#it’s just different every time tbh

[aro-aizawa]

i like to think everyone has a colour associated with them, whether its just your fave colour or what you generally wear most of or what colour your bedroom walls are. i always associate the name sophie with dark blue, my mum is always a nice turquoise, i like to think my colour is a bright sunflower yellow.

if you have a specific shade pls tell me i adore when ppl have associated colours and tell me them, bc i think of them when i see that colour

#shut up danni's talking #its one of my ultimate favourite aspects of character designs and i will forever use it w my characters #but i also think abt it w ppl!!!! #its almost certainly spawned from a combo of my mum passionately loving her colour + my primary school #my primary school's name/theme/whatever was related to the rainbow #its common for primary schools in the uk for the uniform to be polo shirts and schools would pick a colour and that was your uniform #but w my school's theme being rainbows they were like lol whatever colour as long as you're in a polo shirt #so kids would choose whichever shirt colour they wanted some kids switched it up every year #others stuck w the colour they chose all 6 years #so of course i would correlate ppl w colours which is how i always relate sophie w dark blue #bc i'd play w this girl called sophie in the afterschool club who always wore dark blue through all the years i knew her #tbh i still think of my brother also as dark blue bc he would wear the same colour #if you could not guess my colour was yellow and i always felt distinctly wrong when i had to wear a different colour #there were a couple times i had to borrow a new shirt bc mine got dirty or all mine hadn't been washed so i had to wear my brother's #i don't know if its just me but i feel like everyone has an affinity with a colour even if its n9t your fave #hence the poll lmao

[jaqobis]

honestly one of the most noteworthy things, imo, about the robert jordan era of wheel of time is his full stop refusal to glamorize pain. through every single character's experience in the books, he said over and over again: pain and trauma do not make you stronger, they do not make you better, they do not improve your life, and there is no one who is ~ too strong ~ to be susceptible to pain. when he showed intense hardass siuan sanche giving up information under torture, when he showed egwene controlled as a damane, when he showed rand's mental breakdown as he was subjected to more pain and torture and horrors, rj really said stop pretending suffering has moral value with his whole chest

#idk where i'm going with this tbh it's just something i think about every once in a while #which feels like a stark difference to a lot of media and i daresay a lot of fantasy #wot book spoilers #wheel of time

[turtleblogatlast]

Do you think the granny disguises Donnie and Leo wear (at Donnie’s insistence) are more of a Them thing or do Mikey and Raph also have their own granny disguises on hand?

If it’s the former then I have to say those two are killing it, I especially love Donnie’s scarf and old fashioned binoculars, and Leo’s eye makeup and pearls.

If it’s the latter though, then we were robbed Mikey and Raph granny designs. 😔

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #maybe Raph and Mikey have grandpa disguises instead? but tbh I’d rather all of them be grannies so 6ft Raph can call someone dearie #(also love how Leo’s disguise is the trans flag colors I’m telling you white pink and blue are common and good on him-) #actually I wonder if each duo of them has a different type of disguise they lean toward #like Donnie and Leo have the granny disguises #seems like Raph and Leo may lean more toward sporty attire #etc etc #I still believe there was potential here for a granny disguise episode for all of them #wherein they have to fight the elderly at the end #and the elderly are SHOCKINGLY good fighters #like the idea that Raph makes his granny design just constantly knit. like every time the camera is on him he’s knitting

[mattodore]

pay attention to theo’s beautiful face and not whatever matthias’s arm is doing... i liked the lighting more here than against the wall

#these are the last screenshots i wanted to edit from the ones i took on the 22nd and had been slowly editing throughout the week #will finally be putting mattodore in their thirties to rest 🙏⚰️ #river dipping #echthroi #matthias evanoff #theodore doe #a burning house to live in #ts4 #ts4 edit #simblr #ended up not doing much to these screenshots tbh… i was so into the audiobook i was listening to i kinda just. stared at the wall a lot... #my brain was telling me this wasn’t worth posting bc i’ve done so many mattodore edits recently and this isn’t anything different but. #like i did actually spend a few hours with these edits so. on one hand i’m like this isn’t really anything #but on the other hand i’m like. well they’re my ocs whom i love dearly and i’ll probably enjoy looking back at this #the same way i do all my other recent edits which i open my own blog up to stare at like. multiple times in a day #obsessed atm…….. #anyway. #god… matthias is so huge he always takes up so much space i’m constantly having to crop him out of edits 😭 #and these are poses that weren’t even made from me…. so he’s not even at his full 6’3’’ height and size like 😭😭😭 #he distracted me but that aside... i'm waiting for my game to open up atm so i can get back to tweaking alessandria's sim #her face is gonna take me forever................................. #ik i don't talk about my other ocs on here much anymore but alessandria is my third favorite oc (mattodore obviously being my top two) #so... i'm seriously gonna agonize over every update i make for them now kjdhknjf #ocs with tragic backstories save me................... #i’ll probably spend a few hours with alessandria in cas and then i’m going back to google docs to write more abt mattodore

