#trash-nerd

[kindlyfeline]

for the writer's truth or dare ask game: 🐇 ❄️ 🥐

thank you so muuuuch!!! (writer emoji asks)

🐇 ⇢ do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts, or a mix of both?

i find writing reader insert more difficult and i don't have any second person stuff publicly posted so ://// i'd have to say i slightly prefer writing oc stuff.

❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?

oh holy shit 🤯🤯 any fic everrr? ........ this is so hard erm well i have a lot of good ideas for a veilguard modern college au floating around my head but i simply cannot write it. so who else would??? idk man i genuinely think there are soooo many good fic writers and i read a varied array from a bunch of different people. so basically ANYONE!! OOO y'all could be writing more subby men though!!!! especially dom!f/sub!m 😏😈 (not that im biased or anything 😳)

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

ONLY ONE?!?!?! /j obviously i have to mention one of The jerma moments of all time: jerma v malenia but also this from back when twitter wasn't a cesspit xx

[haedia]

Your TM is absolutely stunning art with amazing anatomy and lighting that I can stare at for hours and hours. You're TM is also being lovely and amazing and such a wonderful support to everyone in this fandom ❤️

!!!

I'm blushing and hiding my face at this. It pleases me to know that things I care about (generally trying to be an encouraging and uplifting force) shine through enough that it's, Iunno, noticeable? Appreciated? Words are hard this morning.

And the compliment about my art is heartening. Been feeling kind of in a slump (thanks, fatigue), so it's a nice reminder. <3

[dragonsbluee]

I need everyone to acknowledge the fact that KRS!Cale is a MASSIVE bookworm. He's able to thrive in Birth of a hero because he read it and enjoyed it. (yesyes record helps him, but you can't ignore the fact that he knows the characters, not just the plot. That comes from liking the thing you're reading!)

Give me the young master spending his afternoons reading under the shade of a tree with a new book series and absolutely devouring it in one sitting. He's missed being able to read a whole series and not having to hunt for the next books through a destroyed city.

Give me Cale with a little notebook full of books he'd like to read, the titles collected from the people he talks to. He'll read anything or at least try it out, but fantasy remains his favourite genre.

He also writes little opinion blurbs for his favourtie books, or jots down quotes and favourite lines. Sure his record ability means that he doesn't really have to, but it's an old habit he enjoys.

Cale, who starts collecting books on his travels, just one or two from every place he visits. His friends and allies pick up on this and start bringing him books they think he'd like. Cale has a very speicifc and rare smile when someone gifts him a book. Its small, but it somehow takes over his entire face, and you can almost see his eyes sparkle in delight. It quickly becomes a smile everyone looks forward to.

Cale, who never turns down a book given as a gift, and so he starts picking up bits of knowledge from across the continent. He learns about the edible plants in the Jungle, the different variations of marble and stone throughout the Roan Kingdom, the fables and myths of the Dark Elves. He keeps them on a shelf in his room in the super rock villa, and every once in a while, the kids pick one to have read to them. When the shelf is full, Eruhaben pulls some out from his hoard as a gift to Cale. They're almost too gaudy, but Eruhaben enchants them to protect the books from dust, damage, and pests. Cale spends an entire day reorganizing his collection.

He never thought he would be able to build his own personal library, but here he is.

Cale loves to compare the books he has in this world and the ones he knew before. Sometime in the future, he sits down and uses record to copy out his favourite series. He gifts it to Choi Han so he can have a small piece of home he never got to experience.

It becomes known that the best way to get Cale to stop and actually take a break is to plop a kid on his lap and give him a book he's been looking forward to. One year for his birthday, Alberu gives Cale free rein to explore the palace's secret library. They find him curled up in a corner a couple hours later surrounded by stacks of books.

Cale is 100% the type of person to insist that more libraries should be available to the public so that he can read easily when travelling to different places. It's definetly not because he wants more kids to be able to learn how to read, and he was able to grow into loving books because of his local library.

[e-vay]

So… those Doom Abilities in Sonic X Shadow Generations, huh?

[whiskeyandcigarsmoke]

Got my first Poolverine tattoo added onto my sketch sleeve. Deadpool's doodle about Logan is tucked under my Soldier Boy tattoo and wrapped together in a Trash Polka inspired splattering of blood and ink. Gonna go back in a couple months to finish it.

[candleangel3]

teenage cream would have a SUPERR popular wattpad account (or whatever the Mobius fanfic site equivalent of Wattpad is lol) where she writes stuff like werewolf romance novels and charmy absolutely makes fun of her for it like a true brother

[kylorengarbagedump]

new dildo finally came in

[nerdstify]

had to fix her garbage fit 💜

[scarlettaagni]

a peer of no equal

(+ red petal alt)

[kindlyfeline]

What is Maya's favorite ibject she owns? 💜

im taking this as an opportunity to be sad 😁 (thanks bestie ash, ily 5eva)

tw: death, mean viago (srry)

Maya had never been sentimental. Least of all about objects, given that she lost everything but the clothes on her back when her home went up in flames.

