#tell me if there's something you'd like

[henry-alex]

assuming i don’t quit this hellsite by then, but when i reach my next milestone (next k, i’m less than halfway there) i wanna do some sort of celebration

#noa talks #i might steal cece's recent celebration and do url edits #or i'll let you guys choose between a url edit/something else #tell me if there's something you'd like

[shuploc]

why do you draw the same dude over and over again. I love your art but I’m getting sick of seeing the same thing.

The reason why I draw Miguel over and over again is because I really want to, lmao. No one pays me to draw any of the stuff I post, it's all just for my own entertainment and for practice. I'm sorry, but if you're getting sick of seeing the same thing, then you're gonna have a tough time

If you'd like me to draw something else though, you're more than welcome to commission me! But otherwise, it's kinda Karen behavior to think you can be both a beggar and a chooser in this scenario 🤷‍♀️

#I don't even know what to say lmaoo #there are literally so many better ways to go about it if it's cuz you'd like me to draw something else #like dude #I'm sorry' but telling me what I should and shouldn't draw is so insanely entitled #I literally do this for free #sit down #-sorry for talking like this everyone' but my god #anyways #anon shooting themselves in the foot' cuz this just makes me wanna draw him even more 😏

[ronanlynchbf]

#rereading trc while simultaneously falling back into aftg stuff by virtue of reading tsc and thereby transporting myself back to when i #was sixteen but it's fine it's totally fine like it's whatever 😁👍 #r.txt #anyway. me when – me when i – me when i'm trying to tell my best friend that i'm gay but i'm also trying to tell him i can take stuff from #my dreams and i took my now pet raven from my dreams like from my head i'm a dreamer but also that's kind of the same thing but also it's #really not but also it is bc it's an allegory but also that's not the only thing the dreaming is an allegory for and also i'm scared to tel #him like i'm terrified actually and i don't want to tell him but also i need to tell him but also he already knows but i don't know that he #knows and also i was goinggggg to tellllllll himmmmmm arghhhhhhh #this scene is soooooooooo like. like AOUGH. ARGH OUGH AGH AOUGHHHHHH #<- sounds of a guy taking minus xp damage with every word read of this stupid scene. he literally was going to tell gansey 😕......... #trc #ronsey #like i need 2 lay down. he came out there to tell him......the timbre of his voice being described as strange&initially unrecognizable.... #i read this part like. 2 weeks ago idk. smth of the sort. and i'm STILL thinking abt it....you came out for something.....when you'd made u #ur mind to confess but ur mouth betrayed you in the end......associated with secrets and guilt......MAN.....

[the-owl-tree]

I saw someone say Leafpool should've given her kits to Daisy and Ferncloud and called them loners instead of 'pressuring Squirrelflight'. Ignoring that Leafpool was reasonably desperate given that Half-Clan cats have been killed (Mapleshade's litter, Stonefur), tortured (Mistystar, Feathertail, Stormfur) or even forced to live with their other parent (Graypool and Willowbreeze),(and that StarClan and the system of the Clans is to blame, not her). And that she didn't pressure her, it's not even

Yeah, I gotta agree with you. The whole point was to keep them safe and give them a life where they could be normal warriors who wouldn't be given trouble in their Clan. Pretending they're abandoned outsider kits would entirely kill the point of that. The Clans aren't even sympathetic to orphaned 'outsider' babies, just look at how Twigkit and Violetkit were treated. So my take as it is is nah, doesn't have the same emotional beats the original idea has and makes Leafpool and Squilf look arguably worse. I'd take the original.

I guess if I could change it, maybe have Daisy and Ferncloud be in on it? Or maybe in this one, Brambleclaw is involved and he's the one who pushes the loner narrative without the sisters approval (not the first time he's fine with fucking up kittens lives! rip violet and twig). idk, gotta agree, I just don't care for the idea.

#deer rambles #you'd have to tweak it to make it compelling for me #or go with something altogether #i like the og plotline! i think it's good asnd tells us a lot about qsuilf and leaf

[antisocialxconstruct]

I haven't worked in a pet store in like eight years but god I still have SO many feelings about good fish care

#almost came to blows one time with a woman who really really wanted to put a goldfish in a bowl #which like. I understand. that's the cliche #but after I politely explained to her why that wouldn't be good for the fish and ALSO the store had a policy not to sell goldfish for bowls #she was just like 'well what if I tell you the bowl is for something else? then you'd sell me a goldfish right? ;) teehee' #and I was just like. ma'am. why is it so important to you to have a sick dying fish #if you can't even be bothered to set up a 5gal with a filter then you don't actually want a fish. you want decor #get out of here.

