#maybe a separate piece for that

[deimosatellite]

#when we thought the atla MIGHT be ok after opla but it turns out opla is just an exception #HS9D8FUIPJLK #annie rambles #opla #one piece #avatar the last airbender #ive heard mixed reviews about the atla live action but the consensus feels like the writers werent in tune with the source enough #where opla it really feels like the writers understand op at its core so thus were able to transform it #but maybe thats just me #80U9DSFPOJKL #i have so many thoughts on how much i liked opla i should make a separate post but like. for one not disrespecting source by #saying that the new take is ''more for adults" or whatever / all that nonsense #and again just respecting source material feels like a major difference here

[mumblesplash]

part 2!!!! [read part one here]

transcript below the cut arranged into stanzas to help show where the rhymes are:

“that’s why they brought gem in? as a failsafe?” as a pawn. we were told to point her at whoever we need gone

“gem won’t hurt her allies. …yet.” the curse she carries will it’s had its eye on her since she lost the other eye she was specially selected for her hunting skill it’s quite the high honor. “wow. how generous.” we try

think about it: why does almost no one fight the curse? “given how fast scott killed skizz last season, i can guess.” [“any pain you spare your friends, you’ll have to suffer worse”?] it’s designed to shut down higher reasoning with stress

#if you still can't see the rhyme scheme try reading it out loud #if that doesn't work uh. idk. can't help you #my art #grian #geminitay #smajor1995 #bdoubleo100 #inthelittlewood #secret life #grian and his terrible horrible no good very bad eldritch coworkers: the sequel #cant wait to post the next part so i can be like 'my three secret life comics. and yes they all rhyme' #this one narratively doesn't work nearly as well as a standalone compared to part 1 #however i accidentally went way too hard and could probably upload the middle page + second to last panel as their own separate art pieces #tbh i'm considering putting an explanation of everything below the readmore buuut i don't feel like it atm. :3 later maybe #me and my 20+ life series headcanons i only allude to without explicitly stating don't need to explain ourselves #still experimenting with this webtoon-esque vertical comic style #still not sure i like it #it gets long too quickly #among other things #but it's very easy to read on a phone so

[theallegedbird]

“why haven’t you ever drawn mag200 art” because if i think too hard about mag200 i start getting dealt hit points like a minecraft poison potion

#this applies to most aspects of tma actually #it took me what. over 6 months just to gain the strength to draw mag119 #but i do have like 3 separate piece ideas for mag200 #so. maybe #:) #<— threat #tma #the magnus archives #mag200 #avery rambles

[xshrimpcake]

tension

#it's the espionage au thing that i wanted to expand on #they're all separate pieces #maybe i'll elaborate on them some day #arknights #my skrunklies

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443' #but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. .... #i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out?? #i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

[avianssphere]

it’s starting to feel like i’m losing you now

#obviously i’m not well when i think about zoro and luffy #anyway this is about his almost religious devotion to his captain. luffy functionally saying they’d be better off separated in the long run #do you think in his heart of hearts it felt like a rejection. a punishment for weakness maybe #one piece #op #monkey d luffy #zolu #roronoa zoro #pirate hunter zoro #straw hat pirates #straw hat luffy #straw hat crew #marineford #3d2y #zoro x luffy #1pc

[sunclown]

Ooc doodles of my very acelaw centric ace lives au

#op #one piece #acelaw #lawace #trafalgar d law #portgas d ace #a lil bit of context in the 2 y timeskip law spends the 1st year helping ace get his health back #but the 2nd due to preparations for dressrosa he has to leave him w another doctor (kureha heh) #too risky for ace to be there and law thinks hes gonna d word on dressrosa so #maybe for the best they separate #then they accidentally meet in punk hazard when law was gonna make the sh alliance #cuz surprise! ace finally recovered and went to meet luffy #who btw did not know about their relationship #neither zoro #robin did #luffy voice haha torao ur banging my brother #ill shutup now #my art

[astral-schools]

you are the most important person in this story.

you are dead.

this story is your own drawn out funeral. you are not the main character, and yet your ghost lives in the shadow of every step they take. you have been consumed, body and mind, and words spill from your voice without your direction. your actions are judged in your absence; you are on trial and you cannot defend yourself. you have no defense.

you are not the main character. you are not a character. you are a foundation. you are an idea. you are a lesson. (you are a villain, in every story but your own.)

there are two ghosts in this story. one is at the center of it all. the other is you. the first one is also you. he decided to be. (and then he decided not to be.)

