#its all real. the LAYERS

[twink-with-an-agenda]

"The Lyctor took her silently in his arms: they held each other like children who'd had a nightmare and had woken in a fright. Just as silently, they detached."

#this scene does unspeakable things to my heart like #like #its ALL genuine. their mutual hatred and bitterness is real and genuine. but so is their sudden tenderness after johns ''death'' #so is their immense attachment to each other despite everything #its all real. the LAYERS #it kills me how tiredly gentle they suddenly get here #like. its done. time to finish up and leave this (im)mortal coil together #screams #tlt #the locked tomb #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #dios apate #harrow the ninth #my art

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[toskarin]

I do almost wish I'd saved the part of that rant about how a good tabletop roleplayer is usually playing with an elven mindset by default for its own post, but maybe another day

#it's actually really hard to play a ttrpg with a human mindset! you exist on the narrative layer as a real life person #and although there are consequences to the things happening around you #you know it's all a temporary fantasy full of characters who are somehow Less Real than you #despite your interactions taking place on the same narrative layer #so everything you do is fundamentally an indulgence of that spontaneous fantasy and its inevitable satisfying conclusion

[stupid-sloot-headcanons]

Pure suffering is loving Harley Quinn and hating that 90% of her new iterations are so reworked/gutted/flanderized that they aren't even Harley. And despite that, the main reasons people hate her all reek of misogyny. Harleen I'm so sorry, once I get Paul Dini's contact info we'll break into DC's editorial department and free you one day

#that new Black White and Redder comic is such fucking cringe #Stop trying to make her the worst form of Deadpool. They have little in common besides their watered down versions of each other #a black and red color scheme and not being straight #like that comic has all these refs to other heroes and what defines them...and then the author cant even identify Harley's core when its so. #fucking. obvious. SHE IS A LOVER. SHE LOVES INTENSELY AND CRAVES THAT LOVE IN RETURN. #And as much shit as I give the HQ show they at least tried to highlight her major issues and have her confront and work on them amidst the #constant unfunny humor and blandification of a lot of why I like Poison Ivy #sloot bitches about things #and not to get meta on a smut blog but Harley literally inserted herself into Joker's gang and lifestyle and how he sees the world #and when their relationship is written well its just as fucked up and interesting as her and Ivy #hes still an abusive pos BUT for the love of god read No Man's Land to see a real layered look at their relationship

[dirtydoctorwho]

Secret Santa for @ethvn-torchio

#peggy carter #steve rogers #captain america #steggy secret santa #herbie made a thing #okay i MIGHT have seen your ask response too late #so i hope this suffices <3 #AU is such a big catagory #AU of an AU. ALL THE AUs #i am once again won't to do an single line of shading #for real there's no shading on this #its just a bunch of layered gradients on some block coloring #i really like how it came out tho #happy holidays im honored to have been your secret santa :)

[heirtotheempire]

I know this is a bit of a touchy subject right now, but I want to discuss the differences between creating alien species and making them look non-human, versus simply having bad makeup. Because there is a distinction! Putting it all under a read more because it got a bit longer then intended😵‍💫

For starters, none of this criticism has anything to do with the actors. This is purely directed towards Disney's makeup department. I think the actors fit the bill appearance-wise, end of story.

Hera and Thrawn, in short, do not look all that great in terms of facial makeup. And as someone who adores these characters, it is frustrating! Disney, one of the largest entertainment companies on Earth, couldn't find the time, budget, or artists to work on the appearances of two main characters in this show they've been building up to for years.

Personally, my main problem with it is the lack of contouring. I've been saying this to my friend for weeks as well as mentioned it in reblogs on and off, but neither Hera or Thrawn have any sort of contouring done to enhance their face shapes. There is no emphasis on the cheekbones, or for Thrawn's forehead bumps, none of it. They rely on the actors' natural facial structures to do the work for them. Which, if it was cosplay or otherwise in person, is fine. But with studio lights, it causes a washed-out look, especially depending on where the light is coming from. To combat this (in an acting setting), makeup artists emphasize things such as the eyebrows and the cheeks and especially any wrinkles, to help bring out any facial expressions made.

How does this differ from aliens being, well. Aliens! Considering we don't have a real baseline for what real life aliens would look like, it's only fair to allow filmmakers to go wild with speculation, even if it's off-putting. But that isn't what the issue is here. The aliens we're focusing on here, Twi'leks and Chiss, do have similar facial structures to humans. They're humanoids! So their faces would reflect light and cast shadows just as much as a human face would. By all accounts, make aliens freaky looking, but basic rules of light still apply. We should be able to clearly see Thrawn's cheekbones and forehead bumps without having to pull out a magnifying glass, something that is possible via, you guessed it, contouring!

