#I'm also open to questions

[gethound-ed]

Starter call!

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[mocha-illustrates]

in preparation for artfight, I've been working on refs for my DCA oc.

this is Cosmo,

a former DCA, who turned to a life of petty thievery after leaving his plex to live on the streets. He's snarky, impulsive, and a bit of an idiot. He steals as he wants, whether or not he wants it, and his pockets are filled with useless trinkets: old soda tabs, dried-up markers, friendship bracelets, novelty socks -- things he'll probably never need. And as much as he pretends not to care, he's actually very sentimental (though he'd never admit it).

i also made him a spotify playlist cos i'm crazy.

[tiniest-hands-in-all-the-land]

POV: You're the Warrior of Light, and you've just retired to your room in the Pendants after a long day of sin eater slaying. You open the door to find Emet-Selch laying like this on YOUR bed, reading YOUR diary, eating YOUR sandwiches! WDYD?

[azurityarts]

Experimenting more with the cat crew's designs

[teddyonaboat]

"felicia's kids look like vander/silco" "felicia cheated with vander" "-no, felica cheated with silco"

WRONG

vander and silco are a couple and had threesomes with felicia

[suntails]

[sharing/rb appreciated 💛]

my silver artbook is FINISHED and will open for preorders on 8/31 at 12pm EST!! it's been almost 3 months of work and i'm so excited to finally be able to share all the art i've worked on, PLUS a small bonus charm!

if u know silver fans,,, tell them

[lenodrysalad]

"Eddie said he's straight! Buck said Eddie was straight! Buck said he's not in love with his best friend! They shut down Buddie in the show it isn't happening ya'll are delusional! Queerbait! Queerbait! Blah blah blah"

I feel like I'm going insane. I'm sure we're all tired of people shouting "media literacy" every five seconds, but like... Yeah, develop some media literacy, please.

I'm saying this as someone who doesn't usually like romance, despite being subjected to it in basically every piece of media. As someone who doesn't generally look for love stories. As someone who loved Buddie but didn't consider any serious possibility of it becoming canon before season 7/8, who refused to believe Buddie was truly happening until I couldn't deny it anymore: this episode is loud.

Please understand how narrative arcs work. How character arcs work. How character development works. How serial broadcast television works. Understand how writing works. Consider context; take the whole episode, the whole season, and the whole series into account instead of treating things like they exist in isolation.

I'm too tired to go through the step-by-step details of the episode to prove why these, "they said it on screen, therefore..." takes are shortsighted and ignorant; plenty of people have done that already.

But that episode, even if we do take it in isolation, is textbook. Do people really take everything characters say at face value? Do people not watch other character's reactions? Listen to what else is being said? Watch what is being shown? Consider the implications? Themes? Narrative devices?

Consider that maybe, just maybe, characters can be unreliable narrators, or believe something to be true only for that belief to change later. These things don't happen in one episode. There's such a thing as set-up, foreshadowing, the starting point of a plot. 911 is a serial drama, therefore it is going to have A) long-form story and character arcs, and B) drama.

Characters are not going to move in straight lines, or talk in therapy speak, or solve every problem in an hour. They are not always going to be right, or self-aware, or truthful, or rational. Direct dialogue does not equate to honest dialogue.

Also, saying, "well in real life, people do this, I do that, their feelings would be this, yadda yadda yadda" means nothing. Your experiences are not universal, and more importantly, this is a work of fiction. Realism is whatever the story says it is; it's going to do whatever creates the most dramatic, interesting, developmentally beneficial, or emotionally satisfying story. Whether you like that story or not is irrelevant to the fact that stories are not going to cater to all your expectations or real-world experiences.

To people pointing to Tim or the actor's interviews as "proof" they're shutting down Buddie: again, please understand how broadcast television works. They are not going to tell us everything that's going to happen before it happens. They are going to play the neutral zone, the "wait and see," the "will they/won't they." They are going to lie. That is television production 101. You can compare what they've said in the past with canon and list all the contradictions, misdirection, and twists you didn't see coming because they didn't spoil it for you. Watch the show. That is the canon.

