#this is basically my process for everything

[tousey-mousey]

"If you had no rules, you'd have nothing to roleplay about" is the most This Is The Autism Website thing I've read in a while actually. Like.

If you're running a campaign based on exploring a world trying to get Something Specific done, who cares what, then the rules are "can we achieve this thing, given that we live in a society?"

Like. Okay, let's imagine we're running a campaign in... hmm, let's say the present day, a world most people are familiar with (I can't say everyone, because I have met humans before you see).

You're tasked with trying to do something challenging but eminently possible. Let's say... escape a major city while being pursued by the mob. It's certainly not impossible, people do it all the time, but people also fail to do it all the time.

You have absolutely no ruleset. Go with god.

HOWEVER!

You need to convince everyone around the table that your planned action for the next however-long-everyone-lets-you-have-a-turn-for is sensible.

"I hijack a car"

Okay then, mate. Walk me through this process. Because I feel you're probably assuming that hijacking a car - that is, stopping a moving vehicle, getting a driver out, getting inside unstopped, and driving away safely - is as easy as you think it is. And it's really not! So... let's do it.

When you go to attempt something, someone might say "I mean that feels like your plan is basically 50/50", so someone else says "let's say if they succeed based on a coin flip!" and if everyone agrees, cool then you do that. There's no strict rule, but it works so go for it.

If someone says "I use my mind powers to make them stop", then most people will probably go "I am desperate to hear how you have mind powers" and if you can talk them round, cool! Now mind powers exist, you have them, and you get to roleplay about them. If they DON'T exist... You have just, in character, stared at a guy really hard and muttered "I am using mind powers..." under your breath while your friends start getting concerned about your sanity. That is also a fabulous chance for roleplay.

Literally none of that requires written rules. Combat? Also does not require written rules: you can negotiate EVERYTHING.

"I fire a gun"

Cool, we can all agree she definitely hits him right? Okay, you've fired a 9mm at a guy's... where did you aim?

"That'd be for his body, chief"

At a guy's trunk. You hit him... I dunno, someone name a bodypart?

'SPLEEN'

At a guy's... lemme google this... "splenic ruptures can cause life-threatening internal bleeding causing shock", jesus okay. You hit his spleen and he screams like you have shot him, because you have shot him. Hmm... I think he's probably gonna collapse, and when he collapses he'll bust the shitty shaky floor out under him as he falls into the room below.

FUCK I needed his keys, okay okay does anyone have rope?

Kay we are wearing pyjamas why in gods name would we have rope??

I dunno babe, worth a try.

Uhhh, we're in an abandoned living room yeah? I'm gonna look around for an electrical device.

Hey chief, can I take this one?

Yeah sure.

You find an old-ass lamp, also I do NOT like where this is going and am SO desperate to see it.

Wait hang on, a LAMP? In this ABANDONED TRAP HOUSE?

Everyone's gotta see, I'm taking the lamp. I could fish around in the walls for the internal wiring if you like, I've punched through drywall before it's not that hard.

No, no, good point, go off

Okay. I am using my knife - y'all remember my knife, we've been through my knife before - to slice off the power cord. I'm gonna say 1.2m sounds around right, I've seen lamps with that.

Sure.

So. Kay, do you wanna... you know...?

JESS ARE YOU SUGGESTING I ABSEIL DOWN A HOLE IN THE FLOOR ON THE END OF FOUR FEET OF ELECTRICAL CABLE?

...Yes.

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Oh come on it'll be fine.

MEANWHILE as you two dipshits bicker over who is the biggest moron, you hear sirens outside.

F U C K

Folks I'm gonna suggest we hurry this up?

No, yeah, nah, yeah, good point.

She's right, we're good.

Cops are about 15 seconds away from breaking into the room, who's doing what?

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Like. You can do A LOT with no rules. Roleplay can be enhanced by rules or hindered, it really just depends who you are. Some people NEEEEED structure, others rebel against it. It's just a thing.