Also, considering this is fiction, things looking bad is more of a reflection on the effort being put into the show than anything else. They could have done more but chose not to. Star Trek has some fantastic examples of humanoid aliens being distinctly alien without being poorly designed (I've been watching TNG and it is quite fun!). As said before, I'm all for freaky looking aliens. But bad design and bad makeup ruins that. What is and isn't bad design and makeup does fall into a more subjective range, I won't shy away from that truth. But I cannot get over the lack of contouring in a show that can be so brightly lit! Disney's shooting themselves in the foot here!

At the end of the day this is a television show though. Lets not get mad at people who do or do not like the makeup, and people are allowed to critique it as much as others are allowed to enjoy it. No one is any less of a fan for not liking the Ahsoka show, and no one is less of a fan for loving the show. I've seen some... very nasty things in the tags in relation to this specifically as well as for the whole show. Not very fun.

To end this on a lighter note, here's a very wonderfully done makeup job on a cosplayer! I don't know how to make the embedded stuff go away whoops😭

#ahsoka series #ahsoka series spoilers #ahsoka series episode 6 #ahsola series episode 6 spoilers #ahsoka show #ahsoka #hera syndulla #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #star wars #ahsoka critical #disney critical #bc lets be real this post is less critical about the show itself and more towards disney and their practices #i hope all this makes sense #i have some experience with theater makeup but none in everyday conventional beauty makeup #and i feel like this falls soooomewhere inbetween? #bc you want more emphasized then if it was beauty makeup #but you dont want the high amount of layers in theater makeup (bc its seen from close up versus from far away on a stage) #i think the cosplayer did a wonderful job with her makeup i genuinely adore it #and its what id hope for a disney level production! #i do not understand how more people are not mad at disney for this #i get having a personal preference and enjoying it on a personal level #but at the same time its possible to enjoy it while also knowing that disney very well could have done better

[bumblingbabooshka]

If Uriel said I think too much I'd get a lobotomy

#good omens #Uriel #good omens Uriel #I don't watch the show - literally just picked the prettiest angel and watched some clips #literally the first clip I saw was Uriel and the other two ganging up on Aziraphale like they were all in the mob HEHEH #sometimes Uriel has gold things on her(?) face - sometimes they(?) don't v_v #I drew both bc I thought maybe the 'sans gold' look was part of a human disguise #Michael - special shoutout for your fucked up hair <3 who's your barber king?? Fire them <3 #also that demon isnt any real demon on the show I just doodled whatever #did NOT expect Uriel to be british but its okay - we all have our flaws #bea art tag #good omens art #OH one last thing: the top leftmost Uriel was on a layer called 'bad vibes Uriel' #also I miiight draw Uriel more bc they're very pretty and also I don't feel I got their sleepy eyed you-done-yet-? look down ...

[wall-e-gorl]

Free day! Anyone else remember the car bit they did in the ep 0s of arc 5 and 9? I do! i didnt remember it well enough to make the car a limo but heres the dm-mobile for the free day!

#my art #unprepared casters #UC Celebration 2023 #i wanted to draw an intro/outro bit but i ended up with an ep 0 one adsfs #its fine im v proud of it #i dont draw real people often but i think i did good at making them look like them if you know what i mean #gus was the easiest. its very easy to cartoonify a mustache ya know #also fun fact there was going to be a charles hanger plush hanging from the rear view mirror along with the fuzzy d20s #but then i realized i had no room for gus' face. so hes not here visually but in spirit (in hidden layers) #another fun fact ive been drawing on call in our dnd server and theres a version of this with all of our discord icons on the dash #and that is now our server icon. us in the car w the gang

