#think LOA but not really

[fahbev]

You know, a lot of fanfics have the batkids call Damian “demon” or “demon brat”. And I’m just wondering if anyone actually does call him that. In canon I mean. Do y’all know?

#Bc it does provoke angst thoughts #but I don’t wanna be demonizing characters for things they didn’t actually do iykwim #no pun intended #in fact I tried very hard to phrase that without using the word “demonize” but it wasn’t working #But like think about it #if that is an actual nickname #then it’s clearly a jab at his Al Ghul lineage/connection to the LOA #Which is something he’s worked really hard and sacrificed everything to reject #not to mention that one time he died and went to hell #Considering that in the dc universe you only go to hell if you think you deserve it?? #angst galore #But yk #first I wanna know if that’s even a real thing or not #damian wayne #batfam #batfamily #How do I tag

[skitskatdacat63]

Paul Atreides is sooooo T.E. Lawrence coded

#lol yes ik dune is partially inspired by him and the arab revolt #it was a very interesting movie(s) to watch when ive just been intensely learning abt + #the history of colonization in the middle east for the past month or so #i kept thinking. man this is just like [insert history] #and it def especially reminded me of lawrence of arabia #it felt like LoA if it was sci-fi and much more intense and yknow if Lawrence went a lot further #just a lot of scenes in part two really reminded me of stuff from that film #okay also other thoughts: #MANNNNNN I LOVE JAVIER BARDEM'S CHARA #hes soooooooo!!!!!!! #something about deep loyalty and belief really gets at me. and also he was very fun and silly sometimes :)) #hes so ride or die!! #also there was a ring kissing scene. and yeah. man..that gives me drawing ideas for you know what #catie.rambling.txt #dune

[the-unconquered-queen]

Listen, I’m not gonna sit here and argue whether or not LoA deserved to have a third book since I wasn’t that invested in it, but I will say that it would have been best for book 2 to be longer so it could wrap up more satisfactorily.

#still thinking that after all of that Martin is still on top really #we don't even know if any charges against him will stick so I wish there had been more of a resolution on that #and also I think spending all those diamonds on improving the firm was probably pointless if it ended anyway so rip to y'all who did #playchoices #laws of attraction #choices loa

[asleepinawell]

and I have seen more wipes there than all the other alliance raids combined 🙃

#except wod because why would we ever get the interesting one #ffxiv #ffxivmp #mp #I posted this before with another meme but it deserves its own post #and I changed it from syrcus to crystal because all I get lately is loa #but good lord how do experienced players still think that rushing the atmos lanes will work #like that is a wipe mechanic #you cannot greed the atmos lanes if everyone gets dumped in A #YOU ARE MAKING THIS TAKE TWICE AS LONG YOU IDIOT #that and behemoth are the two biggest wipes #everyone ignores the iron giants and then they cleave the boulders and the players #just do the basic mechanics and these things go so fast!!!! #and stop ilvl cheesing or I will beat you with a waffle iron #gOD #oh and the bone dragon #'we can ignore the adds the healers will just have to deal' says someone who will shortly be dead #when half the raid dies because the adds aggro on the healers and then everyone takes massive group damage you are slowing it down #I really do not understand what part of 'doing basically one mechanic per fight will make things go faster' is hard to understand #also healers at 50 don't have an those cool abilities they have at 90 to keep you dumb ass alive

[thefallenangelsgang]

15 Lines Challenge

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture their character/personality/vibe. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you’re free to include those as well. @fablewritesnonsense strikes again! As always, no pressure, I just really admire these lovely folk's work: @helena-bug @just-another-wasteland-merc @roystory4 @druidgroves @heylittleriotact

(I'm going to be completely honest, I'm working of off 5 incomplete scenes if I just do BG3, so I'm also going to throw in some By Any Other Name quotes. It's technically the same character from a different story. The backstories vary a little but I'm confident the character is still there. By Any Other Name quotes are marked with an asterisk * at the end)

Wynleth Reiden

“Lathander isn’t going to strike me down if I don’t stop and kneel."

“Are you stupid?”

“Of course I’m not going to kill you!”

“And I’m still not sure you are actually what I think you are or just some freak with filed teeth and a biting kink!”

“My faith is entirely a different matter.”

“I am going to drown myself in the Chionthar.”

“It is precisely because you are a depraved beast that you get the juiciest gossip.”

“Yes, good sex!”

“I was married, he died… fifty-four years ago come Mirtul?”

“I- I think I need to be alone for a bit. I need to pray. I need to do something or I’m going to fall apart.”

“Is that why I took up the role of a garden water feature when I tried to dominate it?"

