#or like.. any kind of contest

[lordmushroomkat]

So obviously I tried to join Kyri's ( @kyri45 ) coloring art contest. And then just as obviously I finished it late. I still submitted it, of course, but it was due at 9pm and I finished at ~1am sooo... yeah

But I am still quite proud of my finished result; can you tell that I worked really hard on this? Tumblr still eats the image quality for breakfast, unfortunately, but presumably you can see the vision.

[Do you love the color of the Fi? Haha... I'll see myself out]

Anyway this was a really interesting challenge and I totally want to color in the others for fun. I'm getting weirdly good at digital art? It's become a lot more natural to me recently. Practice, I guess! Being good at it only makes me want to do it more so I imagine that will keep happening.

I'm also thinking of printing out the plain linearts for traditional coloring. For fun! I have many art supplies that would be fun to try out with this! Side note I should totally start making my own coloring pages by saving the plain lineart separately. That would be really cool, I would love that.

Actually what if I made a whole coloring book? So long as I signed each piece that would probably be fine to share! And my sister could use them with the kids at school who apparently really like my art? For serious, one afternoon I was helping out with them and drawing and a kid demanded that I let them color it in and I was like "hold up, I would also like to color my art so how about I scan the finished lineart and bring printed versions tomorrow?" and the delayed gratification may have ruined it for them unfortunately but the next day was still fun and I'm glad we did it. So if I just had coloring pages prepped and ready to share that would be extremely convenient. Would also be very fun to make. Maybe I could make some radial mandala things while I was at it. Hmmm. An interesting concept.

[chimerafeathers]

i love that isafrin can be the most straightforwardly romancey, wholesome pairing on a surface level and then you go one (1) level deeper and run into siffrin’s seething guilt and convoluted feelings around touch and intimacy and the extent to which they want or don’t want those things in a specifically romantic way or if he was trying to seek connection and love in any way he could once he knew that Isabeau wanted those things from him in that context, and the combined power trip/self disgust at “manipulating” Isabeau’s desires without his knowledge to make themself feel wanted and in control. and then you keep going and there’s also Isabeau’s own warped self image (still, in spite of all his changes, fearing that he’s someone that would be shameful to know), his “emotionally stable pillar” role and self-taught therapy talk masking his deep fears of real confrontation (struggling loop after loop to confess, not wanting Odile to confront Siffrin about their weird behavior in the sus quest bathroom talk) and how Siffrin’s fear of vulnerability and Isabeau’s fear of Pushing Too Hard allow both of their issues to fester unspoken long after it’s clear that the problems exist.

all this to say. duality of isafrin. makes my heart full and warm and happy to see the sweet, fluffy, silly love and connection between them (mutually romantic or otherwise). and then also. the delicious, delicious complications. gnawing on them like a dog with a beloved bone

[gen-is-gone]

This is perhaps bitchy and uncharitable and certainly almost a year late to really be complaining about but fuck it, we complain anyway.

Yes, I am still unreasonably upset about Sutekh clinging to the side of the TARDIS since The Pyramids of Mars, and upset because I was sort of foolishly hoping we might get some actual characterization fallout from that addressed properly this series, which of course isn't going to happen. And the reason I'm upset about it while it seems fairly few people care all that much is because it's a litmus test for the degree to which any given person sees the TARDIS as a character in her own right. And it's fairly obvious now that rtd doesn't, or at least, only does when it suits him.

Because the thing is, if the TARDIS is a character, is a person, then the manner in which Sutekh uses and usurps her, and the ambiguity in whether it was consensual ('seduction' vs 'coercion') becomes extremely important to the Doctor and the TARDIS's relationship, and the TARDIS's characterization as a whole, both going forward and echoing back. Like bearing in mind that what actually happened is so ambiguous, what Sutekh being 'there the whole time' even fucking means, that trying to pull a point out of it is almost an exercise in futility from the jump, but to borrow some wildly inadequate or perhaps even inappropriate language, it's the difference between whether the TARDIS has been cheating on the Doctor for more than half the length of their entire relationship, or whether she'd been being (sorry) raped that whole time and the Doctor just hadn't noticed.