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that -- #1 & 2 - Very bright pretty looking sky ! #2. HUGE icicle that looked like you could kill someone with it or something.. Pulled from near a gutter on the side of a building #3. & 4 & 5 - various images from a silly party I had where I pretended to be some elf king turning like 204 years old lol (also not like #a REAL party. Only my roommates were there really and we're all in the same household bubble. #just to clarify. I would never dare have a large party anyway given #my hermitous nature but on top of that.. didn't want there to be some implication that I'm having a Party while covid is still ongoing lol. #NEVER.. But I do love dressing up as some fantasy character so much.. The only thing that could ever bring a true hermit wizard #to engage with others socially is the prospect of connecting it somehow to fantasy worlds and costumes lol. One must simply dress up #as a silly 200 year old man from time to time and pretend you've never seen a balloon before in your life. etc. #6. bapy boye... feets #7. The main food that I made for the elderly elf man 'party'. which was a Deconstructed Beef Wellington (kind of as ajoke since I watch s #o many silly cooking competition shows and they always make stuff 'deconstructed' at the last minute when under time limits or whatever.) #I've wanted to make beef wellington a few times but Ithink to do it well I'd need like..an actual kitchen and a lot of time and #an oven that fully works to bake things and etc. etc. So I thought this would be an easier method. A thick steak cut round to kind of mimi #c the round tenderloin or whatever it is in a wellington. instead of the puff pastry being wrapped around - I just did star shaped cut outs #of pastry and baked them and put them on top (to go with the star theme). instead of mushroom duxelles being wrapped around in pastry #its in a little circle under the steak. and instead of mustard being brushed onto the meat I made a mustard gravy sauce type of thing #Then of course asparagus on the side.. my favorite... Though I know some wellington #also has a layer of prosciutto I think. or I saw one person use crepes. I didn't feel it was necessary to incorporate that too lol #8. bapy son helping me do a giant puzzle that took me hours and I had no idea it was actually that large of a puzzle #until I started putting it together and for some reason it made me stressed by the end instead of relaxed lol.. puzzle fatigue #photo diary

[atanxdoesstuff]

nejisasu doodle! a universe where the hyuuga's slavery bs doesn't get ignored and Neji and Sasuke are better off for it (and also they're married)

#digital art #naruto fanart #artists on tumblr #hyuuga neji #uchiha sasuke #doodle #nejisasu #sasuneji #i personally have hit them with the aspec and qpr beam #but it can be read as romantic lol #sasuke is totally a huge ass brat in a happier world #but like in an adorable and funny way #i really wanted to draw sth digitally so i just went through my sketchbook and drew a scene i liked #also i experimented with brushes a bit because normally i start with a flat ass no texture colour layer #and i think csp did not like that because when i first exported the file it was like 21 fucking MB #like normally my pngs end up around 5 MB #and the canvas was the same size #i figure since there was no real continuous plane of colour more information has to be saved? anyway i scaled the png down by like 50 perce #this is inspired by an au of mine in fact the sketch i adapted was for that au but i decided fuck it #vanilla characers (-ish) it is #yall i cant fucking believe how the hyuuga side branch is treated in the series #and how sasuke is treated!! kakashi fr acts like hes a spoiled brat when his entire family was murdered and he was fucking tortured #and has been alone since he was like 7 #yeah he is a bit of an ass but spoiled?? #also kakashi fr saying in the prelims that the hyuuga are konoha's best clan like excuse me what dojutsu do u have in ur eyesocket?? #its wild ive been reading naruto parallel to writing my fanfic for the first time and its certaintly... something #also the sandaime going like each person in the village is my preicous person uhuh each person except all of the uchiha apparently #and except the hyuuga side branch. and all the people sent on traumatising missions #and all the people he lets danzo kidnap and brainwash #and naruto who he let grow up all alone. and all the people he sends to die fighting for a perpetual cycle of violence :D fun stuff!

[therestofmyfandoms]

idk why everyone's freaking out about hermie. like yeah the initial (retconned) reason he joined their group was to get the costume, but like. they became friends. they all care about each other. hermie found out this life-changing fact about his family history. he cared about the kids. then he found out about how to get to the goofs realm, to pull a heart-breaking scam and he thought of the whole reason he started it in the first place. its a scam. the whole point is to make them believe he's betraying them. but he's actually helping them get to the goofs realm. i will not stand for this hermie slander

#dndads #hermie the unworthy #or should i say #herman unworthy #dndads spoilers #dndads season 2 spoilers #. #anyway yeah hermie having depth and layers and going through with this to help his friends is real and valid #i know its established that he's a good actor but like. he burned his body for this. hes died multiple times #he got mad when normal kissed a dream version of him and not real him. he cares about his friends #he followed through the scam to help them. i just really hope they all see that and dont abandon him (again)

