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almost forgot this drawing

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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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★ 【純白可憐】 「 落書き 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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why does viva la vida by coldplay always go so hard. i hear those opening strings and instantly im a cynical and mournful king walking through his overthrown kingdom like oh shit I totally did used to rule the world!!! I used to roll the dice and feel the fear in my enemies’ eyes but now im literally sweeping the streets I used to own!!!! idk what it is about this song but for some reason i can’t explain

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I was asked about the design of each character in Bartimaeus fanart, so I came up with my own. I really enjoy thinking about each of them, about their lives, their personalities, their quirks, and the fashions they prefer.

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average legend of the galactic heroes episode:

some episode-specific character: yang wenli you are the ONLY military strategist we have who isn't lost in the sauce of our own propaganda we NEED you

yang wenli: ah well looks like due Nationalism and Upcoming Elections we all have to go the meatgrinder again! well, that's the space navy for you. anyway...

julian: oh boy I can't wait to join my dad in this career that obviously fulfills him!

one of reinhard's many beautiful and irrelevant flunkies: Your Excellency you are the ONLY military strategist we have whose main strategy isn't 'get killed patriotically' so you should probably figure out a way of taking control of the current situation

reinhard von lohemgramm: here's how this will play in nicely into my long-held dream of to taking over the entire galaxy. everyone knows I'm scheming but they will just have to deal with it

kircheis: I hope we're not going to have to get too evil with it!

oberstein: WHEN are you going to break up with that red-headed choir boy I NEED us to get more evil

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i love yang wenli wistfully treating reinhard and his pack of generals like his favorite tv show

not pictured: immediately prior, mittermeyer and reuenthal doing breathless foreplay about how they're going to kill him bad??

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This idea has been stuck in my head since Julian made it clear he was going to follow in Yang's footsteps as a soldier, so I took a stab at it. Based on this WWII-era cartoon by Clarence D. Batchelor.

[Image ID: A sketchy drawing of Julian Mintz, a young man in a military uniform, standing in front of a skull-faced woman labelled War. He is labelled "Any Alliance Youth". She beckons him in, with text "Come on in, I'll treat you right, I used to know your daddy.]

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legend of the galactic heroes is about two friend groups of various dysfunctionality trying to manage the love lives of a twenty year old grieving-widow-dictator-wunderkind and a thirty year old extremely avoidant man who does not want anyone in his business

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the ‘kind character snapping’ trope has been co-opted by too many people who don’t understand it fundamentally. you can’t have your character actively think of themselves as that kind of person bc that makes it like bragging. ‘you wouldn’t like me when i’m angry 😡’ ’no more mister nice guy 😈’ ’demons run when a good man goes to war 👿’ ’honestly i scare myself sometimes 😰’ WROOOOOONG. those are all threats. first off a truly kind character should be humble and not even consider kindness a thing of theirs. and second off please. if they’re truly gentle they should be ashamed of the very thought of their own wrath and not like openly talk about it. yeah i bet they do scare themselves and others when they finally get pushed too far but like don’t have them say or consciously think that without shame… it should be like a tragic thing that happens to them against their will and not like an alter ego they’ve been gleefully looking for an excuse to slip into

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"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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i finished reading the tainted cup and one of the things i really liked about it is that the main character has the magically enhanced ability to perfectly recall anything he's seen and also has dyslexia, and gaining his cool magical ability didn't fix that. i just thought it was cool, i haven't seen fantasy deal with learning disabilities in that way.

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memories in lye

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300 pages in now and The Tainted Cup is easily one of my favorite reads so far this year. 'Sherlock Holmes with all the dials cranked up several degrees in a biopunk fantasy empire organized around fighting regular kaiju attacks' turns out to be quite the page turner.

Between this and Foundryside now I'm kind of curious if Bennet just makes a habit of writing protagonists with magically-induced sensory issues, though.

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din: fuck how am i supposed to hide my dyslexia now....i'm the most shameful pathetic useless worm in the entire world [creep.mp3]

best detective in the empire, gently letting her assistant keep his very obvious secret: great work as always sweetheart. well done. carry on, now.