#not as often as of recent though

[shrimpmandan]

idk if this is a hot take but i dont get why some trans people act like certain surgeries were invented for trans people when they weren’t. phalloplasty was invented for cis men. double mastectomies and hysterectomies and breast implants were invented for cis women. HORMONES were invented for cis people. These aren’t inherently trans resources. This isn’t even meant to be one of those “oh cis people should experiment with hormones uwu” posts it’s literally just a fact that most things touted as “trans resources” were not initially invented for trans people and it’s kind of weird to treat them as such as if Barbara from IT is a transphobe for not wanting a uterus or whatever

#trans discourse #transmed #transmedicalism #truscum #transmed safe #truscum safe #this isnt anti transmed just something ive noticed sometimes??? #not as often as of recent though

[darubyprincx]

to be, or not to be (romanticization of the inevitable)

#ray's tag #keys' art #undescribed #skeletons #ok to reblog #the skeleton model that i traced for this was provided by the incredible kiku @kikunai whom you can find right here on tumblr! #so uh. This is a piece about chronic fatigue although the original idea i had for it drifted a bit as soon as I started coloring the linear #(i really enjoy shading and lighting things and got a bit carried away here but i stand by my choice because this is my favorite thing #that i've ever drawn) #anyways. i often feel especially lately with school being back in season that my bones are leaden with this sort of. weariness. theyre heav #it weighs on our mental health and energy a lot and although there's a couple of reasons we have been given for it #that doesn't remove the fact that this is still a thing that affects us in a very real way day to day although we are good at masking it. #often i come home to find that i do not have the physical mental or creative energy to work on things i really want to #especially project: nexus which i feel extra bad about even though i can't help it because i just started it so recently #it is a mild to moderate struggle to make it day to day and i just. wanted to represent this somehow #my original concept for this was a skeleton with some black goop gunk whatever leaking from its joints #but as i started adding the cracks and coloring them gold (a personal touch; kintsugi is a concept that is very dear to us) #i realized that the focus here was less on the condition itself and more on the body that it afflicts. #so i put it into a spotlight. #ironic i know since very little people acknowledge this irl or even know it exists at all but i added rim lighting. I added color gradients #I colored the lineart and made it all fancy and even added a flare for the head to get the point across that even at its core; disability i #a performance. this is not implying that disabilities are fake in fact this is the opposite of that. i wanted to show that with disabilitie #especially i think in my personal opinion the invisible ones #we are all masking at least a little bit during the vast majority of the day. humans are social creatures and it is only when we are alone #or with someone we deeply trust where we allow ourselves to be who we truly are without fear and even then that can be rare #so i wanted to show this bit of the soul in as broad a limelight as i could. idk this is a really abstract piece and i dont know if anyone #will even get it but it matters to me at least. and even though we've been largely bedridden for the past week i think that's okay #we will get it figured out. all of us. okay? okay. i love you. i fucking love you. we are going to fucking make it #(also the xes over the eyes are because i thought they looked cool they have no deeper meaning at least i think they dont #actually i think they do but i cant put it into words idk. Art is subjective assign your own meaning i'm gonna go get a shower)

[lovelaceisntdead]

Here is the book I said I would post, my first attempt at a dos a dos binding. Considering I was mostly winging this, I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out. One side is lined notebook paper and the other is sketchbook paper.

I also got a hot foiling pen for Christmas and thought I'd see how it works on bookcloth for this bind and it worked pretty well, just have to see how it holds up over time.

#first bind of 2024! even though i started it last year #i think this really shows how much my skills have grown #i maybe wasn't as meticulous with this bind as i might usually be considering it was mostly experimental #but it still looks really clean! #my spines are a little bit wonky but that often happens when i leave too much bulk from sewing the headbands #anyway. feels nice to have this done especially after feeling so shit recently. #please ignore the cat hair this bookcloth is like a magnet for dust and such #bookbinding #dos a dos binding

[smoarchok]

Day 1: Observe/New

a) seri and shou went ice fishing for the first time :)

b) me projecting my first-time-cooking-rice royal fuckups on seri (+dimple is here to help)

also look at this thing I found while on a prowl for "hamster earmuffs"