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

#metalocalypse #jay talkin #I'm sorry they wrote that awful gross little man far too likeable and relatable to on a trans level #for me not to hoot and holler and cheer for the trans pickles agenda #changes nothing about his character arc or any of the show anyone is capable of being the kind of person he is #don't make the mistake of thinking thats exclusive to cis men #his transness wouldnt change that #only adds on an extra layer to him that i think works fantastically. #Listen that dude was rejected by his family driven to drink and drugs young to escape that ran away to be in a band #is called fucking Pickles of all things and refuses to tell anyone his real last name; #over the span of four seasons and two movies he slowly starts to learn to be for others what he never had #he becomes more caring more supportive #it's not a stretch to say he undoes some of the toxic masculinity he's been keeping himself shielded behind #and learns how to be a kinder man. #all of which have no contradictions with him being trans! #In fact it doesn't take much extra thought to find ways a lot of this can line up with some trans masculine experiences #i mean. Did no one else have a younger phase where they swung as far as they could into crass rude and uncaring ways #to try and assert their masculinity only to grow and realise that you can be a man and be more caring. #Did no one else have father issues. 1 800 come on now i know those are both shared experiences a lot of us have had LOL. #at the end of the day this show aired nearly 20 years ago and is finished. we're not getting more of it #so nothing is altered nor changed if pickles is canonically trans or not ok. its fine #i mean hell i dont even need canon confirmation hes trans to me and thats all i care abt #but i think if yr getting suuuuuper weird abt needing him not to be canonically trans you have some issues #and bio essentialist ideals of gender if you think only a cis man can act like he does #again. anyone can be like that. its not exclusive. him being trans would not change him in any way shape or form lol #AND ALSO GODDDUUUGH for once i love getting to see a guy pushing 50 whos depicted as trans #do you have any idea how dire and barren it is out here. we never get to see a trans guy older than 30 and whos not a pristine model #I WANT MORE OLD SHLUBBY SHITHEAD TRANS GUYS IN MEDIA

[g3othermal3scapism]

i wanted to draw some stuff from @troybarnesbabygirlconfirmed fics bcs i love rhem so much they make me want to rip my hair out /pos 🫡 i was gonna do way more but i reread “me and a hundred square feet of bittersweet memories” nd got rwally sad instead

#js some silly ones #i might draw sadder ones w real backgrounds later #when im not sickto my stomach w sadness from thinkinf about Them #anyways I LOCE UE WRTIIFN #its so good every one od ue fics make me sob #troy wanting to sink his teeth into abed… #hes so real #community nbc #trobed #fanart #troy barnes #twink that you are… #abed nadir #i literally accidentally merged all my layers on the tangleinlove one so i cant fix the bckground but yk #life goes on

[gummycatsss]

"And every time I wake up, I let him down all over again."

+unerased ver

#oc #ichor #ambrosia #personal favourites #how to make a sammie gummycats drawing: #make it really tall/wide #add 37 glow layers #put a big fucking cloud there #that's all of my real art broken down to its bare essentials #also wow first time the ghost boyfriend shows up on this blog! say hello #i still don't know how to tag oc things for visibility.. #so with that i say if you reblogged this i'd be very happy #if tumblr uploads this in like nintendo ds resolution i'm deleting my blog

[isdalinarhot]

Trans sadeas is a hilarious concept for being a guy who did the Super Fucking Transgressive Thing of jumping gender ship in fucking Vorin society (strictly fucking gendered) and then living mostly stealth for 35 years and going Dalinar you’re not a real man because you like killing people slightly less than you used to. With zero self awareness

#luke.txt #LIKE I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES FANON LOOKS AT HIS QUEERCODED DISNEY VILLAIN SWAG AND GOES oh Sadeas plays with gender somewhat doesn’t he #NOPE HE IS 100% VORIN MAN ITS INSANE HOW MASC HE IS IN UNIVERSE #but of course he’s all about perfectly curating himself and I’m sure if he didn’t have like 13 layers of internalized shit going on #he wouldn’t also be. like. stealing food off Ialai’s plate like she steals food off of his. reading brazenly. shit like that #but alas you can’t give dalinar shit for not being hot anymore I mean not being a Proper Man Anymore #without also never doing any of that shit #drunkposting #sadeas you fucking weirdo #although maybe he’s like Dalinar 🥚? #and the thought of Dalinar as a woman makes him feel Bad for gender reasons because he’s staked so much of his dalinarfucking on being #a man fucking a man. so to have that retroactively untrue is uncomfortable to him #to which I say Sadeas that is a real person get over yourself

[soldier-poet-king]

I can't journal I'll just turn into Kafka and obvs he didn't have washi tape and neither do I do itlljust end real bad

#the duality of fran #ok im. sorry. be quiet now. enough pathetic mewlings and attention seeking #im not even being fully truthful. its layers and layers and even idk where it ends #turtles all the way down except its masks and walla all the way down and im not a real person underneath it all