#its late and i need to sleep

[cryptidmickle]

i love. tears.

[kawareo]

Thinking about Durgetash post tadpol meeting and how that would've gone. I've seen so many cool interpretations, from Gortash getting creepy and possessive, to Durge ending up chained in a bed and trying to strangle him with chains, to Durge feeling nothing and coming to him just for answers, to Gortash feeling nothing because this isn't his Durge anymore and he finds them weak and pathetic. Gortash locking Durge up to either force them to remember of who they are, or to break them completely if they can't, Durge being disgusted and hateful or even scared. And I love all of them, but!

What if it was none of that. What if they botb expect something like it, they're both tense, and ready, and unsure - and then the meeting happens, and just... They're back where they were. Durge doesn't remember, maybe walks a different path, but besides that, is personality wise the same. Gortash drops his personas and serves them their favorite drink and it's the same as it was back then. They sit and can agree to an alliance and it feels so much like nothing changed that Gortash forgets himself and makes an inside joke that Durge doesn't understand but still chuckles at. Durge doesn't remember Gortash's old name or favorite dish but remembers exactly the way his skin feels. Gortash notices that Durge still stims when they're sitting but the stim is now different than it was before.

What if there was nothing more. What if they changed so much and yet not at all. What if they both came ready for a violent altercation but now they're just two sad people starting to go grey who were so lonely and know eachother best and yet not at all anymore. What then.

They still have to go to their own sides in the morning. Nothing will change for them. Nothing ever did change for them, either, and they would've both been better off if they never met up.

[sparklychimecho]

It's late at night, time to post hugs! ＞︿＜ 🌃🌌🌟

[ganondoodle]

haha, oops

(uhm, ancient queen zelda and ganondorf backstory doodles- largely irrelevant to the totk rewrite since it would be purely implied in the environment and in a few lines of diary but it keeps spinning in my head so i had to make some doodles)

(want to make some doodles of it all falling apart too but i need to post these now- the summary is really just that the ancient queen and ganondorf were close friends (to lovers) in their youth until she has to marry a hyrulian knight, after which they barely see each other anymore and their relationship slowly turns sour as time passes (due to various reasons) and after her discovering the ruins the sonau protected speaking of an ancient evil she grows afraid of him and begins to enact a scheme to seal him away-)

(the doodle in the snow there is about the extra idea that ganondorfs first daughter is with her but since shes married to the knight at that point already it would be a scandal- so it is secretly brought to him to raise instead- its a .. kinda classical royal drama but i got attached to the idea bc it adds even more weight to their conflict and its escalation later... also a bit more .. human? like people and their relationships can be complicated and messy, it can make things more interesting .. but this is still all just a concept, havent decided to use it yet)

[ping-ski]

highly recommend reading "Dial-Tone Demon" by @sinisternoodles101 and @keplitz

i love the rotary au designs i HAD to stay up and draw em' sorrh its messy im gonna slep now 👍

[purblzart]

“You were right, No one else knows what it’s like! The isolation? The loneliness? It would be enough to drive anyone mad! And Moon knows you’ve had more than your fair share! But it doesn’t have to be this way! You don’t have to be alone! Just please, listen to me!”

[xxcrumbxx]

Hello hello soo um im still workin on it ,ive been kinda burnt out from it an ik thers no real preshure and im wayyy past valintinse day but heres a wip of those silly lil valintines cards

Also today is my birth day im 22 now so .. Thats a thing. Anyway im planing on making like 3 alternet vershions of eclips 1 with the cannon tipical 2 arm pre decomishion desighn 1 with the 4 armed fannon /cannon design and 1 with the 4 armed ballone world desighn. Probly ganna take a bit but what ever it will be valintine in fuckin may who cares lol

[summer-oil]

also thinking about the way suguru always has an arm around you whether it’s your waist or your back or your neck when you’re watching a movie …….. it gives him sm peace of mind to tug you into him

[teshiee]

CW very very suggestive. freaky. plasma

full drawing(s) below cut be careful I've WARNED YOU!!!

yes the first one is Agent Walker and Agent Smith. yes Jay is on his desk

[premamelody]

lord, give me one more chance

[vanyafresita]

after seeing this post by the artist afkeii on instagram, i got inspired to write a poem... and then i drew something to make it into a zine...

the way i feel about romantic love is... complicated... but i've known i'm on the aromantic spectrum for over a year now ! yippiee !

if you'd like to have a physical copy, feel free to [download the print version here] , and check [how to put it together / make a 8-page zine here]

[dailygriandoodles]

Day 132

Had a vision, toying around with an AU, wanted to animate it :3c

(interpret with whatever ship you want, i had platonic mumbo and platonic scar ships in mind while making this hehe)

[wishfulsketching]

It took me this long to see Re-Animator (1 and 2)...! I've known about these movies for ages but for some reason never watched them. I was an idiot. A FOOL!! UNCIVILIZED GARBAGE

These movies are made for me. Horror comedy? Gimme!! Fun gore made with practical effects? Gimme! Herbert West, the absolute mess of a man?? GIMME!!!

We had a blast watching. I am a changed person. I will always love a freaky little scientist who wants to create life and Herbert is just that! And! He has glasses. (important) This man lives for his work and really really wants Dan to share his joy. Dan has nothing going on between his ears, bless him. No spine at all. He wants to be a freaky little scientist but then realizes it might be bad and chickens out....only to be dragged back in by Herbert.

