#story 45

[bocchidaily]

Day 20: tiny cat

#bocchi the rock! #daily bocchi #bocchi the rock #hitori gotoh #I had about 5 milliseconds to draw this one because I got home and promptly fell asleep until like 11:45 pm #moral of the story is don't procrastinate (<- won't learn from this)

[jellojolteon]

Now that you've made it to the autumn of

Your years and you feel your best yet

-The Bottom of It, Fruit Bats

Izuocha week 2024 Day 6: Cycle/Miracle

#bnha #mha #midoriya izuku #uraraka ochako #izuocha week 2024 #izuocha week #izuochaweek #izuochaweek2024 #izuocha #izuchako #dekuchako #dekuravity #dekuraka #jello's art farts #I CAST SPELL OF ELDERLIES YOUR IZUOCHA #but frfr I'm gonna have feelings about grandma ochako #and like the presumed (explicitly stated?) nature of hero work where I actually don't think a lot of heroes MAKE it to retirement #and I'm not sure if living that long means your life was a success for avoiding death in a dangerous occupation #or a failure and a disgrace because you did not find the battle worth laying your life down for #I'm sincerely hoping the former but I'm not so sure in the culture of hero society in canon #at least prior to the events of the story #anyway. for these two. it's a good thing. Especially the kid whose elderly version I had an incredibly hard time designing #because it is THAT hard for me to envision him living past like 45 no joke

[stuckinapril]

And on this Valentine’s I almost broke down in tears at a wife’s dedication to her heart surgeon husband whose brain is deteriorating with a rare case of dementia

#I shadowed the doctor for the first time today and almost broke down in tears multiple times listening to her talk about her story #he performed his last heart surgery last October. and ever since he’s been fading away and had to retire. rapid onset but behavior changes #were happening over the last like 6 years #this HEART SURGEON BRAINIAC started chewing tobacco in his 60s beyond his wife’s knowledge. a very common sign of this brain disease #I’m still in clinic but have to ride down to the office and get some chart stuff done now and I’m like?? spiraling about it still #at least love is real. they’ve been married for 45 years and she’s on top of her shit taking caring of him all by herself #and she only has glowing things to say about him #she wants her heart surgeon husband back but he’s fading away #I’ve wanted to be a doctor my whole life but I’m such a crybaby OK I’m going now #happy valentine’s day #p #v day

[dragonbma]

Started a story for the soggy guy ever. Finally.

Fun interactions between him and Romeo /j ^^

[AU Masterpost:]

#man refuses to kill best friend and becomes 45% more water #mcsm #minecraft story mode #mcsm vos #mcsm romeo #mcsm au #drowned!vos au #bermuda brainrot hours #bermuda scriptscrawlings #sea temple saturday

[herora-nuva]

Me: "I can write a nice little essay script about the theme of destiny in Bionicle and how its used in the story. Shouldn't be too hard. I can definitely be normal about it."

Me (months later): *has written 30+ full pages of detailed analysis*

#I love this story so much there's so much to fucking talk about #but goddamn #I'm going insane #for reference my current longest video is 45 min long and has a script of 17 pages #bionicle #destiny

[raiden-brannigan]

So wild that Higgs has about ~30 minutes of screen time in DS and he has such a fuckin chokehold on me

#took about 60-70ish hours to beat the main story and only maybe 45 of those minutes was Higgs #yet my brain is irreversibly changed #hope he gets more screentime in ds2 please please please please please please #death stranding #higgs monaghan

[angy-grrr]

i have an issue I see with ppl trying to make shippers "understand" their ship could not become canon, and I dont think many would expect it.

Why are we pretending being in your late 30s is being middle age? Dont get me wrong, being a middle aged person doesn't have to mean anything about someone, but its just- not middle age literally.

I dont really understand bringing that up anyways, iit feels wrong to me to believe just ppl in their teens and 20s could ever do anything pro LGBT+ in general... I find it insulting, as if this is a new thing or impossible to believe older people could believe in queerness in a positive light or be queer themselves. The main reason in the west, and im assuming other parts of the world, there arent as many or as visible is, well, because people were dying because of the AIDS crisis + the isolation from being older and every single public space made for or just young queers or cishet older adults.

I get the point, but if I remember correctly every time I see someone trying to do that (of course im believing they have the best intentions in mind), they have to bring up how this is a Japanese middle aged man as a good enough reason.

