#my check please thoughts

[petedavidsonscock]

dex: —and anyway, nurse is so—he needs a lot. and i just don’t think i can do that for him, you know? i can’t be everything he needs in a partner. and i’ll be happy for him when he finds it, because he deserves to be happy. why are you looking at me like that.

chowder:

chowder: no reason. hey, what are you doing?

dex: oh. uh. i’m packing—like, he has three classes back to back on thursdays because he didn’t listen to me when he was making his schedule and he gets all bitchy when he skips meals which is why i told him—

chowder: so you’re making him lunch?

dex: kind of!

dex: what.

chowder: no, nothing. what were you saying?

dex: never mind.

#nurseydex #omgcp #check please #my check please thoughts

[californiannostalgia]

when a story has a predestined ending and you thought you already knew who the characters would become, but then you're hit with the fact that no, you actually didn't know these characters at all, they were unknowable to you until this very moment when a larger portion of their life has been revealed to you, and you realize, abruptly, that they had lives and losses and the aching desperation of a love they guarded with every piece of stubborn will they could muster, and the unknowable is suddenly rendered sublime for its opacity

#bridgerton love stories man #please check trigger warnings before watching #bridgerton #queen charlotte #brimsley #my thoughts #my reviews #fully cried from this show #wasn't able to watch it in entirety bc tw torture but that last scene

[mika-ayumi]

Life gives you stress

And you give it fire breathing raccoon

#raccoon #fire #stress relief #this isnt my art #i just thought it was funny im so sorry for not clarifying earlier #The artist is Kyli Walls #please go check out her stuff

[devxoid]

regarding dr ratio's team join voiceline with aventurine

idk where it originated from but i've been seeing this notion that the ENG voiceline is horribly mistranslated and ratio is much more caring and friendly in the original CN. THIS IS LITERALLY NOT TRUE HE IS JUST AS BITCHY IN BOTH LANGUAGES

as a native chinese speaker i actually really love hsr's localisation and i would like to clarify the misconception + explain the cultural nuance/context behind this particular voiceline

i think this tweet might've been the original source for this misconception? op's translation of the CN line is very literal and completely lacking in cultural nuance. while the sentence 管好你自己 does literally translate to "take care of yourself", it lacks the automatic positive connotation that this sentence has in ENG. CN is a high context language -- aka the meaning of a sentence can be totally different based on context clues like tone, body language, etc.

ratio's tone in this line is not the tone of someone who is concerned for a friend. it's standoffish. when said in this kind of tone, the meaning of 管好你自己 is closer to "mind your own business", making the ENG "keep to yourself" a more accurate localisation.

in addition, the word 管 has connotations of controlling/managing something -- directly translating this to "take care of yourself" means it's missing a lot of important nuance.

granted, the second half of the line is a bit unnecessarily aggressive in ENG. the CN is more like "I have no need for your concern", and explicitly saying that he believes aven's concern to be "false" in ENG is definitely a lot ruder than the original line.

However. in my opinion it's not Too far off base. the way he emphasises the second half of that voiceline in CN carries an implication that he actually disdains aven's concern; we can extrapolate from context clues that he feels this way because aven's concern is just an act. tldr; eng line explicitly saying "false display" does make it ruder than CN but it didn't just come from nowhere -- the implication is already there in CN

this is not to say that ratio doesn't care about aven or see him as a friend. imo the reason ratio is so standoffish in this line is because any display of concern from aven here has the clear intention of teasing ratio. they both know ratio can take care of himself perfectly well. this is just how their dynamic works -- aven makes silly playful comments and ratio deflects them by acting cold.

in conclusion: ENG voiceline is not a mistranslation. hsr localisation is definitely not perfect but in this particular case i feel they've done a fairly good job of conveying the original meaning. thank you for coming to my ted talk

#SORRY FOR THE LONG ASS POST #Im just passionate about accurate localisation #if you read the whole thing thank you seriously #if anyone has other thoughts or questions please feel free to share under this post or in my inbox or wherever! #i did cross check all this with another native speaker but im open to hearing other ppl's interpretations too #dr ratio #aventurine #aventio #ratiorine #not necessarily ship but ill tag anyway #honkai star rail #hsr #long post

[omaano]

“How’d you get stuck with babysitting duty anyway?” Boba asked one day during dinner. “Oh, I volunteered for this,” Fox told him. “Why the kark would you do that?” “Language,” Fox admonished. “Well, I was just living my normal boring life and I thought to myself, ‘I don’t get called an ugly piece of banthashit often enough.’ So I decided to adopt you.” Boba snorted. “You’re a psychopath,” he told Fox. “I’ve been called worse,” Fox replied breezily. Boba doesn’t find a new family and Fox doesn’t become anybody’s dad; an adoption story.