[hella1975]

ive just rediscovered an old wip of mine and im having so much fun right now. like i havent opened the document since early 2020 and genuinely forgot it existed yet there's 90k words and so much lore and elements of basic concepts that made it to my present writing in far cooler and more complex ways and the writing isn't great but there's potential to it and idk. it's been a while since i wrote something privately and while i hugely prefer the way i do it now where i actually have a community with it and dont hole myself away and act like it's a huge shame thing, there's still something hugely reasuring about knowing this is something ive always done and that actually i was always drawn to it and had potential and that's something to remember for when my writing block gets bad or i convince myself Everything Ive Ever Done Is Awful

#like this story is one where if i tackled it with my writing abilities now it would genuinely be really good #that's how sound the basic premise is. and i have SO many wips like that with tens of thousands of words to them #and i was doing this for ZERO reward ZERO attention i wouldnt tell a SOUL not even my family #i truly just have always loved and NEEDED to write. that is such a cool thing to be able to say #anyway yeah this wip lowkey fucks. like there's lots of aspects to it that are cringe and telling of the fact i was writing it at age 16 #but the fact i came up with something so fleshed out at SIXTEEN??? insane #and this isnt even one of my big older wips. i have three that immediately come to mind that were sooo much bigger than this #like on the shorter end being 100k words and larger end easily being near 300k words #and they were JUST FOR ME like i didnt even know what ao3 WAS and i never spoke to anyone about my writing #and they WERENT FANDOM BASED. i was just casually coming up with super original detailed and COMEPLLING worlds #and characters and plots with complex twists and tropes and i was just doing it for shits #that's so fucking cool. did you ever think you'd see the day i gave past hella a pat on the back bc i didn't

[ectonurites]

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR KEVIN PHILLIPS

#tragically had to skip the 'are you afraid of me' exchange i love at the start bc. this scene is Long #super dark times #josh templeton #zach taylor #sam edits #btw i'm firmly in the 'Josh didn't kill John' camp. bc to me THIS scene is the point that... makes the most sense as Josh's breaking point/ #'villain turn' if that's what you'd want to call it. because this is really when Josh... sort of 'officially' loses Zach. from early on in #the movie it becomes clear how much Zach is like... an anchor for him—the way Josh is just fucking *chanting* his name in distress during #the Daryl accident. The way Josh begs Zach to believe him that it was an accident. The way Josh turns to Zach for answers/clarity/direction #Like even if we want to take a cynical approach and think of it as Josh just latching onto Zach in the Daryl situation because he was There #rather than that being an established thing w/ them... in the aftermath of that same incident Josh is still looking to/depending on him! #Josh self isolates at first... but after they talk & Zach tells him they shouldn't act weird Josh goes back to school. (yes #he lashes out there because He's Dealing With The Crushing Guilt but *all* of 'em are acting off then—Charlie specifically calls attention #to the idea they all probably are) Josh goes to the party just like Zach said they should and is *visibly confused* when Zach seems mad to #see him there. He goes to Zach's house to talk and you can SEE how caught off guard he is by what Zach says. Even though the script version #of this scene is VERY different from the final version I do think this one bit of description from it is... insightful: 'Josh seems sincere #almost vulnerable. But Zach is too focused to see it.' LIKE in this scene Zach is already convinced Josh has lost it! He's trying to act #more neutral about it (claiming they could just 'draw a line') but we saw his phone call with Charlie. Because of his own guilt-fueled #paranoia—something shown pretty clearly through the assorted dream sequences and like tht scene of him walking in the hall hearing people #gossip about Daryl—it seems like everything lines up too well! that '*of course* it's Josh and what if it's *been* Josh all along and well #then the role *I* played in the situation really isn't *my* fault because it was all *Josh* and...' etc. even if that's more subconscious #But like... this scene is really when it hits Josh! from the moment he asks if Zach's afraid of him now like... there's a shift. although #Zach says he isn't... i mean he fucking stumbles on the word 'afraid' (like... he hangs on the 'f' sound a moment too long to sound natural #its very subtle but like Noticeable). But Josh sees right through him. Zach doesn't trust him anymore. Zach thinks he's the bad guy. the #monster. Josh feeling like he lost the last person he had in his corner feels like the most realistic thing to... push him over the #edge. like that's a compelling tragedy to me—the idea that these two poorly coping with the Daryl situation in these separated ways where #they *aren't* talking/communicating ends up CREATING the feedback loop that makes everything get worse and worse. #But for that to be the case... it wouldn't make sense for Josh to have just randomly killed John before this scene. I think it's a more #interesting story if certain things really ARE just coincidences but it's that Zach's paranoia won't let him see that 🤷