Everyone has gotta stop treating TTRPGs like there's this dial between "rules" and/or "combat" and "narrative" and/or "roleplaying" and as one goes up the other must go down.

[jeongteen]

DON'T BE AFRAID TO BE VULNERABLE

Cho Hyun-ju x gn!reader

Notes : I need to write for my sweet Hyunju more 🥹 I would also like to write about other S2/3 girls, my requests are always open (read my pinned first if you'd like to request 🫶🏻)

CW : Mentions of basic squid game stuff

Summary : Hyunju gets another nightmare about the games, you comfort her.

Words count : 563

Hyunju and you have moved together when she came back from the games. You were so worried while she was gone, wondering where she was, if wasn't her to just leave like that.

When she came back, you decided it was better for the two of you to live together.

It took a while for Hyunju to open up about what happened. She struggles putting words on her traumas and she was too scared to put a heavy weight on your shoulders.

So at first you would just be there, not knowing what your girlfriend needed reassurance for but still being there for her.

When she finally opened up, you were in complete awe. Those bloody games seem like a story you'd tell your friends to scare them. It seems like it comes right from a horror movie. But it was real. And Hyunju managed to escape.

She often feels guilty about what happened, saying she couldn't save those who deserved it. The survivor's guilt it is.

Despite how long it has been since all of this ended, Hyunju still gets frequent nightmares about it. Most of the time she tries to handle it by herself, drinking a glass of cold water in the kitchen to ground herself, sitting alone for a few minutes, sometimes she even turns the TV on for a bit of light.

But sometimes the nightmares feel too real. It's almost as if she could smell the blood, as if she could feel a knife piercing her skin, as if she could actually hear the terrifying screams of the other players, as if she was back in that hell hole.

Today was one of those nights. She wakes up in cold sweats, panting, holding her hand to her chest. She tries her best to stay quiet and not to move too much, afraid to wake you up. But the sudden shift of her body next to you was enough to interrupt your sleep.

You sit up slowly, rubbing your eyes in the process.

— Are you okay Hyunju? You ask in a tired voice, looking at her with eyes half closed.

— Yeah don't worry, everything's fine, I'll grab a glass of water and I'll be back, you can sleep.

You grab her wrist before she manages to stand up, resulting in her facing you, confused.

— Hyunju. You don't have to go through all of this alone you know. You're literally out of breath from how bad this nightmare was, please don't be afraid to be vulnerable, not with me. You keep a soft tone, making sure you keep her comfortable.

She doesn't answer at first, she doesn't really know what to say. Her selfless self can't help but think she's suddenly putting so much pressure on you, she thinks she failed protecting your peace.

— Come here. You let go of her wrist and open your arms towards her.

She hesitates at first but eventually crawls into your arms, her head resting on your chest.

One of your hands is stroking her hair and the other is tracing slow circles on her back. Your cheek is pressed against the top of her head.

You stay like that for a few minutes, quiet, just taking in each other's warmth.

— Thank you. Hyunju's voice is right above a whisper.

— You don't have to thank me for being here, that's what soulmates are for.

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Went to sleep, dreamt of the most gut wretching batfam angst I woke up in literal tears- now I must accept this idea has to die with me because writing it would leave me dehydrated and devestated jesus christ-

I need to yap to process wtf the horrors but read more at your own risk-

The idea started simple enough, universe shenanigans another batman appears in the watch tower (with convinently the entire batfam there, dont ask why, doesnt matter)

This Batman basically says "Hey theres a universe virus host from my dimension I thought I destroyed- its now here and we gotta kill it"

JL & Other bats are ofc wary as this Batman begans demanding all these precautions and despite OG Batman's insistance- refuses to disclose anything else. Any attempt of martian mind tricks or golden lassos is thwarted so they just have to go along with it

This part of the dream gets fuzzy but then it was a time skip to this like space universe storm- kinda like the ITSV reactor scene where everything is floaty and suspended but still movible.

This Batman takes the tech gun thingy he had this universe build and aims it- only for POV shift a figure begin to form in the storm.