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #serizawaweek2023 #wawaweek #serizawa katsuya #//you bet you ass wawa would've been fishing in a creek bare handed #if only I had seen ONE's recent sketches sooner #smoar art #//I really like winter fishing #even though it often ends up with me freezing my ass off

[front-facing-pokemon]

#alt with eyes hidden under the cut #cofagrigus #their eyes are shiny. made of plastic. so they're looking a little bright. apologies for this #so. generally when i have quarrels about the pronunciation of a pokémon's name (since i don't watch anipoké) #where someone else and i pronounce the same pokémon's name differently. which doesn't happen very often‚ since typically i talk about #pokémon mostly entirely in text. because most of the communication about things i like happens in text. and the pokémon games #are not voice acted. so pronunciation of their names is sparse and sometimes limited to anipoké but even they're inconsistent i think #but whenever i have quarrels about the pronunciation of a name. someone else and i pronounce it differently. i go to pokédex 3d pro #on the 3ds. because every time you go to a pokémon's dex entry‚ the pokédex guy says their name out loud #i basically treat this as gospel for how to pronounce pokémon names. i've been proven wrong a lot but i've also been proven right a lot #and this guy. oooohhh this guy. before pokédex 3d pro i pronounced this guy's name as though the F-slur was right in the middle #only recently did i learn that it kinda sounds like “grievous‚” [kʰɐ.fə.'gɻiː.gəs] #at least. that's how the pokédex 3d pro guy says it #whereas i had been pronouncing it [kʰow.'fæg.ɻɪ.gəs]. so. you can see the issue that arises with that pronunciation #a lot of these pronunciations that i have to double-check just live in my head. and it's only when i say them out loud that i realize #how i'm saying them. like how i pronounce “centiskorch” as [sɑ̃.t͡si̠.skoʁʃ] for some fucking reason. my brain sees it and is like #yeah that's? a french word? even though it looks nothing like one #i also tend to pronounce “grumpig” as ['gʀʊm.pɪç] because of the “ig” at the end. i guess. german instinct #of course these are pronunciations i never say out loud but the first time i Have to say this pokémon's name out loud i'll go #oh yeah! it's not pronounced like that. i should probably not say that #and then i do not. just a fun little story about my twisted and fucked up mind. a little peek into my enigmatic brainspace #jesus christ these are some of the longest tags i've ever written. i'm gonna stop

[blinkpen]

if you'd like a good adult cartoon still piping hot and fresh and worth every minute of your time and every frame it inhabits then go watch scavenger's reign

#sporadic warbling #i dont overtly recc things often but definitely check that out #(if you can handle body horror. though i'm guessing if you follow me ad my art you can stomach it) #although there is one death that is like. so fucking brutal and out of nowhere towards the end even i was taken off guard #understand how bad a character has to get it for me to cover my mouth while watching and go DUDE--! #i'll go in depth about SR later bc i really did like it A Lot it is VERY me-core but with a much warmer color palette #watched Pluto recently too that was also p good

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

#we follow Derek from New York. Laura left for beacon hills. it’s been six years since he was back but he hasn’t heard from her #and hes going stir crazy waiting. he packs up and travels back. it’s almost too much immediately. he still can’t get a hold of Laura #he can’t resist going home. it’s like a natural pull that guides him back. all at once he’s 16 again. staring at the wreckage of his life #deputy stilinski is sherrif now. it’s reassuring in the slightest that the police force seems to have moved on from how corrupt it was #he catches her scent and it’s putrid. bile catches in his throat. he seeks it out. still in denial to what he knows it means. #when he finds Laura it’s like the world ends all over again. he can’t stand to see her like this. he gives her a proper burial. #the best he can do at least #he visits Peter. he’s not the man Derek remembers- so full of fire and cunning. their relationship may have been strained at times. #often Derek felt more like Eve being swayed by the snake than a normal friendship #but this isn’t the sharp tongued uncle who guided him. this is a broken shell. all that remained of his family. he was so lost. #22 but he barely knew how to function without his family- his pack paving the way #Laura handled everything. she got the apartment. she made sure they had food. Derek looks back and feels so useless #he was so lost in his grief. Laura must of felt the same way but she never let them drown in it #she made sure he got his GED. even got him to enroll in community college classes. #he took them online. he never was able to warm up to people the same way. he used to be so full of life. now he just wanted to be left alone #he studied English. never finished his degree. doesn’t look like he ever will now. he can’t go back to Laura and his shared home. #can’t bare to see another shell of a home #he vents to the vacant audience of Peter and his cold fixed eyes #Derek leaves. he wants to promise he’ll return soon #but promises feel costly these days #he decides to go back to the reserve. maybe he can find some clue as to what happened to Laura #someone lured her here. someone who knew them and their history here #his mind went to the worst. Kate. why would she go through the trouble six years later. why wait so long. #Derek couldn’t stomach the thought of facing her. he focused on the woods. the scents were all over the place. #clearly multiple people had been through here recently. two scents were much stronger. Derek follows them #but when he hears the crunch of leaves he realizes why the scents are so strong. they’re still here #he ducks behind some trees. listening in on their conversation. but an echo of their scent catches his attention #he spots an inhaler on the ground. he puts two and two together and swipes it from the leaves. #he comes out once they’re closer. tossing over the inhaler- he figures they’ll leave. dumb kids messing around in the woods #he reminds them this is private property. though that may not be true anymore. he recognizes the scent of a new beta. interesting.