Herbert did everything wrong and I love it

I'm not kidding, this movies has changed my top three movie list :

Re-Animator Hot Fuzz Peking Opera Blues.

One day, I will watch movies that are made after 2020 (aka new movies). One day.....

[solariex]

Animation Vs Addiction: how this could go REALLY well, or REALLY horribly

a ramble on the upcoming episode

PLEASE NOTE: i am not an expert on addictions, nor storytelling or writing, these are just my thoughts! you are free to your own opinion, take what you want, leave what you don't. also note, im writing this at midnight, excuse any typos or anything of the like.

so, to put it bluntly, i feel as if everyone is worried for how this episode is going to go, and that concern is rightfully valid !! topics like this, if not handled with the care they ensue, can go really horribly, and considering a majority of Alan's youtube fanbase is primarily children, this could leave either a positive or bad impression to them.

with things like these, there's the fine balance of "informative" and entertainment. arguably, steering too much one way or another could result in this not doing too well, in terms of the takeaway. id even like to argue that this steering too much towards informative could even be bad. lets start with that first.

WHY IS LEANING MORE ONE WAY THAN THE OTHER BAD?:

TOO ENTERTAINING: this one is the more "obvious" of how this could be bad, if the video is more in favor of being entertaining, the main takeaway wont be anything actually sustainable, blue's addiction will continue to be a running gag, and the younger audience will see it as a silly thing. this is one of the worst case scenarios

TOO IMFORMATIVE: now, you may be wondering, "why is being too informative bad ??", and it all boils down to what the audience's takeaway will be, after the video. being informative ISNT bad, but with how alan's channel is set up thus far, with storytelling animations, if its, lets say just facts on a screen, the information will be useful !! but you'll leave the video just thinking "wow, i just know facts". you won't leave with anything to make you think, or any actual connection, because the information was handed to you on a silver platter, you wont reflect on an actual story of why addiction is bad, to give you that perspective to think about. you'd just have the top 10 reasons you see when you google "why is addiction harmful??" our brains learn by doing, and experiences, even others, even in storytelling, make you empathize and connect with the character, and arguably, can be more effective than being told facts straight up. this is a reason why myths and fairytales exist, to teach a lesson without spoon feeding it.

SO, IF TOO ENTERTAINING, AND TOO INFORMATIVE IS BAD, WHATS THE BALANCE ??:

like i mentioned near the end of "too informative", the animation, for it to work well, needs to give a perspective, not facts

perspective will make the audience THINK, therefore learn, "oh, THIS is bad", showing rather than telling will help the audience make their own conclusions instead of spoon feeding it to them, which is what most of alan's channel has done with storytelling anyways.

arguably, green's influencer arc can be a decent example of this

it didn't tell you, "be careful of social media addiction" rather it showed the slow progression of green, being influenced, and how it slowly tore him apart from his friends and eventually started messing with his own wellbeing and how he ended up isolating himself, in order to prioritize content

i wouldn't say it perfectly fits the balance between informative & educational, as of how it ended with the third episode, but it definitely struck close in my opinion, at least for the second episode.

and thus, your takeaway from that is, "wow, that sucks for green, this is because he got addicted to social media !!" rather than just being told that. you got to learn alongside green as to the actual effects that can have.

ASIDE FROM THAT, WHAT ARE OTHER CONCERNS ABOUT HOW THIS COULD BE HANDLED ??

my other main concern is how its been treated in the past with the jokes, and how that might affect this upcoming video. can they turn around and turn it into a serious thing? absolutely that's possible, and there's no telling that netherwarts will even be involved in this video, it could be something entirely different, as this community post explains, blue is arguably prone to addiction in other ways than just netherwart, so it wouldn't be completely unordinary if it wasn't involved here.

HOWEVER, in my personal opinion, netherwarts or not, i do feel like however this video may go, if it resolves with blue overcoming addiction (as it most likely will), i do have the concern that blue would have this arc, and then the channel would go right back to including the netherwart addiction gag as a joke, as if the video didn't happen. does this mean i think blue shouldn't touch netherwarts after this? no, but i do feel as if there should be SOME difference in their intake of them after this, or else its just an arc for blue's character, that repeats as if it didn't happen, just for gags.

SO, HOW COULD THIS GO WELL, AFTER EXPLAINING ALL THE "WHAT-IFS" ??

if done right, this video could go well, and spread awareness, alongside expanding on blue's character. i think its great that Alan and his team are willing to tackle topics like this, and they have shown that they're able to do so, similar to green's influencer arc. i am hesitant on how it will be handled, but not in a way as to where i doubt the team's ability to portray this, moreso just due to how delicate a topic like this can be

but, overall, if they balance entertainment & education, and really implement this into blue's character instead of returning to a full force gag afterwards, i feel like it could be a good video :)) once again, these are my thoughts, my opinions, your free to your own & free to disagree with my points and ideas take what you want from this, leave what you dont !! :))

[ping-ski]

eclipse and y/n are finally done!! (you can find EBY sun & moon here)

these refs aren't that much different from the old ones aside from small changes :3

(old) EBY DCA ref

(old) Y/N ref

[iolesbookshelf]

*sees a girl with heavy eyeliner*

My brain: oooh marlene mckinnon core

*sees a Queen/Bowie vinyl*

My brain: Sirius Black vibes!!!

*sees strawberry cupcakes*

My brain: so Lily Evans coded!!

*sees a rat*

My brain: PETER?????