#friend-shaped just like the real thing

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hi! Your Hollow Knight AU has really cheered me up so I wanted to do a little drawing for it! This got me to get my art tablet out after months of not feeling like it so thank you for the inspiration! I hope the colors look good on any monitor that's not mine sdfsdf

Bugs In the Jingshi wyd?

I am so genuinely awestruck at how well you translated this AU to the hollow knight style! Also obsessed with the height difference.

#mdzs au #hollow knight #lan wangji #wei wuxian #fanart #Thank you so much for this B'*) #This is *so* incredible!! I feel incredibly honoured to have inspired something so beautiful! #I showed this asap to my friend who's been letting me observe their hollow knight playthrough and oh man oh man. The hype was real. #The colours have the Hollow Knight gloomy swag and the way that this looks like it could be an area in the game is soooooo good. #Thinking about the bug sounds they would make.....Peace and love on earth could be achieved with lwj hollowspeak.... #I hope you keep finding fun things to draw!! Your art has continuously brought a lot of joy! #I very much understand the pain and struggle of having a craft you just...cant seem to get your heart back into. #Sending you so much love and energy and artistic inspiration!!!! #(lwj has the wrong eye shape b/c I was too focused on getting the silly angle for dramatic perspective. whoops) #I have honestly loved doing this AU and I'm fiercely happy that its been resonating with people (as it makes me want to do more hehe)

[seawing-vibes]

Some images of my Tsu plush from Creep Cat Toy Co. !!! I love her lots one of my fav plushes <3 !! Her glow spots are glow-in-the-dark fabric ,, its super neat !

#+ the blue duck was in the box w/ the plush when I got it :) #I just refer to her as tsunami but most folks call her Tide instead pfhb lots of my friends know Tide more then the canon wof charcaters its #real sweet <3 #also unintentionally posed the first two like the post I just rbed apologies for that lmao #also pardon the beat-up state of my Lost Heir book .. its my v first wof book so its seen some things .. The Dragonet Prophesy is in worse #shape unfortunately </3 #hopefully this isn’t an annoying post at all I really . like plushes!! and wanna share em !! so I hope thats okay !!! #also these guys are still for sale ! I got lucky & got a discount on her but I still had to save up for a while <//3 the company that sells #em made dragons similar to all the DoD! #either way v cool . plush moment ! yeah ! #plush #my glow-in-the-dark picture was hell to get …. I took it while on a roadtrip in a tunnel lmao

[mango-sideburns]

My fav thing about TAZ is that any aspect out of context sounds fucking bonkers.

Like, in the balance finale there's a scene in which Garfield (who is very specifically never described visually bc most people imagine him as like. The Lasagna Cat. Who in this universe is the most powerful warlock in the realm and also has a hobby of cloning people, which is great for the one character that got forced into haunting a mannequin) is summoned by an alien spaceship that runs on the power of friendship so he could beat up some flashing balls. In D&D.

And that was just. Such a normal scene in the narrative. No one blinked an eye. I would like to bow down to Griffins clear unmatched talent for making me feel such big emotions over ridiculous shit like a goddamned umbrella or a regular ass pair of jeans or the idea of a taco recipe.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz #i have. so many drafts of this post decontexualizing so many different scenes. #merle killing a room of autism creature looking things by asking them to tell the truth which then summons god #also merle retiring from his retirement to run fantasy margaritaville under the title Earl Merle #magnus the mannequin telling taako and merle to find the baby voidfish bc the big voidfish sung at him real hard bc in the century he #just now remembered (bc hes a mannequin not a human boy) #he gifted an alien jellyfish with dozens of shitty wooden ducks. he forgot that century bc his friend fed the jellyfishs baby a book #the gnome version of Teddy Rucksbin turns out to be the universes most competent spaceship pilot. hes also a talented opera singer #a man named Barry Bluejeans is dead and uses his ghost haunting powers to gift the three heroes badges that they cant see #right before theyre shuttled off in a cannonball to save a space lab full of kitschy elevators thats snowing pink tourmaline #barry also uses his ghost powers to hold hands with magnus and make random shapes in midair like a dresser when theyre trapped in a #fantasy version of The Dating Game hosted by ghost Jesse and James Rocket who steal bodyparts if you lose their game. #or like in campaign how a dude who wiped out in the first three seconds of ninja warrior convinces a human wifi router #who owns a bible theme park to take the apparent King of America to the white house on their hovercraft to be trued for treason #after he announced his intent to take over the country in a televised debate with an inuit goddess who is sometimes trapped in the body #of an HR worker all Donald Blake/Thor style #anyways. this show is ridiculous and i love it So Much