I don't really mind about what others want to believe or how much they care in terms of shipping -if you prefer to be casual and not paying that much attention to what's canon or not, good for you! Many ppl are also like that and its completely valid, here in this side of Tumblr might seem like all of us believe and theorize about their endgame potential bc we are the ones that usually make more posts or longer content. But I dont like those assumptions about queerness being tied to young westerners, and I wanted to rant a little bit.

Again, I dont believe that was the intention in any of those posts, and im not trying to call out anyone, just rant.

#grrr talking #I just researched a little bit and well #Kaito who wrote blue flag with the first queer protagonists being serialized by shonen jump #he is literally just 2 years younger than horikoshi #he ended blue flag when he was 31 #idk I just dislike how aging is being seen these days in the internet #we could say middle age starts around 45-60s depending on how long ppl usually live in your area #it would be a little worrying if 37 is considered middle aged considering ppl in Japan are known for living until their late 80s-90s #and stilllll #what's up with the age??? #bring up the demographic bring up resistance from fans or how he just might not want to be remembered like that or be interested #but bringing age? why everybody that does this brings up age? #and also the sexuality of ppl we dont know #that has nothing to do with anything #an author being queer doesnt mean they want to make queer stories or characters #and an author not being queer doesnt mean they just want cishet stories #idk if I sound mean #I swear im just ranting ajdhjfhkdfshfksjh #you can look away folks

[leclerced]

missing frat boy lando so i raise you frat boy lando teaching frat boy logan how to fuck by them fucking landos girl tg (she has a crush on logan since he’s always such a sweetie! )

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ok here’s unedited thoughts about this

lando takes logan under his wing when he joins the frat! lando and his girlfriend show him around campus when he transfers, introduce him to people, and they both notice he’s oblivious to people flirting with him. like, girls will be laying it on thick at parties and logan’s just looking around for lando and his girlfriend because he doesn’t know where they drifted off to.

girlfriend starts flirting with him to test it, and that’s how she really starts crushing on him. it’s almost a fun game of how far she can push it without him noticing. playing with his hair and complimenting him at first, feeling his biceps and asking how often he works out, and he just smiles and thanks her, tells her about his gym routine and asks if she works out, if she wants to hit the gym together. so she goes to the gym and has him help her stretch before and after. he doesn’t make any comments about her flexibility. she thinks maybe he’s not into women, so lando tries to flirt with him. same exact thing happens though.

lando confronts him one day when they’re smoking, “so, you hook up with anyone recently?”

logan coughs on the smoke he’d just inhaled and says, “uh no, not since i got here really.” def some awkward tension on logan’s part bc he doesn’t know why lando’s suddenly asking him about sex.

lando asks him why not, and logan kinda shrugs and says it’s not his thing. lando asks why he’s not going on dates then, and logan’s a lil embarrassed when he admits, “no one seems interested in me, not into getting rejected.”

lando just laughs at him, he’s fucking gobsmacked because him and his girl have both showed interest, and they’ve watched numerous others try and flirt with him only to essentially be ignored. the laughing doesn’t help logan feel better, so he just keeps hitting the blunt until lando calms himself and says, “my girls been flirting with you for a month”

logan starts panicking instantly, “woah, definitely not, we’re just friends, like we went to the gym together once, but if that’s not cool-”

lando cuts him off, “i’m not mad. i tried too, and i’ve seen others try too. so people are definitely interested. can you not tell when someones flirting?”

logan starts replaying all the interactions he’s had with lando’s girl, and then other students who have said and done similar things. def just sitting there embarrassed until lando offers to teach him. shocked sputtering as he asks, “teach me what?”

lando gives him a stupid grin and says, “everything i guess, you ever had a girlfriend?”

lando rolls another blunt while he questions logan and forms a plan in his mind, how him and girlfriend will teach logan how to tell when someone is flirting, how to flirt back, and then how to fuck.