Batclan tries to interfere, wanting to understand wtf is going on- but is stopped by a voice suddenly cutting through the chaos

"Oh my boy..."

Its Bruce voice-

The Batman's gun clatters to the ground, they scream about this being a cruel trick, to themselves? To it? Unclear. They scramble for the gun but their hands are shaking too much

Bruce emerges but its- so bad. He looks like a half abstracted ADC character- half his face and body seeming to fracture and distort as if hes moments from falling apart at the seams.

Then faster than they can react- Bruce moves and is suddenly looming over The Batman. But instead of looking like a threat- he just looks sad.

The glitching hands wrap around The Batmans head and slowly lift off the cowl to reveal to everyone-

Its Dick.

Older, and bright blue eyes already spilling with tears "Its not you," repeting over and over.

But seems he realizes this IS his Bruce- at least enough of him- and they embrace. Dick begins rejoycing that he was wrong- that he wasnt too late- that they can fix this. But Bruce just looks sad again and explains he has time- but that its running out fast.

And the part that fucking killed me- and I curse my vivid dreams is Dick starts just SOBBING- and spilling every little thing.

He says he and Kori finally got married, and that shes pregnant. That Jason finally got his degree and wore a stupid pink bowtie because Lian picked it out for him.

Tim moved out of the stupid houseboat and was planning to take a summer backpacking with Cass-

Steph developed her own clothing line and was in the new york times last week-

The Thomas's were cured, that Duke went home but still visits just about every day-

And that Damian got a gallery in Chicago- that the main display is a painting of Bruce, before they lost him (the exact words- I was dying)

Bruce is crying now, Background Batfam as well- so am I to the point I started becoming more aware and the dream was slipping which was NOT HELPING

Because self aware lucid ass meant Bruce started crying harder saying he wished Dick hadnt taken the burden of the cowl- and Dick says some stupid shit about its not a burden its a path and one he cant stand walking without his dad-

"Dick?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you." And Bruce discorperates as the virusy storm cloud self implodes and leaves Dick kneeling on a chunk of rubble.

Oh no- but thats not the end- because Dick then keels over and SCREAM sobs for his dad- while the rest of Batfam and JL try to contain the mess and reenter the tower

Hes inconsolable- im half awake, and ending the cream de la resistance- Is OG Batman approches and for once (to my dismay) gains emotional competency

Goes "Im not your dad- but I am a dad, and if you'd let me, id like to hug you kiddo-"

Dick accepts, and practically collapses into his grip still wailing- and then finally, mercy kicks in, and I wake up

Now this was 1000x more emotionally devestating considering I had a VIVID animation style reel of this whole ass thing- and even now writing this I cannot do it justice because jesus christ I have no words to come close to this madness.

Anyways rant over- im going back to sleep- if I happen to dream anymore of this- might become an all nighter- to be determined

[grimalkinscribbles]

Hello!! I really love your art, especially your lines and the way everything flows while being filled with detail. I esp love the blend of surreal and soft, darkness and fairy tale. Do you have any process videos or posts about how you draw/ how you started?

Thank you for sharing your art! You inspire me immensely. <3

Awe 🥺 thank you. 🫶 Honestly there’s no greater joy as an artist then when people describe your work how you want it to be perceived and take inspiration from it!

Besides the occasional wip post I haven’t delved much into posting about my process, or how I got into art.

As for specific brushes/ textures I use, I’ve actually yapped about this before! You can find the post here. My process is still relatively the same only now instead of lowering the paper texture opacity I’ll set the layer to subtract too. Also I’ve been using the default procreate calligraphy shale brush for bg detailing.

I’ve tried numerous times now to write about how I started and BASICALLY. There isn’t anything nearly remotely resembling a straight and narrow explanation. I’ve been fumbling the entire way and I’m still fumbling. I started out just sketching things I liked from real life and photo references. This was animals, characters from my favorite movies, model poses I thought were pretty. I didn’t really have any favorite artists or inspirations at the time. I guess I wanted to be as good as my dad? He was an ultra realistic dnd kinda artist so THAT’S why I think I started off trying to replicate realism.

