#you have to ride a line

[divorcedfiddleford]

and you may say to yourself: "my god! what have i done?" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful wife!" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful house!" and you may ask yourself: "well, how did i get here?"

time isn't holding up, time isn't after us, time is a pony ride! (images described in alt text)

#gravity falls #fiddleford mcgucket #LETTING THE [FIDDLEFORD FRI]DAYS GO BY #“sir it's tuesday” i know. my computer has been busted for two weeks so i couldn't post them when i wanted to. just let me have this #again still new to alt text. i like being a little bit silly but let me know if it gets in the way of accessibility #artwork of the damned #uhhhh yeah this is actually something ive kind of wanted to draw for years now #favorite guy + favorite band = prime high-effort meme material #also. for the record. yes i have a mcgucket playlist. yes it has three talking heads songs on it. no none of them are “once in a lifetime” #also also i know that the lyrics in the description are in the wrong order. it's on purpose. i put them backwards for dramatic effect #also also also i'm pretty sure the “time is a pony ride” line is not actually sung on the album version of the track #but if you listen to/watch the live version from “stop making sense” you will hear it! #as well as hear a much more satisfying ending to the song imo. rather than it just fading out it has some really nice vocals #basically the moral of this story is you should watch “stop making sense” #if you made it to the end of the tags: congrats! you win a prize! the prize is permission to reblog this post

[tabooiart]

down on your luck, that’s how life goes

when life gives me rain, i make rainbows

#my art #fanart #ride the cyclone #rtc #mischa bachinski #ocean o'connell rosenberg #ocean rosenberg #ricky potts #jane doe #jane doe rtc #noel gruber #constance blackwood #ever since the old songs got found ive been listening to a few on loop #especially u-r-a-n-i-u-m its such a banger and this line #i was like omg rainbows have six colors.... theres six kids in the choir...... #if you have any issues with which color goes to which kid take it up with management

[moonlightphos]

I thought, "Must be lonely loving someone" Trying to find their way out of a maze

#sylvix #felix hugo fraldarius #sylvain jose gautier #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem #artists on tumblr #lyrics are should've been me by mitski #inspired by the kiss by gustav klimt but as I was drawing it it started hurting me so I made it hurt me more #I have lots of thoughts about felix's capacity for intimacy throughout 3h and sylvain's general lack #in favour of riding the line between self sabotage and protection #if you get you get it #if you look close I put a delightful little scar on sylvain's nose to mirror miklan

[redstonebug]

Hear me out: centaur!Sheriff

#mcyt #empires smp #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #theorionsound #oli theorionsound #fwhip #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #cochineal #bug report #also yes he's specifically the kind of horse Spirit is #because. why not. #i have a sketch of him to line/color later that'll show his coat pattern better #but its literally just Spirit lmao #if youre wondering ''why is he wearing a saddle if he's a centaur'' #well a.) it looks better trust me #b.) i like the hc that Norman is a mountain lion but also that Flick is also there but is just a normal cat #and also Flick getting to ride around on the saddle is very cute #also i am extremely excited about empires oli if you couldnt tell

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

I love how Brennan as a DM was all "Riz, you need more than good grades. You need to stand out. You need showstopping extracurriculars." and to Kristen he was all, "I'm going to throw the weight of an entire religion at you, make you relive your family trauma through your brother and give you relationship issues."

Yet, SOMEHOW, when Brennan introduced little miss four dogs, the driven type A rogue, and had her run for president, setting up the perfect foil for Riz's character and an amazing extracurricular for Riz to aim for in one fell swoop, THE ENTIRE PARTY WENT "KRISTEN 4 PREZ!!!! SHRIMP PARTY 2.0!!!"

Don't get me wrong, I love that Ally went for the fucking throat on vibes alone. Like, that was truly loathing at first sight and I love that for them, I really do.

BUT ALSO THAT WAS RIZ'S PLOTLINE KRISTEN. YOU HAVE LIKE THREE PLOTLINES KRISTEN. WHY ARE YOU ADDING MORE TO YOUR PLATE KRISTEN.