[mishapen-dear]

i keep thinking about minecraft mechanics and all the old history bad keeps referencing like. did he every troll vesuvius by throwing shit into his inventory to fill it up. did issac newton hold the apple in his offhand. was the offhand even an option back then. when qbbh fell to earth was hunger nonexistent but for the howling pain of wounds that could only be healed by food. were people just frantically chowing down on pork while atlantis collapsed. they couldnt even swim animation

#qsmp badboyhalo #all their beds got broken no wonder their spawn was invalid </3 #what about the witch hunt #the witch trials. imagine someone pulling stacks and stacks of rope out of their inventory #the library of alexandria makes even more sense in a mc context tbh stuff used to go up in flames SO fast #but also. Imagine. theres just pigs dying for food all the time until one day cows and chickens ALSO start dropping food #ans theb theres the qsmp islands where all these mods are present #some of them different on different islands #which implies that everything off the island is normal mc but on the islands its modded #because no one is every surprised by pressing e for inventory but they Sire Are Surprised by nightmare stalkers #also lemme know if this appears in the mc tags and ill edit if

[zivvis]

barbie doll gore mod where you can do his hair and put him in situations. it's exactly the same mod

#my routine is i wake up and i draw a gore who looks different from gore and also different from every other gore ive ever drawn #and then i play skyrim until my laptop fan sounds like it's gonna explode 👍 #gore skyrim #skyrim gore #gore mod #doll implies a lack of agency but tbh it doesn't feel like that since as a companion he clearly will call you on shit/take responsibility #can't believe how much he claims his own decisions past and present. galaxy brain necessity but also that is so fucking tough on a person #i just replayed blood ties for the first time to see how the other choices go and hooooo boy those consequences are immediate and dire #also the dialogue is so realistically subtle #parts i wasn't sure exactly what he meant before bc he trailed off clicked this time nd holy shit. #so much gets conveyed in those relatively brief convos #i can't wait until im a high enough lvl for vigilant

[sunnlily]

translation: "em nhớ chị không?" → do you miss me? "mình nhớ bạn." → i miss you. nhớ is used for both remembering and missing someone in vietnamese, idea from ocean vuong!

#hsr #honkai star rail #hsr fanart #my art #liubai #hsr liubai #jingliu #baiheng #every time i remember this quote by ocean vuong's i go insane #it just hits different #originally this was supposed be jing yuan instead of jingliu but then i realized #one jingliu makes more sense here #two i couldn't draw jing yuan #only for me to not be able to draw jingliu either o(-( #“cô nhớ mẹ không” if my mother ever asked me that i would cry on the spot tbh #but that's the mommy issues talking

[essektheylyss]

I don't understand how some folks, both people who like and don't like shadowgast, seem to still want me to believe that Liam "caved" to Caleb and Essek being in a relationship because of fandom pressure and continues to go along with it halfheartedly only because of that even though he secretly hates it.

And meanwhile we have entirely unprompted asides like "Imagine two wizards—" "I do. Often."

#I've seen both of these takes REPEATEDLY. RECENTLY. #like you do not have to like it nor do you have to even like how it is established in canon but ??? #just like..... admit THAT instead? #tbh people put a lot of words into cast members' mouths #but frankly especially weird to say about a player who has pointedly discussed not taking fandom opinion into account #like. it's all 'well they play their characters how they want!' when someone's talking story analysis until it's a ship someone's mad at. #also 'matt doesn't really like essek either' is even wilder cuz like #did everyone else watch a different version of the show in which they were fighting over that one essek shirt lmfao. #ANYWAY pls know that every time liam is funny about sg or essek I do think about the fact that this opinion STILL exists. #and those thoughts are spiteful and vindictive. #cr discourse #ig

[aqueousammonia-art]

i don't have much to say because school but I am really enjoying watching trigun (98 anime)

originally I was going to cut off my adventures at episode 13 (which I found out was just a rehash of previous adventures + some new scenes) and pick up the other half during my June holidays

*then I found out the 'next day' that netflix was pulling the show in about 9 days from this post.(hhh)

*that was in march

so I'm trying to slowly finish the show now and draw out all my thoughts at the end instead of splitting my review into two like I intended (which was stupid now that I think about it.)

legato's interesting to me - I don't eat sweet stuff often but I would be down with this guy

he'd recommend the meanest cakes. he'd know the wackiest spots for heavenly delicacies.

for anyone who's read this far, take this legato doodle with you as thanks ♡⁠˖⁠꒰⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠⑅⁠꒱

I'll be back with my thoughts when I finish the 98 anime!