I didn’t get into digital art until my mom suggested I buy an art tablet with the inheritance I got from my dad passing. She ALSO picked it out. And the program. I’ve been drawing on an iPad Pro on procreate ever since. Thanks mom. (If you get an iPad Pro you have GOT to get a paper texture screen protector for that thang because you CANNOT draw on the glass)

I had it for a few years but wasn’t very consistent with drawing (or any good, for that matter). I had another art blog once upon a time where I posted arcana fanart and art of my friends ocs. ITS UNFORTUNATE I don’t really have anything to show for that portion of my life because I have a chronic fear that even looking at past works will regress my skills 💀 so they’ve slowly been deleted over time.

Don’t delete your works even if you hate them and think they’re garbage because after a few years of consistently drawing you’ll be amazed at the comparison.

I didn’t really start seeing improvement until I got ‘serious’ about art. That is, intentionally carving out time for it every. Single. Day. This was around when I started drawing touchstarved fanart. For me the only time I really have energy for art is before work so I’m getting up at the ungodly hour of 4:30 for an hour or two of drawing. To me it’s very much worth it.

When it comes to style and inspiration I’ve always loved folklore and fairytales! Here’s a list of a lot of the artists that’ve inspired me to continue drawing

Traditional:

Jaw Cooper, Vanessa Gillings, Taryn Knight, Cecile Berrube, Monge Jean-Baptiste, Iris Compiet, Larry MacDougall, Beatrix Potter, John Bauer, Heikala, Lavera Grace

Mixed media:

Owly Jules, C-kiddo, Marika Paz

Digital:

Wickwheat, Sara Kipin, Marlowe Lune, Jamie Green, May Lee, inimeitiel, Mogo Shin

As for my process/ process videos-

Tumblr keeps eating the timelapse I’m trying to upload for you, so I’ll try on a separate post 🙄 if you don’t see it within the next week, I didn’t succeed. I think process videos are far more helpful than images- but in the meantime, here’s the cleanest piece process I have to date:

Start off with a rough sketch

Refine the details

Lineart

Coloring ✨

I hope this was insightful in some way shape or form!

Thank you very much for popping by c:

[velkleyaenjoyer]

Also sending you this one because I'm so curious how others approach writing her: What would you say are your core (like, 3-5) Kleya headcanons that you use to inform how you write her?

oooh ok lemme think on this, i’ll try to keep it to 5 but some might become a little multi faceted but hopefully i can keep it concise

ok so the first one, which has been informed by a lot of things (discussions on twitter, a lot of what is on screen, my own personal experience) is that kleya is autistic. there were a lot of things in the performance that i picked up on and related to, so it’s kind of bled into how i have written how she processes and works through information and events as they transpire. i can also understand why people wouldn’t get this read, but it’s a part of my own funky little understanding of her

she is so deeply effected by her own grief, to a degree that i think no other character (not even luthen) ever really understands. she never doubts the necessity of what she has done and what she will do, but she does consider it her burden to bear that she has to live on with all this memory, like forgetting any of them would be a betrayal of what all these people died for

in her own weird way she is deeply affectionate towards the various agents that worked for her and luthen during the networks hay day. her constant snipping at vel and her “what does done mean” speech to cassian are born out of frustration, but it’s a frustration that comes from the fact that she really does care for these people, and wants the best for them (the best, here, being them becoming as absolutely locked in for the cause as she is)

i think she has this absolute desperation for tenderness and love and intimacy and affection but refuses to actually acknowledge its existence internally because it’s so intense it frightens her. she’s spent a lot of her life being really practiced in what emotions she’ll let influence her, and any that don’t directly benefit the fight get driven out or pushed down to the best of her ability, but in turn this means when all of it does finally come out it’s not going to be gentle or easy, it’s going to be an absolute explosive mess of feelings she simply is not equipped to deal with

nearly everything she has of her homeworld is lost to her. she can remember basic things, tiny facts and maybe a few local words, but the majority of what actually made up her life there is gone from her memory. i think she remembers her own name but none of her families names, and i don’t think she’s truly grappled with that fact yet. revenge has always been such a driving factor in her life that it’s not properly registered that revenge can’t be a substitute for her lost people, she can destroy the entire empire but her home will still just be gone