#i do love that the entire party without a thought went 'Kristen kill this bitch. politically. then physically' #and riz without a fucking second thought assigned himself as kristens campaign manager #they are so ride or die and i love it #rip Brennan trying to get the plot back of track by having Jawbone be like 'hey Riz dontcha think maybe shes EXACTLY like you?!' #and riz was all 'What? im too busy making buttons and spying to read between your lines. i got tryouts in four minutes' #anyway #wild #im expecting riz to declare that the rat muncher cleric is his nemesis now. just from vibes alone. #riz and kristen just swap enemies for no fucking reason. queer solidarity tbh. love that for them #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #riz gukgak #kristen applebees #brennan lee mulligan

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Standing on the platform watching you go

It’s like no other pain I’ve ever known

To love someone so much, to have no control

You said “I want to see the world” and I said “go”

But I think I’m lost without you

I just feel crushed without you

Cause I’ve been strong for so long

That I never thought how much I needed you

I think I’m lost without you

#lokius #Loki #mobius #lost without you #there’s also a line that goes you were te only safe have I have ever known like 💀 #freya ridings #mobius m mobius

[brother-emperors]

you're SO right, how is it that the best portrayal of many italian renaissance figures comes from a bad videogame from the 2010s

wheezing I’m torn between going truly this is the best portrayal of Leonardo da Vinci we may ever get, and defending AC2 even though I’m a full time Ezio Saga Hater

#I’m a Desmond Era + Origins fan in a ride or die kind of way but the Ezio games suck ass compared to 1 and 3 #however AC2 is miles above the European Era games and Odyssey butchers the use of Ezio’s theme so bad I will never forgive them #also Odyssey is legitimately bad. AC2’s biggest problem is that the story is narratively weak and holds it’s punches #I mostly hate the Ezio saga because the fandom was really fucking racist (still is!) and it could’ve been good!!! #but I have a deep seated fondness for the parts of it that were good. the game after all is still asking you to live even when it’s hard #the opening and the music are unparalleled and legendary. I just wish it kept that up throughout the story instead of #trying for a wider appeal but the story fucks up it’s own themes and bc the simplicity of it’s assassin/templar line up is baffling #there is also an AC2 that exists in my head that takes place in Venice lmao but that’s much more spy thriller #also did anyone here read the novelizations. Ezio and Machiavelli are so fucking married. 10/10 no notes #Ascanio is also mentioned in the brotherhood novelization iirc so. we stay winning!!

[roaringheat]

You've gotta be shittin me im goin a little insane over the way Charles asks Arthur to help him by saying "Do it for me" and then repeating it just a little more firmly when Arthur doesn't immediately give in ohhhhhh my god

#vark posts #like its non fuckin negotiable that they have a close bond no matter how u view them #i wouldve made Arthur's ass go along regardless cause im ride or die for the whole gang but liiiiike yes king anything for you king #the way Arthur just fuckin folds as soon as Charles gets that stern tone is also fuckin hilarious #i know what you are #on a side not why the hell is Charles just full of those short impactful lines that keep making me go fuckin insane #my memory is absolute dog shit but i could name several off the top of my head #and theres undoubtedly more im forgetting #like... 'im a fool' and 'always' #STOP it you are PLAGUEING me /j #im not really a shipper on main but a lesbians favorite man of the month cannot and should not be contained #v live blogging #rdr2

[worstloki]

Thor tries to pick up the designated driver pilot role after feast parties and off-realm adventures following Loki’s death but it soon becomes apparent that the only decent pilot left on the team is Fandral and he’s insufferable if you drink excessively and don’t let him join

#Thor not tending to be in the mood to drink after Loki dies bc his emotions drop and he hates it btw #or worse his body sees it as an excuse to start feeling things and that’s almost worse #so anyway better to just avoid it for a while #so he volunteers to fly everyone back home #they all know how to pilot of course #it just becomes very clear very soon that knowing how does not make one good at it #passable sure but when everyone has a headache or is on the verge of passing out you don’t want a ride that upsets any stomaches #you don’t want people losing their balance or clutching their heads from spinning when you’re driving in a straight line back to the palace #aaaand Volstagg is throwing up over the side of the skiff. oh no not again this is unbelievable #maybe walking would be better next time #but no one wants to walk after that!!! #what if they abruptly need to use a bathroom #it’s not acceptable to use the side of a road in Asgard I think #let alone when you’re a group of prestigious warriors #of course we have members of the group with a piloting licence!!! we just WANTED to walk!!!

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Was browsing through early BOBF/Mando S3 criticisms on Tumblr and WOW, 93% of S2’s viewership dropped when S3 finished airing for an extremely understandable reason. As someone who got into Dinluke after all the dust settled I can only imagine what it was like becoming invested in Din’s story and being floored by the S2 finale only for it to get totally swerve-balled after a long-anticipated wait. How did you avoid the disappointment and burnout?

Spite is an incredibly powerful motivator, let me tell you.

