#great questions my friend

[thequeenofthewinter]

[destroys your window to perch on the windowsill] Hello there, you sleep rather soundly for a murderer. Answer me 6, 8, 32 and 35, and I will leave this perch . . . . .

Please don’t hurt me! I only murdered Ancano and the Thalmor bastard had it coming! I’ll answer your questions. Just give me a moment to find some paper…

6. Does your Dragonborn favor melee, ranged weapons or magic? A mix of all three, or maybe none?

Dahlia prefers a mix of melee weapons and magic. Once in a while she’ll pull out a bow, but it isn’t her favorite way to deal with things. Swords and axes are her favored melee weapons, which she favors most of the time, but if she is dealing with other mages or dragons, she will throw some Destruction spells to do more damage (Fire or Shock). However, her favored form of combat is a sword in one hand and Restoration magic in the other. She doesn’t like to bother with shields because they hold her back.

8. Is your Dragonborn religious? Who's their favored god/god/pantheon?

Dahlia is indeed religious, but she isn’t one of those types who will shove what she believes down your throat (she respects the beliefs of others). She has three favored Gods, although she has been known to pray to each one on occasion: Talos, Mara, and her dear “father” Akatosh. Talos is her first and most favored God, who gives her strength and courage. Lady Mara is very special to her as a Restoration mage. And well, Akatosh she mostly yells at angst-ily like a teenager: “What do you want from me, dad?!” 

32. How does your Dragonborn view the gods, daedra and deities? How do they view the Dragonborn?

Depends on which one we are talking about. Mostly she views the deities as Gods she can pray to for favor, strength, and mental fortitude when necessary. However, there are times (kind of like I mentioned earlier with Akatosh) where she likes to question them and wonder: Why me? …Or something like that. 

As for the daedra, she doesn’t want to mess with that stuff. Most of them are evil at worst, and self-serving at their best. She is aware that there are other races who have daedra they worship (such as the Dunmer), and she doesn’t hold it against them. She will listen politely and with interest when Narile talks of Azura, but she isn’t converting any time soon.

The Legend of the Dragonborn is something all Nords grow up hearing and even playing at when they are younger. To actually be the Dragonborn…well, that was quite the shock for poor Dahlia. (She was disbelieving for a short time as it was surreal to her.) However, as she has been on her journey, she has discovered something very important: at the end of the day, the Dragonborn is just a person. 

35. How many scars do they carry, be they mental or physical?

You had to hit me with one of these hard questions, didn’t you? Sigh. Dahlia has plenty of scars, both mental and physical. There are assorted scars on her arms and legs, and even a bite mark on her left shoulder from a particularly nasty run in with a dragon. But I would have to say that the nastiest scars she has are on her back from her short imprisonment with the Thalmor…which is where some of her mental scars come from as well. She didn’t spend too long of a time in captivity with them, but any amount is too much. You might also say she carries around some other mental scars from her experiences as a child. (Dad had a bit of a drinking problem at times, and some of the children she grew up with were not particularly nice to her.)

#great questions my friend #answered asks #winter answers questions #dahlia wintersnow

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[natjennie]

IN FACT I'D LIKE SOME EXAMPLES OF ANY TIME CURIOSITY HAS HELPED THIS FAMILY! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1- LET'S SOLVE THE PUZZLE! AND LEAVE FOREVER!

#'whats a puzzle?' 'great question- lets go now!' #brennan im in love with you #tula i love you tula tula my friend tula #she's literally right #but she is not beating the paladin buzzkill allegations #d20 #dimension 20 #burrow's end

[crowleys-hips]

Rosary

tag list under the cut

@goodomensafterdark @wibbly-wobbly-blog @phantomram-b00 @crowleys-bentley-and-plants @charlotte-zophie @crowleys-curl @quoththemaiden @thewibblylever @genderqueer-hippie @lickthecowhappy @celestialcrowley @im-the-j-in-anthony-j-crowley @sabotage-on-mercury @ineffabildaddy @ineffable-rohese @rainbowcrowley @alwaysbemybae @fearandhatred @roof-of-trees @weasleywrinkles @brokewokebespoke @eybefioro @captainblou

if anyone wants to get added/removed lemme know

#idk what this is either dont look at me #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #good omens fanfic #good omens fic #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #anthony j crowley #anthony janthony crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable lovers #ineffable fandom #great plan? show me a great plan #i only ever asked questions #somebody killed my best friend #no nightingales #i forgive you #don't bother #xan writes stuff

