#you're doing a great job!!

[heich0e]

Liv what did you struggle most with when you went vegan? I’m trying to cut out meat but I’m having a bad time 😭

ohhhh good question! i think i had an easier time than most ppl because i had a lot of aversions to meat and eggs unless they were prepared in v specific ways, and i don't like cheese and was pretty sure dairy was making me break out so i was already drinking non-dairy milk at home.

all of which is to say it wasn't a huge struggle for me to just make the few changes to transition to plant based!! i think the hardest part was avoiding the animals products hiding IN other things. ;ike pastries with butter! or eggs in cake! or modified milk ingredients in LITERALLY EVERYTHING. those little things were what gave me the hardest time, but now i just know what I can and can't have and don't really think about it very much—i promise it gets easier!!

#liv got mail #tw food #that being said we are in a cost of living crisis! the world is going to shit! do what u can and feed yourself whatever makes you feel best #any reduction in consumption of animal products is a win in my books #better 100 people eat more consciously than one person be a quote unquote perfect vegan #you're doing a great job!!

[qrwinn]

respectfully, why tf do y'all care if people "jump ship"? is your life really this sad that you can't stand the thought of other people not rooting as much for buddie anymore? like what is your business here exactly?

#oh you're so loyal to fanon #and you do such a great job invalidating canon #thank you for calling out people who enjoy what's actually on the screen #would you like a gold star? #grow tf up #this will for sure piss off certain buddie shippers #but it's just so annoying how territorial of a ship you are #just leave people be ffs #i promise you this is not the end of the world #you are free to ship whatever you want #but have some human decency and stop making people feel bad for not shipping what you want them to ship #bucktommy #evan buckley #tommy kinard #911 abc #hazel speaks

[adhd-merlin]

Look at the beautiful piece I commissioned the talented @irishyuri to draw! Based on the ending of my merwenthur fanfic, because that scene kind of wrote itself and I ended up liking it a lot, actually. So, if you've read and liked it, here's a lovely visual to go with it <3 (If you haven't read it, I won't spoil it. You know, just in case you want to check it out).

#crying over gwen's gorgeous dress #look at them!! my babies #i've just watched some merlin & gwen scenes from ep 1x03 and i'm having feels about them now #they are so precious #me remembering i'm an adult with a job and i can buy myself fanart if i want to: #“guess what? it grows the economy. benefits everybody. hurts nobody” #do check out irishyuri's other art btw it's great!! #especially if you're into merwaine #merwen #mergwen #merwenthur #mergwenthur #merlin fanart #merlin fanfic #merlin fanfiction #merlin #gwen #merlin and gwen #fanart

[potatoesandsunshine]

listen like... in my opinion the pov character should be wrong or contradictory or unreliable sometimes. this is third person limited they're not supposed to have all the information or always be right. the narrator doesn't stop being a character

#if i am doing a good job as an author then the reader can TELL when this is happening #i just think it's so boring to write from one character's perspective if that means flattening out everything that makes them a character #if he tells the audience he's outgrown something but the entire story is about how you're never as far from the past as you think #then the implication is that this is NOT outgrown. anyway you've gotta trust your readers a bit. #got a GREAT comment on a fic where someone noticed this and it made me smile all day. like YES you saw what i was hoping for you to see

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I MESSED UP SO BAD!!! IT'S INVERTED AND I APPLIED SUPER GLUE!!

Should I restart or keep it? (I have enough fabric to do a new one but I'm so stuck on if I should)

i think it looks Just Fine! amazing, even! i genuinely do not see the problem!