@bilbosmom-belladonna commissioned me to illustrate a scene from her delightful fic Trying to Escape What You Can't Let Go. She was amazing to work with and you should absolutely check out her fun little found family story!

#boba fett #young boba fett #commander fox #star wars fanart #tcw fanart #my art #digital art #cc 1010 #sw fanart #sw tcw #artists on tumblr #fanart #I've only ever drawn baby Boba with this one expression on his face but I love him with it so much #also I was recently reminded that 12-13 year olds are actually teeny tiny so I guess he got his growth spurt early? #can you please appreciate Fox's barely visible shirt? #I'm so glad Bella let me work it in in the end!! I thought I was being very funny #also totally check out the fic!! the banter is A++! and boba is such a traumatized little shit I love him! #they match just right with fox

[courfee]

“Regulus would be proud of us,” James whispered quietly to no one in particular, still gripping onto the painting like a life raft. 

— Tender Curiosities, Baby!  @otrtbs

#ive thought about this scene for so long it just took me forever to draw cause once again the anatomy of cars is the bane of my existence #like originally i wanted evan and barty holding hands to be visible to have the contrast of sad lonely james and sad not lonely rosekiller #but alas cars wont allow it #ahb just still has my entire heart you dont get it #i have a none blurry rosekiller and a just james in front of blue with stars version of this but i think ill only put them on insta... #tender curiosities baby #art heist baby #james potter fanart #james potter #jegulus #rosekiller #rosekiller fanart #marauders #marauders fanart #evan rosier #barty crouch jr #jegulus fanart #jegulus fanfiction #fic: ahb #art heist baby! #mine #my art #hp #ahb #(sneaky end notes: i do have to admit i am not too pleased with evan and barty but this was my first time drawing them) #(so i couldnt figure it out quite yet hency why they look a little. less efforty...) #(also the snake ring is the same design that i drew for chapter 34 of ahb in my little chapter illustrations for my typeset) #((nvm i just checked back and i am fully lying here i used a different one for my typeset and now im vaguely upset oops) #(i shouldnt make decisions only half awake im going to think about this for too long now i am sad)) #((like suddenly i was like. hold up. i had a different design there didnt i... it was an open ring goddamnit))

[askinsufferableprick]

is this thing working?

oh shit it is this is officially happening lets fuckin go

ok so uh welcome ladies, gents n such to the offical ask blog for the world renowned creator of SBHJ and various other cool blogs i know yall got a billion questions such as whos that super cool dude on camera there's no way that's the one and only dave strider himself i knew he was a epic dude but this is way beyond anything i could have imagined how does such a famous and busy guy got the time for yet another dope as hell blog or like hey doesnt putting your name and face up online go against like basic internet safety protocol all valid questions guess you gotta go throw some asks in that empty as fuck ask box if you want any of the answers

#dave strider #homestuck #homestuck ask blog #hs #homestuck fanart #ask blog #dave strider ask blog #ask dave strider #askinsufferableprick #((my partner and one of my besties r horrible ppl who decided that instead of discouraging me from making this they did the opposite so #now here we are....... #been ages since i had an ask blog so well see how this goes #are ask blogs even still a thing??? do ppl still like these?? anyway #gonna try my hand at pretending to be dave well see how it goes lol #and its gonna be dave from all over the timeline btw not just pre sburb but thought itd be fitting to start there #as i am rereading the comic and am early in act 1 #also please go check the actual blog instead of the basic little mobile looking thing #i spent way to much effort on that thing for it to never be seen #ok thats all for now lol))

[devsgames]

Venting About Unity's Pricing Plan Nonsense

Venting here, but this morning Unity announced changes to their pricing plan including charging a "Unity Runtime Fee" to a developer any time a user installs the product on their PC above a certain threshold ($200k revenue and 200k downloads on personal plan, less for paid plans). Oh it's also retroactive to all existing products made with the engine.

They're trying to justify it by claiming "the Unity Runtime costs money to maintain" - which is unhinged because I'm no software expert but I'm fairly certain Unity Runtime has existed for about as long as Unity has been capable of making builds. So uhhhh.......it's a thing that has existed for like a decade now, at least. This isn't some expensive new thing, and it almost certainly hasn't gotten that much more expensive that it's suddenly costing them millions more to maintain.

If this seems like a raw deal for the developer don't worry - if they pull up their work and simply transition to using Unity's in-house ad service instead of external ones they won't be forced to pay as much. :) And what's more is if you buy the really expensive Unity plans you won't have to pay as much in Runtime fees! I'd sort of compare this deal to forcing a developer to move into their ecosystem at gunpoint.