#ask #🪼anon #ln4/ls2 #ok sry no smut i didn’t wanna save this to drafts and forget ab it tbh and i have to go do things <3 #i just did too much back story and ran out of time !! #fp3 is in 45 minutes !! so ill be back soon

[tim-drake-scholar]

Once I finish reading all the Batman (2016) comics and the Nightwing (2016) comics and the red hood and the outlaws (2016) and another 70 years worth of Batman+ comics and his associated comics it is so over for you

#don’t look at me #my to read list is 200+ comics long #I don’t want to talk about it #I’ve read all the main story lines #now I just need to read everything else #I work 45 hours a week!!! #Batman 2016 #Nightwing 2016 #Jason Todd #Nightwing #bruce wayne #dick grasyon #I will unlock them soon enough

[blueskittlesart]

Hi! Feel free to ignore but out of curiously do you got to MICA? Was just wondering based off your previous comments about the obnoxiously long 5 hour crits (those were the norm there) and the teacher who taught ND Stevenson. I went to MICA with him (year below) so your posts just made me wonder if you were going there too.

i do!!! i generally really love it here aside from some uh. quirks let's call them. but i'm in my 3rd year rn majoring in illustration with a seq arts minor, and one of the major reasons i applied to go here is bc nd stevenson was one of my biggest inspirations growing up!!

#it's also very convenient for me bc i was born and raised in a town abt 45 mins away from bmore #but the fact that he went here rlly sealed the deal when 17 year old me was looking at art schools lol #i truly think this was the best school for me out of the ones i got into. which. to be fair. was all the schools i applied to LMFAO #i thank christ every day that SVA refused to give me any more than $20k financial aid bc the stories i hear abt that school now are AWFUL #asks #also ykw if 5hr crits used to be the norm at this school that explains why that one prof still does them #but the thing is THEYRE NOT THE NORM ANYMOREEE at least not in the illustration dept!!! #ive NEVER had crits that long in illustration dept classes and ive been taking multiple classes a sem in this dept since freshman year #ughhhhh someone NEEDS to tell her that times have changed and it CANNOT be me

[someone-elsa]

In which Kody has the most stressful day of work ever and Alex has doubts...

» » Read Chapter 45 on Blogger » » Read Chapter 45 on tumblr (chapter 45/chrono tag)

About the story and characters (added card for Adrián)

#the sims 4 #sau sims story #ts4 #ts4 storytelling #sims story #sims storytelling #something about us by someone elsa #simblr #sims 4 #sau chapter 45 #sau chapter intro

[obiscribbles]

Week 45 - February 4th, 2024 'Towards The Sun - From The "Home" Soundtrack' - Rihanna Spotify / YouTube

Literally can still hear me making strangled noises from how much the Kenobi series really hit me at the end here. I actually stood up and fist-pumped the air like a fool during this moment and I have zero regrets.

Enjoy!

#we loved this honestly #have already put so many 'obi wan throwing rocks' scenes in stories #obi wan kenobi #fanart #star wars #kenobi series #my art #week 45

[seventh-fantasy]

galaxy-brained mlc take of the day: mlc is wuxia, yes and maybeee not exactly? it very much is a wuxia aesthetically, but it's actually - conceptually - xianxia story in the core. (this is different from suggesting that it is a xianxia show.) however xianxia can (or should) be considered a subgenre of wuxia, not its own separate distinct genre despite the idea of 仙 xian being fundamentally at odds with the idea of 侠 xia, because they both stem from the same belief. (as seen in mlc, it works with the conventions of traditional wuxia aka li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, to get to the real bits of xianxia concept aka li lianhua's story.) so, mlc is wuxia through and through, inside out. send tweet 🫡👍

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ok wait I can explain

so, this must be premised on the understanding that any discussion of "仙 xian/deities" in this context is only as its abstract idea of living a life distanced, detached from worldly, human woes instead of the possibility of immortality existing in mlcverse. (if you think about the deities in xianxia stories being basically human beings who have cultivated themselves into immortality.)

this is the explanation of xianxia as a wuxia subgenre (古仙武侠) in the baidu article of wuxia genre:

武侠中的侠，是脱胎于墨家“以天下为己任”的使命感；而仙侠的侠，通常是传达着“能力越大，责任也就越大”的朴素精神。侠乃入世，仙为出世，道教阴阳的无情大道（无情指寻求自我的不断体悟，以达精神的成仙，非没有感情之意）与武侠江湖的有情众生，即是矛盾也是循环，象征着太极之道，这也就是为何古仙武侠也属于正统仙侠流派的原因。

rough tl:

the xia of wuxia is born from the mohist ideal of bearing a sense of responsibility for the world

while the xia in xianxia focuses on the idea of "with great power comes great responsibility"

the idea of 侠 xia is secular. the idea of 仙 xian is beyond the secular - it is to pursue a life of suppressing/taming your own emotions (it does not mean to be completely removed of the ability to feel. it's a pursuit of self-realisation that makes one attain the status of a "deity" spiritually.) 仙 xian is then inherently at odds with wuxia jianghu's deep empathy and connection with the secular world, but it's also connected back to it. this is why 古仙武侠 is considered to be a part of the wuxia genre.