[skunkes]

might sound weird to say as a person with a couple ocs who have Big Horrible Event(s) in their backstories or as a person who has like 3 ocs total bc he sucks at writing and as a person who hopes their ocs arent too Boring with [the thing im about to mention] but the thing about writing [characters] and [people] is that like.

any little thing a person experiences can take up their whole existence... its actually something "fun" to experience as i meet new ppl and do more things. My friend had something happen that she'll be talking about forever. I had several things happen last year that ill never stop talking about, some of which other ppl think werent that bad actually. In the same way I'll forever remember about the way my sister accidentally insulted me almost 10 years ago, it's really interesting and Fun to find and assign smaller things like that to characters...its really Real. some people's dealbreakers are other people's solvable problems etc etc

#(as well as the opposite: Big Event that maybe shocks everyone around em but they genuinely werent shaken by) #though this one is more common and leads to those ''ohh i didnt know that was normal oops'' moments #talkys #inspired by recent me and friend events #and also recent events where i told sum ppl more stuff about Thing and they responded as if it wasnt a big deal. but it was to me. #and also how i thought a part of al's childhood backstory was kind of maybe dumb and not realistically as impactful as id expect #but i saw someone on reddit almost word for word write that as their experience and how its shaped em as a person #and thats it like... the small things are boring and hard to keep track of sometimes #its not like you'll include every single little event your oc was shaped by in their bio #but idk. its like Fun to piece together for fun. to mold a human being #ykwim? wld be silly to tell everyone ''oh my oc struggles with self image due to many instances like... when their sister called em ugly'' #or write it anywhere but it is fun to Know and have in your head. and its real ! #just like if a friend told you about something that happened to em #long post #delete later #sorry i keep saying stupid obvious shit lately ive always been bad at oc making AND socializing so im learning everything late #but anyway yes. idk even as i keep making ocs that are ''similar'' its like. every person so different #people can react to anything in any way for any reason. i love people #this is why i struggle a bit with keeping ocs to archetypes i guess bc like. what is ooc for an oc. people contain contradictions all the #time. you can change yourself at any time. #ok nobody will read this far so ill go to the real insane rambling #part of this has been a part of my chats with talon while trying to get him to share more info #like. yeah ok you're 400+ years old the things that happened to you were such a comparatively small part of your life #but humans dont live as long and think about small things until they die. i dont think time would heal all wounds actually. not all of em #some thoughts just always come to gnaw at your brain. its ok to not be over things. i feel ill never be over some things #and also complainerism can be fun but thats something else entirely wee hee ^_^

[communistkenobi]

I’m curious if other communists have like a religious relationship to their political beliefs for lack of a better word? That’s not a good word to use but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m solidly atheist but all of the feelings and emotions religious people talk about, revelation and spiritual connection to community and so on are all things I experience pretty regularly and I interpret those feelings as fundamentally communist. the way I take in and absorb information in particular feels revelatory in a religious sense. I’m pretty sure this is fairly common with MLs but I’m curious about it in general

#disabling rbs because I don’t want this to leave my blog #I’m using religious in a deliberately loaded way because I lack the language for alternatives #I joke frequently with my friend that communism is the religion of science but like I do unironically believe that lol #also not claiming marxism is ‘just another religion’ I do not think that’s true or useful to think of it in those terms #but if you take political theology seriously the belief in a socialist state is like the modern version of a desire for religious authority #anyway sorry extremely complicated things that I’m not remotely expanding on enough #I’ve just been thinking about it a lot recently #it’s like a totalising force in my life and shapes the way I interpret and understand the world and my relationship to it #I remember reading marx for the first time and in a very real sense I ‘converted’ to being a communist #I need to read more Benjamin because he goes into like jewish mythology and stuff in his work #but like him talking about the divine violence of the state made it click for me and is partly responsible for me making this post

