#shitty rough drafts

[whatlovelybones-if]

detective kaufmann finishes their cigarette with one last drawn-out drag. they let the embers brush against the edges of their fingers, singeing the almost-healed scabs of burnt skin. for all it’s worth, they don’t react to the pain; instead, they just drop the cigarette and crush it beneath their shoes.

running their fingers through their light blonde-hair, the detective turns to the constable who is watching them a little warily. hiding behind that wariness, however, was a hint of respect for this tall, young detective in their white button-up and an overcoat.

“any additional information i should know about the crime scene we just examined?” the green-eyed detective asks, their tone losing its usual playfulness.

the constable hesitated before taking out a plastic bag with a piece of paper inside. “just this. it was found in the front pocket of the victim’s polo shirt. the people who got the parcel confirmed that they don’t recognise the man or the handwriting.”

the detective opens the bag and carefully fishes the paper out with their gloved hands. aside from noticing that it must have been a post-it note from the colour and type of paper, there was nothing extraordinary about it.

they turn it over. even though detective kaufmann knew that the note wasn’t intended for them, it still makes their hackles rise in slight alarm. they purse their lips as their suspicious gaze falls on the people who received the ‘package’.

the detective always trusted their instincts and this time, their gut told them that something was amiss here; there was something that these people weren’t being honest about. because written in blood-red ink, there were four chilling, yet puzzling words:

are you afraid yet?

[bmpmp3]

and i do feel bad when people ask me to teach them colour theory because it is true that colour theory quite literally is just: complementary colours + if you mix a bluish red pigment with a reddish blue pigment you'll get a brighter purple but if you mix a bluish red pigment with a yellowish blue pigment you'll get a grayer purple.

in my experience colour theory as we know it is kinda built on the physical world (additive with light and subtractive with pigment and dyes) rather than the digital so the purpose of it is less "what colours go together" and more "what can you do with the limited colours of materials you have access to in the meatspace and how can you manipulate them". from what i can tell, the world of digital colour theory is pretty young if not nonexistent currently, possibly in part because of how different screens and software can be from eachother. you can use some physical colour theory techniques to help (complementary colours can make things stand out, analogous colours can make things look cohesive, etc) while the technical parts (single pigment mixing) are not as useful outside the physical realm...

all this to say like half of my art is just ultramarine blue with colder quinacridone red (magenta or rose usually) because i am too lazy to do anything else other than a slightly shifted to the side complementary colour scheme #TheLazyArtistsPalette

[pikabysss]

Aaah... guess what I started... I just need to actually make it pretty now.

(I did this instead of sleeping. I need rest...)

Audio is "I'll make a man out of you" from the Disney classic: Mulan... pff, do I even have to say it. Go listen to the original and whatnot.

(Don't want to get my butt kicked, okay? Thanks.)

Here's a spotify link provided by Tumblr dearly.

[sinorim-pisani]

Ok but like!!

Danny Fenton's Obsession \!(*0*)!/

I know a lot of us in the fandom like to describe Danny's Obsession as having to do with protection, or having to do with space. I love it! It's a good choice for the building blocks that the show gives us!

But.

(This is a long "but" folks, strap in)

(It also may be half incoherent, my thoughts were just thrown all over this post)

I had a little idea biting at me, for a possible fic that I may or may not be attempting to write, about an Obsession for Danny.

In this metaphorical fic, the trio (sam, danny, tucker) are all in the portal accident together, and their Obsessions are formed based on their strongest thoughts at the moment of their half-death. Sam's is fleshed out, I've moved the Protection Obsession to Tucker, and Danny's has been puzzling me.

I'm thinking of basing his Obsession in the idea of Success. It might not make too much sense, but hear me out:

I'm planning on having Danny's strongest memories and thoughts be about how badly he had wanted to see his friends' dreams come to life, and how badly he had wanted to see his parents (initially) succeed in their research. Of course, this would be very brief and emotionally driven, but these are the under lying thoughts I want to be working with.

