#re-iteration

[artcalledtattoo]

Those Guys (GuiseOfGals) You have those guys Grown from 70’s - 80’s - 90’s Their mad, upset in frustration They had thoughts within the ahead I pump pump pump pumped My passions Thinking of her And she was Thinking of the fairer And not me Those guise of gals Find out later into their own Their struck, confounded strikes They can’t reset things in the head Those guise of gals Wisdom tells all later on Those guys, I believed she was pretty She loved her never saw me I pump pump pump pumped My passions Thinking of her And she was Thinking of the fairer And not me I pump pump pump pumped My passions Thinking of her And she was Thinking of the fairer And not me Those guise of gals Grown find wisdom From later tells Frustration strikes pretty Ahead head me I pump pump pump pumped My passions Thinking of her And she was Thinking of the fairer And not me I pump pump pump pumped My passions Thinking of her And she was Thinking of the fairer And not me Slandered down Guise of gals May we play a new game?

[chromakit]

Rain world spoilers ahead!

Big fan of Five Pebbles. I've been replaying the game with a friend who's playing it for the first time, which is so awesome being able to show them my favourite game and all its little secrets.

I had to use my favourite pearl dialogue in something EVENTUALLY. This conversation is just so cool to me, I love the way Pebbles' and Suns' relationship is shown here, and Pebbles' struggle with his own inability to ascend. This game fills me with dread, I love it.

I hope you like it! ｡ﾟ･ (>﹏<) ･ﾟ｡

[lizzyelmsworths]

ELSBETH'S 2K CELEBRATION ↳ 🩶 for @tabithatate

[apocryphics]

this dream billionaires have of draining this planet and going elsewhere is nothing but pure delusion and ignorance. this world is all we have. this earth and no other. to go elsewhere may be possible but we would no longer be us. and this is so connected to how we have doubled our world with the internet & how our brains have convinced ourselves that the physical, the real, the here, the now, is all replicable and disposable. the precise value of the here and the now, the incarnated present, is what makes life valuable. we cannot duplicate life. this illusion that we will be able to replace something will be our end. life is precious because it ends. you are precious because no one else is you. nothing is replaceable, least of all this earth. how precious it all is and how arrogant we are to think it easy to leave this all behind. as joyce said the longest way round is the shortest way home. when they realize this they will not have a home to return to and that is their fate.

[unhetalia]

Dysfunctional FACE family headcanon based on this post.

The truth is, America is both England and France's favourite, especially after the American Revolution.

Before the American Revolution, Arthur loved Alfred, but he didn't see him as particularly valuable. After the Revolution, though, it becomes complicated, but Arthur's anger and pain means he's always aware of Alfred. Alfred is the one Arthur lost, and his emotions about Alfred are magnified in ways it never will be about anyone else. Did Arthur love Alfred the most before Alfred left him? It's hard to say, but he certainly did after Alfred left.

Francis has always liked Alfred, and he was pretty equal in his affections for both him and Matthew when they were children - though of course, he didn't see Alfred as much as Matthew. For a long time Matthew took comfort in knowing he was Francis' in a way Alfred wasn't, even though it made him feel guilty feeling that way. After the American Revolution, both of the equal affection and that special relationship are taken away from Matthew. Francis and Alfred bond - they bond over their anger at Arthur, and they bond over ideas that seem ludicrous to everyone else. Francis gifts Alfred the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of that bond, and both Arthur and Matthew have it shoved in their faces constantly. In the modern era, Francis does cooking lessons with Alfred ("in order to make sure Angleterre's terrible cooking does not infect him!") despite the fact Alfred's been an amazing cook for over a hundred years, and Alfred accompanies Francis on his shopping trips in New York even if he never buys anything.

The way Alfred sees it, of course, is that Matthew is Arthur's obedient, and therefore favoured child. Despite the strength of Arthur's feelings for him, Alfred never felt it when he was actually growing up with Arthur, and certainly not after he'd left. Matthew got to see how deeply Arthur missed and loved Alfred - Alfred didn't. And no matter what his relationship is with Francis, Alfred always thinks of the fact that Francis raised Matthew, not him. Alfred envies Matthew's place in the family, even if he doesn't regret gaining his independence. (Then there's the fact that Matthew actually tends to make friends easier than Alfred, who struggles with social cues and who tends to be A Lot for some people, a fact that Alfred is very aware of. There's a lot Alfred envies about his brother.)

