#i guess it's that kind of day

[msviolacea]

Listen, I can be as "kids these days" as the next person, but every time I see someone dunking on that "how do you decide what's 'worth reading' on AO3?" thing, I cringe a bit, because to me it literally just sounds like someone trying to ask "how do I find the stuff that will appeal to me without an algorithm?" without really knowing how to express it. And that deserves a real answer, not a whole internet full of "omg WHY WOULD YOU USE MAAAATH??" Like, I understand the internet is full of people who wouldn't know nuance if it hit them upside the head with a baseball bat, but also, maybe remember that people who just got Online(tm) in the last 10 years-ish only really know algorithms, which are mostly math-based, and are at the mercy of an internet that doesn't reward independent searching. And maybe when someone seems to be trying to figure their way out of that, answer them in the spirit of the question, or at least with the vibes you'd rather see in the world? Maybe?

#jaime rambles #idk after like the thirtieth time seeing it #something broke in my head #i guess it's that kind of day

[ruporas]

getting the attention of the humanoid typhoon

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #wolfwood menace arc #he also wouldnt know HOW obvious to make it so he's just ramping it up throughout the day #but vash is sooooo used to repressing but also experiencing this kind of want so strongly for the first time #makes him wear the most obvious expressions.... while wolfwood is ALSO not used to being wanted in this way so he would be none the wiser #to vash's obvious expressions -- does that make sense. theyre silly. theyre so silly its like an endless loop #and then wolfwood is like ok i guess im doing something wrong or maybe he just doesnt want me like that. whatever! we move on #vash: dying crumbling - wondering if ww is doing it on purpose but also too nervous to ask until he starts literally taking off layers #ruporas art

[puppyeared]

doodles of my fav sillies

anton belongs to @poicyss

#my brain is a barbie dreamhouse and theyre all just living in it #im especially fond of the second one because my mom used to hold me like that all the time <3 #im drawing them a lot lately because im being crushed by the horrors and have to compensate for it somehow #homemade comfort blorbos...... #watch me draw anton inconsistently bc i can never decide if i wanna draw him close to how he actually looks #or yassify him and give him soft fluffy hair and kind eyes and defined features. head in my hands #i dont really have a lot of drawing ideas for them bc they dont have like. a canon storyline or anything methinks #its just stuff me and bow toss around and giggle abt thru messages lol. maybe ill draw infant vincent one of these days #i just come up with stuff and draw them doing it. it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside #cuz like anton works for lobocorp as an abnormality BUT hes super duper chill and cute and does his funny little tasks so its fine #AND hes unkillable. auggie is an oc ive had since like 6th grade and i smushed them together. and vincent was for fun but i got attached #i dont have much of a read on anton either bc i think hes meant to be more of an insert character??? if im using that right #on one hand i dont think too hard abt anything being ooc since im not taking it seriously. on the other hand i just hold them in my hands #and stare into space until i can come up with something to draw since i dont have much to go off of. but its fun to build on small tidbits! #i think bow called it an au so i guess??? its an au????? im not really sure. bow if youre reading this im just willy nilly #the only thing i know for sure is that they boink like rabbits. im talking gomez and morticia levels of boinking #maybe ill go back and look at my old doodles for them and redraw em lol #myart #my art #my oc #oc #friend oc #augusta #anton #vincent #sillies family #doodles

[egophiliac]

We ARE going to bring up Captain Amelia. You have good taste! GOOD TASTE I SAY! *aka I just rewatched Treasure Planet and got hit with, "Oh yeahhhhh... that explains a lot!"*

honestly, the Meg/Jasmine/Amelia trifecta tells you 90% about me as a person. (the rest is covered by Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Uranus and, uhhh, I'll stop baring my soul to the world now)

and speaking of Amelia, this is tangential, but like -- there's one Twst comic I have been kicking at for a while where I needed an RSA sports/flight teacher and, uh, well

someday I will wrangle this stupid comic into coherency and she'll get to make an appearance (in the background of a single panel, half-obscured by a tall hat) (but I will know she's there and that's the important thing)