Danny and Sam and Tucker all experience the accident, and Danny dies thinking something like "They'll never get to chase their dreams again" (this is a work in progress T.T) Boom, an obsession with seeing others chase/succeed with their dreams.

Could there be any component of this that applies to Danny himself? Is it too much to add in a note about how Danny is also thinking about how he won't ever get to make his family proud again? Then shove that into the Obsession and make it so that he's obsessed with seeing himself succeed alongside others?

The angst side of this would be that he doesn't have much to succeed at outside of the ghost fights, because no matter how hard he tries he can't seem to balance school life and ghost life, and he's this close to flunking out, being expelled, disappointing his parents and Jazz - He's only succeeding by winning the fights. Perhaps also by something silly like playing and winning in Doomed? It becomes super difficult for him to manage achievement for himself, and fighting to protect the achievements of everyone else. Maybe he starts to seek the fights out more? Which would be Super Dangerous for him, and everyone?

Or would it be better to have it only apply to others, so that there is even more of a self-destructive flavor to his character development? Like a "Why are you wringing yourself out like this, fighting and failing in school and continuing to live in a home that harms you?" "Because this is the only way I can think of to help my parents (ANGST ALERT) and my friends and all of the people that live here succeed in life" kind of flavor.

And then when the ghost fights come along - fighting the ghosts would technically be "satisfying the Obsession", because he now has the chance to physically protect the dreams of the people of Amity Park, and he consistently chooses to fight and to burn out, because he loves his friends and his family and he loves this community and he just wants them to have the dreams he can't have anymore.

IDK I just like the idea of Danny having an obsession that's different from protection and space at first, and this is what my brain came up with!

[spacediddly]

My friend brought me their extra Trolls Band Together stickers in exchange for my extra Trolls Mineezs, and now I’m clearing out old stickers off my laptop to make room for my new ones!

[oldfritz]

chapter six and seven are gonna be the goddamned deaths of me I swear on all that’s good and unholy

[chirpybirdy]

i dont like ai art because i prefer my slop insane not derivative but the constant "do it fast! do it shitty! chatgpt will always be worse!" is so irritating... i dont understand why you would want to measure yourself against ai in the first place... but especially in the speed and shittiness categories lmao

[alatariel-galadriel]

Gerard, my favorite spooky man

(aka the sketchiest draft of a WIP that I never came close to finishing but still enjoy immensely)

[bitletsanddrabbles]

I am making shitty pots.

The great thing about my shitty pots, though, is that the clay doesn't harden.

It doesn't air dry.

I don't fire it.

It stays malleable, which means once I make a shitty pot, I can go back and refine it.

Improve it.

So eventually, with luck and work, it will cease to be a shitty pot and be a full functional, even aesthetically pleasing pot that other people might look at and enjoy.

But first, I must make the shitty pots.

[idlingsomewhere]

so much for the self-imposed midnight deadline

[februaryberries]

i hate open topic essays where u can write about anything u want i have way too much to say about everything that i can never narrow it down enough and i always end up writing about a lot of connected ideas that aren’t sticking to the topic and then i give up 😭😭😭😭😭

[alex51324]

cut funding to public schools whose students didn't improve every year on a set of standardized tests- meaning not that each student was supposed to improve during their time in school, but that this year's first graders had to do better on the tests than last year's first graders, and next year's had to do better still. Obviously this was really difficult over the short term and completely impossible over the long term.

I want to draw out this part, because it's the key to the whole thing. Back then, Republicans couldn't just say out loud that they wanted to eliminate public schools; they had to put in some kind of effort to make it sound like it wasn't cartoonishly evil.

And if you're used to the idea that "success" in business means that every year's profits must not only increase, but increase by more than the previous year's*, your eyes might sort of skim over this like, sure, yeah, that makes sense; treat education like a business. Metrics, accountablity, continuous growth, and so forth.

