#why did it take so long!!!

[sunsestart]

It's one of my favorite headcanons that he doesn't have the greatest eyesight akshskdj he's just like me fr

#WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO FINISH THIS #Undyne is gonna call him a nerd the moment she sees him #it's okay she likes nerds and Papyrus was always a nerd anyways #she's still gonna find it funny tho #sunsest-art #undertale #papyrus #sans #undertale fanart #undertale animation #??? #not really #but I'll add that anyways #papyrus fanart

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

#mlp #yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia. #yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show #but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!! #i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse #in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character #personal #delete later #unless you like this analysis stuff #i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did #cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her #mother and father as a teenager #i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased #but i'll put some in the tags #involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity #anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention #(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff #long post #regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at #a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up

[courttwoknee]

Tmagp Ep 5

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #why did it take me so long to find this meme lmao. i #it was my first thought while listening 😭😂

[lyrichi]

[mc is reading a devildom textbook that is on human world history]

mc: .......

satan: ... you look troubled

mc: yeah cause it's all wrong

satan: what do you mean?

mc: well, first of all it says the earth is flat

#why did it take me so long to come up with an outrageously wrong history fact #uh #im literally studying the cold war rn #yeah #wo hoo #obey me crack #obey me shall we date #obey me shitpost #obey me incorrect quotes #obey me #obey me mc #obey me satan

[zecoritheweirdone]

wanna preface this by saying that i am. So normal. anyway i just spent the last week redrawing scenes from mystery skulls animated but as that hermitcraft au i posted about a couple times. you guys should watch msa it is. so so good.

#my art #hermitcraft #mystery skulls animated #geminitay #geminitay fanart #ethoslab #ethoslab fanart #falsesymmetry #falsesymmetry fanart #ignore the fact that etho's hair changes literally every drawing #poses + expressions are traced a bit; and backgrounds aren't mine(well; except for the second one; which you can prolly tell;; sksnsks) #and also (with the help of sap bc i'm bad at color theory) edited the truck bg colors a bit #but even so;; i am!! very very happy with how these turned out #mystery skulls animated spoilers #<- honestly that's mainly for the murder mystery one #granted anyone who hasn't seen the future at this point prolly won't have that tag filtered #etho's murder mystery form(no i don't have a name for it)'s collar tag is a mix between a mable leaf and a vex! #cuz reverb is cub in this au #hence all the blue and stuff;; skdhkdnkd #you'd think that last pic would have been the hardest for me to draw; with how complicated etho's design is #but surprisingly; it doesn't even place top three in terms of how long it took to draw #no; instead it was that Fucking. Truck. #WHY did that take me eight and a half hours #the second longest was only five!!! #the others barely even top 4! #also #WHY are the deadbeats(which are mini tillies here) so deceptively hard to draw #every time i struggle with them orz #anyway. images 3; 6; 7; and 8 are my favs <3 #if false and/or pearl see this. o/ hoi

[puretopia]

#why did it take me so long to realise setting the lamps to orange makes a reeeeal difference #and turning OFF the main light #if u like that kinda cosy vibe that is #also the windows in this house are serving up some delicious beams #first things FIRST tho upgrade the fireplaces to fireproof #ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #leo reid #heidi myer

[treesareredinautumn]

TOTAL CHAOS

#help #this was a mistake #why did i think it would be a good idea to animate every hermit it takes so long #hermitaday #cubfan135 #cubfan #hermitcraft #gif #my animation #fanart #my art #theres no way i'm doing more than two frames of that darned backgroudn

[twstinginthewind]

.... okay am I losing my mind a little or is there a McDonald's in the Heartslabyul gardens?