I'm sure this is also related to them recently merging with ironSource - a mobile ad distribution software company - for a staggering 4.4 BILLION dollars. It's another string of stupid moves and gross exploitation by the company that in the last year has laid off 600 of its workers (8% of its global staff).

With their trajectory over the last few years, at this point I've generally just got zero faith in the suits to not plummet this software into the dirt..

#HI please check my reblogs for more info #sorry im super annoyed #wanted to get it off my chest #gamedev #game development #game dev #indie games #indie game #gamedevelopment #indiegames #thoughts #unity #made with unity

[cherruni]

im going insane. anyways here are the boys and a mengyao from @neonghostcat’s fic ! once again i am asking you to read it 🫶

#svsss #scum villain’s self saving system #shen yuan #liu qingge #liushen #new chapter made me want to chew wood btw #(the mengyao design was from another artist please check their bestiary it’s so cool) #i was going to draw the kabedon scene for reals but i saw this ref and i thought it would be funnier ajskdkdkd #also i know sy was probably not making puppy eyes but listen my heart told me otherwise #also uh im sorry for not uploading for so long. i’m suffering

[heldentenxr]

i just wanna say that being a Ukrainian is difficult asf. russia is literally committing genocide on us, kills our best people, strikes hospitals and houses, tortures civilians, murders children, all while still sitting un the UNSC and having a shit ton of influence over the West through propaganda. “white people” will never treat us as equal: they probably never even heard of us in the first place and thought we were a part of russia. they ask us if we have Internet or malls in Ukraine like it’s a cavemen county and not one in the centre of Europe. people of color think that we get some sort of “special treatment” in our literal struggle to survive, because they didn’t receive it (i can’t blame them, really, but sometimes they go too far in their bitterness). our allies do help us, but they didn’t want to give us any sort of serious ammunition/weapons/warplanes because they were afraid of escalation, not to mention that they were ready to let us be devoured by russian terrorists in the beginning of the full-scale invasion. the UN congratulated the world with fucking russian language day on the day those bastards blew up the Kakhovka dam, killing hundreds, not evacuating civilians in occupied regions, because that was the point. killing. as a Ukrainian poet and politician Volodymyr Vynnychenko once said, and i hate that those words are true, “being a Ukrainian is being in a constant state of proving your right of existence.”

#russian genocide of ukrainians #russian war in ukraine #i will not put it under palestine tag as to not silence others who speak more on the topic #but please please check the main tag it’s important #don’t be silent it’s the least we can do #just my thoughts

[petedavidsonscock]

They've been studying in Founders for a few hours when Nursey says, apropos of nothing, “Get me a blueberry muffin too?”

Dex and Chowder both glance up at him; Dex, who’s been tapping his right hand against the table faster and faster for the past few minutes, stills for a moment, then nods and stands.

“Yeah, sure,” he says, shutting his computer. “Chris, you want anything from Annie’s?”

“Um,” Chowder says, “when did you say you were going?”

“Oh, he didn’t,” Nursey supplies. “But he was getting all fidgety.”

Dex shrugs in confirmation.

“Okay,” says Chowder, who, until now, would have been pretty sure that Dex works in total stillness from the start to the end of a project. “I’ll take an iced latte. Wait, Cait’s last class is over soon, can I ask if she wants something too?”

“Sure,” Dex says. 

Chowder sends the text. While they wait for a response, Nursey goes back to work (on an… essay? of some sort? Chowder’s not really sure), and Dex remains standing, scrolling on his phone. Cait replies a few minutes later.

“She wants an oat milk matcha latte and a croissant,” Chowder reports.

Dex nods once, frowning. “One blueberry muffin, one iced latte, one oat milk matcha latte, and a croissant.” When no one corrects him, he nods again. “Be back soon.”

And then Chowder’s brain breaks, because Nursey, who’s clearly absorbed back in his task, raises his head a little, not even really looking away from his computer screen, and Dex steps forward and kisses him on the mouth. 

Chowder hears himself make a noise like a dying fish. They both look over at him, because the kiss was really short, and it’s over now. It wasn’t a real kiss, just a little ‘goodbye see you soon’ kiss, which Chowder can recognize because he kisses Cait that way all the time, and Bitty kisses Jack like that, and Chowder’s aunt and uncle who actually still like each other kiss each other like that. Why the fuck are Dex and Nursey kissing like that??

“Oh,” Dex says after a moment. “Uh.”

Nursey has gone back to his work, but, sensing the atmosphere, looks up. “What? Oh.”

