#ideal activity

[zivazivc]

so many brainworms about life in the troll tree and jd's adventurous side...

#they were that active couple whose ideal dates are going on hiking trips and doing all sorts of sports like skiing and climbing #(which i hope to see myself a part of one day jdhbsdjhcbjdf) #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #my art #trolls john dory #trolls oc #freesia #tulip #trolls floyd #trolls spruce #trolls clay #brozone #young brozone #i think jd was like the coolest big brother until. yknow... #also his hair ended up too bright in the illustration #and now i'm chewing on the thought of what if that was his original hair color when he was younger #but it then got darker after the parents died... #hmmmm... #it would still match the hair colors i picked for the parents... #*chews louder*

[nightmaretour]

Anti-technology people who insist they're not ableist crack me up. What about people who rely on machines to breathe, eat, keep their heart functioning, or otherwise stay alive? "Well not that technology, obviously!" Ok what about AAC users, people who use hearing aids, or otherwise use technology to interact with the world in ways they otherwise couldn't? "Not that technology, obviously." Okay, my mobile phone is my memory, my sense of time, my sense of direction when I get lost, my ability to contact someone when I need help. It is my personal freedom because without it I would need full time care and supervision. But yes, that technology, right?

I hate how technology is made and utilised under capitalism as much as the next guy, but to pretend that technology doesn't greatly improve the lives of countless people, or even allow them to continue being alive, is to be willfully ignorant to the existence of disabled people. A world without technology is a world where a lot of disabled people don't get to survive. Capitalism is the problem, not the technology. Technology can (and should) exist just fine without capitalism.

#cripplepunk #cripple punk #disability #anti tech #actually disabled #don't even get me started on how technology is necessary to synthesise a lot of vital medicines #A whole lot of supposedly left wing ideologies rely on just pretending that disabled people don't exist #Or even outright admitting that we would no longer exist in their 'ideal' future #Apparently eugenics is fine if you put an anti-capitalist badge on it #Anti tech is ecofascism you can't change my mind #(Side note I forgot the word activism for a solid 5 minutes writing this and I'm scared) #eco fascism #1k #2k #3k

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #participated in altades' dance collab :3 very grateful for the opportunity and many thanks to them for organizing this! #there was a lot of vw arc choices... but i went for the leonof arc bc it's a dear vw moment to me #i think a lot of the leonof arc further breaks down vash's ideology and for the readers - together with ww- to learn that his ideals aren't #pure naivety and that vash knows he's at an odd standpoint with himself. he's criticized ww for shooting rai-dei just prior when ww had don #so on the behalf of vash but here he thanks him for killing on behalf of his home and its genuine. bc vash's presence - although it's not #his fault - he was the reason leonof and gray had gotten to the ship and killed people there. that's the guilt he has to live with and #despite his anger he'd still resolute not to kill. meanwhile ww just did what he had to - beating down on a seemingly immortal monster but #at the core made up of many lives he had to take and i feel as the fight dragged on - his own mentality waned. committing active carnage #while remembering the orphanage... and bearing that guilt alongside the words vash left with him during rai-dei's death #only for vash to thank him afterwards what he's done and for apologizing for pushing his beliefs on ww when he had no solutions of his own #anyway. i just have so an immense love for this arc bc they just got around to appreciating each other in weird ways. though ofc its still #weird and confusing for ww bc every new info on vash it'll just be strange to him as someone who's human #ruporas art

[to-boldly-escape]

Husbandry would be quite efficacious huh?

First post here. Why is the app quality so sh*t lol :')

#artists on tumblr #sci fi #star trek #spock #jim kirk #tos spirk #vintage #star trek tos #star trek fanart #just exploring and studying the flora on different planets #an ideal afternoon activity #date? #toboldlyescapeart

[yousaytomato]

Big fan of the way Dracula Daily hasn't broken out of Tumblr in any real way

primarily, because I love being able to casually mention it to non-tumblr friends like I'm just that kind of cool, intellectual and cultural person who signs up to projects where you read a classic novel over the course of 6 months, and not because it's a big social media trend.

