#if only for a little while

[xxrat--punkxx]

Cringe ass oc x Morgott Valentine’s Day post

#AHHHHH #I am normal about them u guys #Ellaband is the worlds worst Elden lord because she loves to just ditch Lyndell and not tell any of the royal staff just to go foraging #she’ll leave her proper lords attire and crown to just dick about in Limgrave for rowa fruits #she mostly goes hunting for the materials to make silver pickled foul feet as it helps her worsening eyesight #this will almost always send the royal staff into a panic because they’ve just lost the fucking Elden lord #almost always leading to morgott having to chase her down and bring her back because by the grace of gold she needs to stop doing that #yet despite all that he will let her stay only for a bit #sharing jokes and talking about life’s more simple things in the Limgrave grass #if only for a little while #my art #elden ring morgott #morgott the grace given #morgott the omen king #ellaband the ever elusive #elden ring #elden ring margit #margit the fell omen #tarnished #tarnished elden ring #soulsbourne #valentines day

[ren-c-leyn]

 I’m thinking of running a sort of writeblr event to encourage interactions with other people’s writing. I’m thinking something along the lines of reblogging at least 1 story a day from a number of different writers for a period of time and anyone who can complete the challenge and I can verify it will get one of their OCs drawn by me.

 Probably not right now since a lot of folks have exams and nano and stuff going on, but like down the line. Maybe around December? I still have a lot of details to work out anyways.

#the ramblings of a writer #I've notice a lot of folks' stories not getting notes again and several writers getting discouraged #so I'm hoping maybe an event like this might kick things back into gear #if only for a little while

[telleroftime]

I don't usually listen to Hozier but that one Harvey animatic to Too Sweet has gripped me by the heart and it refuses to let go. Hozier's voice is certainly something. It's something amazing.

#I'm certain I can pause listening to Will Wood in favour of Hozier #if only for a little while #toonce offtopic

[soulsxng]

🎥 (Pereux)

@lunarxdaydream | A scene in the life... | Accepting!

"Mórrígan! What have you done?!"

"Exactly as has been foretold, dear Lugh. Did you really expect for me to allow myself to be trapped-- this bird has never known a cage, nor does she plan to any time soon. You were warned of this, were you not? Perhaps you should have planned accordingly at that time, as opposed to dismissing me off-hand."

"Lying witch!"

"Foul betrayer!"

"Yes, yes, I can hardly blame any of you for being angry...what was it Dagda called me before? The source of our people's fighting, or something to that effect? I must say, you all seem rather united, at this moment!"

The look that her fellow Tuath Dé shot in her direction as she laughed was particularly venomous...and yet, her smile never once faltered. She felt no guilt, for this situation.

After all, she had already foreseen the humans driving the Tuath Dé into the mounds. The Otherworlds, as it would be called, once the space inside grew to become its own realm. A home for faeries and all manner of other beings.

But for the time being...it was meant to be a prison. One that would hold its charges for well over an age.

Mórrígan would stand for no such thing...and so, she struck a deal. A deal that, so long as she provided her assistance in trapping her fellows, she would be allowed to remain free.

Not that she believed such a thing-- it was likely than not that the humans would attempt to double cross her in some manner or another.

And so, she didn't want to stick around any longer than was necessary. That would be far too tempting to fate.

"I should really be going, though. Please, enjoy your stay! Or not. It hardly matters to me, either way."

When her form twisted and changed to that of a large crow, she heard both shouts of the humans, and of the Tuath Dé...but she didn't turn around once she took to the air.

It wasn't as though there was anything left for her there, anyway. All she wanted to do right now, was get back to her beloved.

"Roishe...worry not, my dear. Soon, I can return home to you."