“Becoming a Paladin, beginning a life in politics, was how I could take control back. I never had a connection to Lathander like you did. I didn’t find him when I lost. He was never there for me in my darkest moments. He was forced upon me because it was expected . He inundates every single one of the worst moments in my life. Because of them .” *

"Here, every second of every day is focused on the words and what they mean and it's been like that for centuries. We are like an ouroboros. The dogma is causing us to consume ourselves.” *

"You are a soldier with faith, I am a priest sent to war. They are entirely different things.” *

"I have Saints, Martyrs, Prophets, all manner of Holy Persons in my family line. I was supposed to follow in their footsteps. But I didn’t. Not totally.” *

If you would like to see more of my writing (or some of the incomplete scenes these are pulled from) check out my tag on my account #Jericho Writes

If you are a Legends of Avantris and Edge of Midnight fan, By Any Other Name is a published oneshot about the Chapter 17 memory ritual you can find on my Ao3!

#number 4 has got to be one of my favorite lines I've ever written #It's also not subtle who she is talking to lmao #At least half of the BG3 lines are pulled from conversations with Astarion lmao #hes the only one I'm 100% confident I have the character voice down pat for #Karlach is in second place #I really need to improve on everyone else #I could probably bullshit my way through The Emperor #the additions I made to his canon lines fit pretty nicely #But I have a feeling as that scene goes on I'm gonna get lost #Anyways peep the line from the sex talk (number 8) #Astarion accuses her of never having good sex which... fair #But the girl was married for 50 years in a long distance relationship #to a sailor of all people #She might not be overly interested in sex but your lying to yourself if you think that shit wasn't wild #Almost all of the By Any Other Name lines are Wynleth arguing with Marius cause that was the conceit of the whole Oneshot for me #Them finally fighting out their differences about faith #MMMMMM Wynleth is how I deal with my religious trauma if you can't tell #tag game #legends of avantris #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate iii #loa #edge of midnight #eom #Jericho Writes

[the-girl-who-didnt-smile]

Alastor Possessed by Erzulie Dantor

#alastor #ftm al #the loa (hazbin hotel) #hazbin hotel #i am doing ALL sorts of crazy shit in my fanfiction #this is just another it would be cool as all FUCK if alastor was afab! did you know voodoo is a matriarchal religion? #if he was afab he could get possessed by erzulie dantor! what would be cooler than that?? #i am so delusional i 100% think he is ftm and a lot of his early kills were just erzulie possessing him to kill evil ass people #also he is supposed to look really crazy here because i bet the rush you get from being possessed by erzulie is insane. she basically makes #you invincible. this was alastor's first taste of using voodoo magic and fucking loved it

[cosmictulips]

How do we know that our manifestation is working?

You are bold to ask me this questin Star Cadet because everyone is going to tell you something different.

The main point of my answer is going to be "well that depends". because... well, that depends.

You can't necessarily put a time frame on manifestations. because, in some cases, that shows that you have worry and the point of LoA and manifesting is that you have infinite trust that everything is happening now and for your betterment. and that's not to say you should not acknowledge the worry when it shows up, but simply live that moment. be like "yes, you're here but also, I know what is mine is mine and I need not worry about it because it's already here"

so when it comes to knowing that your manfiestation is working, simply look at what you have and know that that was brought to you the same way you are asking for... your manifestation to come to you.

You could ask for a sign, but again, that just shows worry.

I've asked for signs before and have recieved them. I personally think asking for them isn't always a bad thing. sometimes you just need the signs to know you're on track and sometimes they'll just appear regardless.

So then that brings up the question "okay but then what are the signs?"

signs are what you make of them to be honest. they're odd occurances, and things that just don't normally happen to you. Like, lately, I've been seeing a lot of the number 4. what does that have to do with my manifestations? well, it helps that what I'm trying to manifest is stability. which is what the number stands for.

signs are going to be individual and highly tailored to you. but the thing is, if you're always looking for a sign, everything is going to be a sign.

and that circles back to the whole thing of "trust that it's already yours and let it go". You know your manifestations are working, because you already have other manifestations. you already have this one, and it's going to be presented to you.

#Honestly as an earth sign #talking about it just really annoys me #because I want to be practical and logical and grounded #and CONTROL #I WANT THE CONTROL #but LoA and manifesting requires you to surrender to the cosmos #the cosmos has the control and you are its creator #in a way you are telling it what to bring to you #but its hard if youre an earth energy person because it's not material #at least not yet #and it's in that waiting period of getting it #that an earth sign starts to lose their mind #because we like to have the physical thing TO WORK ON #but much like learning a language or working out #the results take time #LoA and manifesting take time #regardless of what people say #but we can't count that time because it shows worry #its exhausting trying to think about it #manifestation #law of attraction

[becca-davenqueer]

💫 OC LIs for a hypothetical urban fantasy/dark academia book 💫

From left to right I named them: Lydia Cheng-Johnson, Malcolm Albertine, Diya Singh, and Aaron Jimenez.