They're also not catering to fandom--people they already know are devoted to the show, familiar with Buddie, and consistently tuning in. They're introducing the idea of Buddie to the general audience, people who likely haven't considered the possibility before. The GA has to see that Buddie is an option, so the show needs to manifest it as if it's a brand new concept. This episode pulled the pin on that grenade in a very obvious way; the idea that Buck could be in love with Eddie and that Eddie could not be straight has been planted. The next seed will be Eddie's feelings. Now the show needs to water it and let it grow.

One last thing. Been seeing a fair amount of hand-wringing and condescension over people interpreting this episode differently. As if this is some sort of "gotcha" for bad writing, baiting, or people being stupid. Listen, genuine complaints about this show's writing aside, different interpretations or inferences are completely normal. This isn't unique. That is how people interact with stories, through personal biases, experiences, emotions, and expectations. That isn't inherently a bad thing. It's totally fine to have your own views; media is all about interpretation.

However, it is also true that just because you have an interpretation, that doesn't make it true. Not all interpretations are equal in their validity, evidence, or warrants. The show has an intention, it has a story in mind. If you don't see it, sure, that could be a failure of the writing, but it could also very well be a failure of your analysis, especially when the show hasn't finished telling the story. Looking at one thing in isolation and forming your whole conclusion based around that makes for poor critique.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see who's right.

[varpusvaras]

Idk I was thinking about Jason and Mia and once again writing a Seeing Red AU and I was mulling over it and just decided to say fuck it, let's do aliens or something. Just because it would be incredibly funny to have the whole set-up and them going at each other and then just aliens. And now it's them having to go at the aliens together instead, all the while Jason is keeping his lecture monologue going and Mia is yelling at him to shut the fuck up already. They end up being frighteningly effective teamed up and figuring out how to stab or shoot at something even better.

Anyway every time Jason says something during his monologue that exposes something about himself Mia (while shooting at aliens) is just like

[polillamielera]

Meet Tallulah 𖹭

although her backstory is still mostly in progress, one of the many ideas me n' my good friend and sibling came up with was: she's a sort of "backup" created to counter many problems Urbanshade had with the EXR-Ps (oxygen, mobility, reflexes, etc...) but most importantly, Sebastian; she was meant to retrieve the Crystal but let's just say there's a LOT more problems with that

that's about as much as i have on her lore. it might change later, depending on how i want this to go, but we love Tallulah nonetheless

anyways, i have her DNA list ready along with my reasoning for implementing such features:

Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx): Maneuverability, cold resistance, growth rate

Salmon Shark (Lamna diptoris): Endothermy, adaptability, availability

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus griseus): Gills, prehistoric/primitive genes, a sort of "blueprint"

Velvet Belly Lantern Shark (Etmopterus spinax): T-Cells to eliminate toxic metals, photophores, depth adaptation

Glacier Lanternfish (Benthosema glaciale): Low-light vision, photophores, availability, depth adaptation

her design is NOT finished btw, she's still a work in progress :]

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Broke (2016): BBC Sherlock is a phenomenal piece of media and anything that seems like a flaw just hasn't been fully explored yet

Woke (2020): BBC Sherlock is an incredibly flawed series run by an egotistical writer, it never deserved the hype and is actively bad on so many fronts (especially representation)

Bespoke (2024): BBC Sherlock is flawed and bogged down by increasingly poor writing, which many fans refused to see while it was airing, leading to hugely misplaced expectations (particularly for the final series), AND it has the seeds of some compelling characterizations and portrayals, some genuinely solid performances, and touches--albeit imperfectly--on complexities that are still being discussed today (particularly as it relates to the relationship between Sherlock and John). The huge cultural impact of the show has created a massive pendulum effect in its public perception, leading to most people today remembering a caricature of the show (whether positive or negative) rather than appreciating its nuanced merits and failings...that being said Season 4 sucked

[sonnshine441]

No offense but why u fw waycest like genuinely what do u tell yourself that makes u think its justified to ship two people who are related by blood

This is judgey but also I do really want to understand how your mind works

Well, to be honest, I ship waycest because they're my top two favorite of the band members. In all fandoms I'm in, most of the time I ship my two favs together. And I ship all of the mcr members together.