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

every time there’s a fictional situation where anyone’s like “wouldn’t it be better if these two just stayed platonic friends?”, my answer is literally always NO

#every time #i can't think of any pair of fictional friends with a shippy following where i'm like 'no they should just not kiss' #i'm sorry i can't!!!!!! #it might be my demisexual world view shaping things #in that i'm like 'uh .......... your romantic partner is your number one bestie who you kiss' #'therefore they should kiss' #'because they are number one besties' #it's just how my brain works #i guess deep friendship and fondness is how attraction is formed to me #sometimes i wish i was cool enough to be like 'yes this relationship should stay platonic!' but let's be real i'm not #dollsome's deep thoughts #i'm extra aware of this right now because i've been in a very ted/rebecca zone and also a very mr. farnon and mrs. hall zone #and also i was thinking about grace and frankie earlier #KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i have no dignity here #jack donaghy and liz lemon? ship it! #ron swanson and leslie knope? ship it! #my default setting in life: ship it!

[aeide-thea]

poäng appreciation post 💛

#i forget if i said but Baby Sister and i stopped off at ikea on the way back from picking her up at the bus stop on monday #and finally replaced the ruined-by-a-succession-of-cats-(in-ways-both-unsightly-and-gross) Accent Chair in the living room #with a poäng rocker (bc the shape is a little more interesting and less instantly recognizable than the regular chair) in birch (my beloved #also they make fancy tufted cushions for it now! wish they came in more colors but it's a real improvement on sad options past #and anyway it's like. now you can actually sit here in the morning and look out the window at the extremely beautiful view #and the chair actually supports you??? like i could see down the road trying to work out some kind of custom cushioning that's thicker #but the shape of the frame is so ergonomic for me that it's genuinely quite comfortable regardless. bentwood exocorset… #anyway. not a very original post but i just DO really love ikea #like yes it's a mixed bag but also honestly if you're buying particle board— #(i was going to say 'and expecting it to hold up' but. honestly i think it's just. if you're buying particle board period) #—that might be on you. #(like. if you're being pressed in from all sides by budget constraints and immediate need and no accessible better-made used alternatives— #obviously you do what you have to. but it's like buying pleather—you know‚ or should‚ that the material is going to disintegrate.) #but the things ikea makes with decent materials are remarkably well-designed and affordable for what they are‚ has been my sense? #you just gotta shop carefully but like. that's true literally everywhere. #anyway. in conclusion i love my new buddy with its clean lines. …do people name chairs ever. #i've never before had the urge but this one feels like a little assembly-line friend that deserves its own identity. like a star wars clone #(lol what if i gave it a little nametag somewhere hidden. secret identity talisman 4 chairpal.) #(& yes i promise i'm as aware of the‚ uh‚ itself-ness of this tag spiral as you are. :) ) #domesticities

[gregmarriage]

really just feels like the last four years of my life have been in pretty permanent stagnation, everything’s temporary and transitional, and i’ve been trying to fix it, but every time i do, something happens to make it worse

#the universe doesn’t want me to have a stable life apparently #i say four years it’s been my fucking whole life with the universe kicking my ass #but i was stable for a long time but then 2020 reset everything #i think i slipped through the cracks and it was like ‘oh shit haven’t fucked with gwen in a while’ #then boom! #and now i’m here and it’s bullshit #man i remember when i used to have friends and i wasn’t actually for real stared at in the supermarket for being disabled #i remember when i wasn’t even disabled #like my mental health was actually good and things were better than they are now #i say ‘better’ bc in a lot of ways i had to have my brain rewired by trauma to get to where i am now #in general #not like now now #because ya know recovering from a manic episode and not in the best shape in this current moment #keep getting frustrated and it’s like bruh you were literally manic not even a full month ago #you’re still not fully recovered #trying to get better at being gentle with myself but it’s tough bc i’m not used to it #which is such a sad statement holy shit #trying not to say ‘i wanna kms’ over every tiny thing #bc triggering and bad #trying to just live in the moment and just ‘be’ #which is difficult when i’m almost constantly in pain in some way but fuck it we ball #< my new catchphrase?