“Is there something you guys want to tell me?” Chowder can tell his voice has gone up roughly two octaves, but he doesn’t know what to do about it.

They look about equally sheepish.

“We’re, uh, practicing?” Nursey suggests finally, at the same time that Dex says, “Nursey has a thing for blueberry muffins.”

Chowder stares at them. “Sit down,” he says to Dex, who sits. He takes a breath. “Okay. I don’t know what’s going on, but you guys have been acting weird all day. I saw you holding hands on the way to practice. And—and looking at each other. All day! A lot!” 

Dex raises an eyebrow, but Chowder plows on. “It’s like you’re together all of a sudden, but you can’t be together, because Nursey would be way smugger right now if you just got together. And you don’t seem like you just started dating. It’s more like you’ve been together for ages. But you’re both terrible at secrets.” He feels like he’s unraveling a puzzle. “And if you were keeping it a secret, why would you make it so obvious now? It doesn’t make sense! None of it—wait.” He has an idea and bites his bottom lip, considering. “Nursey, can you open Instagram?” 

“What?”

“Open Instagram,” Chowder repeats, feeling more sure by the second. “On your phone.”

“Uh,” Nursey says. He fumbles at his phone, the way he’s been fumbling it all day. Chowder watches him tap the phone screen as if expecting that to turn it on before catching himself and pressing the power button. Then it takes him almost fifteen seconds to navigate to the app: he tries to swipe up instead of sideways three separate times, and clearly doesn’t recognize the icon when he first sees it. Finally, he gets it open and says, weakly, “See? Easy.”

Dex thunks his forehead gently against the table.

“Okay,” Chowder says slowly. “Stop me if I sound crazy. But what if the reason you both clearly don’t know how to use your phones, and forgetting to go to your classes, and talking about how young we all are, is because,” he pauses, “you’ve been replaced with future versions of yourselves. When you’ve graduated and have cool new phones and have been dating for ages.”

He finishes, cringing a little at how silly it sounds out loud, but Dex and Nursey are staring at him, wide-eyed. 

“Uh,” Nursey says finally. “Yeah, that… the second one.”

Chowder blinks, then feels himself grin. “So you two do get together! That’s ‘swawesome! I’m so happy for you guys! I knew you’d make a great couple! Do you live together? Where do you live? How long have you been together? How did you start dating?” He pauses. “Wait, how far in the future are you from? Why are you here? Are me and Cait still together in your world? Are we all still friends?”

Dex and Nursey exchange a look. Chowder can’t read the conversation that passes between them, but after a moment, Dex’s shoulders drop down, and he takes Nursey’s hand in his. That makes Chowder’s brain spaz out a little: if the rest of… everything hadn’t been enough to convince Chowder that these Dex and Nursey aren’t the ones he knows, this would: he literally can’t imagine Dex willingly reaching out for affection. Especially from Nursey. Wow, the future must really be different.

“Okay, so,” Nursey says, grinning. “First thing, Dex and I aren’t dating, we’re married.” 

Dex rolls his eyes. 