But once, when she was still a fledgling, she fell for a dockhand's beautiful daughter. Her hair was long and flaming red, usually half pinned back with intricate plaits and decorative metal hairpins in the shape of flowers. Ruby was her name, and Maya was enchanted by her. Completely besotted.

On a warm summer's evening, Maya took her climbing trellises and they sat on a roof to smoke and watch the sunset together. That was when Ruby taught her how to plait hair. First, the normal way, then an Orlesian braid and finally fishtail.

After the sun sunk below the horizon, with Maya's curfew fast approaching, Ruby pulled a golden locket from a pouch and gave it to her. It contained a small piece of her hair, strikingly vibrant against the locket's pale interior. Ruby explained that it once belonged to her mother, but now Maya could have it and keep a piece of her love close to her heart at all times.

So she did, for a few months at least.

Then, in one of his random room searches, Viago found it under her pillow. He said he liked to make sure his protogés weren't 'hiding contraband' or 'growing idiotic attachments to trinkets', but Maya eventually learned it was just about control.

Wordlessly, he plucked the necklace from the bed and held it up between thumb and forefinger. He opened the clasp carefully and inspected the rich red lock of hair inside.

Maya held her breath. Her wide eyes were glued to his form. The room was silent save for the soft ticking of her bedside clock.

She flinched as Viago abruptly threw the locket to the floor and immediately stomped on it harshly three times.

He glared at her for a few seconds, but her horrified gaze was on the floor beneath his boot. He promptly turned on his heel and left.

As soon as he was gone, Maya crumpled to the floor and gingerly took the warped metal in her hands. It was broken, the loop that attached locket to chain snapped off and the locket itself crushed and flattened. Fiery hairs were loose and scattered about.

Her tears came hot, dripping down her cheeks, but she dared not make a noise.

The worst of it came after, when two weeks later Ruby was dead. Early one morning, a fisherman found her body floating face down in the canals.

It turned out that she was betrothed to another man, and when her father and brother discovered she'd been having a love affair with a female Crow, they were not pleased at all.

How strange that the following week, both of them fell horribly ill and passed away themselves, at the same time as Viago's poison 'Welcome End' inexplicably went missing...

[smiling-stel]

Speaking ab the cover art from a Design pov *aside frm the comments that Cale looks out of character in the lore standpoint of vol. 2 art

(spoiler free, dw)

◇ TLDR; vol. 2 cover is beautiful, but it couldve had better color synergy. I can see why the artists did what they did, its just not my fav.

. man I'm just happy to have an official English print lmao, ill take what I can get

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At first I didn't like the red shirt cause it was too much the same color as his hair. (Like if it was a darker or desaturated maroon, I feel it would've looked better, at least so he isn't matching with his own hair-)

. But now taking a step back n looking at vol. 2 again, zoomed out, I actually think his Face is the most jarring part [more on that later ◇]

◇ . The bright red of the shirt being lit by a yellower light, altho matching w his hair, actually isn't so jarring to me anymore cause I noticed two things

◇ 1) his pants are also tinted red (if my eyes aren't deceiving me) meaning compared to the background and the other two characters, Cale *in his entirety* is a red-toned silhouette -> this is a illustrative design strategy where the artist assigns a group of colors to a specific subject n *Restrictvely* uses the Hue Differences to their advantage. In my opinion, its a good choice in making him contrast and stand out. You can definitely Tell he's the main character with just the cover art.

. BUT it can also give off an Outlandish or alien feeling because (in this case) Cale is the ONLY red in the scene. Theres no balancing of red tones from his character to the background At All (e.g. the artists doesnt add Any red to the surroundings so his character can "fit in" with the scene- like as if you photoshopped a guy in sunny lighting into a dark room, the lighting differences is jarring n you can tell the guy is just slapped on top [not saying the artist did that at all, but the way they painted Cale to stand out feels jarring in that sense). While this does an insanely good job at putting him in the spotlight, it perhaps does Too great of a job, making him feel isolated or strange compared to the rest of the piece.

. (Then again, you can justify that that was the goal. To isolate Cale n show hes alien from a lore standpoint as he's "not from this world" as an isekai story)

◇ 2) but we're forgetting this is a COVER art. It's not Just an illustration to be pretty. To break my earlier point, altho Cale IS the only red in the *Illustration,* this art piece is - fundamentally - a Cover Art. It has the Title thats a part of its design <-<-<- And if we looksey at the title, what do we see? Red and warm tones. Like what other thing thats only reds? Cale Henituse himself!

