#i am being very normal about these two

[crowsent]

takin a break from irresponsible use of my time to say that the abusive cunt never used pet names in canon but in my head he did so any mention of sweet familiarity gets distorted into sick memories of someone who literally shoved you off a cliff UwU

#i am being very normal about these two #brainrot so severe i barely pay attention to the game im usin to take my mind off this one #hes just so fuckin toxic #lookin at him gives you eye cancer #there needs to be more fanfic of these two fucked up little shits on ao3 and if i cant find any by god im going to start makin em #none of these past relationship bullshit either i want ongoing #i want something so painfully obviously harmful the author will get cancelled on twitter #i want something that will send my therapist to their therapist after im done explaining the fic #i want something that makes me log onto my alt account

[shiraishi--kanade]

"It's so embarrassing to admit I only create art for validation" did paleolithic humans not paint for other humans to see. Does a child making their first drawing to show their parents makes it any less valuable. Do gardens arranged for the visitors' eyes make the roses any less beautiful. Do love poems written for one person alone to hear make your heart ache less. You're fine

#jay rambles.txt #two very hard pills to swallow: 1. art has always been created for money and it's a very normal practice in human history #and actually artists being expected to produce art for free or as cheap as they do now is a relatively new thing #2. humans have always created art for validation because being recognised and understood by your fellow humans is a universal human need #if you start to idealise artistry as something inherently selfless that needs to come with no gain or benefits or instead brings only pain #you are going down a VERY dangerous path of not being able to express yourself without shame - if at all #and potentially dragging other people you told close down into that mentality too if you're vocal about it #I've been there #I am there #It's a shitty feeling but the only way out of it is true embrace your need to be loved and desire for human connection or it won't end well #idk that's my opinion tho

[rookdaw]

monster X monster hunter

#baldur’s gate #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #astarion #wyll #I AM SOOOOOO NOT NORMAL ABOUT THESE TWO #IMAGINE BEING PERFECT FOILS OF EACH OTHER #BOTH TURNED INTO MONSTERS AGAINST THEIR WILL #imagining young wyll trying to court astarion and just being so genuine about it #as one of his first loves he wants to do everything right but is still overall (fairly) new to the whole thing #vs astarion who is much more cynical after 200 years of seducing victims #he knows how to play someone’s heartstrings like anlite and is overall very detached from the whole thing only #doing it to make aure wyll wont murder him or something #but then selune forbid it he starts to develoP FEELINGS FOR HIM KSDBBSJAJA #and then just as astarion starts to fall into love wyll almost falls out of it as he realizes astarion was LYING to his face the whole time #about liking him #and then there is DRAMA and a secret slow burn underneath what you THOUGHT was a fast burn #AHEM. anyways. #im gonna draw more of these two cause wyll is soooo slept on #pictured this as early in their meeting/relationship which is why wyll doesnt have horns yet #also *anlite i meant to type *a lute but shaky fingers #rip no tag editing

[fieryskies]

We do not emphasize enough the simple fact that the show begins with Madoka dreaming about Homura. Glimpsing into the previous loop's conclusion. How often has this happened before? How aware is Homura of this phenomenon? Has there ever been a timeline where Sayaka made an off-handed comment about her and Madoka's souls being starcrossed in front of Homura? Does this imply a silver of the original timeline's Madoka has existed in the subconscious of each version, thus Homura never truly lost that first friend she made even before her ascension and omniscience occured?

#I am once again being very normal about these two #Madohomu #Madoka Kaname #Homura Akemi #Puella Magi Madoka Magica #Madoka Madoka #pmmm #madoka x homura #homumado #OTP: Like I Met Her In A Dream

[front-facing-pokemon]