[flowercrowngods]

it keeps dawning on me, on a daily basis, that i might actually genuinely be homeless soon

#the housing situation here is absolutely crazy. i don't stand a chance. it's so fucking scary #like i try not to obsess over it i try to remind myself that i have almost three months left to find something but *how* when there are #over 100 requests within less than 12 hours. *how* when i have no real job. *how* when there's no reason to let to me than anyone else #how do i not obsess over the absolute powerlessness in this situation. how do i not obsess over that #i genuinely cannot think about anything else and i have a uni report to write until monday #but all i can think is 'you'll be homeless you'll be homeless you'll be homeless and you have no power over it' #i refuse to cry in this library but someone anyone tell me how to stop obsessing and how to stop being so scared #over a hundred in less than 12 hours. i don't stand a fucking chance. you'd think this is berlin for how crazy this is #blah #not st

[we-re-more-than-that]

me: seeing a post about how snow was right to be annoyed by sejanus

me:

me: *block* 🥰

#tbosas #sejanus plinth #this is mostly unserious really #not the blocking bc I do do it #but like.. how?? how can you come to that conclusion #boy was 18!!!!! suicidal!! lonely!!!! #wanted to do good #I can see how you'd think he was a bit naive if anything but he was a kid wanting to do something my goodness. beyond that I cannot #understand people who genuinely are irritated by him #and think snow had no choice but to kill him #it's exactly snow's justification to himself in the book 😶 #let me tell you there were OTHER choices

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Now that I've finished dungeon meshi I have to say, while I understand the disappointment with fandom's constant obsession with shipping two dudes in fandom typical ways and ignoring the women/men that don't fit a certain mold and basically ignoring the entire rest of the story...

People acting so indignant that people would do gay or even straight shipping, because this manga is such a super women-led yuri show that's all about the power of Marcille's all-consuming love for Falin, are absolutely fucking bonkers and have lost the plot.

That is not to say that these shippers are not insane or can't be annoying in the typical ways that they are, or that Marcille/Falin aren't the most shippable pairing and just about the closest you're gonna get to something romantic in Dungeon Meshi (it's a platonic ass story and I love that), or that it wouldn't be nice for the fandom around something to stay mostly devoted to the closest to a canon pairing most shippable F/F ship. It would. But like. I don't know I'm kind of upset by that attitude now

And my intention is not to be super negative about Marcille/Falin fans, because they are certainly not all like this, it's just. WHOO! That is just so not remotely what Dungeon Meshi is about to a degree I still wasn't prepared for despite being aptly warned.

#dungeon meshi tag #like this isn't a case where you'd have to shove every female character out the way to do your gay shipping exactly. #Again. I would not call these men very shippable with each other. And I would never tell anyone not to bitch and be snobby. #Bitch and be snobby always! #I'm just saying this attitude more than anything else is what gave me a different impression of what the show would be like #and the refusal to engage with a work for what it is is one of the annoying things about fandom shipping culture #like I wasn't expecting the relationship between Marcille and Falin to be SO understated. I wasn't expecting the bathroom hands #to basically be *it* with Marcille and Falin's interactions. Like there's just so little between them. Falin is barely in it. #And being super indignant that people would dare to ship Marcille with what the story clearly acts like is basically boy Falin #a character she actually spends the entire manga with and has a developed relationship with and that she clearly loves #(I think in general there are a few too many posts to my liking that toe a line towards 'gay shipping icky' for my tastes. But I get it) #I don't think I've been this gaybaited by something on tumblr for close to a decade which is also part of what's grinding my gears

[hecatesbroom]

Ivy — some post-finale Golden Girls drabbles

There's a rose bush outside Hollingsworth Manor. It weaves and curls its branches around the tendrils of ivy climbing up their walls, blooming all the way up. It extends at least seven feet upwards. Dorothy knows this for a fact, because when she's standing next to it, with its green leaves and thorny branches, she has to tilt her head all the way back to see to the top.

They're beautiful. They're possibly the most luscious, colourful roses she's ever seen. But she cannot stand looking at them. They remind her of home — of the short, thornless Rose she left there, always sweet, impossibly prettier than even this miracle of nature's.