. The Title IS the balance I said was missing in point 1). My theory is thats Also why the artist tinted the lighting on Cale to be warmer n more yellow, so as to use the yellow orange in the title (and the contrast of cools n warms from the focal points to the rest of the art) to their advantage. It helps add reds to the lower half of of the piece where the only warm tones are Choi Han's hand (the other character) and the fleeting window curtain; both of those details being at the edges of the piece and Both very small so they hardly have an influence on the overall design.

. So the title, taking up the majority of the lower half of the piece, draws the warmth down n assists in balancing the overall cover design.

So the reds have now been explained, but why are the whites so white now?--

◇ . Earlier I had said Cale's face was the most jarring part of the cover. And I still fully stand by that sentiment. Its the same idea where the reds do Too great a job isolating Cale; the whites do Too great a job contrasting w the background n the two other characters - who are black n cool tones - to the point where it Heavily draws the eye, practically in a violent manner.

. The extreme paleness is quite lore accurate for Cale's character, who hes isekaied as, but the extreme lighting Highlighting just his face compared to Choi Han's face is an extremely bold design decision (again, not a bad thing as he IS the main focal point, but adding onto the Isolating Spotlight trait going on)

◇ Ok then, but why's his jacket also so freakishly bright white? I heard from a fellow lcf fan (love discussing w you dawg <3) that they think the jacket is the worst part of his cover design.

N I agree. The reds standing out can be justified as a design strat, his face is the focal point so thats why that stands out, but why the jacket??

. Here i am on my artist apologist era <3

◇ . The jacket being blindly white is (probably) to Dampen the Harshness of his face being so bright.

. Altho the guy looks great in white ☆°• with how extreme the lighting is in this cover art, I think the artist wanted to balance the laser beam that is Cale's face paleness by spreading it out to his jacket, specifically that left collar fold ( i think that's called the lapel?)

. Basically by making the jacket's collar also intensely white, the artist gives their best attempt at trying to make Cale's skin less jarring so as to not make it so ridgedly highlighted. Like black ink spilt onto fresh paper, they tried to spread it out so its not so condensed in high contrast. ...But that only made the jacket join in on the uncanniness- TTvTT

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(Posting the pic again so yall don't gotta scroll far o7)

Other notes I've noticed n wanted to just point out while I'm here looking through the Design Lense ☆°•

☆ The red of Cale's hair and the red of his shirt n neck scarf sandwiches his face, making it stand out even More. Ealier I said the contrast of the vibrant red to the paleness makes his face draw the eye, but thats also thanks to the *position* of the colors! Not just the colors themselves B) isn't that so cool (tell me yes even if you have to lie-)

☆ The lighting on Choi Han's cape, chest, to face -> the window arch -> to Cale's entire person being lit up + how he's wearing a long white jacket

. It all creates this general arch of light tones and highlighted features which surrounds and hugs the title! The artists really knows how to use their darks and lights !!

☆ Choi Han's entire person, Cale's pants, and our lovely Roan Miru (the dragon) are the only deepest dark black tones in the entire piece! The privilege of being the subjects <3

☆ cale looks crossed eyed lel

. Im glad I'm not the only one who struggles with eyes still

. Or maybe this artist did it right n I just don't know how to draw eyes- (very plausible tbh)

Man I love artists

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All in all, Im not a fan of vol. 2 cover art but I can see why the artists did what they did

◇ . One of the most important things of commercial art is that its visually pleasing, regardless of design, lore, or even logic. The design choices are golden but putting them all together couldve been done better. Not that the art is ugly in any way. Its still gorgeous af, there just couldve been more balance or overall color synergy.

This is just my opinion anyways :D! No hate anywhere <33

[starspangledsteeve]

♡ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY JOHNSON : 9 AUGUST 1983 ♡

[something-feral]

Details of my room before I bulldoze it (04.25)

[greennoobartist]

Oohh okay so! 💜

I made a fullscreen version of this thingy :D So now i think (hopefully) when used it goes fullscreen instead of having to be scaled or whatever 💜 (i did test it and it works for me idk)

So yeah now that it. I might make a fullscreen version of the rest too :) 💜

[eosphoria]

Kats in middle school is so so annoying that if I were a classmate I'd be like "Oh so you want to be a hero! cool, that's quite common these days, but, uh, if I were to give you any advice, don't mention the H word to that blond mess over there, he won't shut the fuck up about how he will become the greatest hero and surpass all might and how deku fucking sucks because he quirkless and, ugh, look at him, he stands like someone who says extra a lot and that's exactly what he be doing every single fucking tim-"