[jq37]

FH Junior Year Post-Season Thoughts

With another season of Fantasy High in the books and my recaps all finished, I wanted to do an overview of my thoughts on the season as a whole. Even though I feel generally positive about my experience with the season, there are a few things I think maybe could have been done differently narratively or mechanically. This isn't to criticize the way the season went down or to backseat DM/Play. More my combined ten years of college for textual analysis and storytelling bleeding through, haha. 

I first want to start with the things I thought worked really well.

Fantasy High has "High" right in its title but, in past seasons (and especially Sophomore Year), not as much time as you'd think was spent actually at school and even if it was spent at school, there wasn't much time spent in class or engaging with the realities of being a student. This season really dug into the academic consequences of skipping your classes all the time and the realities of needing to do a ton of extra stuff to try for a scholarship and I think that was a refreshing thing to highlight for a change. Being more scared at flunking out than the dragon that's trying to eat you feels very emotionally resonant. Real "High School Is Killing Me" vibes for anyone who's a fan of NPMD. 

Even though Fantasy High is a show that has some deep emotional beats and strong character arcs, it's first and foremost a comedy show. From the jump, everyone was generating bit after bit that had me cracking up as usual. "Little girly dog collar" is one of the funniest combinations of words I can think of. I think it was Siobhan who said that this was the goofy season and, having seen it, I'd have to agree with her. It never failed to make me laugh and it was always a highlight of my week.  The cast just has great table chemistry that I love to watch no matter what they're doing. 

Watching some of these high level combat encounters is as close as I'll get to understanding people watching sports. Even though combat is generally my least fave part of D&D, I think the cast really killed it this season with how cleverly they played and Brennan came up with some really great combat encounters. Special shout outs to Baron's Game and The Last Stand for their unique mechanics.  

This is going to be one that's on the other list as well because my feelings are mixed, but I genuinely do like the downtime mechanic and how it forces hard choices. I think it's an interesting way to connect a mechanic to the story and cultivate stressful atmosphere for the season.

I have problems with the execution but I love the Rat Grinders in concept. I think as early as season 1 I was hoping that we'd meet a party that was like the Bizarro Bad Kids and the idea of a party that's farming XP instead of going on crazy adventures is a strong concept. Likewise, I think a character that's jealous because of your "cool" (read: tragic) backstory is also a fun trait for an unhinged antagonist in this kind of setting.

This is me absolutely showing my bias but I adored the Abernant Sisters content this season. I dunno if Siobhan specifically asked Brennan to not put her on a bus with the other beloved NPCs or what but I'm so glad she stuck around and we got the development we did. It was almost entirely ancillary to the plot but there was this clear pattern of Aelwyn getting softer and sweeter towards Adaine over the course of the season, from the guarded, "Enjoy the nemesis ward," to, full I love you's and, "I'd take them to get you." It was way more focus than I expected considering that Aelwyn completed the bulk of her arc last season and a lot of the time, a redemption arc basically ends after the big gesture (in this case, Aelwyn taking a magic blast for Adaine in Sophomore Year). So the fact that we got to see all of these sweet moments of them reestablishing their relationship outside of do or die moments was such a pleasant surprise. Again, I fully admit I am extremely biased, but this was my top wishlist item and the season overdelivered so there's a baseline happy I'm always gonna be with Junior Year. 

OK, so moving on to things I things I think could have been tweaked.

Even though I liked the downtime system and the pressures it created, it also squeezed out the chance for more casual PC to NPC interactions that would usually be more common because they were semi-locked behind the relationship track and there wasn't an obvious benefit to roll for Relationships (as opposed to something like Academics which was crucial for not flunking out). Making the mechanical benefit more clear would have helped that (even if it meant Brennan didn't get his reveal--which he ended up just telling them anyway so might as well do it early). The other thing is that the consequence of a rage token was so bad that of course they spent all season avoiding getting one. Things might have gone differently if the consequences had been a bit more obscured, like in Neverafter. And it could have been a nice parallel to the Rat Grinders to take this unknown resource that makes things easier for you but is also having this negative effect. Then it could be like dang we did the same thing they did unknowingly. 