#art #twisted wonderland #twst oc #my plan worked i've tricked you all into looking at my anime catgirl oc #she exists to yell at some rsa boys so she doesn't really have like. a character or story or anything. sorry! #(her name is alexandria north and that is what she considers a sporty outfit. that's as far as i got) #this is the one that is mainly about silver and neige having a mutual bluebird friend and i am having terrible trouble making it not suck #which given some of the stuff i post should tell you something about how it's going so far #(it's just kind of an incoherent mess of ideas at this point. nothing specific just ~the creative process~) #maybe the rest of episode 7 will give my brain the kickstart it needs. depends on how that goes i guess #god. the next episode 7 bit drops in (probably) just a few days. #I'M NOT READY #i have simultaneously never been ready and always been ready #i exist in a perpetual state of impatience

[itspileofgoodthings]

Good morning what are the movies or tv shows that traumatized you as a kid mine are the BBC production of A Christmas Carol and a handful of David Suchet Poirot episodes

#my dad always thought if something was well done it was appropriate for children #so we never watched the silly little kid version of things. The muppet Christmas Carol? My dad would N E V E R #anyway a Christmas Carol ruined Christmas for me for YEARS #i hated to think about it #and poirot was just. traumatizing #there’s one called murder on the links which involved a golf course at night which is one of the most terrifying locations I can imagine #also there’s one called death in the clouds #and poirot uncovers the murder because there are two spoons on the dead lady’s tray of airplane food #and the way he says ‘he picks up a spoon giving him the task of a waiter to carry out’ #when explaining the murder at the end to this DAY sends chills up my spine #I know this is very obvious but the thing about fear is that it isn’t about logic or reason but it is about revelation #it’s like the flip side of moments of good and happy insight #at least for me #what terrifies me is a moment where some kind of evil is revealed in a blinding FLASH #a motive or (I guess) a ghost #and there is this presence of some malevolent entity underneath the reality of things #and something about it being SEEN almost more than it existing #is so scary. Like I. #Poirot uncovering the murder and describing it with such studied fascinated careful attention #pulling back the layers of a blind of one kind or another #shakes me to. my. CORE. #and it’s all so visual and instinctive. it’s one tiny little moment that doesn’t fit suddenly pulling back the curtain of reality #with such terrifying abruptness #makes me want to sit down and cry like a baby #the knowledge of evil doesn’t scare me. as in it doesn’t elicit an emotional/physical reaction of fear #but seeing it in embodied action. again. where it’s some tiny ordinary little detail suddenly ripping reality as you know it to shreds #the surprise of it. the recalibration it demands #I !!!!!!!!! Get so afraid

[sentientstump]

...i tried my best 😂😂🙈🙈

additional thing for @shepscapades hc character design week 2 prompt, quotes from first 10 minutes of the etho vs b-team trial, some pixel patches are from phoenix wright and ema skye + pixel patterns from apollo justice and lotta hart (what this means is a mystery to everyone but it makes sense to me "xD)

im really proud of the beef one btw

without text bubble

#if you ever mention pixels to me i will stare at you with incinerating look #this was... so much work and so many squeezes of my eyes xD #i apologize for this but also the version of me whos one year younger is happy rn so whatever! #theyre on prosecution side of the courtroom so i had to flip one background for pause #tbh i had absolutely no idea what kind of lawyers they were before rewatching that two days ago #... pause transitioned during it good for him #but i guess it doesnt really matter in the end and so i rest my case #i go mimir now... this took *looks at file time* 11:54 time so its almost 12 hours #o_O uagh!!! it was 7 yesterday! time flies #shepshermitdesign23 #vintagebeef #ethoslab #pauseunpause #team canada #artstump

[cuties-in-codices]

horological apparatus (volvelle) with turnable disc and pointers

in the 'liber quodlibetarius', bavaria, c. 1524

source: Erlangen, UB, MS.B 200, fol. 31r

#i know there's a name for these kind of devices but i can't figure it out rn #edit: it's volvelle! #also if anybody understands what exactly this particular device is for please share with the group #i'm guessing it's about what time of the day it is in different locations of the world? #16th century #liber quodlibetarius #illuminated manuscript #technical instruments

[kneelingshadowsalome]

what's a cabin konig? Just stumbled across your amazing drabbles about cabin!konig but i have no clue what that actually means (im sorry 😭) and like, i can't really visualize it?