#[Pereux -headcanons-] #[Pereux -drabbles-] #(She really did not enjoy her fae family at all #and there wasn't much love lost between them when she helped the humans lock them away #after all it gave her the opportunity to live how she wanted to #if only for a little while #with her soulmate who eventually became a master of the Time Stream #of course as you can probably tell that didn't last forever #she still enjoys this life and the people she's befriended much more though

[the-phantom-peach]

🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

#doodled a little comic bc I think the link/korok relationship is adorable #this is also pro-korok propaganda #anyways um #I used to hc that link signed in botw (for obvious reasons) #but after the calamity he gained more confidence in speaking #so now he only signs when he’s uncomfortable speaking around someone or just not in the mood to talk #sometimes he signs while speaking out of habit #thank you for coming to my ted talk #im sorry hes just so important to me IM SAD #I used to learn asl but now I forgot please forgive my mistakes OTL #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #loz #loz art #Zelda #loz tears of the kingdom #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #totk #botw #totk link #korok #Nintendo #art #my art

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

#mental health #mental health support #positivity #if anybody has ideas of their own definitely include them! #i just think being stuck with this feeling that you don't have autonomy and that you ultimately aren't an equal person or a person at all.. #...in comparison to other people can be a really troubling and dangerous place to be in... #...and that isn't the person's fault for feeling that way. they didn't pluck those thoughts out of thin air... #...like i have felt that exact way all my LIFE because i have been abused for. probably 2/3s of my life... #...only within these past few years have i even FELT alive. frankly it's going to take a while to repair what i have been left with... #...so i know the feeling and i want to help others feel even a LITTLE bit alive. you deserve it... #...you deserve to take in a deep breath before slowly realizing 'oh my gd this is what it feels like to be alive' and SMILE about it #i want that for you even if it is brief. even if it is small. even if it is a whisper. i want you to feel alive #unironically getting rid of the idea of 'guilty pleasures' has made my life SO much better

[alteredphoenix]

Something I’ve come to learn about writing ToLumi fics is: I kind of enjoy writing romance.

Granted it’s because I have an OTP, because then why else would I write a romance unless it’s of a pairing I like? It’s an odd thing, to be sure, because I’m not really into shipping (I can count the ships I do like on one hand) and I just can’t vibe with rarepairs unless the story they’re in is written exceptionally well to draw even my interest to give the reading a shot.

I don’t see this feeling being replicated with any other hetero ship, and I’m not interested in BL at all unless it’s done via specific requests, so it’s why, if I have to write romance (and it has to be of my own volition), I’d rather it be toward GL, because it’s something I am interested in (even though, surprisingly enough, most canon GL ships don’t click with me for various reasons - but that’s personally a me thing).

#the things you come to learn while immersing yourself into a less toxic fandom #there's a peace that i've found #upon leaving that old fandom #you know the one #even though this new fandom has ppl that are burned out and worn from disappointments #but i believe i can carve a new home in that fandom #and maybe someday my patience will pay off #even if they are worn and tired and disappointed w/ how the IP is treated #i hope my works will at least take off some of that edge and will make them smile #if only for a little while #so that's another thing i must thank those two girls for #it's the little things that bear the most fruit

[machinerot]

#my art #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #harrykim #kimharry #or whatever they're called #let this man have happiness or so help me #im a firm believer in harry getting a slow post-recovery glow up alright. it's the least i can do for the guy. #man i was listening to so many banger songs while making this #im still getting back in the flow of painting so most of my stuff is kinda messy still #but i suspect ill find a middle ground between this and my last piece style-wise #gearing up to drawing kim in all his glory too now that ive finished two different side profiles of him. only a matter of time now #also fun little fact. i drew over half of this (~4 ? hours) using just my finger on the trackpad of my laptop lol #sometimes it helps me to just put shapes and colors down. when ive got a pen i get too nitpicky about being perfect/using fancy techniques #sometimes all you need is. finger 🫶 #OH!! i forgot to mention someone spotted it in the tags—yes this is based on that one leyendecker piece!!

[turtleblogatlast]

Based on this post of mine, haha.

Leo finds The Last Unicorn. Core memories are made.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rottmnt headcanons #rise splinter #that movie is a rollercoaster #little Leo in his little British orphan boy pajamas should probably not be watching it essentially alone #Leo going through all stages of grief AND fear from this movie #his insomnia was NOT helped by this movie #‘you won’t let me leave right? I don’t wanna go’ flash forward to Leo trapping himself in the prison dimension #all while his father can only listen in horror

[deathinfeathers]

Wondering what Adam might have looked like as a human.