#something is very obviously different about these two compared to my normal images on this blog. i acknowledge this #also the sv model is Really good. and since they always stare straight at the camera anyway… and no one pays attention to the background… #and the only high-quality phantump model i could find was so horribly shiny that its eyes were just white voids #in my defense‚ phantump always just stare straight at you in game #the lighting is different‚ yeah. that's probably the dead giveaway. beyond the background. but like. i'm the only being on the planet who #really likes phantump anyway. i feel like it's a generally forgettable pokémon to most folks #phantump #HELLO this one is a weird one. i have some explaining to do. so when i did this one i didn't know how to edit models really at all #and when i got the models for these‚ the xy models were super shiny. shiny to the point that it made their eyes fuckin invisible #and i decided that since you could barely tell it was phantump‚ i needed a different way to get these images #i remembered that in the SV dlc‚ every time you find a wild phantump‚ it just fucking. stares. at you. and i was like. aha #i kinda remembered because of the test stream that i did. tumblr user alligayytorr (am i getting the right amount of Ys) said #“haha i am getting a sneak peek” when i zoomed the camera in on a phantump. and i remembered that. and i was like. i can utilize this #and ended up using just an in-game screenshot of SV in replacement of the regular content. later on‚ after that #once we got into gen 7 and it became less and less reliable to find models‚ i had to learn how to edit them manually to remove the shine #i am a software dev. not a 3d modeler. this ended up coming down to editing the code of the models directly (which i ended up writing a #script to automate). now‚ today‚ january 22nd (the day of me writing these tags and updating this post)‚ i remembered this post was in the #queue and was not normal. so i went back‚ ran the script on the phantump and trevenant models‚ and unshinified them #then edited these two posts to be normal. i have left the original pictures i took under the cut for reference and as bonuses #because i really enjoy phantump. so that's why those images are there‚ and that's why these tags are here #just for posterity's sake‚ the folks who come here mostly for my commentary‚ i've left the ORIGINAL tags of the post when i initially #made it with the SV pictures up at the top (i wanted to rearrange them‚ but tumblr makes that Very difficult‚ so i left them as-is) #so if these tags are confusing to read i Apologize. but i hope now that you're at the bottom you understand what happened #i'm gonna go edit the trevenant post now

[arkiwii]

i know i just posted it in my previous ask but i seriously cannot stop thinking about this image

not just how ptilopsis is making coffee just like she would make a chemestry substance or sussuro and perfumer showing their pets to each other, but mostly THIS

for something in the background this is the most heartwarming shit ive even seen about these two. silence getting a sleep attack from her narcolepsy and saria (this is her, white hair + orange nails + bits of her horn being shown) not helping it but taking care of silence by removing her coffee from her to avoid it being spilled. it's currently in rhodes island so silence would never allow saria near her and saria knows it, but she can't help but taking care of her regardless

saria once again showing that she still cares a lot about silence despite the events, this woman can beat the shit out of a whole man effortlessly but is unable to hurt her owl or stand seeing her being hurt

#i am once again not being normal about them #artists this is my most favorite shit in art pieces #very minor background details that can tell a LOT about a character #i love these two too much for my own good look at me analysis some pixels in a background image #arknights #saria is so loveable istg

[bonefall]

even though I've never read the books, i love how you handle the women in this series.

The utter lack of interest in the internal lives of women characters in WC kills me. If you don't read the series it's hard to put it into words, but it really does not value women on the same level as their male counterparts

I think the best example I can use is Turtle Tail. All of her choices, from going to live with Bumble, choosing a "cruel man" as a mate, and even her grief when Bumble dies, all only happen as accessories to Gray Wing's arc.

Living with Bumble was because Gray Wing was obsessing over a woman who didn't love him, neglecting Turtle who does

Choosing Tom the Wifebeater was also because Gray Wing didn't appreciate her enough

She accepts that her friend's murder was just an unfortunate accident and her emotions carried her away in the moment, because Gray Wing needs to be right that his brother is a good boy

In this way, Turtle Tail's emotions and motivations aren't allowed to really be about her. They're about how her romantic interest influences her. And then she's crushed by a car for his man pain after they've explored every other way her life could make him sad.

This does not happen with men. Even characters like Stemleaf and Larksong, whose primary narrative purpose is dying for their wife's pain, have functions outside of that. Stemleaf gives his life opposing the tyranny of the impostor in a rebellion, and Larksong has input on The Kin, SkyClan, and even serves as a source of comfort and support to a son who he's never met in contrast to the unreasonable mother.