Whilst, actually it is a big social media trend, and I get to make and see lots of stupid memes and just, have fun with y'all in this space

#literally ideal #in a similar vain to the superiority you get to feel when tumblr is your social media of choice #oh. Instagram? never heard of her? #i actually don't really use social media #[is addicted to a social media platform most of the internet abandoned] #woes of emily #Dracula daily #also to be clear. I'm not lying to my friends so they think I'm cool 😂 #i link it to tumblr. but i dont think most people understand how active tumblr still is #and tbh. even in it's hay-day lots of people still referred to it as 'the art website'

[ghostlygunk]

sometimes i remember that ib fan twitter user tht was diehard insisting abt how mary did nothing wrong in the story and how garry was apparently in the wrong

#ib spoilers #SCRYBE.txt #i understand their angle though #mary is just a child and i do feel for her. her entire thing is very sad and i wish there was a way to bring her into the real world #without having to let garry die as well. #however with everything ib and garry have seen throughout the fabricated world #of COURSE garry's going to assume the worst when he finds out mary is also a painting. almost every living painting/art piece/etc. that-- #him and ib have encountered have wanted to harm them. fuck's sake the first time you see garry in the fabricated world is him-- #on the verge of death BECAUSE of one of those living paintings. of COURSE he is going to immediately assume 'oh shit she wants to hurt ib' #which she does indeed attempt to do when she finds out garry knows tht she's a painting #like it SUCKS. and i wish there was a better way but at that point she does actively want to hurt the two and actively tries to #in my ideal world there's an ending where you can save them both :( #i really wanna play the remake

[nguyenfinity]

Presenting EnSeason, a monthly release magazine featuring ES idols! This inaugural January issue is Trickstar following the announcement of their TRIP album :]

Image without text below the cut:

rendering got my ass on this one

#enstars #trickstar #hokuto hidaka #subaru akehoshi #makoto yuuki #mao isara #i've never drawn trickstar in any serious capacity (or at all probably) this one's for you trickstarPs o7 #artist brain: oh you did so so good on the rendering #designer brain: why the fuck did you cover up the masthead (title) on issue one dumbass #i'll post more design notes later :] #school started so i'm working on that and was doing this at the same time sorry for inactivity #i've been super active on livelaughloverinky tho (me and bean's joint rinky blog go look) #this project's to get me drawing more than just. eden and bees all the time #and i've been wanting to do more magazine design #not 100% on this one but it's the first one it can change later so it's whaaaatever #this is a longterm project that i have mapped out so if you come at me with the 'you should do __' i'll be bugged. don't test me. #</lh but yeah jhgdfjlskdgfh #i wanna draw more units so i do a little something for every producer but this is first and foremost a me project so yeah #ideally?? shooting for midmonth releases but again i do have school so #enseason

[fromtheseventhhell]

I really hate how people act like Jon becoming King is him "usurping" his siblings when that's an unfair stigma that's followed him his entire life for being a bastard. It just blows my mind that people ignore Jon's own thoughts and wishes on the topic. Well, guess what? Robb named him as his heir, he will have a legitimate claim to Winterfell, and he will be part of discussions on who will rule. Even without that, it's very likely that some of his siblings would support him as King. I just hate how the conversation around him becoming King is framed as some big betrayal.

#jon snow #asoiaf #yeah Jon has his own guilty thoughts but!! that's cause he's a bastard and grew up hearing shit like that #literally one of cat's biggest fears is that he would /steal/ Winterfell from her children #and she's firmly against him being named heir for that exact reason...reading comprehension is on 0% #and I think there's a good chance that Arya Rickon and possibly even Bran would support him #I can see Sansa being actively against it cause she's only ever thought of him as a /lesser/ bastard + she has LF whispering in her ear #I can also see Bran having an issue though considering he's rooted in his identity as the heir to winterfell #and then there's their conflict from the og outline which could still come into play at some point #but I feel like Arya would support him and Rickon would gladly accept him as his regent #depending on how things play out but either way he isn't betraying them by becoming King #and if you think he is then congrats you're buying into the classist ideals that the books are against

[1960z]

thinking of a stitch in time and how barkan lokar is described as literally the ideal of a cardassian male and the inherent symbolism of garak killing him and that being the last assignment he carries out before he’s exiled.

also thinking about the inherent homoeroticism in passages like garak saying that he’d never been in a “manlier, more attractive presence” and garak being on the wire during lokar’s interrogation meaning anytime lokar assaulted him all garak felt was blinding pleasure-

#elim garak #barkan lokar #a stitch in time #beta canon #ds9 #star trek #their relationship is just so fascinating to me #the garak/palandine/lokar stuff could’ve been a stereotypical love triangle but it wasn’t #lokar is everything garak tries to live up to in looks social status and palandine’s affection he’s an ideal #but instead of purely being jealous of that ideal garak often sexualises it in fact he only begins actively being jealous of lokar once #lokar betrays him up until that point he’s simply content to bask in lokar’s glory #and even after no matter how much garak begins to hate him there’s a small part of him that still finds him attractive as well it’s mwah #ty andy #shut up abe