#its wonderful and perfect and you're doing a great job dw <3 #im loving seeing the progress - its gonna come out Amazingly i just know it! #rambles from the bog

[zabiume]

ichihime is my otp but i wish kubo did more to show ichigo developing feelings as the manga progressed

that's reasonable, but i can't necessarily claim to understand it, mainly because of how i perceive romance IRL and in fiction as an aroace person.

i'm not even going to pretend to understand romantic love in real life, but in fiction at least, romance has a purpose because everything in fiction is purposeful, no choice is accidental etc etc. mainstream media, in that regard, has usually pushed the idea that romance is the pinnacle of all human relationships, and i guess the reason i liked bleach or found it particularly subversive for the year it was written in was because it notably...didn't do that.

there is romance in bleach, but it is not the highlight or focus, and is only supplementary. adding that to the fact that this is a typically romance-averse genre, i doubt kubo ever intended to display romance in a way we're conventionally used to seeing it—confessions, kisses, hugs, proposals, dates, etc. even with married couples like isshin and masaki/kaien and miyako/byakuya and hisana, we don't really see the actual marriages—just the important "milestones" of the relationship (how they met, the sacrifices they might have made for each other, and even then, these relationships are used to drive the plot forward). i've been reading kubo's answers on klub outside lately, and they're very illuminating in terms of how he approaches romance and/or writing in general. see: the answer where he talks about how he considered including a scene where isshin and masaki (mainly masaki) name ichigo together, but eventually decided against writing it because it would be "too lovey dovey and that's gross" (lol).

the bizarre thing about kubo, though, is that this should technically make him extremely bad at romance in general. and i know people who would and do argue that he is, but i personally enjoyed all the canon romances over the course of the story, and i could feel the passion/tenderness/affection that the couples in the story have for each other, simply because kubo is good at body language and portraying relationships of ALL kinds between the characters. whether it's the love between nakama and nakama, parent and child, student and mentor, you do feel that these characters really feel for each other, so the romances aren't any different (to me).

and this is a pattern with kubo's writing in general! he constantly see-saws between extremely bizarre and bad takes on writing (AKA his boob fixation that shows up repeatedly both in the series and in his answers on klub when asked about female characters) and surprisingly good ones (like him saying writers often complain that female characters are hard to draw/write because they can't understand women's feelings, but women's feelings, like men's feelings, are difficult because feelings are difficult in general. very apt for a series that's all about people dealing with their own complicated feelings and relationships! i know it isn't radical or revolutionary to say women and men both have the same feelings and that writing a Female Character isn't any different from writing a male character, but considering his contemporaries (shonen male mangakas aged 40+), he is practically Enlightened in his response here lmao.

my point is that, reluctant as he is, he doesn't do a bad job with romance as a whole. compared to many ships and marriages in the same genre bracket, i would say ichihime is doing far better. even though it's the notorious girl-has-a-crush-on-the-boy trope, you don't ever feel like orihime gets too punished for it the way a lot of girls do in this genre, just giving and giving and giving but receiving very little in turn. ichigo is generally very attentive to her, they're friends who only get closer over the course of the series, they're...friends (which is funnily a lot more than a lot of other couples get sadly), they have a variety of fluffy/angsty/silly/hurt-comfort-y scenes spread out pretty evenly across all arcs, and ichigo does often return orihime's care for him in his own, magnanimous way.

if we're looking for explicit signs, then i guess we don't really get ichigo spelling out that he has a crush on her. and if that makes ichihime less plausible or likeable to people, that's fine. but to me, ichihime has always been about subtlety, about this tentative, nervous way two people might reach out to each other, hoping the other understands them. ichigo softens up around orihime, and i joke that he's always got one ear on her because of the way he pays attention to even the slightest changes in her mood. i don't want to spend too much time "proving" what ichigo feels or doesn't feel because that's a journey we get to take and interpret as individual readers, but we can't deny that their relationship is very tender because of...ichigo and not orihime. orihime is soft with everyone. ichigo is, usually, 90% of the time, prickly with everyone. so him softening up around her, to me, was one of the many things about their dynamic that "proved" to me they'd be a good romance. just. the way ichigo was around her. also, between plot-important developments (like ichigo and orihime going from struggling to stand on the battlefield together, to fighting, however briefly, as partners; or ichigo learning to lean on the people in his life), and feelings stuff (maybe ichigo reflecting on his romantic feelings for orihime), i would definitely prefer to get the former and interpret the latter. it was important to me to know how exactly ichigo and orihime were going to navigate the fact that ichigo was too overprotective and orihime was too weak, but it wasn't important to me to see them dating or proposing or whatever. it would have clashed rather horribly with the narrative/thematic/genre concerns of the series as a whole, cute as it might have been to see, and i might not have ever been as hard of an ichihime shipper as i am now if the series ended after lust, and not after horn of salvation. the development of their dynamic (and orihime getting the recognition she deserves from him as an equal) was more important to me personally. most of the times, when i'm writing fic, i draw from the actual manga panels of them before they were dating anyway, so i don't think they'd be too different AFTER.