There's just so much more respect and reverence to the toms in this series. You have to be in the POV of a molly to get depth, and even then, they nearly always (exceptions being mothwing and mistystar) include a major conflict over romance and/or parenthood

(And they usually get punished for their choices a lot harder than male counterparts. Directly contrast Crookedstar and Sparkpelt, who both distance themselves from their children out of grief, but only one has to deal with the lasting consequences of being a "bad parent")

Anyway, enough wistful analysis. It is MY kitchen and I get to choose the conflicts. It is my personal mission to write lots and lots of women persuing a higher education in STEM. Sadism, Torture, Evisceration, and Murder <3

#Allowing women to exhibit their natural behaviors such as being covered in blood and screaming in catharsis #Good penguin: Fern displayed exceptional spacial awareness by packing two bodies in one grave #Bad penguin: Maple bit my ass #I think its funny that Poppy actually did persue a higher education in STEM for BB #She just happened to persue it because midterms are a good excuse for running away from all your problems #Running away from my problems and deciding 'well shoot if im running may as well chase a doctorate' #Women in STEM as in gardening lmaoo. Stems. Gregor Mendel ass girlie cat #The women kill. But the women are also silly. That is very important. They must also be funnygirls. #Women in PETAL if you will. Pathetic Evil Tormented Awesome Loser. #Bone babble #Anyway all that to say thank u for the compliment I am not normal about this

[shesmore-shoebill]

im not properly following sword af bc i never finished the first season, but i DID go and listen to the bit where angela (as bug) presumably tries to go for a kiss with amanda (as delores) and. MAN. Amanda's reaction to it....... the "whoa whoa whoa" and amanda's voice getting that kind of breathless quality that it sometimes gets when shes really amused or shes laughing really hard or overwhelmed in videos.......... mannnnn. sets off my rpf brain So Bad. Not implying anything about the actual interaction as much as. Thinking about the delicious potential in the fake rpf universe..... I'm so goddamn weak for the concept of RPF Amanda who flirts incessantly and is so confident in it and loves, loves flirting with Angela specifically- in part because she never expects anything to come of it, (for better or for worse) and Angela's flustered reactions or tendency to not play into the bit make it safe in a backwards way. Amanda flirts, Angela rolls her eyes/commits a bit but always bails out safely, etc. (Amanda keeps flirting, maybe harder, maybe it gets more and more ridiculous and over the top, and maybe she should- stop. But. She can't.)

And then Angela flirts back unexpectedly or spontaneously, and its like. Implosion. Function shutdown. The absolute charismatic force of nature that is Amanda brought to a halt, because hey wait NO, that's not supposed to happen. Its such a delicious concept. rpf brain go brrrrr.

There's the angst side if it, if you want- Amanda silently convinced it wont happen or somewhat in denial about her own feelings, or doing some kind of mental gymnastics where the flirting is as close as she'll get. (Angela convinced it's not real and having mixed feelings about it as a result.)

And then they're doing something and for one reason or another Angela initiates and Amanda's brain goes WHOA WHOA WHOA- and Amanda's charisma and composure go sideways even though for anyone else she could play it off so easily. there's so much comedic potential. delicious potential. etc. 👌

#there have been at least two really.good amangela fics recently featuring this kind of dynamic and i am THRILLED by it #really this is all just another variant on me pitching disaster!amanda #which we all know i love #amangela #anyway reiterating this is nit implying anything about the actual interaction- amanda just being shocked and amused is both plausible and #understandable. but yk. i can go ham on rpf universe building if i want. and i will. #smosh rpf #smosh au #smosh hcs #disaster amanda #(to me) #if i could figure out a well contained enough plot for this id write a fic with this dynamic but like #i Need to figure out a concrete and contained plot for it #itd be so fun to write something from like. courtneys pov. shes watching amanda flirt like. ok normal. watching angela blush about it like🧐 #and then something shifts and angela flirts back and amanda. malfunctions and courtney is like *remembering flirting with amanda that morn #with a VERY different response* ..... 🧐🧐🧐 #(the two fics btw being 'the devil is in the details' and 'too good (to deny it)' ) #went back to go find the right titles. 👌 #pining amanda #this can go in that tag too. sure.

[masterwords]

What's my worst quality? || 2x15 - Revelations

What if we don't want a new Unit Chief? || 3x02 - In Name and Blood

#aaron hotchner #derek morgan #hotchgan #criminal minds #hotch and morgan being petty volume 1 #aka the best continuity that the writers ever had was when these two wanted to really get under each other's skin #and i thank them for it #bless #there is something so soft about the way that derek says “you can be” and “sometimes” like he's not as willing to gut hotch as jj and emily #and hotch just wads it up and sticks it in his lil pocket and throws it back at derek when he's getting ready to leave the bau #and when derek claps back by saying #look man #are you a pain in my ass? YES SIR #PEAK HOTCHGAN #i am very normal and i am doing great today why do you ask? #and no i do not give a rat's behind about the rated tv-14 nonsense i did these screencaps at 1am and it stays as a marker of my madness