(a couple tiny ones that aren’t massive but are things i believe about her in my heart)

she’s obsessed with the colour blue

she has a soft spot for the weirdest of animals with no rhyme or reason (just wait till she meets her first tauntaun)

she does actually have a history special interest, that wasn’t ever a cover she genuinely loved being an antiquarian

she made luthen a birthday card on their first year together but it didn’t contain any well wishes, just a list of imperial targets that would be good for them to take off the board

[n1k0laa5]

I have a question and I don’t know if you or anyone else has also felt this way, but it’s like I can’t decide between shifting and manifesting???I wanna better this life and manifest my dream life and then I get discouraged and think - YES! I can shift! And then I get disappointed, I heard people say they are the same. But like 🧑‍🦲🧑‍🦲 do you have any advice or can tell me I’m stupid 😭😭 love you blog, much loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Hiya pumpkin!

I have 100% felt this way and you are NOT alone! My best advice is to just… choose both.

They are somewhat the same? It’s the matter of how YOU label it. You choose how it works as this is your reality. If you wake up and see you have your dream life, you can choose whether or not you “manifested it” or “shifted” to a reality where you have it.

These are just mere labels for YOU. The God of your reality.

For me, personally, I like to manifest THROUGH shifting. Not right now, but it’s a plan. In my post about waiting rooms, I mentioned an all-knowing bot. This bot knows everything about YOUR reality. You can ask it for advice, what you’ve been needing to hear on your journey, basically a look into your subconscious or think of it as speaking to “your higher self”.

For you, however, you don’t show indicators of being interested in other DRs but rather bettering THIS life. Deciding to shift and deciding to manifest are very similar processes, you decide to, and the 3D reflects.

So honestly, it all just depends on you.

Your choice, your techniques, what labels you put, etc.

You can attempt to shift, live in the 4D, the 3D reflects.

You can attempt to affirm (or what technique you use for manifesting), live in the 4D, the 3D reflects.

TL;DR (because I believe I explained this horribly, I’m sorry!)

Continue persisting in the belief that you have your dream life, and when the 3D reflects, you can label whether or not you manifested it or you shifted.

[angrysandwichphantom]

Xander’s speech might have made sense — if Buffy had never invested in her relationship with Riley. If the whole problem was just about her being emotionally closed off or incapable of love.

But that’s simply not the case. This is the same woman who helped Riley escape from being used in twisted experiments. She supported him through an identity crisis. She ran around worrying about his heart condition. She was there for him, stayed emotionally open, and always tried to talk things through — even when she was going through her own pain. Buffy genuinely cared about Riley. Every word, every action came from a place of selfless commitment. Not every person in love, in this show or in real life, gives as much as she did.

Sorry if I sound a bit emotional, but Xander’s speech makes little sense and doesn’t really address the real issue between Riley and Buffy.

First of all, he himself has never shown that kind of selflessness toward anyone. He has no right to judge Buffy unless he’s willing to hold himself to the same standard. You can’t demand from others what you’re not ready to give.

Second, his speech basically rewards Riley’s selfishness and invalidates everything Buffy did for him. Riley didn’t leave because Buffy didn’t care — he left because there wasn’t enough passion, as if that alone justifies walking away and betraying her beforehand. And Xander doesn’t tell her to start trying — he tells her that everything she’s done so far isn’t enough, and she needs to try even harder. While her mother is dying, but who cares?

Third, he never actually listened to Buffy. He didn’t try to understand her side, or how she was feeling. He just took Riley’s perspective and ran with it. I know people have different views on what friendship means, but for me, real friends listen to you, try to understand your side, and help you find a solution that respects your needs — not one that dismisses them.