(he killed you and decided you weren't good enough.)

you didn't have a voice. you didn't get a say. you weren't even there.

no one knows how you felt about dying. they didn't need to. you are not a main character in this story. (this story is not about you.) you are the most important piece of this story. (this story could not happen without you.) you do not have the power to change anything.

you have the power to change nothing. (whether you want to or not.)

you are in checkmate.

(you've never been very good at chess. what an infuriating game.)

#wizard101 #wizard101 fandom #w101 #w101 fandom #the old one #dasein #sal art #w101 spoilers #uh just in case #like its vague on purpose but ???? technically yeah theres spoilers here #anyway this is my love letter to the old one and how he haunts the entirety of arc 4's narrative #i did that art piece and then proceeded to NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT ALL NIGHT #also including chess symbolism because im insane #cherry had to listen to me ramble abt how everyone involved is a chess piece and now im making it everyone elses problem #and i will run out of tags if i get into it here #the little art thing is just bc i feel weird making a text-only post thats meant to be an art piece idk #i need Images #in the img i made the wizard the white queen and dasein the king bc hes meant to parallel the old one here but in my heart of hearts i know #that the old one is the king piece and dasein is the queen piece and the wizard is a pawn #AND DAMN MAYBE I WILL MAKE A SEPARATE POST AT SOME POINT BECAUSE I NEED TO EXPLAIN IT #this is the Old One's Endgame.

[puppyeared]

for like 3 weeks i was wondering why i was sleeping so much and felt listless. and just now I managed to email 3 people and responded to a month old message in the span of an hour because I got back to TAKING MY FUCKIN MEDS..........

#MOTHER FFFFUCKER #to be fair. my doc said I could stop taking them while im on break since i wouldnt need to be constantly pumped on stimulants #im not sure if it was a side effect but i managed to take like 3 different naps in one day and STILL managed to sleep thru the whole night #at least 2 days into my break. the weird thing is i didnt feel more or less rested afterwards. but mentally i think im in a good place rn #to really put the level of awakeness im at rn i feel weirdly confident i could start one piece. also bc of that sick new opening it BANGS #the song is really good and im in love with the animation style. did some digging and it seems one of the lead animators is masato mori #but i could be wrong. it seems he also did some work on mp100 which could explain a lot lol.. he uses smear frames really well to convey #consistent movement and fluidity!!! someone else might have done color design but it works really really well esp with odas style!! #just love the overall vibe and aesthetic and id really love to study it and incorporate a bit of it into my art.. especially the thick #outlines which i think helps to separate characters and objects on screen. though i have to say the style is definitely more suited to #animation bc of the simpleness and smears. maybe that will help me explore shapes and perspective when i draw... i wanna get better #at drawing poses and angles but i have a hard time wrapping my head around space and using perspective guide lines NGHHHH #i wonder if it has to do with my dogshit ability to judge distance. not depth perception but like. judge how far smth is in metres etc #im also wearing an N95 for the first couple weeks back bc of the wave. absolutely NO BODY is wearing a mask its so fucking over #where im sitting ive heard 5 different people coughing probably not into their elbows!!! and im just. head in my fucking hands #there was a kid sitting a couple seats away in class coughing as he pleases and i wanted to grab him in a chokehold so badly. PLEASEE #ive been annoying my family by asking them to mask up and reminding them to bring masks when they go out and showing them news articles #but at least its working bc we ordered some KN95s and my mom is at least taking me seriously so. please dont be afraid to speak up abt your #health. take care of yourself and others however u can!! wear that mask indoors at your maskless friends house!!! stay home when u can!! #im wearing a surgical mask at home too bc my parents have '''a dry throat cough''' and they are so bad at coughing into their sleeves #also im pretty sure dry throat isnt transmissible bc my brother started coughing too so.. i also tested negative but they havent tested yet #im also not a doctor but i have to keep reminding ppl whenever i can that covid and flu work differently. covid is new and too recent to #have nearly as much research done on it. it seems its also compounding so instead of building immunity it weakens the body and spreads to #to other systems which might explain brain fog and muscle weakness. i remember someone early in the pandemic got infected and it messed up #their smell/taste receptors so bad that they cant eat most foods and that stays in the front of my mind when i think abt covid. christ #yapping