[just-rainbow-thoughts]

Missed Chase Brody’s birthday yesterday because this fuck got me in a chokehold

#who out here wanna see him treated like an adult #he’s a creature but he’s also just some weird guy (just like me fr) #i am the op #jus sum doodly doos #fake peppino #…no main tag for this #context for the second pic: I think my friend's mashup album might not be the best thing to listen to while high #especially the last song #he’s in the default look in the third one because it’s when the movie was being made #I have very little context for the last two images I just had a vision I had to get out #first one is just something I do #translation for reversed text: #‘I see.’ ‘the backyardigans wiki is gatekeeping information.’ ‘that’s fun’ #‘oh this looks interesting’ ‘…what’s a mashup though’ ‘Squirtle I’m fucking dying’ ‘I should’ve stuck with red vox’ #I don’t know if I’m normal about this guy anymore

[goldkirk]

I’ve been mentally lying on the ground in a forest glade being SO fucking Normal about Gandalf calling Frodo Bronwe athan harthad, Endurance Beyond Hope

#IT’S WHAT HE WAS! IT’S WHAT HE DID! it was what made him able to carry the Ring to the Samath Naur! #no hope for the success of it no hope in the face of the Enemy’s power and might but he went on regardless in despair but still trying #and he paid a dear price—all of himself #body and soul hollowed out and left in shreds and tatters #AND THEN HE CONTINUES ON ANYWAY #giving even more of himself to rebuild the Shire #enduring on and on despite not having had any real hope for his own recovery or victory or joy or healing for a long time #god Frodo. endurance beyond Hope indeed #and always Sam—Hope Unquenchable. to the very fires of the volcano and the heart of evil darkness watching one he loved be destroyed #and then claiming the eventual miraculous victory and recovery with two hands and fashioning #a beautiful full rich life full of love and service and growth and healing after all is said and done #despite all the pain #I am being So Very Normal about this #lotr #Sam #Frodo #Sam and Frodo #personal

[christiangeistdorfer]

JACK BRABHAM & PETER COLLINS trying on some new sunglasses at the 1958 MONACO GRAND PRX

#YEH I AM NOT NORMAL ABOUT THIS PICTURE #LOOK AT THEM #!!! #TWO VERY HOT PEOPLE BEING THE BIGGEST DORKS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN #lmao how did they make the baggy overalls look hot. what craft do they posses?? #but JACKKKKKKKK ... sir i am on my knees. #peter collins #jack brabham #classic f1 #f1 #formula 1 #1950s

[buttercup-barf]

Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.

Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.

That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.

The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.

Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.

Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #that's it that's the only tags i am putting this in. maybe someday i will have the balls to do more but for now that's about it #while i have the chance - and since posts with more of my yapping in the tags don't pop in people's feeds much - i might as well ramble- #-about these guys here. self-inserts or not i'm projecting only half of my bullshit on each one of them. creativity 👍 #backup is tall and pale and has sharp canines and more of a dull brown hair colour with tired grey eyes. no amount of babyface or soft- #-hands can really help a motherfucker when he's grimacing so much because he just Hates being around half the people on the team. #cleaner meanwhile is on the shorter side and has constantly flushed skin and brighter colours and whatnot. you can't see it because of the- #-mask most of the time but they do smile a lot more and have a more cheery disposition towards life and see the whole team as their friends! #backup transitioned fully (albeit not very legally lmao) and is scared shitless of not being seen as a man although the last time that ever- #-came up was years ago. he holds onto his last name as part of the heritage he loves and loathes at the same time - attached to his culture- #-and religion and bloodline while also resentful of his family and the regime he knows someone else on the team suffered under. #cleaner just kinda binds and calls it a day. he only does it to confuse the team because while he doesn't identify with being a girl he- #-loves the confused looks his epic gender reveal moment gets. they do not remember their family name or where they grew up or what even got- #-them to this kind of mental state. and he's chill with it he values the here and now way more than some dark edgy backstory. #backup despite trying to be an honest man is afraid of vulnerability as well. he stubbornly refuses to express love towards certain people- #-lest they feel disgusted and turn away. he's afraid of consequences afraid of losing the people he loves afraid of his ''interests'' being- #-what drives them away. it doesn't by the way and he just wasted time being a cold indecisive loser for several months lmao #cleaner wears a suit that hides all of them yes but they pretty much never lie. he is always his truest self and he can always just burn- #-people who don't like him enough to make it a problem. they are a lot more comfortable indulging in their interests - be they innocent- #-and juvenile or violent and dangerous. he is quite open with his affection and his fascinations that backup would rather keep secret. #i want to establish that these two can only exist in separate universes because they both have feelings towards the funny assistant lady- #-and the funny inventor guy (selfshipping for the winnn) and would fight over those two. cleaner would win by the way #it's also a really funny point of comparison. cleaner is objectively more fucked up than backup and still managed to be more normal about- #-their feelings and live as a healthier and happier person than that guy. comedic gold honestly #OKAY I'M DONE if you read up to here you get uhhh a cookie :-)