#She's obsessed with humans #Like Ariel levels obsessed #She wants to be a part of that world 😩💕 #If only for a little while

[rollercoasterwords]

the tiktokification of ao3

or: some of you fundamentally misunderstand ao3 and it really, really shows

i was talking about this with a friend a few days ago and since then i've seen multiple posts of various sorts that have just made me think about it more, so. here is me breaking down a disconnect i see particularly with younger members of the marauders fandom (i say marauders specifically just bc that's the only one i'm plugged into):

okay, so i've seen many (usually younger) marauders fans either talking online about how they wish ao3 was more like social media (specifically regarding algorithms) OR talking about ao3/fanfiction/fanfic writers as if they are operating under the same etiquette/guidelines/assumptions they would bring into social media platforms. this ranges from being mildly irritating to genuinely harmful, and i want to talk abt why.

first - you have to understand that social media, in this day and age, exists in a profit economy. and when i say social media here, i'm referring to platforms like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc. all of these platforms exist in a profit economy where content is a product that can be monetized. this leads to a few important distinctions:

people posting on these social media platforms are generally posting with the intent to get their content seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible

they post with this intent because once their content is consumed by enough people, it becomes a product that they can monetize

therefore, if that content gets popular enough, these people can become influencers, where content creation is an actual job and their audience are, in a sort of vague and obscured way, similar to consumers purchasing a product

because of the profit economy surrounding social media, there are certain assumptions + forms of interaction that bleed across almost all social media platforms. the ones relevant to this little essay include:

operating under the assumption that anyone posting anything on the internet wants to go viral, ie. be seen by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to grow an "audience"

these influencers are creating content for us, their audience, so they should want to please us. they should also be trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience. therefore, if we dislike their content, we have a right to make that very, very clear.

in that same vein, we have a general right to critique content creators, as they are making a profit and we are the consumers purchasing their product--much like you might feel entitled to a certain standard of service in a restaurant where you are paying for the food.

when you carry these assumptions over to a platform like ao3, it creates problems. why? in a nutshell: because ao3 exists outside the profit economy

ao3 is a non-profit. it does not have an algorithm because it is not trying to sell you anything. this means that the writers posting their work on ao3 are not making a profit. we are not influencers. we are not creating monetized content to sell to a consumer-audience. where consuming content on other social media platforms might be comparable to eating at a restaurant, reading fanfiction on ao3 is more like coming over to someone's house and eating cookies that they made for free. you are in their house. the cookies are free, given as a gift. so what happens when those assumptions outlined above start to bleed over from other social media?

assuming that anyone posting fanfiction online wants their work to go viral -- i've seen this with popular fic writers getting questions like, "are you worried x isn't going to be as popular as y?" those questions are usually not ill-intended, but they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about why writers post work on ao3. it's not to go viral. it's not to build any sort of online following. most of us who post on ao3 have jobs or schoolwork or other commitments, and writing fanfiction is something done for fun, out of a love for writing. those sharing their work online might be seeking community, but that is fundamentally different from seeking an audience, and in no way involves internet virality. if someone is posting fanfic on ao3 with the hope that it'll "go viral," then they likely either won't continue writing fanfic for long or will reach a point where they have to re-evalute their motivations, because seeking joy and validation by turning your art into a product for consumption just isn't very sustainable.

influencers are creating content for us, so we have a right to let them know if we don't like it -- nope!! fic writers are not influencers. yes, even the popular ones. no matter how much other people might blow their work up on social media, fic writers are still outside the profit economy. they are not creating content for an audience. they are not creating content for you. they are writing because they love it, and they are generously sharing it. if you don't like it, don't interact with it. you are never entitled to loudly and publicly proclaim how much you dislike a fic. i talk about this more here

we have a general right to critique fic writers, the same way we do with content creators/influencers -- again, no. you should not be treating fic writers the way you would treat an influencer on another social media platform, no matter how popular they may be. this is not to say fic writers are beyond all reproach; rather, it is a call-in to check your entitlement. fic writers are not little jesters entertaining in your court. they are not subject to your whims. they do not have to do things for you. they do not have to write things you like. in that post i linked on point 2, i talk about what etiquette might look like if you're really concerned that a fic writer is doing something harmful, but that is not what i'm talking about here. i am talking about the proliferation of negativity i have seen, especially on twitter and tiktok, where people essentially just talk shit about fics or fic writers as though they are entitled to have those fic writers working to please them. this is gross, and it needs to stop. you wouldn't go over to someone's house, eat the cookies they baked to share, and then spit those cookies back in their face and start shouting about what a shitty baker they are. or maybe you would--in which case, congratulations! you are Not A Good Person.

