#hope this is ok lol

[tomsmusictaste]

@raistarx ask and you shall receive 😃✌️

Album Covers + ✨Trans Pride Flag 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Albums Under The Readmore:

Albums L-R: As It Is, Okay / Eat Your Heart Out, Florescence / The Academy Is…, Lost In Pacific Time / The Bottom Line, No Vacation / As It Is, Never Happy Ever After Deluxe Edition / Yours Truly, Afterglow / Icon For Hire, Now You Know / As It Is, I Went To Hell And Back Exclusive Vinyl / Eat Your Heart Out, Mind Games / Every Avenue, Shh. Just Go With It / Moose Blood, Blush / Stand Atlantic, Pink Elephant / Every Avenue, Bad Habits / Beartooth, Aggressive Deluxe Edition / Sugarcult, Start Static / State Champs, Around The World And Back Deluxe Edition / Eat Your Heart Out, Carried Away / Every Avenue, Picture Perfect / Misfits, Walk Among Us / As December Falls, Happier / A Day To Remember, Bad Vibrations / We Were Sharks, New Low / Muse, Simulation Theory / All Time Low, Poppin’ Dance Remix / Sum 41, All Killer No Filler / Fall Out Boy, Take This To Your Grave / The Downtown Fiction, The Downtown Fiction / Darling Parade, Battle Scars & Broken Hearts / Darling Parade, Darling Parade / Billy Talent, Dead Silence

#hope this is ok lol #if you do still wanna do your own please do; I just saw ur tags & thought it’d be fun to do #have to admit I cheated a bit w/ colour controls on some of the pink ones to make em pinker #but only minor adjustments #pride flag #moodboard #trans pride #trans aesthetic #trans pride flag #pop punk #albums #album covers #eat your heart out #every avenue #all time low #as it is #icon for hire #fall out boy

[tsckcyomi]

"hold still..." for benedikta ;)

@oflucendi | Send "Hold still..." for your muse/s to treat my muse/s wounds

The memories of the fight, and everything before it, are fractured and blurry. Gerulf. Blood. Bandits. The Branded. Then, a monster of pure fire ripping Garuda apart. Or rather, Benedikta herself. Anyone else would be glad to survive such a battle, and yet… She isn't relieved, or happy, or anything else of the sort. She feels nothing at all when she wakes, her body bruised and aching in ways she's not known before.

Movement in her peripheral vision captures her attention, and when turns her head, she catches sight of Cidolfus looking right back at her. Benedikta feels her chest constrict as the burden of shame and agony settles upon her heart but she remains silent. Frankly, she waits to hear one of his lectures, another speech on how she was on the wrong side, anything at all... But she only hears the rustle of bandages and tinctures. No, she truly doesn't understand this man. Not anymore.

Benedikta grasps his wrists before he can even begin treating her wounds, ignoring his quiet warning. "Did you save me again?" There's no true heat behind her question, no accusation or aught of a hostile manner, only a hint of faint incredulousness.

#oflucendi #( ic : benedikta ) #post garuda fight... thonk #hope this is ok lol

[wewontbesleeping]

the weirdest fucking thing to me is how men will be like "it's so hard being a man. no one cares that i'm sad. the loneliness we experience could NEVER be understood by a woman" and then also be like "btw i never talk to my friends and i don't know their names and i love hanging out with men because they don't talk about their stupid emotions all the time. women could never understand a bond like this." like ???

#this thread was so rancid lmfao #my favorite was 'we don't care if someone wants to relax on the couch!!! STOP NAGGING US!!!' like ???? #go take care of your kids you deadbeat???? #also SO many guys complaining that no one compliments them #ok so compliment another man..... #oh no you only want a woman to compliment you? ok. #women compliment each other that's why we get compliments lol #we do not want men to 'compliment' us hope this helps

[inafallsaway]

Drawing time!