[paragonrobits]

Finn: So, um, since we are officially Knowing Each other in a not exactly platonic sense- Huntress Wizard: The voices of the world tell me that the term is 'friends with benefits'. I feel this is both insufficient and... somehow does not convey the emotional ties involved but linguistics ain't my field. Finn: Me neither. Which is why it's kind of hard to say but, since we're feeling close enough that it's changed things, you're going to have to be prepared for some... hm. Finn: Perils, let's say. HW: In what sense. Finn: You know I've got people in my... well, it's not BIOLOGICAL family, but 'family' is the only word that comes to mind? People who care a lot about me, and might feel really invested in people that get intimately involved in my life? HW: Ah. Like your brother, the magical dog. Finn: Well, yeah, but you've already met him and got that sorted out, and that's not EXACTLY what I mean. And you NEED to be prepared because I am genuinely a little scared for you. HW: I've noticed a very serious tone shift here. Why does the ground suddenly stink of fear and horror? Huntress Wizard, feeling a sudden sense of unspeakable doom: And why do I hear... boss music?? Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, looming ominously directly behind her: Finn: OH NO IT HAS BEGUN. Princess Bubblegum, speaking in horribly icy tones: Good evening. Marceline, strumming on her guitar in a needlessly malevolent fashion: So. We hear you're INTERESTED in Finn. Princess Bubblegum: So we'd like to ask you a few... QUESTIONS. So that we are assured of his safety and emotional well-being. Huntress Wizard: Ah. So THAT explains the boss music.

#adventure time #huntress wizard #princess bubblegum #marceline #finn mertens #i like to imagine that PB and Marcy are can be a little homicidally overprotective of him #so they get a bit overzealous about seeing if someone is an active threat #don't worry HW will be fine #she'll view any threats of vivisection or having her soul ripped out as either declarations of sincerity she can respect #or impressed that they're getting this terrifying on his behalf #queued #pb and marcy will be both pleased with her resolve #and a bit disappointed HW isn't terrified #she'll say something like 'the unspeakable horror of certain doom is pleasing to see from friends' #and they'll be like 'oh you're kind of ideal for him huh'

[stag-bi]

i tend to read fanfic in bed on my phone w the lights off, despite otherwise using my PC for reading other things. its just comfy and nice and i have less distractions, feels like i can get more emotionally invested. wondering if other ppl are the same as me 🤔

#fanfiction #i didnt add an option for 'depends on where i am/what type of fic' etc bc everyone would just choose that #yall would b like Ohhh idk i usually read on my tablet but if i was abt to be thrown into an active volcano then itd be my phone so depends #and i want the PREFERENCE. which one of ur devices is the MOST IDEAL for u on an average day. out of the devices u have #if u prefer to read on ur PC but u only ever get to read on ur phone while traveling. then ur actual preference is the PC

[caranoirs]

#FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT // wrestling resurgence

#spike trivet #cara noir #chris brookes #‎ #wrestling resurgence #show: angry dancing #08/06/2019 #zoe lucas #jayde #*gifs #*wr #*torywanker #*blackswan #*calamari #britwres #this is ideally how every arts & crafts icebreaker activity should go. there’s nothing like violence to bond people together #shoutout to the fellas in the audience that caught cara’s easel

[connectedspace]

as fun as that was, and i would never stop doing fun gift art for the world

its disheartening, and hurts, to try and get engagement from people. to struggle to get asks for weeks. and i know im not the most active blogger, but as soon as i offer free art, i get swamped with asks. where is that beforehand? i dont know what to say entirely, it just makes me depressed. the fact that people are so quick to jump on my ask memes but wont talk to me or this blog otherwise. i dont know what to do

I don’t want to tell anyone that it’s bad to ask for it, or that it’s bad to receive it. Because that’s not what I’m trying to say. But it just sucks to get low engagement and people only interact with you to receive art, often without giving you anything in some way. It’s fine if it happens sometimes, but it’s exhausting when it’s repeated. It makes you feel like people only want you for free gifts that you put time and effort into but won’t give you the same effort

I guess I’d just like to encourage everyone to send regular asks to each other, even if it’s on anon. That’s all I’d want to see not even just for myself but mostly for others