I'm halfway joking about that, btw. I could say I'm used to disappointment and I also worked really hard not to take things too personally after being disappointed time and again year after year by fandoms I was in. Imo the healthiest attitude is that no show/movie/book/videogames/etc will ever play out the way you want/think it should so take what you can get and trash the rest. By the time I started watching The Mandalorian, I'd been burnt badly by Star Trek AOS, the Sequel Trilogy, the MCU, and the Disney machine, and I had to figure out how to accept that I like what I like, I can't change what I can't change, and I can/will run the fuck off with what I can change, which is making wildly fun and fulfilling transformative shit like fanfics and fanart.

I was actually excited about TBOBF and was utterly betrayed by the executive decision to throw him and Fennec to the side in order to absolutely trash the Season 2 finale of the Mando Show by having Din and Grogu reunite just like that. I guess I got lucky in that I had a long-running fic series that I was heavily invested in and I was not about to let Disney stop me from finishing it. Instead of letting my frustrations kill my interest in the show and fandom, I turned it into motivation to keep telling the story I wanted to tell based on the fallout of Season 2. It also helped that Andor happened.

I quit Season 3 of the Mando Show after the 1st episode and it was the best decision I ever made. I had a really rough time with it and was encouraged to step away if it was giving me too much stress. I'm glad for that. Less time and energy picking about Filoni&Favreau and Disney Lucasfilm's decisions and disappointments, more time and energy spent writing and drawing the dinluke I want to see. The nice thing about Star Wars is that it is an old and vast sandbox. Plenty of room here to build whatever sandcastles and dig however many holes you want while canon goes floundering by.

I think also that it really helped to find spaces to share with people who vibe on the same wavelength, so I'm not alone to my thoughts and spiraling myself out of a fandom I enjoyed (like what happened with TLJ but I shan't go there bc this response is long enough). Those posts about having friends you can shit-talk things with? Valid af. You need outlets to vent your grievances without setting bridges on fire, and it'll help your enjoyment of things in the long run.

I didn't avoid the disappointment but I figured out how to make something of it, so I'm still writing dinluke, I'm still drawing dinluke, I'm still getting giddy over dinluke. I actively choose to do what I want with them, and nothing Disney Lucasfilm puts out is ever going to stop me.

#shirozora awkwardly responds to asks #dinluke #the mandalorian #star wars #tbobf #fandom things #realized I still have a lot of thoughts about TBOBF and Mando S3 while answering the ask #i should post them at some point #but really I can be a really spiteful person who uses rage to fuel certain ideas #if i see a story I don't like for a thing that I like I will rewrite things and I will create things to get over that rage #it's like that quote in frankenstein #it's like. i like this thing so much and i expect better from it so if it won't reach there then i'll write/draw it myself #the burnout will get to me eventually if the hyperfixation doesn't get to me first #but for now i am really enjoying the ride and i remain heavily invested in the story i'm telling with Dangerous Dreams #sometimes you just gotta find the one thing in the fandom you really like and stick with it to the end of the line

[nyxi-pixie]

"lets get out of here"🤨🤨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🤨🤨🤨🏳️‍🌈🤨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

#idek what it is that lines just. #“lets get out of here😩😏😏😋😋😘” #full focused on the flirting theyll b doing on the helicopter ride out so i dont have to think abt the other thing in this panel #bc i still have concerns abt the fact that we see dazai w the antidote but not takin it #i mean im sure its fine but yk #soukoku #bsd chapter 112 #remember when i said i wldnt post more abt the new chapter #im a lying liar who lied and i lied TO YOU!

[splickedylit]

excerpting

Domestic Diplomacy II is turning out to be even more "splickedy gratuitously gets caught in the weeds of xenosociology and alien language barriers, the fic sequel" and tbh I'm not mad about it

--

“Oh, your moirail!” says Jade, and bounces upright, ignoring John’s wary little soft human cautionary hiss.  To your vague surprise, she’s apparently learned enough not to do the human holding-out-a-hand gesture they usually do when they’re introduced; she clasps her hands in front of her, nonexistent claws politely folded in, and ducks her head briefly forward and to one side, careful not to jab at him with her nonexistent horns. 

It's a pretty passable greeting—for a social equal, which is its own bizarre issue, considering he’s a highblood.  But relatively non-offensive, for a human, and fortunately for her she’s picked a highblood who isn’t likely to give a shit.  Gamzee laughs out loud and gives his own lazy-ass version of a greeting back, a vague twist of his wrists and dip of his head, condescending to use an equal’s greeting back at her.   When he says “Gamzee Makara,” there’s a hint of a threatening buzz to it, a testing you should know to respect me warning—you could have told him she’d show absolutely no sign of hearing it, which is exactly what happens.