And yeah, evidently it was too much for me to hope that there would ever be any kind of real emotional or plot-relevant followup about that, because, again, that requires you to see the TARDIS as a character whose choices and emotions and relationships matter beyond their immediate relevance to the plot. And this isn't new by any goddamn means. This isn't actually the usual split between the traditionalist and the avant-garde camps. The TARDIS's sapience and autonomy do not begin with The Doctor's Wife; this is established (more or less) in The Edge of Destruction, the third ever serial in the history of the show, all the way back in nineteen sixty-fucking-four.

And y'know, yes, it would still be a big deal if Sutekh jumped on in Wild Blue Yonder (as would make way more logical sense) rather than Pyramids; the ambiguity of consent that the show either doesn't care or lacks the stomach to address would still be a blow, but it wouldn't have the unutilized capacity to fundamentally alter the relationship between the two longest-running characters in the franchise if it was the span of a season, rather than thousands of years in-universe and nearly five decades in real life. And not to be conspiratorial or assume categorical bad faith on rtd's part, but yeah, it's hard not see that particular unnecessary detail as a petty response to Moffat and Chibnall's own continuity-and-paradigm-altering retcons, and an attempt to get his own shot in.

And it's just. Never gonna get talked about, huh. 'Cause it doesn't actually matter, right? 'Cause it's not like the TARDIS is really a person, right?

[yippee-optimistically]

hi .. 😨 so super recently i read this rly neat fic and have had brainworms ever since. basically ever since mephone left, the final 4 have been left to their own devices in the contesting grounds which r actually pretty far from the hotel. they sort of just have to fend for themselves. these doodles r sort of between fic fanart and a little bit of a concept for my own take on the idea ?? but yeah :P

if i hear any ii s2 e15 spoilers from this post ill delete my blog

[spitblaze]

What happens when you win the debate on who's the most oppressed group in the transgender community. What happens then. What could be accomplished by finding the one group that is the single most downtrodden demographic that suffers at the hands of every other community and putting them up on the 'most oppressed' throne with a 'most oppressed' trophy that could not be accomplished if we listened and paid attention to individual and group needs and worked to address them without the need to determine 'who has it worst', or worse, 'who actually belongs to the most oppressed group'.

[zprite-x]

Halley, do you have any fears coming into the tournament

“The more omnipotent contestants intimidate me slightly for reasons I am not able place. Then there are the ‘immortal’ contestants. I will spare you from my spiel on how pretentious that ordeal is. Then there are the ones that have died before… a violation and destruction to the cycle of life no doubt, it is not my job to deal with them at the moment as it is a friendly competition. However, a part of me is curious… how did they achieve such a fate of revival. Was it magic? Was it will? I need to know.”

Featuring several OCs of other folks in the tourney :]

consider this propaganda to vote for them

Fylass belongs to @george228732

Life belongs to @shippyo

Fecto Flora belongs to @ceoofmetagala

Mapobas belongs to @sacrificecage

Starstruck Waddle Dee belongs to @starflungwaddledee

Valfrey belongs to @gethoce

Gizmo belongs to @kid-of-chaos (metal user)

Sir Uther (he is dead) belongs to @quanblovk

[aquanutart]

When she was a little Kiko, Lulu loved to put on ribbons and appear before the world to show her precious Slorg! Sadly her owner was such a recluse that nobody noticed much, and over the years she forgot performing for others...

Until recently she found all the ribbons she saved over the years and wanted to have fun again!

(She didn't know which ribbon to wear, so she is wearing them all!)

(Lulu won a trophy!!! She is absolutely delighted and is using it to store her ribbons!)

[valentronic]

“The real game will begin momentarily… Stay tuned :)”

Costas Mandylor as The Warden in Death Count(2022)

[kailysander]

I feel like human AU Buer would have Chappell Roan like hair.