You just have to not think for a single second about the fact that these are actual kids, and you're starting fresh with a new batch each year. Or not give a shit, or be a bit hazy on the concept of how averages work**.

If schools lose funding for not having better test scores every year, the inevitable end point is that you stop having to fund public schools.

And, indeed, the remedy put forward in the legislation was that, once a school had "failed," its funding could be given to "charter schools," which could be run by for-profit entities, and could pick and choose which students they wanted to educate.

(*Note: Yes, this is also unsustainable and shitty in the business context--the logic of the cancer cell, as the man said--but it takes a lot longer to reach the breaking point, and also in the meantime you're piling up enormous amounts of money, rather than miserable kids.)

(**It's deeply unclear where George W. Bush personally fell on this scale of stupid-to-evil. He wasn't particularly intelligent man, and both his mother and his wife prominently featured literacy on their platforms as First Ladies, suggesting that he was brought up in, and then lived in, a family context where education was valued. Like, he might have been dumb enough to genuinely think "all our children are above average" is a realistic goal. But bringing a landmark piece of legislation to the President's desk to be signed into law is a long process involving many people--and some of them have to be bright enough to tell their ass from their elbow. Collectively, they knew what they were doing.)

I was today years old. That is disgusting.

No Child Left Behind is one of the worst things to ever be incentivized in schools. It was signed into law when I was 14. Reading Rainbow was my show as a kid. LeVar Burton played a big part in why I became an avid reader to date. The joy of it. It's an adventure around the globe and through different time periods without stepping on a plane or time machine.

Children parrot behavior. In grade school, I always wanted to read the same amount of books as my teachers (50 books) and managed to double that each year. Before No Child Left Behind, book fairs and Scholastic catalogs were a serious matter like your grandma's Fingerhut catalogs. Libraries were (and still are) a wonderland.

Reading comprehension and proficiency in schools has been declining for decades. A crisis. The joy of books isn't pushed anymore and I'm always saddened by it. It's one of the reasons why I post my book reviews and recommendations on here, as well as posts from others to encourage reading and (novel) writing. Kids will parrot your behavior while the education system sadly fails to return as that example.

[anghexescu]

Not behind the scenes (threads that's been drabbled or threaded out)

The event that took place was the cause of a lot of things happening. This event can be found here (not the beginning of the fight but), here is another

Anyway: Klaus learns the truth that Aury's kept hidden. A battle breaks out and all that jazz.

Klaus finds Indigo when the battle is finished, Indigo grants a wish to put Aurelius in storage which would have been the tree. Uh...little drabbles of that is here

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BEHIND the scene (Threads not drabbled or threaded out)

While Aurelius is deep sleep, seb pays Klaus a visit. Klaus is already at a relatively low situation and Seb uses this to coax Klaus lower. Could be why he blames himself harsher and more constantly for everything. Also would be why he is then further led to have heavy guilt and second guesses about his birth and life.

ALSO why Klaus didn't want Aurelius to leave (when Aurelius wakes up) and is scared, confused, lost, etc.

Seb and Klaus DOES end up battling and Seb does leave Klaus alone, but is waiting for Klaus to slip further :D.

Seb just doesn't know that what he's told Klaus is happening but....Well, it's happening with Aurelius taking HIS prized possession~.

In the mean time, Klaus is hanging at the edge. He's slipping and who knows WHAT will happen if he's slipped further. Seb is just waiting down below with arms wide open!

[digitaldiseas3]

dear GOD someone tell me to be productive and just. write my shitty spanish presentation script because holy shit. it’s due tomorrow at midnight, i’ve been thinking about it for days, i’m gonna be driving 4-6 hours tomorrow so i won’t wanna be productive AFTER that, so i literally need to do it TONIGHT

[cursedreflections]

can you tell ive never written before /j

(please. send help.)

[elytrafemme]

inventing a girl who is so miserable so that it doesn't have to be me