[redjennies]

honestly along with agendas and conflict aversion and people not being able to be normal about a nonbinary character they perceive as a man, I do think a very real part of the "Ashton was being manipulative to Fearne!!" thing is like some people on this website (and some fans in general) are not very good at recognizing when someone is joking/teasing/etc. and like if you have trouble reading tone, that's fine. I'm also not always great at it, but like please consider that sometimes people say things to be funny or flippant and not because they sincerely mean what they are saying. people also do this a lot more often in high stress situations.

like yeah maybe I'm wrong and speaking from my own biases (press x to doubt) that I read Ashton's declaration that "it's never gonna happen again! that's the one you get!" regarding kissing Fearne as like being contrarian on purpose because Fearne had just joked about going back on putting the shard in, but like... Taliesin was also laughing and clearly being contrarian on purpose. like I'm excited for callowmoore tension in the fallout of "I Did Something Inadvisable After Only Talking to The Chaos Girl About It And Now I Have To Change My Character Sheet 2: Die Harder" but like I see that being held up as the evidence that Ashton was taking advantage of Fearne's crush, but as far as I'm concerned, that was a non-statement about their relationship at worst and actively flirting at best.

idk to make a joke, and to be very clear, this is a joke: it has the same energy as that post back in the day where someone was like: i love telling people I'm no when I'm doing the thing they ask for. "can you pass the salt?" "no" I say as I pass them the salt. and then someone was making a fuss about how that was gaslighting in the reblogs.

#idk man ive been watching bits and pieces in secret recently and i don't know if I've been watching the same scenes as everyone else #maybe they made a separate critical role just for me #anyway that's my take

[spooksier]

[wip] ough….shifting into wtgfs mode…..

#text! #art zone #kinda! #so. current idea is: #do all four archive duos as separate pieces #combine them into one file to print as a big ass poster #maybe a limited edition thing in the shop? how do we feel about that

[godsfavoritescientist]

The whole time I've been reading Flatland I've tried to picture what a comparable version of it would be for a 4 dimensional being visiting a 3 dimensional being. I've been picturing 4d vision as being able to see the entire surface area of a 3d object all at once, but now I think that might be comparable to a 2d person thinking that 3d vision only means being able to see all of the exterior edges of an object at once, without picturing any of the planes that connect the lines. I think a more accurate description of 4d vision might involve being able to see *every single* cross-section of a 3d object all at once, from *every possible* angle at once, as one coherent visual whole. And the idea of someone being able to see every single cross-section of a body all at once, brain and guts and everything, laid out all together as if on a flat plane, is a horrifying mental image

#reading flatland #up until the moment where the sphere was like 'i can touch your plane aka your 'insides' without stabbing through your 'exterior' lines' #i was thinking of 4d in terms of time being the 4th dimension #but like. considering the 3d equivalent of being touched on ones plane is so fucked up. #imagine someone seemingly teleports into your house and touches your internal organs without making any cuts to get in there. #and they did not need to teleport to get in there #and bits and pieces of the visitor can be seen at different places across the room. but the pieces are all somehow connected to one whole #like if flatlanders had flat little arms they could have done that to the linelanders. touched multiple spots at once on their line #and held out their arms so it was on both sides of the linelanders vision. #and for us it would be even WORSE because it would Clearly be different parts of something. not just two points. #well i guess they wouldnt be two cross sections they would look like two separate 3d objects. but still #maybe like 2 separate people who may or may not look similar to eachother????? #and even though they can see peoples insides they dont have a way of showing us that?????????? #contemplating the closest possible comparisons to what this square is going through is like. #full blown eldritch body horror.

