#this was a lot of work

[buckttommy]

And just like that, Ryan Guzman Source is now live!

Surprise! Or not lol. Thank you to Mads @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels for her help when my internet was making me cry and to Nova @catdadeddie for the URL <3 This blog is 95% completed but there are some spots that are still under construction so bear with me while I iron everything out.

I am for sure not beating the "loves this actor too much" allegations now. lol.

Anyways! Everyone enjoy @ryanguzmansource! <3

#jack.txt #geeze #this was a lot of work #i'm going to take a nap lol

[tamamo-lover]

Allow me to take a moment to show off my level 100, max skill Tamamos.

Lancer and Cat are NP4, og Tam is NP3, and Koyanskaya is NP1 (she cost 900 quartz for one copy ;-;).

Don't underestimate my love and devotion to my woman!

#fgo #fate #fate grand order #tamamo #koyanskaya #tamamo no mae #this was a lot of work #why wouldn't koyanskaya come home that was really a frustrating day #didnt have to spend any money at least

[artemiscanvas]

My first full character commission!

Thanks again @trans-shiny-primarina

#my pencil's too big #furry #scaly #dragon #guilty gear #ramlethal #commission #this was a lot of work #but a lot of fun #and a fair bit of learning

[artistic-lightcycle]

Faisal's tent in a nutshell

#this was a lot of work #Loa #lawrence of arabia #meme #my meme #Peter O'Toole #Omar Sharif #Alec Guinness #Anthony Quayle #T.E.Lawrence #prince Faisal #Ali ibn el Kharisch #Colonel Brighton

[elevenharbor]

Zutara - soulmates

28 days later, my little project is done!! I heard this audio over on tiktok and just had to make this zutara piece because they are soulmates, and you can't tell me otherwise i will die on this hill.

(link) here if video won't autoplay

EDIT: webcomic version here

#zutara #eleven's doodles #zuko x katara #zuko #katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #fire lord zuko #zuko fanart #katara fanart #atla fanart #zutara fanart #i dream in grayscale #art #my art #i can't do animations so this is the next best thing #this was a lot of work #but also a lot of fun #zutara forever #soulmates #Vimeo

[riayuun]

#character design commission from 2022 #this was a lot of work #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #my art #original character #digital drawing #commission #character design #character sheet #character art #oc #commissioned

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 8, day 12

So while gathering photos of all the magic today, I took this shot that I really really liked, so I decided my art for the night is gonna be editing it. And I really like how it turned out :D

Original under the cut as per uuuuuuuuuusual~

#the great artscapade of 2023 #art #my art #forspoken #forspoken photo mode #forspoken photo edit #frey holland #forspoken magic: crucible #sila's magic: crucible #red magic: crucible #naee aasha #necklace: naee aasha #forspoken necklace: naee aasha #this was a lot of work #I had to lasso select every strand of hair #and I missed so many #and so many more the selection was way too thick #but you know what that's okay #because I still like how it turned out :D

[dare-g]

GENTLEMEN, BEHOLD!

#athf #aqua teen hunger force #dr. weird #cross stitch #this was a lot of work #talks

[apairofquotationmarksatnight]

i'm looking for corny in my life

| buck x eddie | rating: g | 8k and updating | 911 |

ediaz: you got any plans for the holidays, then?

Maddie sighs to herself. It’s hard to explain, generally, but it feels less embarrassing with Eddie. Maybe because she can’t see his face pity her.

maddie2892: Christmas is a bit of weird time for me, not the best associations.

ediaz: because of him?

maddie2892: him mostly. but my parents weren’t big on Christmas growing up either. The only person who I’ve ever liked spending it with is Buck. But he’s got his own stuff going on this year and he invited me, which is lovely, but I don’t really feel that in the spirit and I don’t wanna bring everyone else down. Kind of just wish I could get away for a bit.

ediaz: I’m sorry to hear it, Maddie

ediaz: but I get how you feel. I’m trying to be in the spirit, because Chris is eight and he’ll stop believing in Santa soon enough, but I always feel worse around the holidays too.

maddie2892: because you’re thinking of shannen?

ediaz: sort of, yeah. But also just like, lots of family things and occasions for my parents to judge what I’m doing and how I’m messing up with my son, yknow, fun Christmas traditions.

(Read on AO3 here)

A The Holiday Christmas AU where Eddie, a single-dad from Texas strikes up an online friendship with Maddie, a 911 operator living in LA. Around December, in discussing how hard the holidays are for them, they decide to swap houses/townhouses for two weeks around Christmas - and sparks fly when Eddie meets Maddie's little brother, and Maddie meets Eddie's best friend from work, Chimney.

#attempting to post fic on tumblr for the first time so we'll see how it goes #this was a lot of work #but it was fun to make a new blog #i literally haven't made a new sideblog since uni #911 fic #911 #9-1-1 #buddie #buck x eddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz

[slowpokemod]

Mod PMD reactions cause why not :3 Great for mundays

#SlowpokeMod #Mod #PMD #Reactions #This was a lot of work #heccc #Pokemon #PokemonOC #Slowpoke

[pandorapanther]

im never using the fancy paint tool again this was too tedious and i fucked up the shading but anyways heres Alex my Y/n from my Fall From Grace au (which im still working on im just bad with procrastinating and thinking of what to write)

#fnaf #fnaf y/n #fnaf au #fall from grace au #Pandora Draws #im so tired #this was a lot of work #qwq #art

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

#spilled ink #warm up #“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol #btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can #run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her #but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like. #ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone! #like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate'' #we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

#i think its cute #they took the mars rover approach #humanizing the space craft making it cute making us (me) project emotions onto it #the soviets also used imagery of laika in propaganda a lot #which is pretty fucked up imo #but if i grew up in the soviet union that shit wouldve definetly worked on me lmao #the narrative of a heroic little dog going to space and being honored by the whole country #as cruely wrong as it is its very appealing #the soviets knew what they were doing man they didnt reveal how laika really died until like. the 2000s #bc they knew people really cared about that dog #they liked the narrative around her

[bellwethers]

Tough.

#forgive me if the get along shirt has been done #I think it works for a lot of characters in this show #big toph love #I had so much fun drawing her #also still working on roughing up my style bit by bit #toph beifong #atla toph #fanart #atla #atla fanart #avatar #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender #atla katara #katara #toph avatar #toph atla

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[oasisr]

after hearing "simply having a wonderful christmas time" by paul mccartney 74 times while working in retail, I came to the conclusion that they shot the wrong beatle

#meme #christmas #Christmas music #paul mccartney #the beatles #beatles #dark humor #retail #fast food #work #job #seasonal #seasonal worker #funny #lol #yes i am using a lot of tags because i want everyone to see this and laugh with me #welcome to the comedy of hate