“And second, here’s how it all went down.”

~~~

thanks for reading! i'll post the second part in a few days. and as usual here's the ao3 link if you want to leave me a kudos/comment :)

#this scene is so random but it was like in my head #so therefore voila & here you go #nurseydex #omgcp #check please #fic #the frogs #my check please thoughts

[abd-illustrates]

🍷 Art Trade - Ranibeaux 🍷

Fully forgot to post this here the other day, but this is my half of an art trade with the delightful TacticianKate over on twitter! (AKA an absolute superstar who you should 100% be following if you’re not already! 😤🌟 – (seriously, her work is amazing))

It was SO fun to draw her character Ranibeaux – she's got such a cool aesthetic!! 🤩👌🏻🍷💖

(No speedpaint for this one! S’just for fun) (DON’T EDIT/REPOST TO OTHER SITES OR ACCOUNTS)

#artists on tumblr #abd illustrates #art trade #Ranibeaux #not my character! please go check out Kate's page to support the person who thought this character up (and see the art she made of Felix!) #this is honestly one of my fave pieces i've ever put together #and it was so funNNN #learned so much just through tyring to translate Kate's design into my style! :0

[rapidhighway]

we should all just love each other and be nice to each other and live happily together unfortunately I think everyone thinks I'm mean because of my face so I will go live in my burrow you all live together in harmony or something

#please my god i listened in on my cousin checking out at the store and... the cashier was so nice to her and she was do nice to them and #i was like woah how did you do that and she told me #but i do the same things man but i think i always come off as mean or something ifk what to doo #I've had people tell me they thought i was rude and mean before meeting me uhhh #TOT

[pippuns]

very glad pokemon arent real. i dont think i would have survived to adulthood.

#nimbasa trio #emmet #ingo #pokemon #submas #bangs on the walls of my cage. please go check out noxstrages for kid nimbasa trio stuff #pippart #did xtrans exist when they were kids? probably not but whatever #i once got an electric shock to my face playing around with wires #i would have done the dumbest shit if i had a pokemon #anything my pokemon ate off the ground i would eat too #i would have gotten my pokemon to use a move on me on the swings to push me higher and then i would have died #i deliberately slid on the icy snow next to a small cliff bc i thought it was faster #god knows what would have haopened if i had a small animal to propel me #anyways uncle drayden real not fake ✌️

[quadrantadvisor]

Owl House/Boiling Isles biology headcanons from a fic idea I never wrote:

Witches have a wider range of color vision than humans. A lot of magic puts off infrared light (meaning Luz is missing out on like, half of what spells actually look like).

Humans, however, have a better sense of smell. Witches are better at digesting potentially hazardous materials, but humans have to worry about poisons. Humans are also highly specialized to smell petrichor (via Wikipedia, "able to detect it at concentrations as low as 0.4 parts per billion"), and witches can't smell it at all. (Luz is like, "I miss the rain smells in the human realm so much. On the Boiling Isles the rain just smells like burning :/" and all her friends are like, "what. are you talking about."

Witches don't have an appendix, but they do, coincidentally, also have a random organ that doesn't have much of a purpose and sometimes ruptures and kills you. It's located slightly above the right lung.

Kinda obvious but, ears. Witch ears have a greater curve than human ears and taper into a point. They have some limited mobility, allowing the witch to pinpoint sounds, and they play a part in emotional expression. For a witch, it's not really that strange that human ears are round, it's more that they don't move at all. They're completely stiff, and it makes humans difficult to read. (Luz is lucky she's otherwise very expressive, or else she would come off as nearly emotionless. As it is, sometimes people think she's not being genuine, because her ears don't match the rest of her expression, like when someone smiles without their eyes.)

Humans have slightly denser bones than witches. As a result, humans weigh a bit more on average and put on muscle easier.

Witches can't digest lactose

A high tolerance for most human poisons means that alcohol isn't a popular drug for witches. It technically affects them in a similar way, but their tolerance is such that it's not an effective way to get high. Most of the drugs used recreationally on the Boiling Isles would kill a human instantly.

Witches have a different pulse beat from humans, since their hearts are designed differently to accommodate the bile sac (and grimwalkers' pulses are even more unique, since they have a galdorstone. Rather than the thump of blood valves, Grimwalkers have a sort of magic hum that pulses their circulatory system.)

#i might have made this post before but if i did i dont remember #i was just looking through old notes and thought i may as well put this out there #im quite pleased with some of these #different species having slightly different senses is very fun i think #toh #toh headcanon #my rambles #i would say more about grimwalkers but people smarter and cooler than me have already done that #i tacked on the pulse thing because i dont think ive seen exactly that before #i just like the idea that if you held hunter's wrist to check his pulse you'd be like 'yeah thats normal' #but if you put a stethoscope to his chest you wouldnt have any idea wtf was going on in there #just this humming pulsing in and out #i like to imagine camilla doing this and having a weird day

[sillyabtmusic]

♡ Keonhee in Oneus MVs ♡

#flashing #oneus #keonhee #lee keonhee #foroneus #kflops #malegroupsnet #usermairin #* my gifs #nkd.gif #oneus.gif #oneus.kh #so many things happened to me while making this set so im gonna ramble ok. you can ignore all this or not idc do what you want. #anyways some of these i am displeased with but couldn't fight anymore. some of these i am SO pleased with like. magnum opus pleased #i was gonna add all three oneus theatres but the crazy hot gif was kinda just. bad. it's a bad video to gif. & i eliminated theatre luna #earlier cuz i ALSO had to eliminate intro window bcuz i forgot there were like noooo keonhee scenes i could do alk;dsfjadlsf #and as i was finalizing everything i realized i forgot 808. dies. i was so nervous abt that happening but double checked to make sure #i didn't miss anything and then i still missed it </3 #i knew with such a large comp set this wouldn't match perfectly so i tried to lean into the strengths of the scenes while keeping contrast #and sharpening consistent becasue i thought that'd look best and i think it was for the better #but nonetheless it's still SO funny how much luna stands out. like overall it's semi consistent then Boom cool pink tones. alas #anyways ouuughhhhh hi keonhee.