[markantonys]

readers were upset about the prime x-ray spoiling show-onlys by naming rand's mom tigraine in s1, but counterpoint: the show actually should explain rand's full heritage as quickly as possible because i cannot have show-onlys refusing to get invested in randlayne because they think a secret-sibling shoe is going to drop

#i've watched 3 show-only trailer reactions and 2 of them thought elayne might be a secret relative of rand's 😭😭 #the show needs to clarify that asap!! #maybe in s3 the aiel & moiraine combined will be able to give rand tigraine's full identity #and rand sidles up to moiraine later like 'hey sooooo am i related to that girl elayne from falme?' #and she says no and he's like 'PHEW! not sure why i care tho ahaha' #and then we are in the clear for s4 to be the season of randlayne #rand al'thor #elayne trakand #randlayne #wot #wot book spoilers #you know now that i think about it i do think it would be better to give the full Rand Bio Family deets in one go #rather than parceling it out over multiple seasons #bc it just doesn't MATTER that his mom is tigraine mantear (besides that it makes him galad's brother) #so no point holding it back as a separate reveal. just give it to him (& us) along with the shaiel & janduin story #and it'd be perfectly logical for moiraine to be able to piece together that shaiel is tigraine if she heard the tale #plus rand learning sooner that galad is his brother would give more time for something to come of that relationship. maybe.

[toastsnaffler]

ALSOOO thinking abt this bit in ntn... the obvious revulsion ianthe has for the realisation that palamedes was right + she IS irreversibly part naberius + her immediate abandonment of naberius' body in response.... the whole thing reeks of denial like rest in peace to the sandy foundations she built her performative sense of self on but this wave is inevitable girl!! you can't uneat what you've already digested

#maybe the real unwanted guest was the cavalier we ate along the way #ianthe is soooo fascinating bc everything she says or does hinges on this persona shes cultivated to present to the world #like i dont think we've EVER seen her with her guard down or 'unscripted'. or had any real sense of whats going through her mind #shes never getting out of the labyrinth #but the way she reacts to palamedes' suggestion..... it feels VERY defensive. i bet something in there is shattering #very curious abt where her character will go in alecto.. i imagine she'll revert to propping herself on corona who she sees as perfectly- #predictable/controllable in order to reassert her crumbling identity. would LOVE if corona broke out of the mould ianthe forces her into #i think it would fully break ianthe to realise that not only does she not know herself but her perception of corona is an illusion too #like she does have her own ambitions and desires outside of ianthe!! theyve just never been separated long enough for her to realise them #god can u imagine if corona rejects whatever grand plan ianthe is piecing together for her. everything shes done for nothing #it smells lyctorish bc i cant imagine ianthe wanting to be a lyctor if corona wouldnt be forever at her side. but she wouldnt want- #corona's soul to be 'spoiled' by consuming anyone else and she also wouldnt want corona to become capable of necromancy #bc that would upset their power dynamic.. can u IMAGINE if corona convinced judith to eat her. itd be so over we're talking murder suicide #SOO MANY THOUGHTS i cant wait this long for alecto #.diaries #tlt #the unwanted guest spoilers

[cecilyacat]

Soooo do any of you remember when I mentioned here aaaages ago that I was making a knitted blanket out of little puzzle pieces? No? Anyway, I need 496 pieces and today, after 7 1/2 years I finally finished knitting all the pieces!!!

This is what it looks like all arranged nicely on my floor. (The white pieces of paper on top of the stacks have the number of puzzle pieces for that colour on them but it doesn't show up well on camera...) On the left are the stacks of long and short edge pieces and the four corners.

This took you 7,5 years??? you might say. Well, yeah. But mostly because I did this in between other projects. I knitted a whole bunch of sweaters and socks and other things in the meantime and when I was finished with one of those I started knitting puzzle pieces again. Sometimes just a couple but lately larger batches of 20-40 in a row. So bit by bit my stack of finished pieces grew!

Each piece took me about 30 minutes to knit (please don't do the maths on this one thanks) and by about piece 50 I could knit them by heart. The pattern is quite easy, there's just a couple of techniques you might need to learn (cable cast-on and wrap-and-turn short rows), otherwise it's all just stockinette stitch and increases/decreases. A very nice mindless project for watching tv with the added benefit that quite quickly, you finished something!