#one piece #monkey d luffy #luffy #nico robin #nami #I think they draw together a lot #both can’t draw tho lol #I tried to base robins style after the couple eps she we do see her drawing #she has lots of sharp lines lol #also wanted to include a ton of tiny cute things on the fridge #I wanted to add more but i think I went a wee bit overboard #the things in the corner if you can’t tell are magnets that represent all of them #ok no more rambling I hope you like I worked hard on it hehe #my art

[allysketches]

uh, I don't know if crowley and aziraphale know of this popular human custom... um, hugging, I believe – but I think they'd like it a lot actually 🥺

but honestly the fact we never saw them hugging, not even once (yet!!... I hope)... a crime, really 😔

#good omens #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #anthony j crowley #neil gaiman #my art #my (already almost non existent) anatomy knowledge really said “lol I'm out” for this one #and I stared at it for waaay too long to the point where everything seems weird #so I hope it looks ok?

[art-by-fate]

HUGE congrats to sir Skizzleman for hitting that big shiny 100k!!!!

#skizzleman #fanart #hermitcraft #I’ve been waiting for this day for so long #ALSO SKIZZ IS A HERMIT YAYAYYY #I can’t get over how excited I am for him I’ve been hoping for this to happen for literal years #No more captioning things as hermits + Skizz! Lol #I can’t wait for him to get to know all the other hermits and really become a part of the community #I’m so happy ok that’s all :D

[bisexualfbiagents]

THE X FILES | Beyond the Sea (1.13)

#the x files #txf #txfedit #xfilesnet #dailytxf #dana scully #1x13 #beyond the sea #mine #kallypsos #usersilene #hope it's ok that i tag y'all i've never tagged anyone directly lol #anyway yeah i know this scene and this episode has been giffed to death but i don't care!!!! #she's so beautiful and her eyelashes are so long i couldn't resist #my hands were tied!!!!

[buglaur]

sims character page code

hii, ages ago i made a simple but customisable character page to try and get the hang of html and css, so i thought i'd release it. all of the instructions are within the code! the code will look like the first pic when you put it in your page but you can play around with it to get different looks. i tried to make it as beginner friendly as possible so even if you have no code knowledge you should be able to follow it :) but if not, don't hesitate to send me an ask!

preview | download code

#ts4 #page theme #character page #code #you can also use this if you're not a sims blog i guess lol #hope it all makes sense #i'm notoriously bad at explaining things #if you use it please let me know i would love to see it in action :)< #posting this from my phone hope it looks ok

[corvidcall]

None Of You Know What Haiku Are

I'm going to preface this by saying that i am not an expert in ANY form of poetry, just an enthusiast. Also, this post is... really long. Too long? Definitely too long. Whoops! I love poetry.

If you ask most English-speaking people (or haiku-bot) what a haiku is, they would probably say that it's a form of poetry that has 3 lines, with 5, and then 7, and then 5 syllables in them. That's certainly what I was taught in school when we did our scant poetry unit, but since... idk elementary school when I learned that, I've learned that that's actually a pretty inaccurate definition of haiku. And I think that inaccurate definition is a big part of why most people (myself included until relatively recently!) think that haiku are kind of... dumb? unimpressive? simple and boring? I mean, if you can just put any words with the right number of syllables into 3 lines, what makes it special?

Well, let me get into why the 5-7-5 understanding of haiku is wrong, and also what makes haiku so special (with examples)!

First of all, Japanese doesn't have syllables! There's a few different names for what phonetic units actually make up the language- In Japanese, they're called "On" (音), which translates to "sound", although English-language linguists often call it a "mora" (μ), which (quoting from Wikipedia here) "is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable." (x) "Oh" is one syllable, and also one mora, whereas "Oi" has one syllable, but two moras. "Ba" has one mora, "Baa" has two moras, etc. In English, we would say that a haiku is made up of three lines, with 5-7-5 syllables in them, 17 syllables total. In Japanese, that would be 17 sounds.

For an example of the difference, the word "haiku", in English, has 2 syllables (hai-ku), but in Japanese, はいく has 3 sounds (ha-i-ku). "Christmas" has 2 syllables, but in Japanese, "クリスマス" (ku-ri-su-ma-su) is 5 sounds! that's a while line on its own! Sometimes the syllables are the same as the sounds ("sushi" is two syllables, and すし is two sounds), but sometimes they're very different.

In addition, words in Japanese are frequently longer than their English equivalents. For example, the word "cuckoo" in Japanese is "ほととぎす" (hototogisu).

Now, I'm sure you're all very impressed at how I can use an English to Japanese dictionary (thank you, my mother is proud), but what does any of this matter? So two languages are different. How does that impact our understanding of haiku?