Meanwhile Matthew thinks, why am I never anyone's favourite? Anyone's ride of die? He has a good relationship with Arthur and Francis but he's never going to be their favourite. And even though Alfred's not part of the commonwealth, maybe Matthew remembers the first time Australia and New Zealand met his brother, their awe at seeing this figure of legend for the first time. He's never going to be impressive in that way. (Matthew doesn't notice how much more friends he has than Alfred, only that Alfred's few friends are all his best friends, while he feels like he's surrounded by people but is unable to confide in anyone.)

[kalivasquezart]

Art attack on @nitromethane featuring their OC, Emanation of Energy. Marbles gets a little gift from a kind iterator 🎁

[vixscribs]

Not immune to lesbians

[ressioo]

They're finally here!! Suns redesign

Absolute pain in my ass but i love them. Their old crusty ref can now be thrown in the trash where it belongs

They are so very fancy. And also an asshole. 9 whole feet of bitch, that's what they are <3

[melodicwriter]

I think people really underestimate how grueling creative projects can be. “It should always be fun” well… no nothing is fun 24/7. You’re giving people the impression that if they’re not having fun creating always, there’s something wrong with them or the project.

So just a reminder that writing, especially if there’s a dedicated projected you’re working on all of the time, can feel tiresome and exhausting. Yes! There are fun moments for sure. But to act like it’s going to be fun all of the time is unrealistic. You’ll never finish a project if you’re only working on it when you’re having fun. Oftentimes it’s about sitting at that keyboard and typing even when you don’t feel like it. Even if you only add 20 words to your word count. What matters is that you don’t give up.

Anyways I just wanted to give some validation for the fellow Tired writers out there. Sometimes writing doesn’t feel fun because of our own life circumstances. Maybe we didn’t sleep enough last night. Maybe we’re at a tricky part in the narrative. Maybe a plot hole developed. It’s perfectly normal to experience ebbs and flows when it comes to your writing enjoyment. Writing, like any other outlet, has its challenges. Tons of things can make writing not feel fun. Especially if you’re stuck on a certain part or battling imposter syndrome.

It’s also perfectly normal that your excitement is different the day you started vs a year out. It’s likely lost its allure because you’ve worked at it so tirelessly and gotten used to the idea vs when it was a novelty. This is also normal, and often why writers struggle when they get shiny new ideas to have. The key is to stick to it regardless of fleeting feelings or distractions that arise. I believe in you. You can do it.

[moongothic]

People often bring up the omake No Respect Time to use as Crocodad Propaganda, and y'know, I think there might be just a smidge more the omake can provide to Crocodad than what people have already discussed in the past

Like everyone's seen the comparisons between Crocodile and the anime screencaps of Don Luffyone, we all know how the two look so similar etc etc. But honestly, the resemblance is even more obvious (and hilarious) when you look at the OG manga version (Sidenote but Don Luffyone is the only one who smokes cigars in the omake... Everyone else has plain ol' cigarettes... That sure was a decision there Oda)

And yeah, you might be thinking I picked this mangacap of Crocodile in particular because the resemblance is the most obvious here and I have My Crocodad Agenda to push etc etc. But I will have you know that the original omake was from Log Book 5, which was published February 28th 2006. Meanwhile that Crocodile is from the cover of chapter 398, published February 6th 2006. So these were drawn by Oda around the same time. I didn't just cherry pick this cover page because it's convenient for my evil agenda, if these were drawn around the same time then the likelihood the resemblance is intentional does legitimately go up a little. (Also since they're both drawn by Oda instead of random animators, again, it's a bit less coincidental and could be a bit more intentional)

But as I said, I think there might be more to the omake than that.

In the past people have also pointed out and joked how a mere few months before Oda revealed Dragon was Luffy's father to us in the story (post-Enies Lobby), in the Monster Time-omake Luffy was depicted as a dragon.

Needless to say, people believe this was intentional foreshadowing (/trolling) to the Dragon reveal by Oda-- if not it'd be one hell of a coincidence at the very least.

The reason I'm bringing that up is that if people think it's safe to assume Oda was hinting at Luffy's heritage in one omake by making him a dragon like his father, then why couldn't Oda do the same in another omake (by making Luffy a mafia boss who smokes cigars like his father)? Keep in mind that Monster Time was published in May 2006 (in Log Book 7), just three months after No Respect Time. So again, these are from the same era. To me, that just makes the resemblance between Don Luffyone and Crocodile seem even less coincidental

Oh, but there's one more omake I want to bring up.

So people do often bring up Nerd!Luffy's appearance in One Piece Gakuen spin-off manga, pointing out how much he looks quite a lot like the Theoretical Child Oda gave to Crocodile in that one SBS. Yeah. So. 'Bout that.