[averagepsychouser]

You Vulpes fans are starving. I’m glad.

Anyway, I think that he sometimes tries to offer better strategies for larger battles but Caesar ignores him because he (Inculta) is a loser beta male

Actually because Caesar is incapable of thinking that someone might know MORE than him and Inculta is totally stepping out of his lane. Silly fox man, planning is for Caesar

#I check the Vulpes Inculta tag every so often to gloat over the fact more people like Arcade #I gotta get back into the groove of knowing his character though I’ve started slacking on Zephyr’s writing #in the most recent chapter he’s gonna pretend to be considerate. Whoopie! #fallout new vegas #fallout nv #caesar’s legion #vulpes inculta #fnv vulpes

[sneez]

some posters for conrad veidt films with my cat mole edited in in mspaint

#i have been watching. A Lot of conrad veidt films recently #the man who laughs is now one of my favourite ever films ive watched it three times in the past few weeks and i cry violently every time #i love all of them though hes so much fun to watch and so lovely i wish i could have met him #also hes like the best actor who has ever existed and im a homosexual so can you blame me #anyway ive been having fun putting mole on the posters. shes a star :) #i havent talked about her much here but my life basically revolves around mole she is my world 4 ever #i wish you all could meet her she is very small and old and i adore her with every part of my being #i hope you are all doing well friends i am very almost on holiday (yippee) so will hopefully be around more often #yippee 2 #ghost post #id in alt text by the way i thought it made more sense for a post like this

[aruban-spaceshuttle]

I love having mommy issues because all I have to do is play Our Life: Beginnings and Always and three different women will treat me how a mother should treat a child and I don’t have to wonder what it felt like for everyone else.

#you know there was like a study done recently #that found that gay couples are often better parents #and it suggested that it was because they actually give more of a shit about the actual kid instead of the concept of having them #or I’m wildly paraphrasing but I did read the actual study #not so much the notes of why though… #to be fair this was like more than 4 years ago #our life #our life beginnings & always #olba #gb patch games #our life: beginnings & always #our life beginnings and always

[viric-dreams]

I may have lost this painting when I quit my drawing programme, but I can offer a small writing snippet to accompany the WIP screenshot, so it's not all gone to waste:

“What are you painting?”

Tamara hadn’t heard Ockham come in, but the way the corners of her vision shift around her, harsh lines of light softening to a dreamy blur, she should’ve realised it much sooner.

“It’s the view from my bedroom balcony. In Varchas,” she says, choosing her words carefully in a tongue that still feels foreign and clunky.

Ockham squints, studying the painting with a furrowed brow, and the expression suddenly reminds her of her auntie. Tamara shakes her head, dismissing the illogical comparison. They clearly look nothing alike. They shouldn’t, at least.

Ockham’s hand traces along the line of a wall of mirrors, where it intersects with a planter containing long dead greenery, careful not to touch the still wet paint. She’s suddenly aware that the perspective on the planter is off, and makes a mental note to fix it as soon as she’s able.

“It is not a very nice view,” Ockham finally says.

