#which is... a refreshing change

[miazeklos]

Hello, friends! After many months spent in... not excellent conditions, I come bearing two pieces of wisdom:

Never underestimate the place where you spent 40 hours every week, a.k.a. work, and the effects it will have on your mental health.

If you struggle with said mental health: as long as you're here, you're not struggling with mental health, mental health is struggling with you.

I also bring some fics, as I've finally gotten back to doing what I love best: some twincest, some tentative Bridgerton, and, a classic, some Jalec. After months in actual hell, I'm back on my bullshit.

#I changed jobs three times since I was last here #and finally I am at a place I love #that doesn't make me want to die #which is... a refreshing change #personal shit #I guess #ahhhh #it's good to be home

[front-facing-pokemon]

#on the gourgeist post‚ when i clicked Add to queue‚ tumblr just Hung for a solid two minutes until i refreshed the page #and then i checked the queue and it was already queued up anyway. but the page reloaded all weird and looked like for a split second #some posts from my dash had entered the queue. so in lieu of this Being A Website‚ i'm gonna leave that post where it is and hope the queue #has not been contaminated #anyway i thought this thing was gen 8 because that was the first place i saw it. which is weird because i'm the big gen 6 proponent #but i guess i just never saw this one when i played pokémon X as a kid #inb4 someone is like. yeah it's pokémon Y exclusive. like what happened with spritzee #naw bulbapedia says it's not. i was just bad at video games i guess. or it's a rare spawn or something. or i just got unlucky #bergmite #however the pokédex entries seem to suggest it has gotten two (2) degrees warmer since generation 8 #from gen 6 to gen 8 the dex entries stated it used air of -150ºF #but now in gen 9 the dex entry states it's only -148ºF #climate change is affecting even the bergmite. what has this world come to

[soranker]

hi….! any chance we can see your art process ? it’s fine if not! i was wondering if u do a sketch before your lines or you just skip directly to lineart? your art is very beautiful!

HI!!! AUGGHHHJHH THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH T__T my art style is kinda simple imo so my process is pretty bare-bones ^^;; there's not rly much too it!! it also kinda changes depending on how uhhhh lazy im feeling in the moment HAHA

probably around half of my drawings are straight to line art bc they're rly just doodles or things i decide to draw without any planning (but also im kinda impatient so i try to skip the sketching step if i can LOL...). but if i DO have a specific pose in mind for a drawing, i'll start with a sort of mannequin sketch or loose pass, then depending on how messy it is, ill either do the lineart pass on the layer on top or duplicate the sketch and then clean it up.

and then my coloring process is not sophisticated at all i just create a new layer and then paint bucket tool away LMAOOOO

here's an example of a drawing where i did sketch first ^_^

#clarification on the second image: usually when i make changes to the sketch i just go straight to lineart rather than doing a second pass #which i what i did for this drawing. i just like to minimize how many sketch passes i do (again bc i am impatient and lazy lol) #but also bc personally i get frustrated when my lineart doesnt turn out like my sketch so the solution my brain came up with is to.. #...skip sketching i guess LMAO;; #idk if this was helpful or not AHGHAAH my process is rly nothing fancy and there's not much to show T_T; #ALSO OMFG IM SOOOOOO SORRY THIS TOOK ME SO LONG TO RESPOND TO GKJFHDJG THIS WAS SENT LIKE A MONTH AGO I THINK T_____T #i saw this when i got off the plane coming home from a trip and then i remembered it a few days later #but then in the middle of writing my answer i left to eat dinner and forgot to save so when i came back the page refreshed #and deleted everything i wrote T____T AND THEN IFORGOT ABT IT AGAIN

[the-cimmerians]

Today I have made:

A cherry and almond tart (no recipe, I just winged it, came out great)

Roasted baby potatoes with olive oil, lemon, and rosemary

Roasted brussels sprouts with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and chili pepper flakes

Roasted carrots and parsnips with butter/olive oil, honey, and fresh thyme (my first time trying this combination, FUCKING AMBROSIAL)

Scratch cornbread (to be made into stuffing tomorrow with the addition of onions, scrambled sausage, green apple, pecans, and more fresh herbs)

i am FATIGUED. But it smells really amazing in my house rn

#cw food #cooking #i didn't burn or cut myself which is a refreshing change of pace #this is my first time navigating cooking a fancy meal with a ton of restrictions on what i can eat so overall i'm very pleased

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in The Kindergarten Teacher (2018, dir. Sara Colangelo)

(these gifs also feature Maggie Gyllenhaal)

[other gael filmography gifsets]

#gael garcía bernal #the kindergarten teacher #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #gael is only in five scenes of this #so we get to watch someone else ruin their life for a change #which is refreshing as this filmography has hit a fairly bleak patch recently #and indeed your normal 'gael's character screws up his life' service will resume on monday #albeit with less Sad Gael than normal in the gifs

[wowbright]

Love the assumption that if you are wlw then obviously you have to vote for Brittana as your favorite canon couple. As if sexual orientation determines which fictional characters' stories speak to you.