#custardcookiedough #trigun #tbh ive had to redo the tags 2 times now and i just can't rn #legato bluesummers #i was watching episode 17 late at night yesterday #this post would probably be a lot different if i had took a break there #at least im finally #FINALLY #seeing wolfwood again in ep18 #oh yeah also legato is fun to draw yeah i don't feel like writing tags again #its funny because i sorta feel weird for tagging trigun every time i do one of these update blogs #then i just post it anyway cause im only on here for like 10 minutes a week or two #okay enough rambling in the tags

[funkytoes]

"is this movie featuring female empowerment roles ACTUALLY bad or are men just sexist" - me whenever a movie with unconventional and/or very powerful female leads gets super bad reviews from male movie critics and youtubers lol

#funky's personal tag #I'm always like... ok #maybe it's not Oscar worthy #but why can't women leads have dumb overpowered roles too????? #like for christs sake men have been writing themselves into those kind of roles for CENTURIES be in movie or books #god forbid women do Anything #also LITERALLY not every movie needs to be worthy of critical acclaim or win awards??? #sometimes (most of the time tbh) i just wanna see fun entertainment. Why can't women fulfill those kinda roles too?? #doesn't mean it's a BAD movie it's just fitting a different purpose

[theriverdraws]

I know some of you might have other favorite characters in UT/DR, and that's completely fair, I myself didn't have a favorite for a long time since I loved them all.

..But can we all agree that Asriel/Flowey is the best character Toby has ever written until now?

Just everything about his tragic story and development, how in genocide we can see explained how he changed so much from a sweet little boy who just wanted to save everyone and who loved his family, to a sadistic, apathetic, and manipulative flower.

That, and the hints that Flowey is still Asriel no matter how hard he tries to deny it. He's done so many awful things, and has gone through so much and in the end he's just a scared, panicked, sad child who doesn't want to be alone.

I couldn't explain it too well I think, there are just so many things to love about him.

It's all just so, so good.

#obviously this is only to ut!Asriel #im sure dr!Asriel is gonna be great but he is gonna be a lot different without all this trauma the ut counterpart has smsjsk #another character who I would say can compete to the title of best written character by Toby would be sans or spamton #but sans has some bits a bit vague due to gaster and certain implications that he's actually from the dr universe and all that stuff so #and spamton just made me feel so many things with the short time he has #i was horrified but I also felt so sad and when he just broke I was in shock #but again I just think Asriel/Flowey is better #maybe becauss he has a lot more different aspects to him by almost being two different charscters in one and all that stuff #also the dreemurr tragedy is simply the most heartbreaking thing and definitely one of the best tragedies in video games #i will not change my mind #but tbh every character Toby has made has so many aspects to them I simply love it so so much #even in characters I dont like I can appreciate the writing! #cof cof King cof cof #Asriel #asriel dreemurr #ut asriel #undertale #deltarune #flowey #flowey the flower #ut flowey #toby fox #OH YEAH ALSO KRIS #Definitely a contender for future best character if we're all correct about them #but its too early to judge #they got big chances though

[ressaart]

drew tim with a mock up of the tattoo i want

#i have had this idea foe years #every time i draw it differently tho lol #i just wanted to see tim with some tats tbh #tim drake #red robin #my art

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

yknow what . i like you . shows you my exe ocs and also gives you little summaries of them underneath the read more cut and in the tags :3 ( desc in alt text 4 the 1st img ! ) - Nicky 🌊

in order: Rawr.EX3/EXD (any) imagine sonic.exe + 2010s sparkledog raver culture . that's Rawr. she likes waffles and is a virus exe who lives in a bootleg rom pack of the first 3 sonic games & a sonic crackers prototype Itazura, Guardian of Mischief (she/they/it/plush) first ever pc port oc!!! what it says on the tin. secret 8th guardian who loves nothing more than causing problems and playing life-threatening pranks on people. you can tell they're after you if you hear what sounds like jingling bells and giggling around your house in the dead of night. oh and plush's kyofu's kid 👍