Well, if you think about the fact that Japanese words are frequently longer than English words, AND that Japanese counts sounds and not syllables, you can see how, "based purely on a 17-syllable counting method, a poet writing in English could easily slip in enough words for two haiku in Japanese” (quote from Grit, Grace, and Gold: Haiku Celebrating the Sports of Summer by Kit Pancoast Nagamura). If you're writing a poem using 17 English syllables, you are writing significantly more content than is in an authentic Japanese haiku.

(Also not all Japanese haiku are 17 sounds at all. It's really more of a guideline.)

Focusing on the 5-7-5 form leads to ignoring other strategies/common conventions of haiku, which personally, I think are more interesting! Two of the big ones are kigo, a season word, and kireji, a cutting word.

Kigo are words/phrases/images associated with a particular season, like snow for winter, or cherry blossoms for spring. In Japan, they actually publish reference books of kigo called saijiki, which is basically like a dictionary or almanac of kigo, describing the meaning, providing a list of related words, and some haiku that use that kigo. Using a a particular kigo both grounds the haiku in a particular time, but also alludes to other haiku that have used the same one.

Kireji is a thing that doesn't easily translate to English, but it's almost like a spoken piece of punctuation, separating the haiku into two parts/images that resonate with and add depth to each other. Some examples of kireji would be "ya", "keri", and "kana." Here's kireji in action in one of the most famous haiku:

古池や　蛙飛び込む　水の音 (Furu ike ya　kawazu tobikomu　mizu no oto) (The old pond — A frog jumps in The sound of the water.)

You can see the kireji at the end of the first line- 古池や literally translates to "old pond ya". The "ya" doesn't have linguistic meaning, but it denotes the separation between the two focuses of the haiku. First, we are picturing a pond. It's old, mature. The water is still. And then there's a frog! It's spring and he's fresh and new to the world! He jumps into the pond and goes "splash"! Wowie! When I say "cutting word", instead of say, a knife cutting, I like to imagine a film cut. The camera shows the pond, and then it cuts to the frog who jumps in.

English doesn't really have a version of this, at least not one that's spoken, but in English language haiku, people will frequently use a dash or an ellipses to fill the same role.

Format aside, there are also some conventions of the actual content, too. They frequently focus on nature, and are generally use direct language without metaphor. They use concrete images without judgement or analysis, inviting the reader to step into their shoes and imagine how they'd feel in the situation. It's not about describing how you feel, so much as it's about describing what made you feel.

Now, let's put it all together, looking at a haiku written Yosa Buson around 1760 (translated by Harold G. Henderson)

The piercing chill I feel: my dead wife's comb, in our bedroom, under my heel

We've got our kigo with "the piercing chill." We read that, and we imagine it's probably winter. It's cold, and the kind of cold wind that cuts through you. There's our kireji- this translation uses a colon to differentiate our two images: the piercing chill, and the poet stepping on his dead wife's comb. There's no descriptions of what the poet is feeling, but you can imagine stepping into his shoes. You can imagine the pain he's experiencing in that moment on your own.

"But tumblr user corvidcall!" I hear you say, "All the examples you've used so far are Japanese haiku that have been translated! Are you implying that it's impossible for a good haiku to be written in English?" NO!!!!! I love English haiku! Here's a good example, which won first place in the 2000 Henderson haiku contest, sponsored by the Haiku Society of America:

meteor shower . . . a gentle wave wets our sandals

When you read this one, can you imagine being in the poet's place? Do you feel the surprise as the tide comes in? Do you feel the summer-ness of the moment? Haiku are about describing things with the senses, and how you take in the world around you. In a way, it's like the poet is only setting a scene, which you inhabit and fill with meaning based on your own experiences. You and I are imagining different beaches, different waves, different people that make up the "our" it mentioned.

"Do I HAVE to include all these things when I write haiku? If I include all these things, does that mean my haiku will be good?" I mean, I don't know. What colors make up a good painting? What scenes make up a good play? It's a creative medium, and nobody can really tell you you can't experiment with form. Certainly not me! But I think it's important to know what the conventions of the form are, so you can appreciate good examples of it, and so you can know what you're actually experimenting with. And I mean... I'm not the poetry cops. But if you're not interested in engaging with the actual conventions and limitations of the form, then why are you even using that form?