#again I know I’m not super active or have the most posts #but I’ve had this blog for 3 years and have been in the community since 2018 #again it was really fun but considering that I barely get anything for my regular Mundays and have to make regular ask calls #I guess I’m not really asking for much #even if people giving each other stuff like equal attention is my ideal #but I suppose if this trend keeps continuing and I post less stuff like the drawing meme #you’ll know why #I have an ask answer ready to post tomorrow too #my life has just been crazy but Khaos has always had such a chill blog to update #im quite shy and I know I’m not very outgoing but I’ve been around for 5+ years and this just keeps happening #I’m not blaming anyone either or anything this isn’t targeted or whatever #but I’m just already dealing with stuff and I wanted to say something finally #I don’t like making posts like this but I guess I deserve to be able to for once #this is also not the first time it’s happened it happens with a lot of memes I post that are art related so yknow

[andr0nap-wf]

worms that approach you at very high speeds

#warframe #my screenshots #warframe vulpaphyla #i usually give my companions real names #but vulpas activate the silly in my brain #truly the ideal companions #panzers my beloved

[quixot1sm]

i think, and this may just be my zekrom bias speaking, that if someone wants to experience the full value of bw's story it's better to play through white first. black has the issue of coming off as very dismissive towards plasma's legitimate and well-founded claims that pokemon abuse DOES occur (and it does! from the kanto games' marowak to bw2's liepard there's instances where it's put in the spotlight, so it certainly does happen)... by assigning the protagonist to truth, it feels pretty evident that n's beliefs are "wrong", and the game just seems to brush any questioning aside.

on the other hand, white giving n the hero of truth role means we're basically forced to think about what that means for the relationship of people and pokemon at large. to translate a point n makes in chargestone cave: if you allow people to coexist with pokemon, even if the majority of trainers treat them well, there will always be someone somewhere out there who abuses or neglects them instead. are we okay with that? should those pokemon still be allowed to suffer, just because what they experience is an outlier to the general rule? while not outright stated, zekrom's association with hope and the strive for the ideal suggests that we don't brush off these facts, but instead take them into consideration, and aim to change the world based off of them... like how in bw2 society in unova puts a lot more emphasis on the bond between people and pokemon, and on pokemon as equals (see: iris's dialogue before entering your team info the hall of fame).

i think black version has its own unique avenues to explore, but on the surface level, it's a much more cut and dry, "no, you're just wrong", type of story that kind of makes you work harder to fit it into bw's overall theming of "the world's not black and white, there's not a singular objective right or wrong perspective."

#text #pokemon bw #this is inspired by a few posts i've come across over the past handful of months including a poketuber's who completely missed the point #i think black version should've been handled with as much care as white. because how gamefreak did it was kind of.. well lazy #and downright mean at times (white getting way more version exclusives due to white forest + black 2 making black city an empire of greed #with kinda. i don't know. depressing visuals like route 4 being turned into suburbia) #(oh and leaving in stuff like thundurus's cry over tornadus's + the castelia city paintings still being 'ugly truth and eternal ideals') #it may be too much to hope that there'll be some reworking in the inevitable remakes #that gives more credit black versions telling of the story but i doubt it. this is modern tpc we're talking about #ANYWAY yeah i think if you want to engage with the plot white version is the more rounded of the two. and i've played all 4 gen 5 games so #i was able to get a pretty good comparison between my experiences with the version differences #and oh for the record this is not a diss on anyone who takes the wrong messages from black becausefrankly black presents the wrong messages #even if it did not actively intend to. turns out just changing the word 'ideals' to 'truth' is not enough to be compelling

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should

#it’s the old saw about rammstein being constantly talked up by American nazis because they can’t speak German and having to write a song #called ‘links 2 3 4’. asscreed/the northman/vikings tv/wardruna/god of war/whatever are fairly harmless cosplay activities #but taken together it’s like. where is the line between condescending cosplay fetishization (not great but whatever) and the sort of #idealization/valorization/historical erasure that plays into white supremacist rhetoric #after all—look at where we get a lot of pop culture viking imagery from: it’s Wagner #kelsey rambles #this is a long bad post about me having Spotify as blocked on my work computer and playing some faun and then letting the radio take away #praying and wikipedia-ing that it doesn’t take me to some dogshit nazi band along the way #which YouTube recs have done repeatedly. it’s a fucking cesspool out there in the metal/neofolk world #I also keep thinking back to Faun (neofolk forerunner) saying explicitly that they use central/south asian melodies and tonalities #the whole medieval folk aesthetic thing is a cobbled-together vibe that was created by 19thC romantics and 20thC fantasy writers #i just feel like there should be more of an…acknowledgement of artifice to ward off the nazis #I like neofolk music. I love vinland saga. I enjoy mountain scenery and stories of sea raiders. #would love to be able to enjoy it without looking over my shoulder all the time