[arolesbianism]

Thinks oh so hard abt the spiraling upwards clan founders, especially the birchclan founders. Silly lil kitties who's pasts are drenched in blood with the primary regret of not drawing it sooner

#rat rambles #oc posting #warriors posting #spiraling upwards #long story short they had a shitty awful terrible leader who sucked absolutely ass and they tore him to shreds #I mean that literally they pinned him onto the mountain side and slashed and mauled the shit out of him so hard that his lives evaporated #and several of the cats involved in that scene are sill alive and major parts of the story and I love them #oh also the cat that pinned him through a stab through the throat was his own daughter btw everyone hated his ass so much #and for good reason get his ass #alas in the main story I dont rly get to go too deep into how he harmed everyone involved mostly just three main ones #aka bristlestar because shes murtlepaw's ghost mom dawncrackle because hes also haunting murtle and gullspot because shes bristle's kit #so basically all the flashbacks we get involve those three in some form or another #honeystar was also there and involved but Im not currently planning on having her rly talk abt that #most of her more modern angst is the fact that she was forced into leadership against her will #and shes been alive long enough that shes been leading birchclan far longer than she ever lived in her old clan #but she did go through a lot of shit before birchclan was founded and it definitely shaped her a lot #she used to be a very determined and high spirited lil kitty cat who tried to be optimistic #but her family began to slowly be picked off one by one by both the old leader and the one whod later get evicerated #some of the older cats around her hoped it make her back down from her revelutionary ideas but she noticed that and it backfired on them #instead of being worn down to submission she became absolutely Furious and began to lash out more and become more demanding #it got to the point that she really only had two friends in the entire clan and one of them was her aunt whod later also die after coming #out abt having witnessed the leader killing his own kits #that was the final fucking straw for her and she was fully on board when bristle and dawn started looking for cats to join their rebellion #she did get rly frustrated with them as they waited patiently for the right moment but her remaining bestie kept her from going apeshit #so once the big fight finally broke out she was more than eager to join the hoard of cats chasing the bastard upwards #now unlike some of the other cats involved this legitimately actually made her feel a lot better for a while #for the first time in ages she finally felt like she could be optimistic abt smth again and was excited abt the idea of leaving this place #she had lost so much in this damn place since she was an apprentice and just wanted to finally be able to rest easy #but once they got to their new territory and set up camp things went south real fast as a flood fucked everything up #and after losing the only cat she had left in her life and losing her tail and being made deputy on top of that she deteriorated quickly

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Man I jumped the gun on calling Marcille stupid and stubborn.

#dungeon meshi tag #Really really good stuff. #I love when a demon tempts you in a not obviously evil way. Shouldn't be hard to pull off but few things try #The winged lion is charismatic in the real way. He's so kindly and friend-shaped and he just wants to help you! #Thistle was mad! You're nothing like that! You can do it *right*! #Marcille lifespan has me emo.

[scholarofgolb]

abracadaniel is such a fun little character. he's literally just shaped like a penis. he's a timid little soft boy. he's an uncle. he's got an egotistical streak at times. he makes rainbows and flowers with his magic. he's got a complicated friendship with the ice king. his first appearance he wants to kiss pb and his second he wants to kill her. like literally you go girl.