I mentioned this in my recap but I'll talk about it again. It is a little confusing to me that we did the Ankarna subplot right after we did the very similar Cassandra subplot. It took up so much time this season which I don't think is an issue in and of itself, it's just that we literally just went through some extremely similar beats last season. Why double up on this same storyline when there's so much new ground to cover? Or if we're going to raise a god, why not make it a different kind of god? One theory I had early on was that the Rat Grinders were trying to raise their own god to one-up the Bad Kids but instead of raising a chill, misunderstood Cass type, they accidentally raised a god who was erased for a good reason and got in over their heads. 

It's fun for there to be connections between seasons but sometimes it's like, OK that's a *lot* of coincidences. Like the god who your rivals is trying to raise *happens* to be the wife of your cleric's god and also *happens* to be the god of the fiend trapped in your friend's mom's chest and that fiend *happens* to be the relative on your bard's dad's side which is *also* the reason she is randomly cursed? That's a LOT of red string connecting plot points. As unhinged as Kipperlilly is about coveting Riz's backstory if I saw that go down I'd be like you have *got* to be kidding me.  

The mystery elements didn't feel like they clicked as well as they did in other seasons. I think that's partially because Porter's plan was so convoluted (seriously, I made another post about how haphazard his plan was) and had all these moving parts and we didn't get clear answers for a lot of mechanical things like how the rage crystals actually work and when they were implanted and stuff. You had stuff like Devil's Honey which I think is super cool as a thing that exists in the world but ended up being an element that just led the players down the wrong path and had a relatively small payoff (that Porter was using it to lie to Ankarna). I think it's plausible that a forgotten god would be willing to listen to anyone saying the right things without introducing this element. (As opposed to, for instance, Ambrosia which has a very clear connection to what's going on and is a solid clue that someone is flirting with aspirations of godhood.) 

The Porter reveal came so late in the season that even though it was a fun/challenging fight, there wasn't a lot of emotional weight behind killing him. It was basically just dunking on a teacher Fig has always hated who was also mean to Gorgug so screw him. Which, valid of course. But the Bad Kids were never going to react as strongly to Porter as they were to the Rat Grinders so putting Porter in the prime villain spot isn't necessarily what I would have done if I wanted the fight to be more than just a brawl--especially since we've done "School admin with student minions" already in S1. I don't mind the full circle callback but it would have been nice to pick something else for the sake of variety. We haven't had a child mastermind yet and I think Kipperlilly could have been a great candidate for that. My friend suggested that it would have been fun if Kipperlilly was trying to become a god instead of just being Porter's underling and I agree. "I'm not anyone's chosen one so I'll choose myself," is still within her established jealousy and Type A tendencies. If we want to keep Porter involved since that was Brennan's gift to Emily, maybe have it be that instead of Kipperlilly working for him, he's working for her. Like Artemis Fowl vibes! And the Rat Grinders can be varying levels of on board--from true believe to redeemable. I don't think Brennan planned for the Bad Kids to ever redeem her so might as well go full megalomaniacal mastermind with her and make her The Villain if she's not gonna be nuanced anyway. If My Little Pony can do it and send a literal child to Tartarus for pony treason (or whatever Cozy Glow did), Fantasy High can too. 