Sew (any, no she/her) amorphous dimension travelling critter that uses sewing / crafting to make it's "skin" , typically based off of pre-existing people in the dimension. saw sonic and his super form and thought he was the COOLEST thing alive, so it chooses to resemble him :] Sink/Waterhog/Nicky (we use he/it but it doesn't rlly care /ref) literally just me lol , but from a 3rd person perspective he's a personal take on Mr. DJ's "Sink Sonic" concept . he's like 12-13ish and has way too much lore for me to summarise but fun fact : worldbuilding wise, he's a mish-mosh of the games, the Shogakukan sonic manga and a little bit of sonic x sprinkled in. :3

#scary / weird sonic tag 🩸🌭 #sonic.exe #creepypasta #exe community #exe oc #sonic pc port #sink fnf #below the depths #chaos nightmare #scene kid #scenecore #scene oc #fun fact . that sweater i drew sink wearing is NOT the only one he has and every time i draw him he's wearing a different one. always #he never really has the same one on twice in my drawings unless im feeling a vibe and if you ever want to draw him you can also #make up a sweater for him to wear!!! just know he always has on long sleeves so youre free to give him a tshirt layered over a long sleeved #shirt too . you dont gotta limit yourselves like i do i just default to sweaters lmao #you can also do this with rawr but with like. ALL of her parts except the teeth (theyre consistently neon yellow or neon green) #so feel free to go nuts if you draw rawr. like actually. give them cool hoodies or clothes or new bang patterns idc go OFF that's the point #ita and sew are meant to be consistent as possible but tbh you could draw sew with different patch patterns and ita with a different bow #tl;dr I Love Customising My Little Guys and therefore everyone who wants to draw them should also give themselves that joy #also also. please tell me if the alt text is good. im not very good at IDs and i am chronically low on spoons so i never write them #this is to say that if you have the spoons and better descriptive vocab PLEASE write img ids for my art if you feel the need to #i want my art to be as accessible as possible and that includes allowing those with low visibility to be able to visualize my work

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

Being in the kh fandom is interesting. Because it's a small, yet big Fandom at the same time. Like, what do you mean Kingdom Hearts is the second most written video game fandom on Fanfiction.net (I was starved for content)? It's so obscure yet popular at the same time.

At least, that's my perspective

That does feel true sometimes! I think it has to do with the fact that it’s been around for a long time, and because each game has garnered its own sub-fanbases, of varying sizes. In my earliest days when the kh3 hype was at an all-time high, the kh fandom felt MASSIVE on tumblr. And the large amount of fics on ff.net is probably in thanks to all the heavy lifting the 2007-8 era fans and the renaissance 2012-15 fans did lol 😄

Nowadays, dry season for news aside, the fandom does feel much smaller depending on where you look. I personally prefer hanging out in the smaller, cozier sub-communities than the big, all-encompassing fandom, but they both have their pros and cons

#asks #that1randomnerd #I do miss the kh3 hype era a lot tbh. every day there’d be all sorts of new kh art everywhere #truly a golden era #oh also also I just remembered I used to think the same thing! I used to use ff.net all along and each time I’d see the amount of kh fics #I’d be really impressed #I’m sure it’s different on ao3 but kh’s history coincides with the popularity of ff.net which is neat!

[fruitsyrups]

ca n we all agree that human bonnie would not be a baker btw

#idc what gary does he's boring either way #but pb pbubs peebles is a scientisttttt she does scieeencceeeee #i mean baking is a science in a way but she'd be doing like... biology and chemistry n shit #a bit of physics #i mean sure baking as a hobby. but it would noootttt be her main thing #this isn't f&c hate bc as previously mentioned gary can do whatever the fuck he wants as long as he does it with minimal screentime #well maybe i am hating a little bit #i dont think i hate gary thaaat much actually its just that pb is so much better in every conceivable way and it makes gary so so #hard to care about in comparison #and he does not really read as a pb variant at all tbh... completely different personality. which is fine i guess #maybe they did that on purpose bc tbh pb's personality and everything would not work if she was anybody other than princess bubblegum #ykwim? #just wouldn't hit the same #wait moment of realization. i think i just like every other adventure time character too much & i need a punching bag

[hazellvsq]

frank/hazel/leo most popular pjo ot3? an analysis

okay so the love triangle poll had me thinking. i knew frank/hazel/leo had ship content on ao3, and i was curious to see if other love triangles or popular trios got the same treatment.