#fandom wank #tumblr discourse #also was super edified to learn today that I'm a total misogynist /s #actually I'm not a misogynist I just hate Santana #I mean if you love her that's fine with me I don't care #and even though I hate her that's not the reason I'm voting for klaine #I'm voting for klaine because I love them #and yes I suppose it is controversial for me to announce that I dislike Santana in the tags of my own post #but whatever #you don't have to like every character #and you don't have to justify your love for or dislike for any character #so if you love brittana just vote for them and talk about how great they are #and stop shitting on people who like something else #same to klainers but I haven't seen them doing the same things in the notes #which honestly is a refreshing change from 8 to 10 years ago

[ryan1014n2]

After the closure of the Mid Sodor Railway and being sold to the Peel Godred Aluminum Works, Falcon and Stuart were the closest thing each other had to any sort of home.

Stuart tried to stay cheerful enough for the both of them, but it was much easier said than done.

#before the official 'decline' of the msr (selling half of the engines and closing part of the line) #falcon and stuart considered themselves to be friends #and they eventually came to see each other as being like brothers as they grew up together under duke's teaching #after their other friends were sold off they (along with duke) became much more important parts of each other's lives #but it was after they were sold to the aluminum works when they became incredibly close and amost inseparable #it was not a very loving environment and so through the unfortunate circumstance they quickly became each other’s 'home' #they remained as such through their transfer to the skarloey railway and thus their name changes #although sir handel had come out worse from the aluminum works and was not a very cooperative engine #and sir handel became rather jealous and upset with how quickly peter sam befriended rusty #but he got over it once he also got on rusty's good side (after a bad first impression) and all three got along from then on #with both sir handel and peter sam eventually adopting the skarloey railway as their new home #they're not as dependent on each other as they once were which is refreshing and good for both of them #but they are still much closer and more comfortable with each other than they were before the msr's closure #and when duke was rescued and restored he was pleasantly surprised to see how close his boys had become #and duke was welcomed into the railway's family with open arms-- er-- buffers #ttte peter sam #ttte sir handel #ttte headcanon #(especially in the tags I think) #my doodles #my post

[moonsidesong]

i'd love to refresh my memory on puyo and get back into the series more properly like i was in 2019-2020 but to be honest its also an incredibly exhausting series to get into just because of how scattered and strange its history is.... everyones always like "oh madou was so much better because it had more lore" but theres like a billion different versions of the lore and large chunks of it are still(?) untranslated and nobody can agree on which one is the real one

#like girl how old is schezo supposed to be #dont even get me started on the mess that is shin madou #honestly touhou is a similar series in that regard (older series that's gone through a lot of changes while keeping the same core gameplay) #even down to a reboot in the early 2000s that calls older lore into question #but the difference is that its history is very very well documented and translations are very very easy to find #which was honestly REALLY refreshing when i first got into it hahahah #anyway dont get me wrong i still love puyopuyo to death #im gonna be really sad if puyotet2's less than stellar sales means the next entry doesnt make it overseas #but im much more comfortable with it being a secondary interest these days... #ive mostly given up caring too much about the lore. new age games are silly and for the most part self contained anyway #and to be honest i like them best that way #bri talks

[ultradiqueer]

hrmmmm :?c <- considering. tranchara of aradia perhaps?

#my brains really latched on to transchara and transfictive terms #which is actually a refreshing change of pace since theyre not kintypes exactly. theyre something else #gives my brain a new texture to chew on

[aria0fgold]

Behold! The aroace mix!

#aria rants #game why not let me choose a name for that drink instead of calling it my character name-- accidentally made my stelle aroace #which is fine tbf but let me call it aria instead. i dont wanna change my character name to mine but i want the drink name to be aria #that drink being very sweet and very strong is actually nice and accurate to the trailblazer but if i were to drink that itd kill my throat #and me instantly (cant handle too much sweetness... i have not drank any alcohol in my 24 years of living at all). its refreshing at least!

[front-facing-pokemon]