LASTLY, i do want to point out that ichigo catching feelings for orihime later does not at all diminish the weight of those feelings. maybe he had a mild crush in the soul society arc (if that's how you want to interpret it), or maybe he developed one later on during the HM arc/FB arc, but maybe he didn't realize he could have crushes at all until after yhwach was gone and he got to have more than a few weeks of peace at a stretch. this is the same boy who, at 15, thought kissing a classmate was a "big deal" and none of his friends were ever dating either, so it completely makes sense to me that these things weren't on his mind. it doesn't diminish orihime's importance to him, or his feelings for her, it just makes him a typical teenager who is going through...a lot in the already-turbulent stages of growing up. his feelings could just be a thing in the background, simmering, unconscious, not really evident until he grows up and starts thinking about things like who he likes spending time with, who he might want to spend his life with. the important thing is that we get all the build-up laid down (which we did get, considering how long the ichihime subplot is). the resolution is up to us!

that's not to say i'm diminishing your feelings or whatever, but this is just how i see it! i never understand when people say something is romantic "enough" because i think romance is an elusive concept that is defined based on extremely personal criteria for proof. is ichigo's love for orihime "enough"? i don't know! for me, the various moments between ichigo and orihime were enough to solidify their potential romantic relationship in my head. someone else might need to see it to believe it. we're both valid, as long as we're just enjoying ourselves and not being mean to someone else who perceives things differently! :D

#me: *types all this up* #also me: ichihime is the greatest thing ever #all ships are great ships if i ship them etc etc #ichihime #asks #if you're reblogging this please be normal and do NOT start ship disk horse in the tags...b..lease...i beg #i am an adult with a job i don't do that shit

[kleosi-willowy]

#you're doing such a good job and i really am proud of you darling #it's okay to cry #you're doing great #deep breaths #self-love #positive affirmations #positivity #kleosi109 #<3

[odddogs]

"My weird little man, sufferer of allergies to basically everything and chronic yeast dermatitis! When I first rescued him he was nearly bald. (Nails are too long in the first photo, they’ve since had the quicks dremeled down over time) "

what a fascinating itchy little man. that intake photo really didn't do him any favors, it was actually the first pic that i saw and was then shocked that he was so pretty in the other photos. like god damn he's really a handsome little thing, i wish him long life and longer oatmeal baths

#submission #thank you for growing his pretty fur back #you don't have to justify his nails to me i know it's a process you're doing a great job

[ohmybitna]

- I haven’t been able to adjust really well. Sometimes when I’m with him, I don’t know what to say or do. It’s like I’m always worried. I don’t know how to act. - Li Ming, you can just talk to him. Touch him. When he can’t hear, physical touch will make him feel like there’s someone next to him. Other than that, treat him as a non-deaf person.

Moonlight Chicken (2023)

#moonlight chicken #heartliming #geminifourth #gemini norawit #fourth nattawat #if you're thinking that you've seen this set before yes you have #i've posted the edit to this yesterday but i thought i'd try making a gifset for once #these are my first gifs ever #they're not of great quality do not look at them on mobile #but i think i'll experiment with gifmaking in the future #my editing skills are a bit rusty since i haven't properly uploaded anything since enchanté era #but these two gave me inspiration to get back into it #anyways gemini and fourth are doing such a great job i love them #gmmtv #mjtag #*

[mechawolfie]

working on a vash.... love to draw characters doing this: 👍🌟

#smudgy.png #trigun #vash the stampede #he is encouraging you ..! #good job ! you're doing great !! #thinking of making this my new pfp but we'll see when it's done..