the relationship between xian and xia is conflicting because the former is all about distancing yourself from worldly issues while the latter necessitates an active effort to do something about them.

but it also means that both wuxia and xianxia acknowledge this weight of human emotions and connection to the world. it's just their respective responses and the outcomes they want that they differ in. what is the ideal person? wuxia says it's to be someone who can propagate and execute the ideal of doing something about this weight of your connection to the world, while xianxia says it's to learn to be at peace with that connection, and it's ok to not do anything about it actually - which might even be harder than trying to do something. (and focusing on your own cultivation can be a good thing for the world, in fact.)

with this, I hope it sounds less absurd that I'm connecting mlc's story to the concept of xianxia. lxy's life was a traditional wuxia archetype. (I've already harped on enough about how he fits into the quintessential mohist model of a xia leader.) what happens after, aka his journey as li lianhua, is the real story of mlc. it's a breakdown of that quintessential wuxia hero. it is a story in which the main conflict faced by the protagonist is to struggle with all the worldly woes including his own past and the cases' victims, in defense of the serenity he has found in the past 9 years. it is a natural battle to fight for someone such as llh because as long as you're still human, you will face the implications of human connections and the innate feeling of compassion and urge to do something about it (part of this, I guess, manifests physically in bicha breaking him down and the resistance to cure).

and relating that to an excerpt from an article discussing xianxia in relation to wuxia:

武侠剧的精神内核也是仙侠剧的精神内核，而“仙”实际上是实现新形式的“侠”的手段，由此扩展了“侠”的深度和其实施的时空范围。武侠之中的侠义精神，可以强调其自在，更强调其是自为的，前者是需要逐渐成长和觉醒的。然而对于高于人的仙而言，作为上位者的“侠”之精神，则应该是内在自觉且自为的。

rough tl:

the spirit of wuxia dramas should also be the spirit of xianxia dramas. xian should in fact be another way to bring out and explore the idea of xia.

the spirit of xia in wuxia can be an emphasis on the spirit of freedom, and even more so, the idea of agency and autonomy. the former is gained through growth and awareness. but for xian aka people who occupy a realm above the people on the ground, the xia spirit they embody should manifest in their inner awakening and agency.

it goes without saying that nobody is a deity in this show, and never will be. only in ep 40.5 it came so close to possessing that otherworldly, surreal edge, but that's all to it. deities do not exist in the mlcverse.

but but. it's interesting to point out in the ep 3 flashback when lxy walked through town in the aftermath of the sigu sect vs jym battle, commoners were heard describing it as 神仙打架 百姓遭殃 when immortals fight, commoners suffer. of course they didn't mean it literally but figuratively, that those people of wulin jianghu are high above, detached from the people on the ground. which is. contradictory to the idea of 侠 xia to begin with. so... it could even be interpreted that li lianhua living the spiritually "immortal" life embodied the xia spirit even more deeply than he did as li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, the "immortal" in the eyes of the commoners. actual immortals do not have any real attachment to the people, but a cultivated "immortal" does and is destined to feel and learn to deal with it over and over like llh did. it all comes back in a circle indeed.

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lhl #lhlmeta #my posts #dear diary it's (only) day 45 since completion and the symptoms are getting worse #i can imagine at this moment someone putting a hand to my forehead and ask me if i'm ok #not sure if this conversation about wuxia/xianxia genres is welcomed at all but ANYWAY. i just have a lot of feelings about cn stories #i'm discussing the genres in what i think are its barest forms rather than referencing to the ways they've manifested in popular fiction #esp since i'm not as familiar with many of the classic works on a personal level #AND there are so many other elements in play in these genres!! #personally not a fan of that definition of xianxia being 'stories about mythological figures like deities monsters demons etc' #just having deities monsters etc does NOT make it xianxia. that's just 玄幻/神话 fantasy/mythology(!!!) #an interesting distinction i learnt is that mythologies like 后羿射日 and 沉香救母 could be considered as proto-xianxia #simply based on the idea of xianxia being about deities + a sense of heroism #but they would still very much be classified as mythologies instead of xianxia. there's just a lot of overlaps i guess? #went down this rabbit hole a little and just word vomitting as I go. i may not be 100% right or accurate in my interpretations so.