anyway, at the end of the day, a lot of this can be boiled down to: Because ao3 exists outside the profit economy, fic writers are not influencers, and you should never be treating them as though they are. i think i see this disconnect largely with younger people just because they've maybe only ever really understood social media within this sort of influencer-consumer-culture economy, and genuinely don't understand how to interact differently with the internet. so, consider this post a call-in to reevaluate the way you interact with fic writers and the etiquette you use when it comes to engaging with fanfic on ao3! i promise that ao3 being different from social media is a very, very good thing, and also a very, very rare thing, so let's treasure it and focus on fostering community rather than trying to morph it to fit the mould of influencer-audience dynamics that we see almost everywhere else <3

#tldr: fic writers aren't influencers #stop acting like they are #it only creates problems!!!! #anyway if you have engaged in some of these behaviors that doesn't make u a bad person #it just means u should maybe shift ur perspective moving forward #capitalism is a lifeless desert that grows every day and ao3 is a little oasis #let's all enjoy it while we can #instead of trying to place it within a consumer economy #ranting and raving #txt

[lotus-pear]

old dazai lighting practice i found in my drafts that i have no intention of finishing so u guys can have it

#bro this is so fucking old u can tell bc i had no idea how to draw hands💀💀😭 #still looks ok tho i think. i genuinely had no idea where the light source was while i was doing this #btw this was my attempt at painting if u guys were wondering if i only knew how to do cell shading😍😍 ur incorrect! i can render!! (poorly) #october me was a different artist forreal #also ignore that little doodle off to the side i was testing out a pen #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #lotus draws

[elitadream]

Reunion time! 😄💕

#I was SO happy to finally be back home that I immediately felt inspired to make a little something for the occasion 🥰 #No more prolonged absence - only good vibes 😌✨ #I have often entertained scenarios where Mario would be gone for a while #either going on a side mission or thoroughly exploring the realm to ensure its safety #each time returning a bit rough-looking and somewhat exhausted; but safe and content #Both Luigi and Peach would be there to greet him most enthusiastically upon his arrival 🤗 #It would be a blissful moment of relief and delight for the three of them everytime #The joy of being together once more would never fail to fill them with endless warmth and delight #It's a scene I've pictured countless times before #The whole concept lives in my head rent free 🥺💗 #And thanks to you guys and your AMAZING support I finally drew it! :D #I love them and I love YOU #Mario #Princess Peach #Mario x Peach #Mareach #Luigi #best bros #family #friendship #romance #group dynamic #Super Mario Bros #fanart

[kicktwine]

writing advice: every chapter should have something that makes you, a sicko, say yeesss… hahaha… yeeesss!!! and it doesn’t quite matter what you are a sicko about but it’ll be hard to get through the chapter if nothing makes you press your face into the window

#this is advice for me if I don’t have something to cackle about even a little bit I get bored… #kipspeak #edit it’s been very sweet seeing all the notes on this post but as someone who’s never gotten this many notes before im a tad overwhelmed #my notifs can only handle so much while I’m trying to check them for other things…! #so post locked. thank u for playing and also cackling like a madman at each other and me

[honeydjarin]

Every time something new comes out for Star Wars that takes place between other things that have already come out, I’m excited for the new content and also reminded about the inevitability of it all

#I haven’t watched the last three seasons of the clone wars yet… #but honestly just thinking about that series makes me cry #i am a baby #the same is true for andor #cassian’s end is inevitable #everyone in Star Wars is important and yet no one is #trying to convince myself it’s not that deep #the sequels don’t exist in my mind though #that galaxy deserves to find some peace for once #if only for a little while

[papiliomame]

Bongo Cat - Little baby Man Edition

#danny phantom #bongo cat #meme #little baby man #blob ghost #my art #my animation #I only discoverd this meme now #with a big youtube channel with different cover songs! #made a quick animation while i was listening