Continuing from the above, if we have the Porter fight in place of the Grix fight (a la Daybreak) and don't use Ankarna, that gives way more time for the Bad Kids to investigate the Rat Grinders throughout the season and it would mean that they would have their personalities developed a lot more. With the limited downtime, they Bad Kids didn't have a lot of time to spend on these kids who were just hating on them for no good reason (valid). But if you cleared their plate of the god hunt stuff, they'd have more time for this. And if they weren't all rage zombies to varying degrees, it would be easier to see them as characters. Besides Kipperlilly (and, funnily enough, Mary Ann) we don't really have a good read on what these kids are actually like. The little time we spent with them all season was kind of a wash if them breaking out of rage means their personalities got laundered too. Anyway, regardless of how their loyalties ended up shaking out, it would have been fun for them to be more than the minions that they were in canon. As funny as it is for them to just kinda be XP farming losers, they did have the potential to be more interesting in their own right if they weren't just Porter's minions. And again, we've done adults forcing or coercing children into being minions in Freshman and Sophomore Year already. Lemme see some self-created child maniacs! (Or, peer pressured child maniacs. That's cool too. The Lucy/Kipperlilly dynamic is way more interesting to me if it's like girl, I would take a bullet for you but I CANNOT walk this path with you any further in response to *I* will be a god and you can be *MY* champion.)

Anyway, those are my thoughts! Like I said, I have my points that I think could have been tightened, but overall an enjoyable season and I will be glued to my screen if they decide to close out with Senior Year! 

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #spoilers #I had so much fun with this season but the overall plot makes my brain throw up question marks if I map it out or think about it too hard #but then I think about adaine and aelwyn at basrar's and it's like wow 10/10 flawless execution #I don't know if I've been clear enough about this over the season but I LIKE kipperlilly as a character #I think she sucks and that's great #I think she should be worse actually #like own it #don't be a pawn in some loser's plan be your own girlboss #grind those rats chug that ambrosia #be the teenage demi-god you think you deserve to be and drag your friends into your plan with the sheer force of your personality #make it 100% sure that there's a spot in hell waiting for you when you get sent there #imagine the level of vitriol they had towards kipperlilly as is and then imagine she has legendary actions #I think her going down to riz like a chump is such a huge W for riz and fitting for how the narrative played out #but to use wrestling terms for a second #it was a waste of a LOT of heat #Porter didn't have NEARLY as much heat as she did

[thunderstomm]

Wee Oo I look just like buddy holly

#thunderstomm #okay to reblog #please reblog #tomm talks #monster high #monster high g3 #heath burns #my little pony #my little pony equestria girls #flash sentry #GrojBand #groj band #Corey riffin #go Jetters #kyan go jetters #go jetters Kyan #art #artist #my art #thunderstomm art #what am i doing?? great question !! #I wanted an excuse to draw my faves and this was the first thing that came to my head #if you recognise all four characters you are a liar or you are friends with me #/j #can you tell I have a very particular kind of favourite character #I love orange and blue idiots. they’re all literally me btw. #(:

[aroaceleovaldez]

re: my recent Hazel posting. more of yall have got to start drawing Hazel as fat. make her chubby. make her stout. i can't keep doing this alone.

#pjo #riordanverse #hazel levesque #''omg i love your hazel'' then join me. take my hand. #i genuinely cant remember if her being fat is canon or not cause i could have sworn it was #and my friends could have sworn it was #but i have no idea where to find that in the books and cannot be bothered to look #and the fandom's fanart makes me question my memory but also. see: Frank. enough said. #but like from a character design perspective. the SHAPE LANGUAGE. the duo character contrasts. the character silhouettes. #do yourself the favor it's great i promise #man i really need to make that video about pjo char design #holds fandom gently. you could be doing so much better #i can show you the world (shape and color language and character design)

[kaidiaries]

dreams unwind (peter parker/wade wilson) – chapter 1/1

“First, Webs,” he breathes unsteadily. “You really gotta stop looking at me like that. Gives a girl butterflies.”

“Wade.”

A full-body shiver runs through the merc and his hands scramble up Peter’s forearms, clamping tight on his wrists. “O-okay. Think we can reach a compromise. Say my name like that again and I’ll probably have this taken care of in a few shakes.”

You ever kill a man before, Webs?

Peter feels like he’s about to.

#spideypool is one of those ships i always enjoyed as a reader and felt too intimidated to write bc the tag is quite literally humongous #and i feel like i tend to write for smaller corners of fandom bc there isn’t the overbearing question of what can I possibly contribute #but i realized that’s a silly attitude to have for fic bc fic is supposed to be fun n indulgent #so here’s this. i had a great time writing it and should probably stop putting off sleep #we may have made it out of the writing rut friends #peter parker #wade wilson #peter parker x wade wilson #spideypool #my fics #deadpool #spider man

[cinemaocd]

You make a movie and get called by one half of the class war a shill for Big Feminism and the other half, a bootlicker of capitalism, and yet ESPN got an Oscar for making a long form commercial for their network...