#I'm so gay for lydia #anyway I don't have many ideas for personality #I guess Lydia is our hot nerd TM #like I'm thinking mega brain smart #malcolm can be the brooding white male LI who is actually really soft #Diya is our bff who has a not so subtle crush on us #annndddd Aaron is uhhhhh...think Gabe from LoA #like think humorous but can be serious if needed #choices #choices edit #choices edits #choices stories we play #choices stories you play #playchoices #pixelberry #choices oc #choices LI oc #also why can't i dress like this #why do only my creations get to look good #bdq edits

[stephantom]

Just found out that Peter O’Toole was only 5 years older than Anthony Hopkins but played his dad in The Lion In Winter lol.

I watched a free and not-very-crisp-looking stream of The Lion In Winter, so that may have obscured people’s ages a little. Did not realize Katharine Hepburn was 61 in it! I’d figured idk, somewhere in her late 40s or 50s? And I figured Peter O’Toole was playing older than his real age, but I didn’t do the math or wonder about it. The costuming and body language do a lot, like he was effectively giving old-man vibes, but he still looked young enough that every time he mentioned being so old, I was like, “uh huh, sure, you’re like 43, maybe a young-looking 50 AT MOST.” Turns out Henry was in fact supposed to be 50 and his wife 60, so it all checks out, I guess.

But. Peter O’Toole was in reality only 36. That’s my age. Loool

#looking at gifs now yeah that is a 36-year-old #also he’s adorable #I wasn’t really attracted to him in LoA at all but the scruffiness of TLIW opened my eyes #but yeah very funny to cast someone mid-30s as a 50 year old #meanwhile his 16-year-old son is 23 I think? #that’s old school theater casting I guess #the lion in winter #I guess I’d been imagining that it was made like a decade after becket not 4 years later #well

[patchedpope]

I feel like I’m so close to shifting but I can’t get that final stretch. I feel the symptoms and meditate/visualize heavily but I can’t quite get out of my own body in that final push. I can feel it in my Third Eye pushing but I can’t get it out

#should i try going to a void state first #or maybe try astral projecting to get a feel for disconnecting? #i think my closest shift attempt was my first time when I didn’t overthink #I got really close this morning #awake methods??? #girl help #patch speaks #loablr #loa #shifting

[piplupod]

Really sucks to see someone who was clever and kind as a teen turn to "divine feminine" and "law of attraction" and at first she insisted she was trans-inclusive but she's reblogging from open radfems now and I'm just... tired. I'm very tired. It is so exhausting and crushing to see a very clever kind person fall down that rabbit hole turned pipeline.

anyways y'all please stay away from new age spiritual shit. use your critical thinking please. spirituality and religion are good things, but the new age movement is not. I hate seeing people I've known for years fall into it and I can't bring them out of it because they get so strangely brainwashed by it :')

#divine feminine always always leads to radfem and terf ideology sorry #theres no way around it #and the law of attraction is ableist and rooted in white supremacy and colonisation lmao #and it almost always leads to falling into the alt-right #im just really fucking tired #she was so incredibly clever and thoughtful and kind but as soon as she started down that path i knew it'd end up here #i was just rly hoping she'd realise and stop before she got to that point #i havent followed her on any platform for over a year but i check up on her tumblr every few months bc i care abt her still #and i rly want to see her realise where she's going wrong but unfortunately i think there's no way she's going to now #shes cut herself off from like. so many people. but the thing that drives me nuts is that she has a large following who WORSHIPS her #and im just... i wish we'd been closer friends so that i could go to her now and try to point out the inherent hate she's partaking in #by engaging in the LOA and radfem rhetoric. im just really sad honestly #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[dont-play-with-me-choices]

#HELP ITS ALL I COULD THINK #playchoices loa #oh god im being really loosey goosey with that tag huh

[yourqueenb]

Naur cuz what does she get out of this…

#choices loa #choices laws of attraction #choices #choices stories you play #playchoices #I’m still gonna buy it for Aislinn #but we just had a whole scene where we talked about how Sadie doesn’t do anything without it benefiting her in some way #I don’t think she’s doing this just because we agreed to take that guys case and indirectly help her so what really is it 🧐 #choices app #pixelberry studios #pixelberry