I'll leave you with one more English language haiku, which is probably my favorite haiku ever. It was written by Tom Bierovic, and won first place at the 2021 Haiku Society of America Haiku Awards

a year at most . . . we pretend to watch the hummingbirds

Sources: (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Further reading:

Forms in English Haiku by Keiko Imaoka Haiku: A Whole Lot More Than 5-7-5 by Jack How to Write a Bad Haiku by KrisL Haiku Are Not a Joke: A Plea from a Poet Who Has Had It Up to Here by Sandra Simpson Haiku Checklist by Katherine Raine

#poetry #haiku #writing #literature #anime life #long post #i want to apologize but i had to get something off my chest #and the thing was. i love haiku #and when i see posts on here about haiku. i get so angy. #well ok i really get more disappointed bc nobody is really engaging with the form on its own terms #anyway i hope you enjoy some of my favorite haiku because theyre in there!!!!! #i didnt really get into the history of haiku. and i also did not get into why i got really into it #but i will say that i was really inspired by Jacob Geller's video A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest #which is a lot about translation #(which i mean. as an interpreter AND a poetry-enjoyer. really appealed to me lol)

[hopemikaelsongf]

When you draw the Three of Cups, you will see three women lifting their cups up in the air in a celebration of some sort. Good times are in the air, for the three ladies have wreaths made of flowers in their hair. Wreaths are often associated with success and victory, so their happiness is well deserved.

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#three of cups & three grammys #boygenius #i am soooo annoying #to marie this is for you bitch i hope you see this! ok now time for thoughts #julien being scared of tarot but trusting phoebe and lucy anyway.... #julien being hesitant about we're in love in the beginning then singing the lead on their last show... goodbye! #talk about living through it to get to this moment #also they MOVED when asked about the tattoo lol they're so passionate #the run to the stage... you can FEEL their emotions through the screen #julien baker #phoebe bridgers #lucy dacus #boygeniusedit #also #taylor swift #grammys #musiciansedit #musicians #musicianedit

[booskwan]

#svtsource #svtcreations #svtedit #hourlycoups #s.coups #scoups #choi seungcheol #seungcheol #svt #seventeen #dk #lee seokmin #dokyeom #*gifs #*svt #*seungcheol #userzaynab #fornini #heymax #userfairy #pardon the hard subs i was too lazy to look for a file without them lol #i hope i translated this ok i know it's very different from what the live subs said but they were abridged to say the least #also the coloring.....let's move on

[lokimobius]

LOKI S02E01 “Ouroboros”

#loki #mobius #lokius #loki laufeyson #mobius m mobius #lokitvedit #dailyloki #lokitvsource #marveledit #mcuedit #i'm sorry loki my beloved but you look so pretty all sad and heartbroken #anyway this whole interaction was insane #the slow mo???? #ok ! #i hope this colouring looks ok #can’t wait for these to be posted on twitter lol #sorry i’m being :/ #mine

[derpycatsu]

HELLOOOOOOO i got super into vocaloid (GIANT EXPLOSION)

#sorry for disappearing!!!!! i had some personal stuff going on #and wasnt feeling good at all :( but i am back now B) hello #the last one is a redraw of a symphony keychain i want it soooo bad #IVE ALWAYS BEEN INTO VOCALOID BUT NOT LIKE. TO AN INSANE DEGREE LIKE I AM RN #AUUUUAAAUUUHGHGHG #i love gumi btw ive been listening to a lot of gumi and luka songs THEYRE AWESOME #hoping that my brainrot lasts a long time LOL #i want to be sick in the head over an interest again + theres so much to vocaloid #liek ill be here for forever #EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO LOVE ANATOMIA BTW #BUT ANYWAY YEA THATS ABOUT IT OK BYEREEEEE #vocaloid #kasane teto #megurine luka #gumi megpoid #kaito #kagamine len #hatsune miku #初音ミク #巡音ルカ #鏡音レン #カイト #重音テト #felix art

[toonheartz]

[ID: A reference image for a blue version of Mickey Mouse.