#and the worst part it unquestioningly IS the best documentary on OJ #and it's a great doc no question #but like the aging white commentators freely using the n word is a bucket of cold water on it for me #my god people were so fucking patronizing to OJ esp. in the sportscasting world I'm surprised he didn't kill sooner #annoyingly it is also a very good documentary about Los Angeles in the last 70 years #and like now realizing that the actual LAPD chief who is a thinly veiled character in A Friend in Deed (1974) Columbo ep was the same one a #Chief that ordered the 39th and Dalton raid; who beat Rodney King and got away with it and then ordered them to sit on their hands #at the start of the 93 riots... #it's like finding out that Kissinger did all THAT too #Oh well but at least we got LA Confidential about it right?

[moeblob]

So I saw a screenshot of Ralph without his hat (for his wedding outfit + I think a DLC outfit didn't have it?) and honestly. There's a reason he wears it. It's unfair if he doesn't. Olive Town really is just "hot bisexuals in your area" and they would thrive if they advertised it as such.

#sos pioneers of olive town #ralph #jack #i will never not love jack ok i have been playing again and i cant help it #once i unlock giant bear carvings to craft i make him the happiest man on the planet #its just something i have to do ok i love jack a lot #i do still really enjoy bringing ralph soup to the woods like a loser and handing it over while he eats lunch #but the point im trying to make is i cant stop loving jack and it really hinders my desire to romance others lmao #also i was googling some refs of ralph after i found the wedding ss because it was a lil cut off and i wanted the full look #and i saw a lot of questions like is poot worth it or comments about how its incredibly avg for a game #or how its not as great as past installments and im like ........... but the cast is so endearing to me #again its different strokes for different folks and not everyone will love the same farming sim as i will but still #dont be mean to my olive town babies...... #the fact there are so many cutscenes in there of families interacting and moms being mom friends and gossip buddies #the fact there are so many cutscenes just about how these people live their lives is so wholesome to me #like sure the farmer is featured in the heart events #but there are so many where you arent the center ! youre just a bystander to like #a bro putting his younger bros motorcycle in the museum and the museum owner being mad theres a motorcycle in the museum #while then having multiple other people show up like YO SICK BIKE YOU GUYS HAVE THIS STUFF IN THE MUSEUM #while the younger bro is beaming cause thats his baby he loves his motorcycle and you better love it too #like its just so fascinating to exist in the town but not be the entire reason everyone keeps on going about their lives #yeah you interact and befriend them and you do tasks to help develop the island but it doesnt feel like thats why people like you #which is really important to me bc i feel like i have to do things to make people like me #i have to have a reason to interact with people irl or its just me being in their way #and poot lets me just live alongside people peacefully and talk to lil harvest sprites that hand me food and rocks and logs #anyway that is SO MUCH propaganda for a story of seasons game that no one asked for thanks gnight

[mycenaae]

thinking about crowley falling because he wanted to know answers that the almighty wasn't willing to provide, just for "asking questions", and about how he's the serpent in the garden of eden who tempts eve and adam to eat the apple which gives them knowledge of good and evil which leads them to fall from the paradise in eden. thinking about how so much of crowley's existence has been defined by questioning heaven and god, and by the suffering it brought.

thinking about crowley consistently not telling aziraphale any of the details of just how bad heaven is, no matter how much he wants aziraphale to be free from heaven's influence and cruelty.

#nat.txt #gomens lb #imagine you went to hell and got abandoned by god just for asking questions #imagine you then saw humanity get cast out of paradise because you suggested they should know about good and evil #(which may or may not have been god's plan all along. who can say! not you that's for sure!) #imagine watching someone you love be constantly misled and hurt and manipulated by the same people that cast you out and abandoned you #and you KNOW they're awful and that they'll never be what he wants them to be and that all of that is a feature not a bug. #and he can't fix it. there's no fixing it. that's just how it's always been. and you want him to be free of all of that. #but you can't tell him any of that because then he'd know things. and Knowledge like that hasn't historically been great in your experience #well all this is happening to my good friend crowley

[starflungwaddledee]

which ocs in the fandom do you find the most interesting? also, which ocs do you think have the most aesthetically pleasing designs? finally, which ocs have you only heard of but would like to know more about?