ALSO I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LIVE YOUR MINOTAUR!KONIG WORK OMG ITS SO GOOD LIKE *chefs kiss* IT CHANGED THE TRAJECTORY IF MY LIFE FR

Ohhh cabin!König is just this broody nasty man who has hauled you to the Alps for breeding. He comes close to off the grid!König who's a much more benevolent fellow, whereas cabin König is driven by a single purpose and that purpose is to coax you inside this cute little mountain cabin and get you pregnant :/

He's very territorial and doesn't want anyone to disturb his mating season (which lasts approx. 4-6 months) so while you spend your days trying to choose whether to bake him Apfelstrudel or cinnamon buns, König is walking around the cabin's perimeter with a hunting rifle in his hands, checking "animal traps"/de facto killing any poor travellers who had the odd chance of wandering too deep into the wilderness...

Basically just a guy who decided that you're the perfect mother for his kids! You met him on some dating app and things got pretty serious pretty fast, König made his intentions clear right away... So now you're spending a romantic holiday up in the mountains because he said it's a stress-free environment. He also makes sure you stay nice and cozy and warm, eat properly and of course take his seed, every day just in case <3

#lmao I have no idea what or who cabin König is #it just seemed fitting to call him that! #somehow I'm seeing him as this traditionally dressed Adler König guy but without the crazy beard #then again you found this guy on a dating app?? #it's modern day König so why would he flaunt those kind of clothes... #one of his many quirks I guess

[decarbry]

Kurogiri and Yabureme are Shigaraki’s caretakers with their own separate purposes but at the same time they end up like siblings that Shigaraki needs to mediate. “tomura he’s TOUCHING ME” “Kurogiri, there’s literally two inches between you and his finger. stop it.” “no he was just touching me and stopped when you were looking he’s doing this on purpose”

......this was supposed to be a funny comic but instead it’s just sad

#boku no hero academia fanart #shouta aizawa #kurogiri #tomura shigaraki #there won't be much room in the actual Yabureme AU comic for laughs... like... at all #so I'll try to do little lighthearted side comics alongside it I guess LMAO #it's weird drawing fear adjacent on Aizawa's face but as a Nomu he would absolutelyreact with something like fear #if he thinks he's in trouble or has disobeyed an order #he's an intelligent Nomu of course he just defaults to non-conversational unless he's addressed #so it's easy for the LoV to just kind of brush him off rather than respect him like they do Kurogiri #if he's hovering and being creepy it's simple enough to stand him in the corner and he'll just. wait there until he's told otherwise :( #sarcastically tell him to watch paint dry and realize two days later he's still doing it #don't worry he gets a therapy arc #Yabureme Aizawa AU

[skyloftian-nutcase]

TotK DLC idea!

The screen is black. You don’t hear anything for a long time. Then, faintly, in the distance, you can hear it.

Link. Link. Open your eyes.

While the line echoes familiarity, the voice does not.

Or. Well. It does. Because while it isn’t Zelda, it’s a familiar man’s voice speaking gently, so gently you almost don’t recognize it because there’s no way he ever spoke like this in the main game.

But he is now. And instead of a golden light being the first image you see before the screen shows Link awakening… you see gloom floating in the air. The image cuts to a Hylian waking up who… doesn’t look like Link from TotK?? He’s different, still small in stature, with slightly tanner skin, platinum light blonde hair, and red eyes. But… something’s wrong with his forehead. There’s a weird line on it.

