#share your progress

[abyssal-hoonter]

Let's share your progress.

Me first: 2021 vs 2024 (Dark Souls 3 fan art). Not as impressive as other talents, since I have another full-time job, but still trying to be better.

[morgenbailey]

A Prompt A Day: Fri 22nd March 2024

Good morning. Welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying (though not necessarily connected) picture*, so actually two prompts. *Today’s picture shows an illustrated groundhog with a dull blue background with snow falling. In front and to the sides are dull pink flowers with larger white flowers to the left and right of picture. Unless there’s a…

[fumifooms]

Thistle struggling to reconcile Mithrun saying Delgal’s dead with the illusion he’s been living, cracks forming on memories of a time Delgal refused soup from him.

Thistle in "Delgal’s" arms, refusing soup because he no longer feels needs.

Eating is the privilege of the living

We were supposed to have dinner together

[syonesims]

another set of npcs - this time specifically for oasis springs

from left to right: cashier, chef, strip club owner, waitress, gym trainer and record store employee

[johnnyshrine]

★ // LET'S SUMMON THE STEEL BALL RUN ANIME TOGETHER!

I had a crazy idea, and since it’s so wacky, you know I gotta do it. What’s my silly idea, you ask?

I’M MAKING A SUMMONING CIRCLE TO SUMMON THE STEEL BALL RUN ANIME INTO EXISTENCE!

That’s not all there is to it, though. In fact, I need YOUR help to make this magic as powerful as it can be. For the first time ever, I am asking for audience participation and collaboration for johnnyshrine, wow!!

How can you help me make the greatest summoning circle ever? By making your own offerings, of course! Prayer works best when people come together! I am collecting black and white images you guys submit to add to the summoning circle! These images can be whatever you’d like: drawings of your favorite SBR characters, memes, occult or silly objects you'd use for Steel Ball Run themed magic, words talking about how much the story means to you - you decide! Full info and requirements can be found on the Google form below if you’re interested in participating! Credit will be given to everyone who participates unless you choose to remain anonymous. The full summoning circle will be posted as johnnyshrine offering #101 on April 11th, the day before JOJO Day. Hopefully our efforts will pay off and we’ll get to see the anime become real!  I’ve never done something like this before and I have no idea what to expect, but I figure this is a fun way to connect the community. I look forward to everyone’s submissions! :D

[ PARTICIPATE HERE! ]

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS APRIL 10TH, 2025 AT 11:59 pm PST.

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Malevolent Playlists!

@unnamedcorvid

[0ctober-night]

As much as I post about gock this is also a transfem pussy fan account

I'll shove my tongue so far up your cunt you'll be able to feel it in the back of your throat

[borutosdad]

what people don't get about tim drake is that his robin is batman's partner qua batman's partner. unlike the others, his robin doesn't have an end date because it is not a mode for him to grow into himself. from the start he had a very defined view of what "robin" as a mantle means, and everything he does is in service of that, with or without batman immediately by his side.

i honestly don't think the idea that "robin is for children" has any real canon basis besides the broader cultural miasma of robin is a kid. but the broad cultural understanding of robin is generally incorrect about what robin is in the comics -- how many non-comics readers do you know who are surprised there is more than one robin? even people who like comic book movies and games and the like?

dick grayson was going to university when he was still robin. he's definitely been robin longer than most people on this site have been alive. they're still publishing ongoings about his time as robin. jason died, steph was fired and 'died'. neither of them were given the opportunity to be robin until adulthood and by the time they were adults it wasn't something they wanted to be anymore. i truly don't see what is obstructing tim from continuing to be robin as an adult besides people's acanonical gripe about robin being for children. (and personally i think this is an exciting opportunity to expand on tim's thesis of robin as batman's partner, as an adult.)

tim was a character designed to embody the platonic ideal of what robin is: the david facing down goliath, someone who is always physically weaker and less skilled but uses his smarts and his connections to fight for what he believes in. he is someone who believes wholeheartedly in community and solidarity and fights to achieve that end. tim likes to be respected and taken seriously, but he doesn't need to be a leader (even though he's happy to take on that role when it comes to it). he likes being a bit of a fixer and a floater. he has chronic "i'm right and i'm going to be holier-than-thou" about it disease, and a strong moral sense (even if he doesn't always default to it). he takes many qualities from dick and jason's runs and expands on them to an extreme that's both in homage and also totally new. tim's robin has had such a profound impact on the mantle that the other robins were retconned to align closer to his take, such that it's difficult to seperate out what makes tim so unique.