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooo ha haaa noooo i can't possibly answer this because it would be soooo unfair to have favourites wouldn't it's comet knight by @kittenvirus

#sorry it's the colour scheme and the glitter and the fluff. i'm unfortunately so so weak to all these things 😭 #even a little bit of pastel rainbow star theming specifically... comet really has everything i'm sorry to say #i think starstruck would faint immediately if she saw him. could they be friends?? i'm not sure i think she'd just be like this: 👁️👁️ #he is also one of (if not the very) first designs i saw when i started picking around the kirby community #so i'll always have a soft spot for him no matter who else i discover. #there are also a dozen other OCs that i love and adore but the more that i list the more folks will feel that i didn't list *them* #and i really really don't want to do that! my mutuals have some absolutely banging designs as do some folks who i don't follow! #there are also a lot of REALLY cool designs that are 'semi' oc but are more like redesigns? from folks AUs or comics or so on #many great morpho-esque redesigns out there too i'm always a fan of those!!! #please understand i'm listing only ONE design that hits all these prompts (bc i also don't know the creator well hence 'only heard of') #and one that always stands out to me personally because of the sentimentality i mentioned above #but i love MANY many many. if i started listing them i would never stop!! if you have an oc or a design i probably love them!! #i realise that is a bit of a dodge of the breadth of this question but i just... yknow? haha #i'd be happy to learn more about any ocs really!! i would actually love for starstruck to start having some relationships with others too? #if folks are interested in that!! she has relationships with the dream land four but not so much with ocs; and that might be fun too!! #others ocs #asks

[pompurumi]

Salad is a little confused as to why there is a life-sized Jeremy Fisher standing next to him. Jeremy thinks that Salad is a loony. They become besties, btw.

Wanted to draw a human / modern version of Jeremy Fisher, which is very much inspired by Pallid Fingers, and will hopefully do this with the rest of the characters in the show. I've got Kenneth down, now Jeremy, and wanna do Marjory next!!

#salad fingers #david firth #him and Kenneth are also really good friends #like right hand mans!!! #jeremy fisher #jeremy would def be the first to question Kenneth's strange... choice in men #but he does warm up eventually because Salad does make great conversation #my art #just realised how small salad looks in here... #i hc salad fingers short king with long legs #i love talking in the tags #blah blah blah #i wanna draw.. all the time... but ive got an addiction to salt and it makes me tired all the time

[lvstharmony]

​beyond grateful for the people that are surrounding me in my life, just as i am grateful for the people i’ve parted ways with, for without them, i would not be the person i am today.

#i have left so many people throughout my life #and #if someone would ask me if i’d regret any choice i’ve made i would say no #i regret hurting people yet i wouldn’t change a thing if i could #without the suffering the sacrifices and the lessons i would not be the person i am today that i can finally say i’m proud of #whenever i read the question “would you want to be your friend if you’d meet yourself?” deep down my answer was no #i was a good friend and i always tried my best to be there for everyone #but i was so blinded and overwhelmed by my pain that i tried so hard not to project on others that it was exactly the thing i’ve done #i was extremely caring sensitive loving and selfless but my ”bad“ traits were just as extreme #my emotions were so overwhelming that they were scattered all over the place that it didn’t allow me to have any control over them #i used to be so terrified of being alone. all i’ve felt was a great loneliness that was residing within me #until i’ve gathered the strength to leave an entire friendgroup with people that meant the world for me #they weren’t good for me anymore just as i wasn’t for them #since that day i’ve grown a lot i became a better and healthier version of myself #i learned how to be alone and to find the peace in it and in myself #all i’ve had was Allah swt. and He is all i will ever need. #without the hardships in terms of friendship i wouldn’t have been able to learn how to be alone and love and enjoy it #without it i could not say that i could easily give up the people in my life #i could if i had to bc i have Allah swt. #but i’ve learned how to choose and to choose the right people #i don’t need you and never will but i choose you bc i want you in my life and i think that makes it so much more special #i can finally say that i love the person i am today and can’t wait to see myself grow even more as the cycle of growing is never ending #I still have so much to learn and I will let it come to me with open arms #an open mind and an open heart #above all the most precious gift i’ve earned is to learn how to have tawakkul. #everything that happens every trial that is afflicted upon us has meaning #and it’s beautiful. #being able to pick out the khair in everything is the biggest blessing #alhamdulillah for the things that bruised my soul alhamdulillah for the things that mended it #alhamdulillah for everything bc truly; Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear.

