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Sinners (2025)

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A few of my Stormlight portraits! I really need to start painting more characters and scenes 🖤 My Ko-fi | Commissions | Print Shop

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Orange brain

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people always ask me how i pronounce my name, ‘sarah zee’ or ‘sarah zed’. i always tell them the same thing: “how dare you speak to me”

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Why doesn’t this have a billion views or something.

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I have become a prescriber to the Adam Savage school of “If I’m holding something I know I’m not going to be able to find later, ask myself it I lost this where is the first place I’d look,” and reflexively, whatever spot I just thought of is now where it belongs.

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I think a big thing to remember is that the difference between an excuse and a reason is much more important personally than it is in how others view them, but the way someone responds to an explanation is a valuable indicator of the level of trust they give you. Some people are going to always be distrustful of any explanation, and the fact that some of them are going to be in charge of you and make it your problem sucks. But as for what actually might work in a communication sense…

Excuses are generally associated with an attempt to escape responsibility. In that regard, not all excuses are necessarily bad, because sometimes it might be a really good excuse. From there we come back to subjectivity though, and the fact that to some people and excuse really is just a legitimate reason that they don’t want to hear. Unfortunately, you can’t really stop an asshole from being an asshole. But most of the time just saying that you are not trying to make an excuse and that this is what happened from your perspective can help bridge a connection between you and the person you’re talking to. Especially if you are acknowledging your own responsibility in any points where there was some sort of failure , even if there was a reason.

This doesn’t mean you should admit responsibility for stuff that wasn’t your fault. But it does mean that most of the time the easiest way to communicate a reason instead of an excuse is to acknowledge if an expectation was failed. Maybe I spilled something in the kitchen and had to spend a bunch of time cleaning it, but if in doing that I also forgot I was supposed to pick up my wife from work, I still failed to pick her up and made her wait around. I had a good reason, but that doesn’t invalidate her experience either.

In short, admit responsibility where you should, but don’t let people make you take responsibility for things that weren’t expected of you. At the same time, some people will just suck, and there’s not too much to do about that. Just try to be a good human being and other good human beings will generally reciprocate.

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FF6 rock band

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(angry video game nerd voice) two genders? that's it? and you just get given one at random, you don't even get to decide which one you want? what a shitload of fuck

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i would trust weird al with my drink at a party. granted he may put one of those capsules that expands into a sponge animal in it,

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Just finished second season of Castlevania Nocturne, and had a great time.

Big thing I was thinking about was the demon who nabbed Awful-Abbot’s soul after Maria toasted him, and how that demon’s hanging out behind Tera while she kind of weirdly stalks Maria… at first I thought that maybe this was because Emmanuel’s deal with said demon perhaps extended to her and potentially Maria… but then I remembered the end of the first season.

Tera was the one who spent a whole night translating and figuring out the demons book and presented the plan that involved her opening a portal to hell. I’m theorizing that she perhaps withheld information about what she found, because she couldn’t think of a better plan and knew that the team wouldn’t follow through with it if they knew what opening that portal would cost her. I’m thinking what she did at the end of the first season has left her connected to that entity in some way, and may be a larger part of explaining her darker behavior in the second season than even her suddenly coming down with vampirism.

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It's a perfect fit!

+a bonus I couldn't stop thinking about

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“God is dead” -Zendaya

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Welcome to being a Latina you get THREE types of representation:

-Sexy

-Single mother

-sweat shop worker.

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