Although it’s a somewhat rude thing to say, it’s not entirely wrong. There was nothing special or aesthetically pleasing about the view. She’d barely paid it any mind herself, in all of the years she’d lived and slept in that room. The part of her brain that had been slowly developing since she’d picked up this new hobby urged her to move some elements, give the piece stronger tones than the monotonous muddy yellow characteristic of Varchaasi evenings. But that would go against the aim of painting it in the first place.

“It is not a very nice view, no. But it’s the one I had, and if I don’t paint it how it was, I fear one day I won’t remember how it really looked like anymore.”

Ockham’s studying her now, and she wishes, not for the first time, that she had any insight into her flatmate and companion’s mind, whether it even worked the same way as a real person’s would. If Ockham would find her thought offensive.

“Ok.”

“Ok?” she repeats, confused.

“Ok,” Ockham nods, then moves away from the painting towards the door, “I go now to the market. Is there something not on the list that we need?”

She nods no, then catches herself and changes the motion.

“No, nothing.”

“Ok.”

Ockham is gone again. This time she hears the door click closed. With a sigh, she draws her brush across the canvas, determined to fix that planter before it cements itself as warped in her memories.

#tamara #ockham #my art #and they were roommates #oh my god they were roommates #this is set in early days after tamara's arrival in london #when she is still picking up english (though honestly speaks it much better than ockham by this point) #and has just picked up drawing/painting in her free time #and ockham is still recovering from an identity crisis after learning heshethey is a parabolan reflection #ockham isn't in the flat very often and they only recently overcame a language barrier #so they haven't really gotten to know each other all that well #but it will come #especially when tamara starts to learn flemish because she feels it would make ockham more comfortable than using english #but for now a bit of 'what is wrong with my bizarre flatmate' slice of life #how i approach ockham's pronouns in non-meta settings is a whole other writing piece #and i couldn't introduce it here without derailing from a short piece #so that's for the future

[incarnadinedreams]

There are a couple common claims about things MXTX has said in author's notes which I just wanted to make a little note-to-self with the exact context/source of because they keep coming up again and again. I find that between general translation issues and then further filtered through summaries and offhand comments and then repurposed for... uh let's just say spirited debate, they tend to be presented as much stronger or more emphatic or more serious statements than the impression I got when reading them in context (the translated versions, of course!).

'Morally perfect' comes from the postscripts (published by Exiled Rebels as chapter 113.5):

Both WWX and LWJ are highly ideal characters, so there wouldn't be too much dispute on their moral standing. They're perfect as the protagonists. Of course, I do like WWX a lot, but if I'm looking for a boyfriend, sorry, I'll only have LWJ please.

This is the same postscript where she talks about the difficulties of publishing on the timeline she did and how she was worried the structure of the novel would do badly in serialized/webnovel format, how Xue Yang was like a has-been internet idol in the comments section compared to the Jiang Cheng haters (lol), how she threw everything she liked about an ancient setting in a pot and changed whatever she liked without any intention of historical accuracy at all, etc. So the focus of the postscript wasn't like a morality essay or anything, just offhand comments and notes and trivia.

'MXTX wants us to be like Wangxian' comes from the final author's note of the last extra (ExR ch. 126):

Without care for anything at all, I shall give the entirety of my soul to the pen and the paper.

I no longer like to tell my readers, 'I love you.' These words are too light, and yet these words are too heavy.

I hope each of you who enjoys this book can be like Lan WangJi in virtue and Wei WuXian in character.

P.S. I received the help of many in the publication process.

There's more before and after, from talking about how she decided the type of story she wanted it to be, outlining process, and then after she goes on to thank her editors, the webnovel platform, supportive friends, etc.

Whether any given person cares what her opinion is out-of-text or not is another matter of course! But since it gets brought up so much as if they're very serious Word Of God proclamations... well... it's probably pretty obvious my opinion/interpretation lands in the 'it's not supposed to be that serious, bruh' category.

Though even if it were meant to be super serious I'd personally still be like, 'well that's just like, your opinion, random author lady.' But at the same time, these quotes tend to be used in a way that gives a distorted impression of how serious and thorough they were intended to be and often add confusion.