In the end, it comes down to this: Xander sees the situation purely from his own limited — and unrealistic — point of view, and forces that perspective onto Buffy at one of her most vulnerable moments.

Disclaimer: I’m not trying to insult anyone or their opinion of this scene. On the contrary — I love reading different takes. They make me reflect on why people interpret character actions the way they do, and they push me to question my own reactions. It’s a fascinating process :)

i get why buffy fans hate xander’s speech to buffy encouraging her to run after riley and make up with him in 5x10 but me personally i can never hate it bc when buffy said frustratedly “what am i supposed to do? beg him to stay?” and xander replied completely earnestly “why wouldn’t you?” that shook me to my CORE. like yeah, if you really truly love this person and think you’re good together then why WOULDN’T you do anything and everything to keep them in your life? and if you don’t feel that way, then why were you even with them at all?

i love that xander is calling buffy’s bluff here. saying, oh you love him? really? because it doesn’t quite seem like it. and buffy is not yet brave enough to admit that no, she doesn’t love him. she knows it’s the truth but she’s afraid of what it means, so she does run after riley. but of course it’s futile — there was never a chance it could work out. because she doesn’t love him!

[the-mang0tree]

hi! i’ve recently stumbled across your blog and luv sm of your art!! i was wondering how did/do you start drawing transformers? they r very blocky boys

haii tysm !!! basically i do a stick-figure type of drawing for the poses, and then just add a bunch of cubes in different positions

[arcanegifs]

Here are some Season 2 Arcane GIF comparisons before and after I color and sharpen them! | Season 1 Comparison GIFs

[somnimagus]

canary tree

[id in alt text]

[positivelyadhd]

sending my love to people with slow processing speeds.

you should be allowed to take your time to do things and I am so sorry if people have ever made you feel like you can't.

you and your contributions are just as worthy as everyone else's, the speed in which you do them should not impact that.

I am so sorry if you ever been made to feel like you weren't good enough because you "couldn't keep up".

you are good enough. you are trying enough. there is nothing wrong with you and it's not your fault.

[thepixelatedbunny]

So I had just listened to big finish's Master bc haha funny torvic rock murder and now I'm so normal about it (screaming crying foaming at the mouth; doing zoomies around my room rn)

10/10 audio

[essektheylyss]

I'll be honest, the hardest part of having written a lot of fic and having a lot of complex ideas in the queue is that you really end up being like, well why would I write more fic (hard, time-consuming) when I can reread the fic I already wrote (easy, delightful, wow this bitch really understands exactly what I'm looking for)

[alfheimr]

asfrith and luka; on the everfalling path.

[ghostpantomime]

so so angry about the rhetoric and discourse being made towards and about disabled people being used by Starmer's Labour. It's exacerbating the divide of worker = good and works not just for their better prospects for the UK, non worker = bad and fraudulent. It isn't just suggesting that there are fraudulent claims, something that is a) already Incredibly low, b) many who have been classed as "fraudulent" are not, have hidden disabilities and have then been reported on a good day, but also enhancing the narrative that there is the entrepreneur or "deserving" who wants to work and the lazy who does not.

Not being able to leave the house and being bedridden is not something anyone Chooses to do. It can have devastating consequences on mental health. The money provided by benefits is barely enough with the cost of living and increasing greed of the landlords.

But of course the expenses of the Lords, some of whom Literally Do Not Turn Up, are the ones that are fine and the people who only just get by are seen as unfit to be able to live.

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

studying Philosophy is really like

you think this is going to help you understand the world and your place in it better,

but actually all it does is confuse and befuddle you farther than ever before

and also you make friends with the most annoying (read: great, smart, lovely, kind, but argumentative as ALL GET OUT) people in the world and then you realize you've BECOME one of those people and you kind of want to just curl up in a nice quiet little hole in the ground with all your books and read and think until a complete and total understanding of the world falls out of your noggin and everything makes sense; but actually you just want to take a walk in the woods with a friend and not think about anything for at least a year.