however, from conception, tim is positioned in opposition to the other robins: he is robin before he is bruce wayne's ward/son, he has no personal stake in crime fighting beyond a belief it is the right thing to do, his crime fighting and civilian lives are divorced from each other and he's maintaining that balance, etc. he is also still markedly different from the robins who come after him: both steph and damian follow the same story beats as dick & jason of having some initial stake in the criminal world, and needing guidance and direction from batman to find themselves and their place in the world. (the "robin" who is really the most tim-like in terms of behaviour and backstory is maps.) so, why would he follow the same path as other robins before and after him?

the problem is that the modern dc editorial doesn't understand tim as both the ur-robin and the contra-robin, so they don't know how to use him. he feels unstable and incomplete because he has been left to rust and fall apart, and because he is given few opportunities to show the contradictions of his character on the page.

it's silly to think he needs to "find himself" because he already did. this is why all the "get tim his own mantle" attempts don't work.

[redo-rewind-if]

Small report this week! The current path is shaping up to be a doozy. 😬

Next Update (Chapter 4):

Opening: 100%

Avoid August/Confront Him: 100%

A Normal Day at Work: 100%

You Can Fix This, Right? 🤡: 20%

Keep Your Friends Close...: 0%

Avoidant Route: 0%

Oh boy, things are getting intense in this section. I wish I could share more, but it's hard to without any spoilers. Just know that the plot is really starting to amp up and MC is not having the best of times lol.

Hopefully I'll be able to share a snippet next week (I tried to find a good one for this past week but everything felt too spoilery, y'know?).

[morgenbailey]

A Prompt A Day: Thurs 21st March 2024

Good morning. Welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying (though not necessarily connected) picture*, so actually two prompts. *Today’s picture shows a glass bowl of shelled peanuts, sitting on top of a single-nut pile of nuts still in their shells. Unless there’s a name, only the first word will be capitalised so you can use it anyway you like:…

[raywardreal]

friendly reminder, @/modpollyblog (NOTE; this is not the same mod polly as from the ventblogs, since i know that may be confusing) has a wonderful archive masterpost, which includes the sparchive server’s google drive.

its still incomplete -- in fact im hoping to chip away at moving in more things today (if im able to) -- but it is public! you can view it and see what we have organized there so far. and see other peoples individual archives listed out in the post as well, which might cover stuff we dont have there, or give you easier access to specific things if you dont like how we have things organized in the drive.

[hephaestuscrew]

Who says the episode title phrases in each episode of Wolf 359?

I've created a spreadsheet to show which character says the episode title phrase (i.e. the words which form the name of that particular episode) in every episode of Wolf 359. Graphs summarising this data can be found below, but to look at the full spreadsheet in all its glory, and see the progression through the series, you can follow this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cQLkhxbDAItU6rdiUAYGn54FXXxYC-JXlCmP_Dqe9FA/

(Please note: I’ve focused here on which character first speaks the exact title phrase within the episode itself. In some cases, this is not the only - or the most significant - time that the title phrase is spoken.)

EDIT: This post previously stated incorrectly that "the devil's plaything" is not said in Ep57. In fact, it is said by Pryce (through Minkowski). Thank you to @yaghoulghosty for pointing this out!

Season breakdown graphs below the cut...

[bluedandylyon]

To celebrate Bedtime Heirlooms being out, I wanted to share doodles of the facial designs for Zerki and Terya, Catra's siblings, from Chapter 2 onward.

Design rambles below the cut:

Zerki is designed after an Ocelot, he is quite lanky. I took inspirations from jaguars for Terya, but she has more of a leopard build instead of the stockiness of jaguars. They both have prominent markings on their face and body, whereas Catra has very faint markings that just show as slightly bigger freckles. Her body stripes in my story are more prominent than in canon since she is modelled after a Colocolo cat, she also has slightly darker hands to reflect this.

I chose these specific species bc they are all species of cats present in the jungles and grasslands of the American continent. Their home country is modelled after these biomes and some of its prehispanic cultures (aesthetically and linguistically it's a mix of Maya and Aztec) back in the Magicat planet - Felerys.

I'll make full character design sheets one day when I have more time, but I just wanted to share their faces so you have a visual when you're reading the story!

[breadboylovin]

man i am excited for my internship next month. AND SCARED CUS IT'S 6 MONTHS 2400 MILES FROM HOME. but excited. bc last year's was so bad and i need to do it "right" this time