Also I don't think MXTX is saying we should go feed a guy's fingers to a ghost child in front of him while he's forced to eat his own leg but that's really just wild speculation and assumption on my part, maybe she would appreciate that idk.

#definitely inspired by @thatswhatsushesaid 's recent post because it made me track down where they were getting the second claim from #but the first floats around more often #obviously both of these quotes are from the ExR translations so you know #the translation may give a VERY different impression than the original which I cannot comment on #but I think most of the people bringing these up constantly are also basing it off these translations #and I disagree with their interpretations of what's presented #when someone pulls out the 'MXTX says x is moral!' my reaction is something like 'so if MXTX told you to jump off a bridge would you do it? #that's my boomer soul leaking out though

[ereborne]

Top 7 Comfort Films

Tagged by @piratefalls Hi Kelly!!!!! I also watch the same movies on rotation lol

The Three Musketeers (1993)

The Swan Princess

The Blues Brothers

Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters

The Martian

Charlie's Angels (2019)

Logan Lucky

Tagging: @goingsparebutwithprecision, @acountrygirlsfun, @tulmultuous, @zahnie, @ialpiriel, @alwaysboth

#tagged by #piratefalls #I was having a really hard time figuring how to narrow this list down because there's quite a few more I watch #eventually I decided to only include the ones where I don't 'skip to the good bits' #(Fast Five and Mr & Mrs Smith and The Italian Job and Avengers 2012 I do all watch incredibly often but mostly only the back halves #and my animated movies and musicals I mostly watch the songs and the ends. not the Blues Brothers though) #and then the rest of these I put in order by when I got them because that's probably the best indicator of how often I've seen them #also worth noting that The Martian could easily be swapped for Star Trek (2009) or Charlie's Angels for Ocean's Eight #I tend to watch them back-to-back because they fill similar niches in my brain #Logan Lucky has recently beat out a lot of the other heist movies I rewatch because the characters and accents make me happy #(if anybody has heist movie recommendations though please please share I always want more)

[hellbatschilt]

Thinking about my beloved slime man again

#hellba(r)t #yokai watch #yokai watch 3 #agent x #the executor #me while drawing this: he's so cutie vibes to be honest #<- guy who thinks that all the time #anyways i need to draw x's true form more often!!! i love that he smiles in it :^) #mr. the executor... 😊 sorry i just like him so much #ANYWAYS. i wanna draw x in different outfits since i got him a better hat in ff recently so i updated the outfits for my alt of him lol #i should post my alt of him here more often... if you follow me on twitter you'll see him more often if you're into that lol #also sorry if you followed me for yw art. you'll only get the ghoulfamily and count c*vity mostly #i do have a sigh-d*rr and dr. kagem*ra drawing i need to clean up and post though... #just lots of yw3 related stuff tbh since it's my favourite

[sonknuxadow]

listings for old sonic figures are like RARE SONIC ACTION FIGURE 70 DOLLARS and its ear is broken off and its missing a leg and is just overall in the shittiest condition youve ever seen in your life. and its not even that rare

#ive noticed werehog figures specifically are often victims of the missing ears thing #the amount of people ive seen charging like 60+ dollars for a werehog with no ears is ridiculous #i mean i already have a werehog but its the mini figure and ive always kinda wanted a full sized one too #but ive never seen one thats in good condition AND reasonably priced #the sonic and the black knight toys are also big dream figures of mine but again. #can never find any that are in good condition and reasonably priced #its either broken or costs like 500 dollars. and the few exceptions ive seen were quickly taken before i could get to them #sad ! #the satbk figures might actually be on the rarer side though i definitely dont see new listings for them as often #and its usually lancelot. or sometimes sonic or excalibur sonic. ive only seen galahad like 2 or 3 times max #i think galahad was kinda a weird choice for tbh like hes not even in the actual story mode #i feel like gawain or percival would ahve made more sense #oh i just saw someone selling a recent super shadow figure for like 130 dollars i think they should explode actually

[bsaka7]

im like wow im so blessed there's no carlos on my dash! forgetting. i have his name blocked blacklisted weighted down by lead in the sea etc

#F1.txt #Also true of lando and George but for some reason (British) like every arsenal fan i follow likes them #so they escape my filters more often #im very polite now though. on good behavior. #when was the last time i posted about drawing a quartering. not recently