[horsemage]

I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂

#welcome to another Mick Airs Out Their Grievances and by god is it a VERY long one #prob best if u don't expand the tags #am I being maybe a bit meaner about this than I would be for any other movie? maybe but pac rim is one of my favorite movies of all time #so I think I get a pass on this one. #one of the groups on campus is hosting movie nights & I went to this one bc I've only ever watched pac rim on my laptop and wanted to watch #it on a larger screen. yay yippee I love this movie! #there r maybe 10-ish of us in this room and a three person friend group is sitting on the couch one of whom has seen the movie and two who #have not. okay so far so normal. #and then the movie starts and they won't! stop! fucking! commentating! the whole fucking movie!!! I don't have a problem with doing that #when I'm in just my friend group because I know that I can tell my friend to stop talking or pause the movie or whatnot but not when I'm in #a large group w people I'm not good friends with ffs #and the comments aren't even funny or anything they're all oh this is JUST like in iron widow!! oh they're SO gay and autistic!!! and #they're talking so loud about this that it completely drowns out the movie audio which has already been turned up a few times #like. be considerate!! some of us want to yknow actually listen to what's going on and not whatever bullshit you're saying #I nearly walked out three or four times before I actually wound up doing so #I may have been a bit of a bitch at the end but I don't care. I got up to leave because this was not an enjoyable environment and one of #them offered to turn the movie down if it was too loud. this caught me a bit off guard since I expected them to still be so wrapped up in #their convo and. well. I may have said 'it's not the movie that's too loud' before closing the door #this also reminds me a lot about my issues with online shipping culture and it bleeding through into how we interact with media irl #this is probably heavily influenced by my aromanticism but I'm so sick of people constantly reading romantic relationships into everything #AND placing more importance on those relationships than any other form. I don't mind romance in media. I think if done right it has great #emotional impact on a story but when a movie is running and when other people who may not want to hear it are in the room watching it too #is not the time to be loudly saying 'he's autistic!' 'they're in love!' 'she has a crush on him!' #I have my own interpretations of the movie some of which agree with what they said and some of which don't but that's beside the point of #knowing how to coexist politely in public #anyway. I think they were awful and annoying and they ruined my night out. #I think I'm just so incredibly mad about this because I love the movie and I was looking forward to watching it in a group of people who #found it cool as well while still having some modicum of politeness #I almost wish I had been meaner but that's the extreme annoyance talking I think #hater hour over love u guys bye

[thatoneluckybee]

Tylenol 2k are you proud :)

I love y'all and you guys infuriate me to no end

#WHY!? WHY ARE YALL LIKE THIS (girl who is also Like This) #Asks #quintessential-candles #Sorry I have been inactive chat I have had schoolwork and have been. I restarted a webcomic I dropped a few episodes in and I'm obsessed #It got a LOT better and my camera roll is just full of screenshots #I have no self control I am rereading specific arcs solely to see the two (2) characters I'm being abnormal over right now #Hey Candles guess what there's a catboy (on a technicality) and I'm being very normal about him #And silly fish girl

[shot-by-cupid]

Hmmnbmmmmmm. I have some things to say

#I am in. a bit of a weird position rn? #ik there are plenty of self shippers who have partners irl I just. I don’t really? get it?? #like I feel very guilty about it? #or like. now that I have a bf should I stop??? #self shipping has always been a big comfort for me but obviously I am putting a lot more energy into my actual relationship #but like. do I still make art? do I still write fics? is that disrespectful to him? idk #he has characters he has crushes on too but it’s different because he doesn’t have an entire blog dedicated to how much he loves them #idk I just don’t rlly know how to balance the two? #is it normal to fantasize about being in a relationship with a fictional character when you actually have a partner????? #I was never really expecting to date again so this isn’t something I’ve thought a lot about #idk #♡.bullet proof heart