[r0semultiverse]

The line reads on these, especially the last one, sounded a lot like Zuko in the show proper.

#the actors are doing a bang up job on this show #yes I'm singing it's praises #this scene was great #also Zuko just looks very much like Zuko should?? #props to the costume designers & such & the actors too #oh god do not look at the comments on 🏴‍☠️ sites #anyway really enjoying it so far aside from some stuff here & there #the focus on stuff being centered was a bit weird especially in the first few eps but maybe I've grown used to it?? idk I'm on 4 as my next #the youtube short & tiktokification of some of the framing was very jarring at first thou #dallas james liu you're doing amazing capturing his character! #mine #op #natla #avatar live action #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #netflix avatar

[madootles]

this still counts as escapist media even though it made me sad 

#steven universe #literally no one asked for this. you're all just getting whatever art I manage to make and this is where I've landed #>:) #never watched it before because I was an insecure loser teenager but now I'm slightly older and don't give a single shit #feels great!!! #it is so fun to draw these characters so many fun shapes #is this gonna lose me followers?? people hate this show right #I do not get all the weird shit I've glimpsed about this show #it's good!!!!!!!!!! #there are so many gays :_) #the diversity of body types and relationships???? AHHH!!!!! !!!! #the character development is so good wtf #and subtle and there's good payoff for all of it #my biggest issue with gravity falls is the portrayal of non white people and this show def does a better job #saying that as a white person so ya know take it with your white people two cents #leaning into cringe media #/s #reverting further and further back in time #:) #although I've never watched this before so it doesn't really count #amethyst #pearl #garnet #connie maheswaran #shep #sadie #art #fan art #ok think I'm done #LGBTQIA

[thisis-elijah]

»barbie is everything. he is just ken.«

the forbidden movie poster magazine cover no one asked for, but everybody needed. ­                  // ­­featuring your favorite duo @exsecrabar & (just) ken

#i am screaming #you're welcome #my job is beach #i'm great at doing stuff #what will it take for her to see the man behind the tan #my photoshop skills today are a straight 69/10 #there goes my street cred #HOW DO I TAG THIS #TRUPPE? #CURSED CONTENT????????????? #editsfakevz #( maximum rizz ) / * 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐞 . #( you put the stars to shame ) / * 𝐥𝐢𝐳 . #DEFO OOC #( attention: psa ) / * 𝐨𝐨𝐜 . #( i am the antichrist to you ) / * 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐡 . #( cinema; a world of imagination ) / * 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 . #( is this what having hobbies feels like ) / * 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 .

[drawbauchery]

Another great panel I wanted to colour (pinkra5)

YOU'RE! FEEDING! ME!

#submission #pinkra5 #danganronpa #now in color #you're doing such a great job on these group shots QAQ #bus au

[natjennie]

ok watching taskmaster mn s2 and david is really pulling out all the classic alex mannerisms. "lets ask the audience- do you want to see a team task? *audience cheers* oh, oh no. it's not a team task. I thought they were gonna say no" and then "you say I can't use pizza dough, can I make pizza dough?" "only if you don't use it." AND "what makes a pizza?" "you- you'll makes the pizza" he's perfect.

#all in the same episode?? #david han you're doing a great job sweetie #what makes a pizza. you'll makes the pizza. #it's very charming! #get taskmaster mn a real tv show now #taskmaster minnesota #taskmaster mn

[deadcrowcalling]

bro thank you guys so much??? i literally started actively posting like not even three weeks ago

i legit can express how much this means to me like i feel special now

#literally i love every single one of you guys who follow me #okay #like you're awesome #even though i don't know a lot of my followers #you're awesome #youre doing a great job #get some rest and drink water #you got this #but like thank you guys so much?? #i get 33 is actually a small number lmao but it feels like a lot #anytime anyone interacts with my posts i'm just like 😁😁😁 #giggling and kicking my feet #THANK YOU #wahoo #im gonna go to sleep now #good night <3