[9w1ft]

welcome to new york // “how'd we end up on the floor, anyway?" you say “your roommate's cheap-ass screw-top rosé, that's how" // rosé flowing with your chosen family // girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby // and i chose you // i hope i never lose you // that’s the kind of heartbreak time could never mend // the lights are so bright but they never blind me // the fast times the bright lights // im lost in the lights // we were shaking blind and hazy // american glory faded before me // somewhere in the haze got the sense i’d been betrayed // they whisper in the hallway she’s a bad bad girl // and it took you five whole minutes to pack us up and leave me with it holdin' all this love out here in the hall // i couldn’t turn things around (you never turned things around) // you were standing hollow eyed in the hallway carnations you had thought were roses that’s us // running through rose thorns i saw the scoreboard and ran for my life // i lost you the one i was dancing with in new york, no shoes, looked up at the sky and it was maroon // there’s nothing like this, miss americana and the heartbreak prince // i packed my bags left cornelia street before you even knew i was gone // maybe i stormed out of every single room in this town // my winless fight this has frozen my ground // soldier down on that icy ground looked up at me with honor and truth // it’s like i’m wasting your honor // broken and blue so i called off the troops, that was the night i nearly lost you

i awake with your memory over me that’s a real fucking legacy to leave // i woke up just in time now i wake up by your side // there’s no morning glory in this war it wasn’t fair // then you called showed your hand turned around before i hit the tunnel sat on the roof you and i, i hope i never lose you // hold on to the memories they will hold onto you and i will hold on to you // and now the storm is coming // windows boarded up after the storm // i look through the windows of this love even though we boarded them up // i thought the plane was going down how’d you turn it right around // my baby’s fly like a jet stream // this love is worth the fight // it’s a war it’s the goddamn fight of my life // and i know this is a fight that some day we’re gonna win // we never painted by the numbers // we’re so sad we paint the town blue // you paint dreamscapes // were you standing in the hallway with a big cake happy birthday did i paint your blues skies the darkest grey // grey november // hey december // don’t want no other shade of blue but you // my hearts been borrowed and yours has been blue, alls well that ends well to end up with you // family that i chose // barefoot in the wildest winter // a red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground // im setting off but not without my muse, no not without you // candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor, you and me from the night before, don’t read the last page but i stay when you’re lost and i’m scared and you’re turning away i want your midnights but i’ll be cleaning up bottles with you on new year’s day

#**new and improved with typo fixes and new things #it paints a picture #it paints a SINGULARLY COMPLEX picture #kaylor #i feel like this is 45% of all the related lyrics 😆 #like there are a bunch of songs i didnt think through that i assume have stuff #but i tried to focus on one story arc

[roukabi]

Happy 20th, Monster Hunter! After 200 hours into MH: Generations, I finally beat HR:8 Nakarkos! A healing-based Prowler is by no means the best play style, especially solo... but it still works!

#45 minutes was my time tho... learned where the weak spots were halfway through the fight </3 #i love this game! it frustrates me. but it's so addictive! and very satisfying! and i love being a prowler!!! #beating nakarkos is especially rewarding considering mhgen is my first mainline mh game (i started with stories) #i got it for like 15 bucks at gamestop and it's one of my favorite games <3 would love to try out all the others! even mh1 lol #monster hunter #monster hunter: generations #monster hunter generations #mhgu #palico #felyne #monster hunter prowler #art #monster hunter fanart #digital art #furry art #mh20th #rook draws! #rook roars!

[ckcomics]

Ink Test: There's a Snake

#helluva boss #striker #inking #Toy Story #traditional art #Kuretake no. 45 Brush Pen-Hard-Fine #This idea randomly hit me #and it's one of those ideas that had haunted me since #I did the first inking attempt but wasn't happy with the execution #So here's attempt 2 and yes I'm much happier with it #It's based on the Old School Tattoo style #Tho it'd be considered Neo-traditional because of the varying line weights #Compared to the other brush pens Kuretake doesn't provide as drastic of a variation #Not my favorite #especially since it smears even if you're careful #another reason for the 2nd attempt