Their name is Mick, and they're wearing a black hoodie with the hood down, and a sleeveless denim jacket over it. The front of the jacket is covered in many pins, like the trans pride flag, the genderfluid flag, a black patch that says "the first pride was a riot", an ambiguous shape with a red crossed out symbol over it, a watermelon, the autism creature, and a small black patch that is cut off due to the angle, reading "eat the".

The back of the jacket has the Public Domain symbol, white a lower case C on a black background that is crossed out, with ears at the top to match Mick.

They are holding a dark blue offset cane, and have band aids on their leg, nose, and one finger.

Text around her says:

-any pronouns -soft spoken but stands up for their friends -fucks around and finds out -being of pure spite

Back patch should always be the public domain symbol with ears

Feel free to swap patches in the same theme or omit them for simplicity

Uses cane for balance, relieving pressure on his legs, and whacking people

Bandaids are optional and can be any color / placed anywhere (she's very clumsy)."

The very bottom of the page has the hashtag, "mickeysona".

End ID.]

lil something to celebrate the mouse entering the public domain :]

#mickey mouse #toon #actually disabled #public domain #mickeysona #gotta draw something ✏️ #hope the disabled tag is ok since i gave him my disabilities lol #would love to see more disabled mickeysonas though #lets confuse the hell out of disney execs. hopefully #*also yes yes i know its only steamboat willie mickey but theres still a LOT you can do with that #TY rjalker for the image id!! i'm still figuring out how to write those #also the crossed out thing is an “ambiguous shape” bc i dont know if tumblr will delete it for the actual common patch #...even if its like against yknow. not sees

[sillyfairygarden]

90 minute leyendecker study b4 bed. heard cleo has a cat cafe this season :swoons:

#thellos art corner #zombiecleo fanart #hermitcraft #hermitblr #mcyt fanart #mcyt #ok time for a peek inside my skull: i really contemplated not posting this. not for any reasons of disliking it #im pretty conscious about how fat people are characterized/portrayed around food in media. both in fan works and canonized material #(flashbacks to hunk from voltron) i really think about ways to defy the way fat bodies are portrayed in my works. while also staying normal #i think at the end of the day i really see food as a love language. and serving people i love (even if its just coffee) brings me joy #even if theres a one-dimensional box that fat characters get put into regarding food. it makes me happy! so i'll try to do it with grace #i think representation isnt always this mentally twisting lol. but its definitely something i think about. #i hope i can positively project my feelings about food and love onto a plus size body (as a chubby girl :handheart:) and showcase that love #ok yeah yeah its 11pm. time to put meemaw in bed. if you read all this ur rad <3 also i stopped watching HC peeposad

[beescake]

Sorry for the spam (^o^;) I just really like your blog

no need to apologize ayy!

in this corner we welcome all forms of enjoyment, regardless of whether you're a

happy to have yall here w me,

headin into homestuck 2024 :^)

#was debating if sollux truly was lurker type but then i rmbr'd him quietly reading all of karkat's memos for a good laugh HAHAHAHAAH #ask #aleemie #homestuck #karkat vantas #sollux captor #solkat #2024 #vioart #but o. regarding the etiquette learned frm other socmed #spamming here is safe+good! it does not harm the op by shadowbanning like instagram #and its not 💀 like twitter where ur likes/following are permanently set to public #ur tumblr experience is within ur control it can be as free/empty/curated as u want!! #((tho ofc i do encourage rbing for ppl who've been hoping to start that habit!! #s'cool to slowly work ur way up from the extra special posts that hv lingered longest in ur heart and quietly build ur cache trove :-) #for example back when i was struggling to rt on a new twt acc i just started setting nonsense criteria for myself LOL #like “breaking this void is scary holy fuck ok i shall start by rting posts w brownish/reddish clrs bcs its inspo vibes for my art” #and gradually after a while of deliberate sharing i gained more confidence to share a larger variety of posts that make me feel things!!!! #no more training wheels i may be scared but i love loving more!!!! #same goes for engaging w fics too it takes energy to think of how to comment and thats ok‚ do ur best to explore what works for u!!!! #take screenshots of ur fave paragraphs & start annotating in gallery/notes app if that helps!!!! #also tumblr's customizable queue means u can stack posts and bolt hgehehe. my preferred form of existing on the net))