[chrisrin]

so maybe this is a really stupid question, but what exactly is homestuck? i've no idea and i have asked multiple people and no one has given me an answer yet, but i hope you do answer.

Alright, I'll try to give the most comprehensive answer I can.

Homestuck is a semi-interactive webcomic that started back in 2009, written by Andrew Hussie. Completed in 2016, the webcomic as a whole sits at 8,123 pages (800k words). The format of the webcomic includes not only illustrated panels on each page, but hours of fully animated videos, multiple playable flash-games, a TON of amazing music (possibly composed by some familiar faces!), and interactive mechanics used within the browser itself to deliver some of the more "meta" elements of its plot.

Now, to give the most brief summary, the story of Homestuck is about a group of kids (John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Jade Harley, and Dave Strider) who become friends over the internet and decide to play a game called SBURB, a reality-altering video game that brings about the end of the world. If SBURB is beaten, it would allow the players to become the creator/gods of a new world.

Along the way, the kids will interact with a slew of other characters, including a species of aliens called trolls. There's time travel, extensive and convoluted game mechanics, meta-narratives, alternate timelines, and all sorts of stuff that will make your brain hurt. It's complex and insane and wonderful, mind-bending and incredibly genre-defying. There's so much I'd want to say but you just can't summarize the immensity of Homestuck in a post like this.

If you are at all interested in reading Homestuck, the best way to do it is to use the Unofficial Homestuck Collection. With the death of Flash, the original website is mostly broken. This collection is the BEST way to experience it.

If you decide to take the dive, I wish you luck o7.

#chris talks #homestuck #hs #there's a lot more i could say #but if i say more then i have to say MORE and then this post would be 10 pages #it's honestly best if you go in blind and just experience it! #it WILL be confusing as fuck #that is the vibe #most homestucks don't actually fully understand the story of homestuck #if you can have a friend or someone who is a homestuck give you a little help and guide you and answer questions non-spoiler-y as you go #that's actually a great way to do it #that's how i did it at least :] #also as a small warning #homestuck was made a while ago in the early ages of the internet so it does use some slurs #there's an extension you can grab in the homestuck collection to remove the slurs #it's not an insane amount but it's enough that you're just reading and like oh Huh another one! #just something to note #i love homestuck so much and recommend it to so many people #it also broke my heart and soul and i hate it but in a <3< way yknow #homestuck isn't for everyone but if you can get through act 1 #you can read all of it. #act 1 is like a test case. if you can enjoy act 1's silliness and almost pointlessness at certain points #then you can get through it and into the MEAT of homestuck #act 4-6 are the juicy ones #have fun <3

[lettersregardingjeeves]

So Mr. Wooster contacted me recently to let me know that he's awfully braced about adding some of the original illustrations he got when he published his stories in magazines, but he's got a dilemma about the image descriptions and hasn't the foggiest idea how to solve it. And as his secretary, I would like to ask a question on his behalf.

#letters regarding jeeves #lrj #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #my dear friend dovand has been kind enough to provide ids for me because I am very much not great at them #but I feel like I always see conflicting opinions about whether or not alt text or in-post image descriptions are better #and much of the time those conflicting descriptions suggest that the other option is really terrible #and as someone who doesn't use a screenreader i'm not quite sure which one is right #i also have absolutely no idea how well the 'caption' section of substack for images works with screenreaders #so i'm putting the question to a vote. would greatly appreciate your feedback!