one who agreed to it in #the first place which is why you plan contingencies into the script #is because you only have control over one character and can only take guesses at what the others might say #if you guess wrong and they do something different that doesnt mean /theyre/ not following the script #it means /your/ copy was a misprint and you filled in the blanks wrong. so do what good actors do and improvise. you'll get back on script #eventually. or not‚ if your guesses devolved into wildly speculative fanfiction‚ but frankly you knew going into it that #most of your script was guesswork so you should be prepared to have to make some things up on the fly #or see again: prepare contingencies #if your guesswork on your copy of the script turns out to be wrong‚ wouldnt it be sooo handy to have a second copy which follows this #version of events much better? #and if not that one‚ maybe this third? how about this fourth? etc etc etc #but really just. when guessing at what others will say. know that you are guessing and dont hold it against /them/ if youre wrong #sorry ik that wasnt super related to the post itself im just also passionate abt that #plagiarism #james somerton

[moonsidesong]

currently feeling emotional abt crown being over 9 years old now. i wish i still had more of her oldest art but i wasn't good at backing up my art back then </3 even so. umm. 2015 v 2024 comparison from what i do have. she's gotten so much smaller and sillier lol

#she means a lot to me...... my little baby.... #ocs #crown #brifdi #bri talks #its weird remembering that i tried so hard as a kid to try and be able to copy the real bfdi/ii face and limb assets #this was before bfb yknow?