All of these are sock yarns. Many of them I had left over from knitting socks or other items but especially in the last few years I purposefully bought yarns I liked and colours that I thought were missing to make it as colourful as possible. I quite like the array of colours I got in the end! Looking at the other project pages on Ravelry I realised quite quickly that I didn't like the look of the blankets with lots of variegated colours or gradients so apart from using up leftover yarn (and the rainbow yarn at the bottom!!!) I only used solid colour yarns.

The next step now is to lay them all out on my floor and figure out how I want to arrange them. And then... lots and lots and lots of sewing. I'm confident it won't take another 7 1/2 years but please let it be less than three...

You can find my project here on Ravelry and the pattern can be bought also on Ravelry from the designer for 5.95$. It's called "Puzzle Pieces" by Megan Ellinger. You don't even have to make a full blanket, you can just make whichever number of pieces and make a scarf, a placemat, a pillowcase... (or just make one as a keychain!)

Anyway, on to the sewing now.

#my actual life #knitting #blanket knitting #knitblr #puzzle pieces blanket #also i have no clue how to store the pieces in the right order #so i can sew on the correct next piece #a well one thing at a time #maybe separate bags per row? threading them on a long thread? #hm that last one sounds like a good idea actually! #I'll keep you updated (eventually) :D

[sparky-is-spiders]

When I first finished my Amaldyne ref I started on an image of her breathing dragonfire but never finished it. Until now! Here she is my beautiful baby girl setting things on fire. Idk how I feel about the shading but I'm kinda proud about how revenant!Amaldyne looks. (Also if you're wondering why her neck is Like That it's because maintaining your form as a big hungry goop puddle is especially hard when you're also angy). This was mostly just to see how dragonfire looks when I try blending it a bit (which I don't do on the refs to make it more clear which colors go where) but I might mess around with it in the future, idk.

Anyway some Lizard Lore(TM): dragonfire is a very unique substance. Impossible to replicate (at least under current magical science), dragonfire can and will destroy everything it touches save for the dragon who breathes it. All dragons have at least a few sparks (even if all they ever manage to do is cough up smoke and embers), but a vast majority only have enough to breathe out a single stream for a few minutes, after which they'll need to stop and recover. Amaldyne is probably about average when it comes to dragonfire (although nothing about my universe is set in stone yet sooooo). Dragonfire can come in any color except blue (although there are a handful of old, scattered scraps of legend about a powerful sky dragon with bright cyan flames). It also sometimes feels more like a dragon's element rather than regular fire (although most who get hit by it are generally too distracted by the feeling of being burned by magic fire to describe the experience afterwards). Amaldyne, as a poison dragon, has fire that feels like getting doused in acid (complete with an odd, slimy sensation that lingers for awhile after). It's pretty common and there really isn't any particular significance to it. Just an odd quirk of dragon magic. Also, if a dragon's fire is somehow extinguished (methods to do so are currently unknown) or stolen (incredibly difficult but also quite possible, if you know a few tricks), it WILL kill them. A dragon won't survive without their dragonfire, not even for a moment.

#anyway i love her i love her i love her so much #i think seeing the comparison of regular-sized ordinary amaldyne vs big freaky revenant!amaldyne has convinced me that she's bigger after #she emerges from the cocoon #also fun fact about her broken horn! i've decided that after her death (when eityr finds her and pulls her from the battlefield) #eityr saw one of her horns was broken (and maybe kept the broken piece? idk she's a freak about her (only) friend) #and somehow amaldyne found out about this and consciously chose to make her horn look broken whenever she assumed her dragon form #part of her campaign to cling on to the remnants of her mortality #(can. can you tell i developed massive amounts of story and character details while neck-deep into my t/m/a hyperfixation? can you?) #(censoring t/m/a to keep it out of the fandom tags lol.) #anyway i love my little monster poison dragon #(btw dragon elements are their own whole lore Thing) #ok anyway sorting tag time: #amaldyne #amaldyne rotwing #the lizard crew #lizardverse #body horror #body horror tw #tw body horror #idk if the tag applies but she's doing the thing where her lower jaw sort of... separates..... so i figured i should tag just in case? #if there's another better tag let me know #anyway i should go make dinner now #ok goodbye. #WAIT FORGOT MY ART TAG #sparkarts #<- is it that i think it’s that #ok i’m serious now. pasta time.