He WOULD definitely have big beautiful hair like that but I cannot state this enough: he is a very Italian man with an awful blonde hair job

[mikunology]

DASHING IN AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!!! I need to know how you feel about magical cure love shot bc it sounds so like.. android au miku coded it made me tear up and cry hearing it for the first time

oh boy XD I should've known this would have been asked sooner or later

to answer you, though, yes I have indeed heard the song (after weeks of procrastinating...:'D) and. hoo boy. yeah. it is EXTREMELY VA!Miku-coded :D (the almost insistent "I'll put aside my own pain to save you from yours!!" vibe of some of the lyrics is so utterly her it got a good laugh out of me lmao)

I think I made some sort of joke over Xwitter that the fact VA Miku's character incidentally fits it pretty darn well keeps proving that my AU is actually a magical girl series in disguise XD

[dickvinci]

and i know i could and possibly might just start posting about fics and what not that i'm writing her and set up a kofi and take suggestions and what not but. it's a lot of work.

[depresseddepot]

my mom always mocks me when I make new things but when my dad also likes them she gets REALLY passive aggressive about it lmfao

[br1ghtestlight]

i do actually see suitcase as having schizophrenia not so much bcuz of her hallucinations (bcuz like. obviously) but i think she has negative symptoms too. like the flat speech effect and withdrawl socially from other people and the depression/lack of motivation. if u compare her to her appearances earlier in the season its obvious which like yeah thats bcuz of trauma but i also think she just has schizophrenia and is going through a bad episode towards the end of the season </3 for SOME REASON

[eurovision-facts]

Hi! Love your posts !! Suggestion for a fact (if you take those): Eurocat. The 1990 Eurovision featured an animated purple cat in the postcards (?) named Eurocat and I’ve never seen anyone mention anything about his existence. I only learned about him bc I was researching old shows and saw him mentioned on the Wikipedia page. 10/10

Eurovision Fact #477:

Eurocat was the mascot created for the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb. He appeared at the beginning of each postcard in an animated short that featured a blue background with the name of the country repeating on a diagonal and some cultural representation of the country being showcased that Eurocat would interact with.

For example, on the postcard for Spain, Eurocat blew bubbles that formed the Olympic rings, calling to the fact that Spain would host the Summer Games in two years.

Eurocat was created by Joško Marušić, who is credited for his as a member of the directors of the per-production materials for the contest for animation.

While introducing Belgium, commentator Terry Wogan spoke a bit about the mascot saying, "Eurocat! A tomcat who's slightly neurotic, not too silly, and eminently lovable." He also later said while introducing Luxembourg that he was "trying to ignore this cat," adding "I don't think he's gonna go away though," under his breath.

[Sources]

Yugoslavia, Eurovision.tv.

Eurovision Song Contest 1990 (No commentary), 2:47:06, YouTube.com.

Eurovision mascot 1990 EuroCat compilation, YouTube.com.

Barcelona 1992, Olympics.com.

"I would love to share with you..." @rice-crackerz on Tumblr -- See reblogs and comments (esp by @mirai-desu, @elliemadeit, and @unibrowzz) for their knowledgeable comments :)

[ilovereadingandstuff]

WHY IS ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THIS?!?!

Like, really!! I search for a tags, for memes, BUT NOTHING!!

How is anyone talking about fKING SIMP Hua Cheng who was able to light up THREE THOUSAND lanters for his beloved??

aND MAN, XIE LIAN DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER ASSIST TO THE PARTY!!! It was Wind Master who forced convinced him to go!!

And not a thousand...it was THREE!! As it one thousand wasn't enough!! Not even Jun Wu was able to pull a thousand, bro!!! a little bit of mercy, you fking simp!! I'm joking sweetheart, I love Hua Cheng.

[mass-convergence]

"People need to stop worrying about engagement!"

"Just make art/writing/whatever for you! Stop calling it content!"

Like yeah those things are true. Don't try to win a popularity contest, yadda yadda.

But ... I will make the argument that worrying at least a little bit about some modicum of engagement is normal. No you're not going to go viral and virality is not an indicator of success. A small thing you create that you and your 10 friends (and if you're lucky: a few other random strangers who saw your stuff and was like "Yeah, that shit's cool, I'm going to let them know I think that!") can flail over can be a success. But the whole point of sharing art is having others who can engage with it (and not in a metric-y "god I hope this gets SO MANY clicks" way but in a "god I hope someone enjoyed viewing or reading this as much as I enjoyed creating it!" way)