There was this one omake called Red Hair of Class 3-Sea Time, in which Luffy was a loser ass nerd. And man, that resemblance

Like it's one thing when a spin-off manga drawn by a different artist does A Thing. It's another when Oda himself does it

[gyxtar0luvs]

I finally made refs of the lads in my style‼️‼️

Yahooo ‼️💥💥‼️🎉‼️🎉‼️🎉‼️🎉💥‼️🎉‼️

Edit; made the guys smaller(Sona is there for comparison)

[mikaikaika]

Would you consider doing a similar post about the things about Pangi Lukey is enamoured btw

Nonnie I feel like I don't really need to because Lukey did a pretty good job of it himself when he was in the lab talking to Newt (here) <3

[bobbinalong]

Drawing them with a baby yesterday made me think about if I thought Prestonbart would have kids and the answer is not necessarily but IF they were to have a kid, it would be in this sort of constellation. Carol decides to have a kid, asks Bart and/or Preston to be a known donor, they discuss this with each other and eventually decide yeah, a kid sounds rad, but they'd like to be properly involved, as dads not just fun uncles. So -- et voilà -- three parent family. Also, the free space in this image bothers me immensely.

[charmwasjess]

you know the drill

💔&🖤

Ohh, Boli, my love, you got me comin' in hot here:

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

Honestly? It’s Dooku. 

The films fail him as a character. He’s there to kill time between villains, foreshadow Anakin's fall, and because Lucas wanted a respected film icon in his prequels the way he had Cushing and Guinness in the OT.

"But Jess, he's your fav and you're uncomfortably horny about him on main?!" you might ask. Yes, Dooku has an incredible backstory, a huge amount of narrative and emotional complexity, and a burning pile of potential, but it is never addressed or expanded on in the films. He has no arc or dynamic development - even his political scenes with Padme hit the cutting room floor. His motives for leaving the Order or joining the Sith are confused at best, shunted to supplemental canon, and the fake war plot is arguably one of the weakest and most confusing aspects of the prequels. He isn’t even given last words; fitting in the scene, also a perfect summary for how the character is used in the narrative. 

Imagining him gone is also an interesting possible fix-it recipe. So: lil' baby Doo gets turned into a spinewolf snackpack back in bby 101 or whatever and never exists. Okay, without Dooku there to save his life, teenaged Sifo-Dyas is either a. smashed by a falling city, b. drowned in hospital basement bacta flood, or c. tortured to death by Evil Moss (holy shit Dooku rescues him a LOT in that damn book). Between the two of them, that means the clone army is out. And if Qui-Gon had a different Master, one who actually put their foot down about the prophecy holocron instead of codependently indulging him, would he still have gotten obsessed with it to the point that it built into his obsession with the Chosen One and actions with Anakin? Maybe, maybe.

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

It’s ironic that my man Qui-Gon has become the canon poster child for The Only Truest Goodest Jedi, the exception to the so-called arrogance of the late stage Order, when his actions in Phantom Menace are a laundry list of things people routinely blame the Jedi for doing. Now, I love Qui-Gon, he’s my first favorite character, but let me just give a quick bad faith summary of his actions in TPM just to prove my point before I round back around:

convinces an enslaved child to participate in a deadly race, then buys the child from profits gained from betting on the race’s outcome

blatantly ignores priorities of intergalactic crisis to pursue the goals of his own fringe spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theories

takes said untrained 9 year old child into active combat after being told expressly not to train him 

Of course, this is a bad faith summary: all those decisions have greater nuance and narrative context. (Tho, actually, why did Anakin come to Naboo... nevermind) This is not to say I think Qui-Gon is secretly bad or something.

But I think people reduce Qui-Gon down to:

Qui-Gon follows his instincts to commune with plants and rescue cute animals :3 

When the reality is (also!):

Qui-Gon follows his instincts to do some morally dubious bad optics shit that works out for him by the end, which is a thing he learned to do from watching Dooku break shit with no consequences btw, and not a uniquely different approach from all other Jedi

I've said it before, I'll say it a thousand times: let Qui-Gon be a beautiful problem, that is part of the joy of the character!  

[hexxingcode]

since i was talking abt my iterators here's a chunk of lore from their world because i think its neat and also it comes up a few times so if anyone wonder what its abt i'll just refer them to this post

the tldr of the concept though? iterator vrchat. thats all you technically need to know. theres funny little doodles here thoughhh. look at them please...

[harlequinoccult]

Its been years 🥲 when are we getting slsq update

☝ the smeel