“I’m Jade Harley!  I meet you,” Jade says, a carefully neutral statement-of-fact greeting—not fawning or hostile.  You don’t know if humans are out here just learning neutral address no matter what, or if this human particularly just doesn’t give a shit that your moirail’s a fuck-off mutant-huge highblood with horns that scrape the ceiling of the block—by the expectant way she looks up at Gamzee afterward, she wouldn’t give much of a shit either way.  Out of all of the humans, Jade Harley might actually win the prize for giving the least shits, no matter what Rose and Dave like to pretend.

“Yeah, I meet you too, motherfucker,” says Gamzee, looking incredibly amused, and glances down at you.  “She’s a rude-ass little motherfuckin’ toothful, huh?  I like her.”

“Of course you do,” you say, pained.  “Don’t take it personally, alright?  You’re not a highblood here, they don’t get highbloods.”

“Oh, best friend,” says Gamzee, and kisses your nugbone again, embarrassingly.  “I’m a highblood wherever the fuck I go.  It’s cool though.  Squishy-ass little motherfuckers won’t get any grief from me.”

“<Motherfucker>,” Jade repeats behind you, and switches back to English, in the bright, wide verbal tone you’re starting to learn means ‘smiling and happy’, weird interstitial ‘vowel’ breath-sounds further back in the throat through pulled-back mouth-corners.  “Hmm, <motherfucker>…  Oh, neat!  Is that dialect?  It sounds like, ahh, what’s that other word.  Kk—kkkht—  Uh, dammit.  You guys need to learn how to use vowels—  It sounds like <;brother>.”

“It is like,” you say, surprised despite yourself.  “&lt;Brother> is a troll, and <motherfucker> you put it all spots you want.  It’s a thing, it’s a troll, it’s a, tss, a doing-things word, it’s a name.  It’s bad, it’s good.  Any spot you want.  And he does want, for all those, all the time.”

#splickedydrabbles #Homestuck #Domestic Diplomacy #me staring into the distance: what if 'motherfucker' and 'brother' are translated different but they're related words in alternian.... #what if 'brother' and 'sister' aren't different words theyre just translated in english based on gender but there's no distinction actually #it's all the word I tend to translate as 'kin'/'family'/'fam' lol but gendered by english-speakers for comprehension #what if alternian greetings have implicit settings for 'i'm hostile to you' and 'i'm trying to be non-offensive and polite' #and the lack of either is an implicit message of 'we're equals' which comes with its own social baggage RE: castes #what if I approached Homestuck as though it was implicitly a translated text ala JRR Tolkein's meta-narrative of Lord of the Rings #''Alternian wouldn't spell his name 'karkat vantas' of course but it's been anglicized for the audience with additional vowel sounds'' #'when his tone of voice is referenced in this line it of course actually refers to his engagement of his third subvocal chatterbox--'' #WHAT IF-- #I am frothing at the damn mouth I love fucking around in this sandbox so much I will make up ALL the societal/cultural indicators #this is the casual/semi-formal/court-formal code-switching in Save a Horse Ride a Dragon all over again lmao NO REGERTS

[flowerflamestars]

Hello! I hope you had a good holiday season! If you don't mind, I was wondering about Amren and what she is doing in Effloresce. I can't remember if Summer heist happened yet. Her boss, coworkers, and boss's totally-not-love-interest have fucked off to coerce human women to help them. Amren knows laws. She knows there will be consequences. She finds out about the Archeron ties to the city. Someone's going to tell her about the contract that will kill the ruling class of Night. She is the only rational one left on the ruling council.

Hi, thank you! I did- if a very, very busy one :)

If there were an emotional scale for the IC charting from Azriel at one end- having a centuries late break down, genuinely contemplating murder, off the rails, wings on fire, carnivorous shadows CHAOS- Mor would be dead in the middle- bristling with some kind of SOMETHING and concerned but not like. enough to do anything differently- Amren would round out the other side.

She's watching this all happen and gently yawning.

She's infinitely old.

(hello, thing that irritates me beyond belief in canon. She's old and otherworldly and!! why would that only manifest in mild grouchyness?? WHY)

We're pre-theft (which, ho boy, is going to be a fun one), but post almost everything else. Amren has been waiting out whatever stupid thing she knows Rhys will do, busy being a time bomb with a mate who?? doesn't know she's his mate? ridiculous, thinks Amren.