This new character you apparently are gonna be playing in the DLC blearily blinks his eyes open, clearly groggy and too weak to really move. But then that line on his forehead moves a hair, it splits apart, and you realize it’s a freaking eye, red and yellow and it’s like the ones on gloom hands and oh gosh what the hell is it doing on his forehead—

Link realizes something is off and his eyes blow wide, his hands reach for his forehead and he screams in agony and terror, only for someone to scoop him into a hug to soothe him.

And suddenly you realize why that voice was eerily familiar.

It’s Ganondorf. He resurrected you from the era of the Imprisoning War. You, who have a history with him and his family. You, who he wants to protect, who he views as his kid, who he calls a prince and says he’ll keep you safe by controlling your body with his dark magic if he has to.

Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom: Hero’s Shadow.

You have to play a long gone Hero who was resurrected. Ganondorf, who is still recovering his strength in preparation for killing the current Hero, tasks you with finding your betrothed, his daughter, as well as his wife. They’re buried somewhere in the Depths like you were. He wants you to find their burial sites so he can use his secret stone to resurrect them like he did you, and control them as well. Which is doubly bad when you realize his wife was the original Sage of Lightning. He gives you free reign to wander once you go through a tutorial (he tests you to see if you’ve recovered enough strength), because he knows you love wandering and collecting things. Your own personal objective, however, is trying to help Hyrule from the Depths, to break free from Ganondorf’s control, because Link would rather set himself on fire than let Ganondorf resurrect and control the love of his life and his mother-in-law. Your best hope is to find shards of the shattered Master Sword to try and stab the eye on Dark Link’s forehead and break the control Ganondorf has on you. Until you can, though, the monsters are your allies, you can teleport across the Depths by manifesting out of the gloom created by gloom hands (just like what Phantom Ganon does), and the world below is your oyster. If you get too close to sword shards when gloom hands are nearby, Ganondorf can see your attempt and immediately takes control of your body, and no matter what button you press Link just walks back to Ganondorf’s location and stays there until you get a chance to try again.

You start with three hearts, all empty looking like when gloom hurts you, and if you get injured they just shatter. Whenever they all shatter, you respawn at Ganondorf’s location because his gloom hands came and rescued you from dying. The only way you can get more hearts is by collecting poes and offering them to the statues in the Depths. You can communicate with the spirits of soldiers, who may give you combat tips or info about the area. If you gain enough of Ganondorf’s trust, he’ll let you command monsters, and he might even let you wander the Surface (under his supervision) during a blood moon.

You learn of Link’s and Ganondorf’s history through discovering ancient relics/texts that trigger memories. This connection between you and Ganondorf stems back to time before the war, well over ten thousand years ago. Link was engaged to Ganondorf’s daughter, but during the Imprisoning War the family fought against the demon king. Ganondorf did love his family, but he loved power more. Link sacrificed himself, letting himself get mortally wounded to save Rauru from a killing blow. Gan held him as he died, and it allowed Link to both beg him to stop and stab him in the heart with a light shard. The shard didn’t kill him, but it was what Rauru connected with when he hit him in the chest, allowing him to seal Ganondorf away. Ganondorf still wants the world, but his love for his family is still present, though now twisted, so he thinks he can control Link and everyone else with his dark magic in order to keep them safe and in line. Once the threat of the current Hero is eliminated, the world will be his, and his family will be safe. As such, he treats you, Link, the player, like a stubborn child, reeling you in, but does so in a horrific way, torturing Link by controlling him.