#RIP to the legacy post editor. you will be missed. while queueing this post and the last one it's removed the option for me to switch to the #old one and is making me use the new one. which is like not bad. it's not a bad editor. i just don't like change as most tumblr users don't #it also just appends the post you make directly to the top of the currently-displayed posts behind it even if it's not meant to go there #which is a little bit scary when i'm on the queue page and i click “add to queue” for a post that's supposed to go up on august 18th #to see it immediately appear above mega metagross. the legacy post editor didn't do that. it made you refresh the page if you wanted to see #your own new post on the dashboard. which i think was better!! honestly!! i've never Made a post using the new editor to see how it behaves #only ever queued up FFP using this thang. but that's also bc i feel like i don't post very much. i need smth Interesting to say when i post #on my main blog i mean. i don't make extraneous posts on here (usually) unless i'm answering an ask or something. which. still have yet to #miss one to this day. going strong #bibarel #can you tell idk what to say about this guy. what are they‚ water-type? big chance i'm fucking wrong and they're just pure normal #OKAY i was right. normal/water. semi-interesting typing and i get why they're a water-type. but. i never use. bibarel. even as a kid who #didn't understand or care about competitive. i knew bibarel was not very strong. it's a route 1 normal-type fucker. and maybe it's like #better than i think or something but tbqh it's a sinnoh 'mon and i already have another sinnoh water-type that has my heart. buizel #so bibarel was not so much in the cards for me. bro i should do like. a mono-type run of a pokémon game one day. that would be fu #do folks do that? is that a challenge run that actually exists? nuzlockes exist so i don't see why not. okay i'm doing it. my next replay o #any pokémon game is hereby decreed to be a water-type mono-type run. i may or may not liveblog it on my main blog #and it may or may not be nuzlocke. we shall see #hell maybe i'll stream it. maybe that could be fun. i don't know of *anyone* who would be interested in that but it tends to help me #actually go about completing games when i have someone there like. waiting for me to do so

[sidesteppostinghours]

positively delighted to report that ive been playing a true-run, fuck-you-stats-idc-anymore caine, and they are an utter bitch

#caine lynzal #theyre so blunt and they Do Not care its so funny #but also holy shit. i didnt realize how much i molded caine to his stats #like #caine goes to the auction as hark which i would like to stress Has Never Happened before #and their poor herald relationship #usually by chkpnt 4 its around 60s-70s but now its around 30s lmfaoooo #interestingly their stats havent changed Too much (other than heralds like i just mentioned lol) #which is a little refreshing because caine is the character i have to code dive the most with to get right #since hes got pretty specific stats for their story #they lose a gate and dont get scared of argent though which is sad because i really liked that aspect of their relationship #pulp speaks

[draconicace]

i finished totk. i love dragons

#aiden's monologuing #ailbtotk #totk spoilers #(jic) #what a good ending #notes: i miss dodge roll so so bad. i suck at parrying and perfect dodges #i nearly failed at second phase and just decided to rush in and stay close and swing wildly. it worked! *hides the fairy that saved me* #that was way harder than botw. especially fighting a lynel beforehand #in botw i was ok at fighting lynels but the tools i used aren't in totk. so i have a bad time #(which is why i haven't done lynel gauntlet) #also hey rauru. why do you keep taking link's shirt. give it back it was fully upgraded #honestly the last phase was easy but it was also my favorite #very funny to take photos during a fight to put in my house. i changed outfits even #ok. ok i think that was all my initial thoughts #overall i prefer botw but i don't think totk could ever have refreshed me like botw did #really cool concepts though. some not well-executed (dream house...) but i really had a fun time! #i'll have to figure out what i want to do next in the game #maybe just figure out how to beat lynels. maybe make enough rupees to finish the compendium quickly #maybe i'll go take funny pictures of sidon. who knows! #i'm waiting for the credits to be done lol #ok it's over. zelda ilu and i respect your sense of duty. i do want to free you though. and maybe destroy hyrule castle #also i desperately wish the game wouldn't just go back to last save. i want zelda to be able to explore... #she has enough trauma let her hunt frogs again

[fairyoctopus]

buys your fodder price dragon and puts a tricktrouper crown on them

#they may be a potential jevil. #which is awesome bc the other dragon that was these colors was going for. 400kt #so 8g is a very refreshing change

[fitzrove]

Ugh listening to tdv original cast recording 1998 totale finsternis and????!??!?! How did anyone listen to this song and leave with the take that tdv is a love triangle show???!! If anything literally all of the lyrics indicate that what Sarah and Krolock are singing is about much more than that specific relationship. Like, they're attracted to each other for sure, but they're most of all attracted to what the other represents. Idk where people got the idea that Alfred represents the opposite of freedom for Sarah (and hence opposes Krolock because of that) when his and Sarah's duet is literally called out there is freedom

#[futuristic city picture] the world if people realised that the central conflict of tdv is between 'man and emerging bisexuality' #and not 'man and man fighting over girl' #sarah and krolock represent two sides of the same coin & the same temptation #and while sarah does doubt herself and hesitate a bit her goal mostly doesn't change or waver #and that's why i like alfred and sarah together so much jfkdöfk go girls (gender neutral) go fuck shit up #<33 #ramble #before i get to answering asks xD #sarah is much braver about what she wants and she's who pushes the plot in motion which is very refreshing given how female characters #are usually written #but the conflict and struggle of the story comes from alfred

[milf-harrington]

guys i rearranged my room <3

#now i just need to like. clean it #BUT im hoping the change will help my brain stop feeling so stale and stuck #i've moved my bookshelf right up to my bed so now i can actually see and remember my books are there #AND i got a like. a hangy thing for my clothes so i can see all of them all the time and wont forget what clothes i have #i cleaned my mirrors and switched the couch and vanity around which managed to really open up the room which is cool #found the collection of art books that i've never used in my life but absolutely should so now they're on the bookshelf #idk im feeling good and refreshed #captain speaks