#easily obtainable

[easypeasylindyvesey]

vinny shorty

[somepsychopomp]

I keep forgetting to stop gatekeeping this resource but if you're in a Greek mythology fandom and you want one verified source to help you fact check or better understand Greek stories/culture, please please please use theoi.com

It's kinda visually outdated looking but it's an enormous database of myths sorted by relevant deity, with an extensive photo collection of ancient artwork so you can better see how gods/heroes were visually represented.

They also have a digital library sorted by time period of Greek/Latin literature, including free translated versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.

I learned about theoi in my first year of college- it came highly recommended to me by my classics & ancient mediterranean professor. It's a vetted, reliable resource!

[absentlyabbie]

everyone put your hands together tonight for some of the great heroes of the chronic pain community:

ibuprofen/acetaminophen/naproxen

heating pad

cbd

pain relief creams

"boil me like one of your french lobsters" hothot showers

ice

[iersei]

the boop-pocalypse is satisfying my two base urges: tell my friends i love them and watch number go up

[hetheymerrill]

"unfortunately there is something you can do about the problem being described we just can't talk about it publicly on twitter" except I'm responding to a thread about producing your own food being prohibitively expensive.

[solomiracle]

really don't get people trying to play devil's advocate or straight up defend the dates costing 30 USD. talking about how solmare has to pay so many people (VAs, artists, editors, etc) to make everything work and... yeah? we know? do you think people only criticize something when they're uninformed about it?? what a lukewarm defense...

[annihilatius]

I find it funny how people on Tumblr call this app "the autism website" (or similar things) when in reality everyone here still believes not showering often, having bad hygiene, not leaving the house/using the internet more often than you leave the house, not socializing with others or not knowing how to socialize with others without becoming extremely stressed, being triggered by extremely specific or strange things most people wouldn't care about, not being fully independent (still living with your parents as an adult or not having a drivers license), not having friends, and that not having a job makes your opinions, your thoughts, and your entire personhood less valuable compared to the "better, smarter" people that don't do those things. No actually this is the ableism website dipshit.

[etrosgate]

it's so nuts that most modern danganronpa fans likely don't even know about dr zero, when back in the day everyone had either read it or knew that they should

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

I seek knowledge, I must know, what show is your white whale?

Fame L.A. It ran for 22 episodes back in 1997/98, was never released for home viewing and now is practically lost media bar a few clips online. I have spent many an hour searching the depths of the internet for it, nada. There are traces of where it once was hosted, but all those links are now completely defunct.

My only hope now is that someone recorded it on vhs back when it was broadcast and will eventually rip it and put it in the VHS vault on the internet archive or something (or, I work out how to get a hold of stuff from the Broadcast Archive in the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm because they have the full run of it, but it's not publicly available, you have to have a research reason as to why you want to view it, and then you can only view it on their equipment in the library to boot!)

[iniziare]

Kafka crossed my thoughts tonight at random, and so I wanted to re-post a little something here, with some minor edits thrown in. I just think it's often overlooked how... many human elements they've tied into her. A hungering sense of curiosity, the inherent sense of longing that clings to her being like a fever, and how she's caught (very humanly so) between the belief of we are tied to fate and thus it shall be, and the insistence on choice and how the Trailblazer seems to be inherently representative of its existence. And then I think of what being 'human' entails, and one could argue that it represents the experience of life, before one's end by the hand of destiny/fate. Is that... why she's so enthralled by all these human concepts? Because she's so firmly tied to fate? Yes, I still linger in the thought that she bears strong connections to fate, there are too many hints at the Moirai to me to ignore. But it's not even that, it's her Spirit Whisper, it's that her wanted poster made by the Devils that she used to hunt on her home of Pteruges-V, had to describe the ability and what it does— which tells ms that it's not native to there. But— I'm getting sidetracked, this isn't about any kind of potential nature that is far from humanity, it's about the evidence, even if she may turn out not to be inherently human at some point in the future of HSR, that she is drawn to, portrays and in some form, lives, very human concepts. And one of the ways I tried to make that clear before, was by talking about her in relation to her violin— or more specifically: the presence of its absence, the latter being which I will always firmly believe to be the eternal overarching narrative of Kafka's character. Any way, onto the babble:

I'll forever remember looking into the notes of someone's playthrough of HSR's first scenes, which is just something I like to do because you never know what kind of little treasures you might find. And there was a violinist tucked away in there, who I'd also seen in the notes of her main trailer, commenting on the intense accuracy of the movement of her fingers. And then on top of that, how they've usually been let down by the details when other games have tried to simulate it as well, but it was more so done to iterate how intentional this must've been for Hoyo to have focused on its accuracy so much.