Whenever she enters the manor, Dorothy averts her eyes. She looks anywhere but at the roses that are nothing like her Rose at home.

How could she love these roses, when she's already left her heart behind with another?

Everyone here sounds like Blanche. With their long, drawn-out vowels, elaborate metaphors, and one tall tale after the other. It's no wonder Blanche is a child of the South, when every part of it seems to carry a piece of her. Dorothy feels her presence in the shape of the townsfolk's words, and is reminded of her absence with every drawling syllable.

Blanche's voice haunts her ears, here in the South. Because everyone speaks just enough like her for it to hurt, to emphasise the empty space next to Dorothy, and the coldness of her hands now that she can't grab Blanche's to warm her own with. But they're not Blanche, much as they sound like her.

Dorothy wishes she could shut out their voices the same way she stopped looking at roses. But she can't, so she'll just have to live with it.

It's what she wanted, after all.

All there's left of their love now is the branch of ivy woven into the empty space between Dorothy's ribs.

#what can i say? i was up at 3 am last night and @the-eclectic-wonderer's new fic still had me thinking about the show finale #and considering my usual inability to write anything less than 1k i figured it'd be fun to try to tell something in 150 words! #so here's two drabbles + a bonus line #(i know drabbles are usually 100 words but i *had* to add more! so they're 1.5 drabbles a piece now i guess haha) #oh- if you'd like to have your heart broken just a little more I suggest looking up the symbolism behind ivy #the golden girls #dorothy zbornak #blanche devereaux #rose nylund #golden wives #writing this reminded me that drabbles really aren't my thing; but it was a fun exercise anyway! #my writing

[altruistic-meme]

if you could... describe aftg in 5 words

oh this is not as easy a question to answer as it should be akfhsdkf bc like. i could describe its plot, or my thoughts on it as a fan, or how it makes me feel, or just make a joke, or or or and bc idk why you're asking it makes it harder :'))

but let's see...

plot: gay sports mafia found family.

fan: drama, familiarity, trauma, comedy, home

feelings: love, understanding, chaos, joy, comfort

joke: you know, i get it-

(as you can see, i couldn't pick which one to go with, so choose whichever 5 words you want lmao)

#anyway the hard part is cus like. if you're already a fan then you KNOW it's plot #and i would go with either feelings or joke probably #if you aren't a fan you won't understand joke and maybe want the plot to see if you'd want to read it #in which case getting my feelings or thoughts on it could also help you decide #especially bc 'gay sports mafia' is something it has been described as OFTEN #and thus you wouldn't necessarily need ME to tell you that #anywya #i spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME thinking about this so ya know. i do hope you see this kshdfhsd #i know how it can be sending anon asks #especially if you don't follow the person you sent it to like MAN rememebring to check in and then scrolling the blog to find it???? #so sorry i never shut up here #anyway if you ARE someone who hasn't read it yet and are interested; please feel free to reach out to me with any questions!!! #aftg contains a lot of potentially triggering material so it's good to have some understanding of what you're walking into! #(i did not but thankfully i'm not easily triggered by most things lmao but it still is nice to have that warning) #aftg #askers #anon #shh ac #also if you HAVE read it please appreciate my joke. i think im very funny.

[therootednomad]

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#was on a call with this man today who's got 10 years on me #somehow he ended up asking me if I’d been In relationships before and I was straight up about it #then I ask bim the same and he proceeds to tell me of all the haram he’d get up to but is now looking for something serious #so I’m like idk why you needed to tell me all that but okay… #do you know what he said next????? that my voice sounds like I have a sexy body #!!!!!! #and he kept asking for my weight and body proportions 🤢 #I don’t understand wtf runs thru mens heads sometimes #but my stomach was churning #such a shame coz the convo was going good and we were talking for 1.5hrs and he also had a French accent which was attractive #but ofc he just had to ruin it 🥲 #and also not to mention I was on speakers and his friend was in the background FILLING in words for him in the conversation #like excuse me? #you'd think 32+ years would be more respectful and serious but nope #sigh #I think I’m better off marrying a potato at this rate

[thedreadvampy]

not to be a dick but if you've been through actual university level art school and you still think that it's unreasonable bullying to be asked to push yourself or experiment with different art styles or to have aspects of your artwork criticised by people you asked for an opinion. what was the point of art school for you exactly?