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

obsessed with the black parade is dead performance of sharpest lives currently

#ive watched that concert on youtube 3 times i think but the recording on spotify is clearer #especially on my phone you can hear their voice really well #and theyre Fighting For Their Life in that song #sharpest lives doesnt have a lot of space to breathe to begin with i think. i havent tried it myself but the words go fast #and in the show this is how i disappear goes STRAIGHT into sharpest lives #there are literally 10 seconds between the last note of the first and the first note of the last #so theres absolutely no time to catch your breath from the last song and then you have basically no space in sharpest lives either #so wherever possible corners are cut #'if it looks like im laugh-' #'im the one that you loa- you can watch me corro- like a beast in repo- wash all the poi- away with the boys in the ba-' #and then in addition to that the vowels are as imprecise as possible. like i think all the vowels morph into the same kinda sound #like a sound that allows you to keep your mouth mostly open in the same position bc theres no time or air for anything more precise #but then knowing where to cut corners and where to be absolutely on point bc 'give me a shot to remember' is flawless #and then in the next lines it's looser again. like imprecise vowels and cut off words #'so why dont you blow me- everybody AAAAHHHHHH' #fucking great #mcrposting

[the-girl-who-didnt-smile]

The rock-paper-scissors of broken anime super powers.

#this is the funniest thing i have ever seen in my entire goddamn life! #powerscaling #goku #saitama #big papa legba #big papa legba is a character who only exists in the non canon of hazbin hotel #he's just some weirdo's deviantart OC but i think he's REALLY fun to powerscale #the loa (hazbin hotel) #hazbin hotel ocs

[vetyr]

hi, i ireally love your work and i don't know if you've answered this before but, what kinds of studies do you do or how did you learn color theory? i wanna get better at rendering and anatomy but im having trouble TT TT

Hi! Long answer alert. Once a chatterbox, always a chatterbox.

When I started actively learning how to draw about 10 1/2 years ago, I exclusively did graphite studies in sketchbooks. Here's a few examples—I mostly stuck to doing line drawings to drill basic shapes/contours and proportions into my brain. The more rendered sketches helped me practice edge control & basic values, and they were REALLY good for learning the actual 3D structure behind what I was drawing.

I'd use reference images that I grabbed from fitness forums, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and some NSFW places, but you could find adequate ref material from figure drawing sites like Line of Action. LoA has refs for people (you can filter by clothed/unclothed, age, & gender), animals, expressions, hands/feet, and a few other useful things as well. Love them.

Learning how to render digitally was a similar story; it helped a lot that I had a pretty strong foundation for value/anatomy going in. I basically didn't touch color at all for ~2 years (except for a few attempts at bad digital or acrylic paint studies), which may not have been the best idea. I learned color from a lot of trial and error, honestly, and I'm pretty sure this process involved a lot of imitation—there were a number of digital/traditional painters whose styles I really wanted to emulate (notably their edge control, color choices, value distributions, and shape design), so I kiiind of did a mixture of that + my own experimentation.

For example, I really found Benjamin Björklund's style appealing, especially his softened/lost edges & vibrant pops of saturated color, so here's a study I did from some photograph that I'm *pretty* sure was painted with him in mind.

Learning how to detail was definitely a slow process, and like all the aforementioned things (anatomy/color/edge control/values/etc.) I'm still figuring it out. Focusing on edge control first (that is, deciding on where to place hard/soft edges for emphasizing/de-emphasizing certain areas of the image) is super useful, because you can honestly fool a viewer into thinking there's more detail in a piece than there actually is if you're very economical about where you place your hard edges.

The most important part, to me, is probably just doing this stuff over and over again. You're likely not going to see improvement in a few weeks or even a few months, so don't fret about not getting the exact results you want and just keep studying + making art. I like to think about learning art as a process where you *need* to fail and make crappy art/studies—there's literally no way around it—so you might as well fail right now. See, by making bad art you're actually moving forward—isn't that a fun prospect!!

It's useful to have a folder with art you admire, especially if you can dissect the pieces and understand why you like them so much. You can study those aspects (like, you can redraw or repaint that person's work) and break down whether this is art that you just like to look at, or if it's the kind of art that you want to *make.* There's a LOT of art out there that I love looking at, probably tens of thousands of styles/mediums, but there's a very narrow range that I want to make myself.

I've mentioned it in some ask reply in the past, but I really do think looking at other artist's work is such a cheat code for improving your own skills—the other artist does the work to filter reality/ideas for you, and this sort of allows you to contact the subject matter more directly. I can think of so many examples where an artist I admired exaggerated, like, the way sunlight rested on a face and created that orange fringe around its edge, or the greys/dull blues in a wheat field, or the bright indigo in a cast shadow, or the red along the outside of a person's eye, and it just clicked for me that this was a very available & observable aspect of reality, which had up until that point gone completely unnoticed! If you're really perceptive about the art you look at, it's shocking how much it can teach you about how to see the world (in this particular case I mean this literally, in that the art I looked at fully changed the way I visually processed the world, but of course it has had a strong effect on my worldviews/relationships/beliefs).

Thanks so much for sending in a question (& for reading, if you got this far)! I read every single ask I receive, including the kind words & compliments, which I genuinely always appreciate. Best of luck with learning, my friend :)

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