So in that sense, I think it's close to a given that she knows how to play it, similarly to how I believe that she is someone who also plays or has played the piano. Where I differ however, is that I don't believe that she actually owns a violin at present, nor is she seeking to obtain one by her own means. Moreover, what and where I think the 'mimicking' comes from, actually, is from her memories and the emotional attachment that she once held for these instruments in them. Kafka's character, to me, revolves around and thrives within two concepts, that of intimate longing and that of loss (the pearl earring, the broken winged butterfly pin, and Blade's character story to name some) which plays intricately into the former. Now for me, her connection to the violin and the piano (primarily the former) play wonderfully into representing both of these, and thus can be drawn into these prevalent topics across the board for her incredibly easily. In simple terms, I think that there is a sense of longing to play them. Now, I feel confident in noting that Kafka does not come across as one who, if she had access to (in this case) a violin of her own, that she would crave to play it so intensely all the time, that when drawn from it for even the briefest of time, that she would enact the part of playing one during her separation from it. No, I think she's actively choosing not to obtain one, for one reason or another. Perhaps it's a memory that plays into the loss that her character seems to stray towards, or perhaps it's a lack of something else; I don't quite yet dare say. But there's something oddly wistful about it, if you look past the surface. All in all, I think her little moments of mimicking and humming, makes for an incredibly interesting "little" tidbit to me. It reminds me of something I wrote in an older post last year:

(...) And yet, and yet, I actively think if she were to find herself in a hotel room, even on her own, and there would be a piano right there— I can see her fingers tracing over the keys so very clearly, even as if she were touching the keys to play and yet she would never press down.

I still stand by this to this day. It's the ache to do something again, and yet for one reason or another, you can't bring yourself to do it. Whether it feels wrong, or there's something missing, something or someone; it doesn't matter, it's a longing of some kind. It really is the overarching topic and/or concept that I see in her character, and the fact that she's tied to such an inherently fragile instrument, only further solidifies it in my brain. But in that, I also feel a deep sense of melancholy when I think of her and that violin. And it plays into all of this, of course, but also the fact that I genuinely see no evidence in canon at present that tells me that she has one, and we know she could obtain one if she so wanted to,but she doesn't. Which tells me, on some level, that she doesn't want one. Which then has me entertain the concept of... if one were gifted to her, would that be different? Would that offer the person who gifted it to her a glimpse that no one else could ever get? The answer is a very likely yes, but I can't see it being gifted by most by any means; it'd need to be by someone who could come to grasp the significance of one, put in the appropriate research, who would know where to go, who to speak to, where to find the significance. And that, isn't most people.

[kawarikisaki]

The desire to make physical media art has continued.

So here's a few more of these.

Should this have been several posts? Maybe. But maybe there will be more.

across these all there's gel pens, acrylic paint, markers, and water colour paint.

[all-i-do-is-try1]

Being disabled and depending on your toxic abusive family is hell

[styrofoamdoor]

can tab chainmail

[kazumahashimoto]

and now, the jaxon compilation

[yupuffin]

Oh boo, Crunchyroll only has the Naruto anime subbed (and of course I didn't keep my Naruto DVDs when I moved)

Thankfully Keith's voice is practically burned into my brain after obsessively rewatching the same episodes dozens of times

One of these days I'll learn how to properly pull a... shoot I forgot the antagonist's name in Brant's story quest. But. Yeah. How to do that! 🏴‍☠️

[purrlstar]

something i've never seen anyone talk about before is how much sustained effort you have to put in to keep your eyes/vision focused when drawing... especially on a screen tablet? is this just a me issue do I need to get my eyes checked?