You have to break free of this and stop him, and the only hope you have is the distant call of a sword spirit…

#tears of the kingdom #totk #I think it would be pretty neat to play someone who is “allies” with the bad guy #but you still have the objective of stopping evil #But you have to manipulate Ganondorf and work around his watch #So you get to play double agent #And possibly see a more complex Ganondorf #Like the dude is still being evil; he’s using his love for Link as an excuse to control him #He does care about him but he’s expressing it in the worst way #and he wants to do the same to his wife and daughter #So still a bad guy but a far more interesting one #One day you’re on the Surface with him and you see the Light Dragon and you’re not sure who it is #Because Link died before Zelda ate the secret stone #But Link can kind of guess #And Ganondorf almost noticed her so Link has to hug him or say something to get his attention #You have to manipulate Gan as best you can #idk how it would end #Like once you break free what do you do #But the idea tickled my mind so I wanted to write it down #Yes I’m just playing with my Imprisoning War blorbos #no I don’t care #legend of zelda #skye time travels through the queue #hero of shadow

[front-facing-pokemon]

#heatmor #extra angle?? under the cut?? i guess??? #this thing is some kind of fucking creature i have no idea how to Begin to front-face this thing #i don't think either of these are it but to be honest i don't think this creature even _has_ a face?? it's just a nose #and its eyes are. elsewhere #the nose rater is gonna have a field day with this one #also i just checked the queue and apparently this is going to post on the day of my commencement for college #so. the day i'm graduating college forever. i'm not going to commencement but by the time this image posts #if i don't have a job yet then i'm gonna be Very Scared

[guardevoir]

100 days of art, 54/100 - Horatio Hornblower as played by Ioan Gruffudd, because it's been actual Years since I last did something for my favorite shipful of sad damp dorks.

#horatio hornblower #hornblower #ioan gruffudd #guardy's art #guardy's daily dose of hornblower #guardy's 100 days of art #the100dayproject #I hated this with a burning passion until I was almost done #and then suddenly went “oh fuck that kind of slaps” #...... something something trusting the process I guess?

[infelicet]

a completely normal length gif set, of like, a guy

#well; do you love the color of the sky? #hwang hyunjin #skz #stray kids #kpopccc #dancerachasource #usertsu #uservasya #bystay #malegroupsnet #today was side effects on repeat kind of day so .. i guess enjoy this 30 gif gifset #normal coping mechanism etc etc #.gifs

[comradekatara]

u ever think abt how katara aang sokka zuko toph ty lee and mai’s arcs are all fundamentally about reclaiming their humanity as kids who were forced into restrictive roles by the war and/or patriarchy by actively rejecting the one dimensional narrative they were fed all their lives by adults who had such limiting expectations for them and carving out their own paths that allowed them to fully embrace all their dimensions & depth & personhood... yeah.....

#britney yeah.gif #analysis #i guess #idk. it’s that kind of day today i guess #mais arc was the least overtly abt this which no im not bitter abt why do u ask #but still!!! #this is rly what it’s all about babey!!!!!!!!!!!

[personishfive]

in which ann takamaki is there

#joker p5 #ann takamaki #goro akechi #shuann #shuake #morgana #persona 5 #my art #i probably dont have to tag the supporting cast right...? #sorry for 5 comics(slash images) at once...i considered spliting into posts but theyre the same theme.at least #(the theme is ann <3 shes my second favorite p5 character. by the way) #make sure to click to expand!! or youre missing like. whole comics. lol #did all this in one session now my arm hurts X.X but well. persona 5 is a video game <3 #ALSO I REALIZE THESE R SLIGHTLY MORE NICHE EVEN COMPARED TO MY USUAL. SO. ENJOY THAT! LOL! #welcome to my twisted mind. #also sorry for the blatant sentimentality in this gomicpost. i wish i could say it wont happen again. but well. sigh. #also im prettyyy sure one of these is partially inspired by a convo i had with my bro? so uh. credit to him i guess! heart emoji. #also. sorry that i keep saying this but thanks for all the love in the tags of my gomics. it kind of makes my day so incredibly hard. <3. #ok bye #comics

[macbethz]

dreamt i met the embodiment of pop punk and i was like huh i didn't expect you to be a teenage girl and she was like what else would i be

#so gonna be living w that spiritual revelation for the rest of the day i guess #warlock wartalks #i think grant morrison talked abt these kinds of personifications of Big Ideas beyond the typical War or Wisdom or whatever idk its #a concept i am personally rlly interested in