(this is very long and rambling)

this is the amount of ao3 content frank/hazel/leo has:

these are the other trios i was looking at:

last one is crazy lol. anyway, other potential trios like jason/reyna/piper or different combos of percy/annabeth/piper/jason all had less than 20 fics each. its possible i missed one but i'm pretty sure i tried of all of them.

for context, the general state of pjo character and ship content looks like this:

the vast majority of tagged fandom content with frank and hazel has them as background characters. finding content that centers them takes digging. aside from calypso/leo, they have the least popular canon ship, and the only other character that either has any substantial fan content with is leo. the pjo fandom has shipped leo with literally any character he was in proximity with, and hazel was a canon love interest of his. in addition, the pjo fandom has incredibly popular mlm ships and has gone through the time-honored tradition of finding ways to sideline, if not villainize, the canon female love interests. which makes these next stats so interesting to me:

a decent portion of works in both of these tags are frank/hazel/leo fics that got crosstagged. obviously, frank/hazel have more fics than frank/hazel/leo:

however, its impossible to figure out how many of these fics actually center frank/hazel, as opposed to them just being background characters. so i did a test and filtered out all of the more popular ships in their tag:

this isn't a perfect representation, because there are definitely frank/hazel centric-fics that had other ships in the background, and frank/hazel/leo aren't the main couple of every fic they get tagged in. still, though. that's less than the frank/hazel/leo fics.

the other thing about hazel and frank content is that they are the two characters who are most frequently headcanoned as straight. it's died down some in recent years but it used to be CONSTANT (it happened to leo too, but not as much). most fans thought they were the two most "traditional" characters, value-wise. so i was thinking, if frank and hazel got this much content for a poly ship, then the characters that this fandom actually thinks are gay have to have more:

and then i was like, hmmm well okay i'm very surprised there's not more for those three. but there's so many people who ship some combo of nico/percy/jason/will. i've seen so many big 3 edits that leave out the girls. there's no way frank/hazel/leo is beating out the white slash ship industrial complex.

frank/hazel/leo beat out the white slash ship industrial complex (big threesome is a very funny ship name tho).

my biggest guess would be that there was some sort of beef between the percy/nico and jason/nico crowds that has led to this lack of ot3 content. i wouldn't know. i'm wondering if they're going to catch up; its not far off right now. as far as i can tell will solace has no popular ot3's that broke more than 20 fics and is pretty much only shipped with nico.

other potential ot3's like jason/piper/leo...i have a theory that a lot of jason/piper shippers only really shipped it in conjunction with percy/annabeth because they were were a good secondary couple for percabeth-centric fics, and didn't care about leo as much (which could explain why there's more overall content for jason and piper than for leo). also, i think historically a lot of leo fans thought jason and piper were bad friends, although these days there's a lot more renewed appreciation for their trio. piper has also been commonly written as a ship obstacle since the inception of her character, when people thought she was homewrecking jason and reyna (the jason/nico crowd uses this trope too), which might be why she's not commonly put in ot3's despite having chemistry with most of the cast. on the other hand, the "ship wars" between hazel/frank and hazel/leo shippers in the mark of athena era were pretty mild, because most readers liked all three characters and didn't have strong enough feelings about either pairing to fight about it, whereas other ot3's don't get written because fans have a very strong preference for their other ships.

i know frank/hazel/leo has its origins on ff.net, but it was mostly one author and mostly just kink. there's a much bigger variety on ao3. i'm wondering why people liked it enough to make it a side pairing for other fics, and at what point the bulk of content for it was written. i'm wondering what people get out of combining the three of them that you don't get from just two. is it because all 3 dynamics are so clearly defined in canon? some of them also are based on kinks like mpreg that historically exclude women, so why do these authors include one? this is also interesting because the rest of the fanbase, including both fans who ship frank/hazel and fans who think that shipping hazel with anybody is problematic, refuse to write about hazel or frank having sex to the point where it was a fandom meme for a while. except in frank/hazel/leo fics, where a large percentage have explicit content. i'm wondering which of the nico/jason/percy or frank/hazel/leo tags has more mpreg, but i'm okay not knowing.

if you made it this far, there's not a real point to this post, except pointing out that for characters who barely get shipping content, frank/hazel/leo is unexpectedly popular considering how much content exists about them otherwise, and also goes against popular fandom perception of the characters in interesting ways.

#i have NO idea what to tag this as lol #frank zhang #hazel levesque #leo valdez #frazeleo #i'm still kinda shook that this had more fics then the nico ot3 i did not see that coming #lost hero trio deserves more fics tho tbh like every combination of it has been popular at one point. its time for a merger #also this essay is not an endorsement or criticism of any ships listed idc about any of them #just trying to figure out what makes different ships tick in fandom #if someone ran a ot3 poll rn i do not think frazeleo would win. but if you ran it during the height of the pjo ship wars? #my running theory is that ship wars prevent ot3s. since ppl usually have a strong preference. this is just one of the rare cases where peo