#twisted wonderland #heartslabyul #not open on Tuesdays in accordance to the queen's rules #probably not intentional #still funny to see #how does one franchise make so much headway #disney twst #disney twisted wonderland #also i have been playing for a couple years now why did it take me this long to find it

[otaku553]

Haha

#yanqing #honkai star rail #hsr yanqing #my immediate fixation on ice wielding child genius characters in every media I consume strikes again #idk I just think he’s neat!! and so is his gender #he’s definitely overdesigned but I do enjoy the general shape of his clothes #like wow… baggy outer layer AND baggy inner layer #how come you get to have two baggy layers #still don’t know that much about him even after reading his character stories on the wiki #so I’m hoping that his quest writes him well #I suppose there’s some degree of like interesting contrast in the fact that he’s very young on a ship full of people who live very long live #but I feel like regardless they really don’t give him much of a personality besides his hyperfixation on swords and the general naivety and #inexperience from youth yknow what I mean #I just think it would be cool to see like why he’s so ambitious! was he railroaded into being a knight because of his talents? did he try #to be accepted as a knight? what kinds of expectations is he facing and what expectations does he place on himself as a result #I really hope he isn’t just there to be a simpler minded child character for jingyuan to take care of

[doodlecrimes]

[image id: several drawings of Data from Star Trek TNG.

top left panel: Lore hands Data a gift and says, "happy *birthday*, I guess." Data replies, "thank you, broth-" Lore interrupts him: "just take it."

top right panel 1: a front view of a yellow book. Data is holding it in his hands. the text on the cover reads, in all caps, "meow: the book is for your cat only. written in own language."

top right panel 2: Data has now opened the book. the text reads the word "meow" over and over.

bottom right panel: Data from the chest up, reading the book. he says, "quite humorous indeed."

bottom left: Data lying on his side, holding the open book in front of Spot, who is sitting next to him. there are three question marks above her head. Data says, "look Spot. it is written in your language."

/end id]

happy very late birthday, Data!! your drawing killed me!!

do not repost or share my art without permission!

#why did this take so long jesus christ #I'M FINALLY FREE #yes I'm aware Data's com badge is missing I DON'T CARE #yes I'm aware the book is missing its cover in the last image lol #mike.png #startrek.png #tng.png #star trek #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #data soong #spot soong #star trek fanart #android #described

[spicyvampire]

KP APPRECIATION : Week 10 – weapon(s)

Kinn’s Gun

+ Bonus : Porsche’s gun

#kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kpappreciation #kinnporschesource #kinnporscheedit #asianlgbtqdramas #userjap #uservik #usermor #userkimchi #tusersilence #tuserkatherine #edits:kp #tansedits #man why did this take me so long when i feel like the timing is off #well it is what is it #so i decided to change 2 whole gifs of this gifset 2h after it was published so sorry for the inconvenience

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

Ghost is a confident man but I wonder how long it took for him to get there. How hard he had to fight inside his mind before he realized it? How much of his own blood he had to spill to understand he was worth something, that it’s the right decision he’s alive.

#simon ghost riley #call of duty #how long did it take to become the person he wanted #how long did it take to live again #and why was it so hard

[delirisse-au]

Really stupid idea:

Narinder and Mary go on dates for the sole purpose of constantly trying to kill each other

That would go about as well as you think it would

#cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl narinder #cotl lamb #cult of the lamb narinder #cotl comic #asks #cotl slasher au #slasher!narinder #slasher!lamb #this took jkhkg so long to draw and then i go 'why the hell did this take hours it's not even coloured' and watch the replay and #it's 1+ hour of me drawing the bg alone kjerjg yeah that checks out #also this ask is old hi amber from the past #cw blood #cw poison

[dextersthesaurus]

Homestuck in 2024? It’s likelier than you think..

#homestuck #rose lalonde #homestuck comic #my art #lazy art #why did this take so long

[icebergvideo]

#why did this take so long to make #scvi #pokemon violet #penny #arven #nemona #clive #juliana

[fure-dcmk]

personal relationship chart for my gosho boys au

#gosho boys college au #dcmk #gosho boys #what do i even tag this as...... #writing isnt my forte why did it take me this long to solidify their dynamic in my head #i want to draw so much stupid gosho boys comic with overused jokes but alas i am but one person #my art #personal #edit: i need to let you know the main intention for these relationship assignment is to provide the most gag as possible.