I also got introduced to mcr through waycest fanart, not that I knew they were related at the time, of course. I was like "Waow these ocs look cool."

But the biggest part of it, I suppose, is that I don't really get how sibling incest, especially between people who can't make kids together, is that big of a deal. Maybe that's just me being an only child showing, but I just don't get it? Like the power dynamics between a parent and a child make it realistically impossible to have a consensual relationship, but those power dynamics don't really show up in this scenario, especially considering them as adults.

Boss/employee relationships aren't seen by the majority of people as bad in fiction, even though if the employee wanted to break up, they could risk getting fired for "unrelated" reasons. Imo that's a much larger power dynamic than between two siblings. And yet no one deems those problematic, even though irl, you're often banned from dating in the workplace unless you were beforehand (though this seems to be mostly an american practice)

Also Waycest shippers haven't called me a slur and told me to kill myself.

TLDR: I'm an only child and I don't understand why it's such a big deal because Mikey and Gerard are both adults who can't get eachother pregnant. I don't feel the need to justify it to myself, I just ship it because I like it.

[voidedmuffin]

We have those here too! I did a quick run down and have a section for sourcemates over here [link]

i miss quotev meetings accounts where the hell else am i supposed to go to find sourcemates and must i suffer

[halcyon-deluxe]

what do you value most in someone?

At *least* a 2x resistance to ground type attacks. My last partner died due to a 4x weakness to earthquake and it gave me SUCH an ick :/ likeeeee I haaaaate it when my partner gets one-shot by earthquake spammers. its such a turn off.

[blondeaxolotl]

Want to say I'm very sorry to people who send me asks and I don't end up answering them!! I promise you I do see them, it's just that I get new asks almost everyday so it's very hard to keep track of and answer them before it gets overwhelming.

Not to mention for some asks they take time because I either want to respond with a drawing, or a long yap (sometimes both even), or it even might just take me a while to think of how to answer them. If I could, I'd answer all of them at once, but sadly I'm one person who gets busy every now and then. I promise you I love all the asks you guys send me, I love reading them, whether they be just simple questions or full on rambles about things you guys wanted to share with me, I love them all.

But yeah- I'm very sorry for not answering your ask if you sent one, I swear I do plan to, it just might take a while for me to do so. But I pinkie promise that I do appreciate it a whole lot, and I thank you for taking your time in sending one, lots of love!! 💜

[jewishvitya]

One thing about being disabled and not being able to go out much or do much is that I feel like I'm boring now.

This has been almost all of my adult life, so the "before" for me is mostly teenage experiences and a couple of years of working as a cashier, but I used to do so much. I had days full of people and experiences, always something from my life to talk about in a back and forth hearing and relating to other people in my life, and now it's just... nothing. I rest. I go to therapy. I see my social workers and my care team and they help me with things. But it doesn't feel. Enriching? I'm not sure how to word it. And that's not the point of rehabilitation, but it's still. Something. That I'm struggling with.

I'm so happy to hear how my favorite people spent their time at work or going out with friends and what I have in return is "yeah, so I'm still not seeing much process in being able to feed myself. Nothing changed really."

The most exciting news I had in a while is that I found wet food my picky cat is willing to eat. Now I'm not even sure it's true, he started leaving it.

Many parents as primary caretakers lose themselves to housework and taking care of children. I didn't. The first couple of years, before my situation started deteriorating, I would go anywhere with my kids. Kept seeing the same friends. Engaging in all my hobbies. The kids were always well behaved and loved my friends too, it wasn't really an issue. So that didn't happen. Instead I lost myself to nothing.

[solaestial]

I'm glad you're evil too - Pinocchio-P