#adventure time #abracadaniel #i love him soo much actually #i also like his friendship with simon a lot when you think about it in the context of #'magic madness and sadness context' #and i love that theyre friends in the show and the last we hear mentioned him and IK arent friend anymore #but they are again in fionna and cake!!! #which i think is SO REAL in terms of friendships between real life mentally ill people #they r the closest most genuine friendships you will ever had but someimes the nature of mental illness #is that the jagged edges of your mental health issues will rub up against theres #and u will have hurt between the two of you and u might lose that friendship at times #but a lot of the times u will just end up together again anyhow and its actually a beautiful thing #also i've always thought him being shaped like a dick is SOO funny how did they get away with that fr #that was recognizable to me when i was a like between 10-12 watching the show LMFAO

[taylorswiftdebut]

some people are hating on the taylor swift lyric in fall out boy’s version of we didn’t start the fire? in the most respectful unserious way possible: grow up

#they’re all literally friends first of all #it wasn’t done in a derogatory way it’s literally just something that happened #and as a result shaped taylor’s and a lot of other musical careers #happened like right before their hiatus #and also it literally came out in june be so fucking real and mature for a second #some swifties wanna start beef with other celebrities for no reason #and even if taylor took issue with it since this is the vmas bestie is literally drunk and some things are not that deep 🫶 #eris: text

[picklewednesday]

transfem donatello

#ok hcs real qucik #she has ALWAYS liked feminine things #she has matchjng bracelets with all of her friends and sibligs. she used to have one for karai but she accidentally lost it #i iust forgot to draw it #raoh paints ALL of his sisters nails. so like leo april donnie karai #she only realised ahea teans bc leo came put and she didnt relasie yoh cpuld just. be trans #YES those are painted claws #she loves trying out makeup even though she cant actuslly. do it prpperly :( #karai and april trh their best to help their sisters though #SHE AND MILEY PRACRICE DIFFERENT BOW STYLES #her favourite is a butterfly shaped one #if she ties her madk tails normally though she ends up tripping over them bc she forgets she uses longer masks now <//3

[awordwasthebeginning]

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#this wasn't prompted by anything so don't worry #i've just been thinking about it from time to time #i think it might be helpful for me (and maybe for others too) to separate fandom and activism #not in the sense of 'oh but i watch [show] because it has great queer/poc/... rep! i'm doing my part' #but more in the sense of #'this book/film/show has problematic aspects and so does the fandom. but it is a hobby and does not define my political views' #because it doesn't and it shouldn't #being a fan of something means that i enjoy it. and others may not enjoy it for a variety of reasons some of which political. #that does not mean that our separate views of the thing define how we interact with each other outside of fandom #or how we approach (political) issues in real life #(obviously it depends. jkr making a fuckton of money for her transphobic agenda with hp merch should be reason enough not to buy her shit) #but generally...most fandoms do not have that much of an impact on real life. and so it should be ok to sometimes enjoy a thing #without constantly justifying my enjoyment to myself and/or to others. without constantly questioning it. #because i know that my actual political activism with irl impact goes in the right direction #and if you feel like your fandom experience defines your activism/is what your political views are being judged for #maybe you should find a second hobby; engage in actual activism if it makes you feel better. #because that will have a positive impact on society/the world; unlike apologising to like 47 people for uncritically enjoying something #(again. it depends. if a friend was really hurt by how [issue] was represented in a medium - I wouldn't gush about how much I loved it #or try to downplay it. maybe we won't make that medium part of our friendship then. and keep it in mind. #but i cannot keep my life 100% pure and unproblematic. that's impossible. and again. fandom is not how i shape the world. it shouldn't be.) #loquor #tdl #probably

[deathshallbenomore]

no context just nausea

#oh it’s that time of the year: summer’s over and everyone is coming back and wants to catch up #and my friends have been doing their (mostly couple-y) thing and they’ll ask about me #me who did nothing went nowhere #and I can probably see their pity/incredulity already? why how why didn’t you etc etc #like girl. where were YOU? #and I know I retreat into myself when it’s holiday season both because the heat literally kills me and I tend to just go in survival mode #but it’s also a self defence mechanism that my brain has come up with over the years. a sort of don’t ask don’t tell and you won’t suffer #not more than necessary at least #at this point it is what it is. it’s not even tragic (it feels so now because I’m aggressively pms-ing) #but still. it all comes down to being no one’s priority or something #it’s hilarious and gives you a lot of time to think about your inadequacy when it comes to being a real human lol #thanks to all those who participated in shaping my identity as the perfect accomplished student academic wannabe and not much else :) #and I cracked the code. I did! but starting anew is at least as difficult as finding the problem and takes endless time #ok I’ll try to shut up now