when people say shit like 'my art school tutors told me my art was bad bc it was too anime and cartoonish ☹️' that may be true but I'm not gonna lie what I suspect happen is they told you 'you should work on developing a solid foundation for any art style you choose by pushing yourself to try more representational art Anne getting comfortable with ways of seeing and understanding images' and what you heard is 'NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO DRAW CARTOONS EVER AND YOUR WORK IS WORTHLESS'

and furthermore I suspect that you were really annoying in crits and took any even slightly negative comment or suggestion as a personal attack even though literally the point of art school is to learn to take and grow from constructive advice from your peers.

shout out to the girl on my undergrad who burst into tears literally every crit for three years even though about the nastiest thing anyone said to her was 'it might look cleaner if you rubbed out any of your pencil lines after inking and also used a clean rubber while sketching.' and guess whose art didn't improve at all over three years and whose technique actively got sloppier while other people were moving forward in leaps and bounds? yeah.

there were people who started uni as the best in the class and ended as some of the worst bc they just weren't prepared to listen to criticism or change how they did anything. and there were people who started out very mediocre and went on to produce incredible professional work to a high standard bc they listened and were open to change. and that's got nothing to do with who was more painterly and who was more cartoony or whatever it's just. when you ask advice and get something you don't want to hear do you chew on it and try it out or do you dig your heels in and do more of the same?

and like I'm not saying there's anything wrong with sticking to your guns and doing art the way you want to do art and the way that brings you joy. I'm just saying if you don't want feedback, teaching or advice on how to improve I'm really not sure what the benefit of art school is that you couldn't get several thousand pounds cheaper by staying home and drawing there.

(and I'm also saying if you come out of art school like BOOHOO NOBODY LIKES MY STYLE AND MY ART IS WORTHLESS you might. need to pull yourself together and say either I'm committed to this style regardless of whether people like it and I'm going to keep building on this style and make it amazing, or I want to make art that's more like the work people like and I value, what could I change to get more where I want to go? but if you lie down and say waaaaaah it's so unfair that my art is bad and everyone else is just more talented than me then bullshit. by the time you've graduated art school talent is not the deciding factor in the quality of your work. it's a question of your willingness and capacity to put the work in, take criticism, understand what you want to achieve, and slog through trying and failing to get a certain effect until it improves. professional level art is not an innate talent it's a trained skill, and some people might start further along the path than others bc of their talent, eye or training, but the distance between someone who's talented but unpractised and someone who's less talented but puts a lot of thought and work in closes extremely rapidly. it can be disheartening but if you want to do this professionally rather than for yourself you gotta feel your frustration, have a good scream and cry about it, then get back in to figuring out what you need to build on. bc we're all guilty of sometimes going HOWEVER HARD I WORK I'LL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS MY PEERS but no offence if you just lie down and give up where does that get you? if you just start going 'actually you should all feel bad for not liking my work more' instead of making your work more appealing or finding the right audience for it, that's on you not on anyone else. what was the point of art school????)

#needless bitching time #i just. i don't understand why you'd pay thousands of pounds a year to get constructive feedback #and then spend the year treating any feedback as a personal attack #save your money my guy of you want to do it on your own and you don't think other people have anything to tell you #then don't pay 6 grand a year to not listen to other people's advice #saw three consecutive art posts on here of ppl being like MY TUTORS TOLD ME NOT TO DO ANIME ART BC THEY JUST DON'T GET ME #WHY ARE ALL MY PEERS DOING BETTER THAN ME DESPITE US ALL GRADUATING AT THE SAME TIME #friends it's not bc you do anime art it's bc they tried new things and learnt new skills and you dug your heels in bc anime is What You Do #but like. successful cartoonists and anime artists are ppl who've at least had a crack at life drawing and realism #to know what they're stylising and how #I'm sure there's some teachers going NO ANIME EVER but I'm p sure most of your tutors were actually saying #don't just do anime bc it's what you know how to do. try other styles bc even if you're bad at them you'll learn something #it's not just anime like. ppl who come in only doing photorealism are pushed to stylise more. #you should be pushed out of your comfort zone. different styles. different media. that's not where you're being asked to END UP. #it's a LEARNING PROCESS #like a lot of my direct tutelage was like. pushing me to do looser more gestural blockier art #use an a6 piece of paper and a fat marker pen for life drawing #or no lines only blocks of shadow #or use a 3 colour palette with no midtones #or draw 30 thumbnails in a minute #and the art i made like that SUUUUUUUUUCKED. and it's meant to. it's not meant to be how you work from now on. #it's meant to help you identify what you're missing and where your blind spots are #and what you can incorporate into your work moving forward #red said