The thing is, she likes the Night Court. She also, at times, cannot help but look upon all these creatures around her like they're very small, brightly colored bugs and she's a hobbyist entomologist on her third aperol spritz watching them buzz flowers she planted, or occasionally die running into windows.

Amren knows things.

She's been waiting for Feyre to reveal some kind of SOME interesting Archeron intrepidness. For Rhysand to look at just the right record. For Feyre to try to go to the bank alone.

(For Azriel to pick up a crystal pitcher and physically start bludgeoning Rhys)

She IS rational, but like. Her goals aren't really...other people's goals. She's interested by what's happening. She has some serious thoughts about the current regimes long term trajectory. (Amren comes SWINGING into the Effloresce narrative.)

What's different, is that she's Night's second.

She's old enough she doesn't really make promises. But when she does, she keeps them. She's going to protect the Night Court, for the best possible future of the Night Court.

#basically I think Amren is the MOST under utilized resource #which is in itself a good quiet example of Rhysand's towering arrogance #people complained about us not seeing enough of her power #but like #why is the first scariest line of defense not...just..Amren's endless centuries of knowledge?? #she's smugly waiting for the exact right moment or question #you can't die and you've been alive basically forever #war is both deeply sad and probably pretty compelling #characters like her have to either be touched by otherworldly sadness OR a totally alien resolve #and I think the along for the ride beauty of the quick burn weird specific morals of it all suits her SO MUCH better than perpetual grief #Amren has been sitting on prime gossip for 100+ years shes ready to meet Nesta #I literally made this joke in another fic #but Amren thinks Feyre will be more interesting when she's done cooking #she's a little baby dough

[pinkrose05]

So. Argenti demo.

#he's everything to me you have no idea #silly goofball of a theatre kid ily ily ily #his demo splash is soooo pretty #his animations are gorgeous #his personality is perfect #and! he pulled a hideo kojima reference! #also bonus points for every member of the express getting to do the last line in the demo #across the 4 languages #brilliant #beautiful even #this is argenti's train and we're just riding it with him #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr argenti #argenti hsr #pink's musings #pink thinks about sir flowerboi for more than two minutes and explodes

[coquelicoq]

my grandmother knows how much i love the moon and she's started clipping articles out of the paper whenever they're space-related and mailing them to me and i've taken to calling her whenever there's an interesting celestial body visible to the naked eye in the night sky. it's a cute lil way that we bond and has had the happy side effect that now in addition to all the other reasons i love to see the moon, i now also love it because it's something i get to share with her. this is all important context that my friends didn't have last week when we turned a corner and my reaction to seeing the full moon hanging huge and bright and beautiful right in front of us was to shout "i need to call my grandmother!!" now, i'm not sure what conclusions i would have jumped to were i in their position, but i feel like "my friend's grandmother must be a werewolf" would have been low on the list of possibilities. that's just me though.

#in fairness to them that is the most interesting possible conclusion and my grandmother thinks it's hilarious #what's up party people i spent literally the entire day lying down #and have only now gotten up to sit at the table so i can put my dico vocab in my vocab spreadsheet #so many of my symptoms have improved today! however i am still coughing and i'm on my period so that has been fun #projectile uterine discharge #luna #vampires and werewolves and zombies oh my #my posts #pretty sure my heater is broken 🙄 i think the pilot light is out? so that's fun #i don't want to have anyone in here until i'm not contagious obviously #so i'll just live with it #luckily it's not below freezing or anything. also when you're in bed all day you don't even notice! silver linings #(don't tell my grandmother the werewolf) #(are there any versions of little red riding hood where the wolf is a werewolf? how sharp your teeth are grandmother...)

[jcryptid]

Trying out comics for the first time, so I figured I'd christen the medium by drawing a ROTTMNT comic feat. me and a friend of mine's (@nuggdoesart) OC's and a small snipped of their backstory.

For the illimination of any doubt, that red eared slider is their OC Titan (from their double yoke au) and the blue dragon is Wan, who's been pretty thoroughly boned by every crime boss they've ever had the displeasure of working for.

DW they both become friends... ish.... it's complicated.

Wan Ref here!

#ROTTMNT #rottmnt oc #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt big mama #rottmnt au #rottmnt double yoke au #trying to embrace the tism by letting myself be unapologetically cringe so we'll see how this goes #this one's for you Nugg #oc art #ocs #does this count as a halloween post even if it's 4 days late and fanart? #i mean there's a spider #rottmnt constantly rideing that line between kid friendly and hella dark without crossing over and i have no idea how they do it #first time doing a comic lol #trying out clip studio comic function #save rise of the tmnt #save rottmnt