#JUST. MANY THOUGHTS.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

[canisalbus]

Today's tumblr experience.

[chryseis]

FYI every purchase of any of The Adventure Zone music on Griffin McElroy's Bandcamp will be entirely donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund for the rest of 2023. His music is set at 'name your price', and the McElroys are also going to match the donations.

If you've listened to even a bit of any TAZ campaign, you surely know what a fantastic musician Griffin is, and there is no better time to purchase his music than now.

[voltaical-art]

HE WAS SEVENTEEN. AGHHH ULDER WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[menlove]

the problem w modern sci fi is there's no camp. would you ever see a man dressed like this in 2024 star trek? no

a woman dressed like this?

what about these guys?

what about this crime?

meanwhile modern trek just looks like this

WHERE is the cunt! the camp! the garish colors!

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Vanessa’s thoughts when meeting Abby..

[tawaifeddiediaz]

you know what boils my blood.

over the last 2 weeks, i've seen countless patients walk into my urgent care center, symptomatic for so many things, refusing to get tested for covid and flu, citing that they don't want to knowingly bring it to their holiday tables. i had a patient tell me, verbatim, "i don't want to test for covid, because i don't want to be the asshole who brings it on a plane."

i understand that - i understand that holidays are times where people look forward to meeting loved ones that they might only see once a year, or where they get a break from the hectic back and forth of their lives.

but here's the thing - whether they get tested or not, they will bring whatever they have to their holiday tables. it's pure recklessness to know that you're sick, and walk into someone else's house spreading the disease.

today, january 2, i saw 91 patients, many of them who have tested positive for covid and flu. many of these patients are the same ones who didn't want testing 3 days ago, until their events were over, and now, they will have to reach out to everyone they know to let them know that they were positive because they were showing symptoms well before their event.

the next week or two? we're going to see many, many more, all people with symptoms that started around christmas. these are the only two viruses we test for rapidly in our office, but they are potent and can be fatal in many people.

so here's why i wrote this post, and maybe it's a little late, but - if you care about your loved ones, please get tested if you know you're sick. it doesn't have to be at a clinic if you don't want it to, because the over-the-counter tests work just fine too (if you test within 5-7 days of symptom onset). just...please don't try to run from the knowledge that you might have covid, because immunocompromised people, elderly people, people with co-morbidities like asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, etc...many of them may not recover. and they may not be sitting at your holiday table in the future because of it.

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

[riickgrimes]

I know who you are. You're Fire and Ice, right? Which one's which?

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[museaway]

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[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[cissa-calls]

Watching the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is realizing that despite the obvious implication that Lucy Gray is the songbird and Snow is the Snake…it’s likely the opposite.

Lucy gray controlled the snakes and used them as her weapon of choice, the snake biting him was Lucy’s kiss goodbye. She is the snake.

Snow sold Sejanus out through the jabberjay’s, they were his tool to fly back home and back into power. He is the songbird.

But at the same time…as in her Ballad, Lucy Gray flys away with the mockingjays after she sings the Hanging Tree one final time while fleeing Snow. She is physically a songbird. And Snow chose to work with Dr. Gaul, who created and controlled those snakes. He was the snake who betrayed his friend.

Who is the songbird and who is the snake? It’s unclear, but isn’t that the mystery?

[icharchivist]

I feel like Merlin did the right thing. He knew he wouldn't be able to take care of these kids

Can you imagine?

Arthur would have wilted like a flower and Mordred would have become as unbearably emo as Merlin himself

This man is not fit to raise children

Also what was that about him having a baby face?

honestly? yeah i mean. If he really couldn't take care of the kids, it's probably best that he left them in the care of adults who could, in fact, take care of them.

I also genuinely feel like Merlin probably couldn't have handled them, considering how deep in his grief he was, and how we see him basically ignore Rowley (whom he created), or how he acts mostly on autopilot around his subordonate.

one could argue maybe actually trying to make an effort for the kids could have helped, but considering what we know, with the state his grief left him into, he would have been a terrible father figure.

So, him abandonning the kids into the orphanage was probably the right thing to do.

What i question is why Feendrache when your ultimate goal is to make Feendrache pay for all of this. Wouldn't you just set up the kids to be caught in a crossfire? couldn't you have left them in Dalmore or in Wales? Countries who had beef with Feendrache in the past to start with? Wales also welcomed refugees of wars.

Or did he mistrust Feendrache this much? and consider it was best to hide the kids right under Feendrache's nose? Does he expect Feendrache to come and hunt down the heir of Hibergrief's throne otherwise? Because of it's that, it probably implies that the "sins of Feendrache" wasn't JUST that they failed to come to Hibergrief's help. It is implied that it's a possibility Feendrache actually took advantage of Hibergrief being destabilized by he war to destroy them. If it's the case, i wouldn't particularly blame Merlin for sending them to Feendrache, but ooooh boy it will particularly hurt Siegfried, considering it all happened under Josef's reign and Siegfried had a blind loyalty to his king. (even if i do think Isabela will probably get most of the blame at the end of it all)

But if Feendrache really just failed to answer their demand for help and didn't actually intend to hunt down the heir of Hibergrief, then Merlin really put those kids on the path of his revenge. That said i suppose even if feendrache just abandonned Hibergrief, they would want to tie the loose ends to be sure no one would take revenge on them for that.... or they'd be hunting down the Sheath which would put Mordred in danger. But in that case, i still don't know if putting the kids in Feendrache is wise.

It's especially noteworthy when you see the schemes Merlin had done in the past few years and the way it directly endangered the kids. The skeleton dragon attack in Divergent Knighthood, the attack on the parade in Fire!LanVane, Gunther and Siegfried's rampage in SIEGFRIED, as well as Gunther taking the kids hostage and threatening to kill them while he was working under Merlin's orders (tho Merlin probably didn't order anything about the kids, it was all about destabilizing Siegfried, it's just that Gunther was a loose canon), and Merlin's attempt at triggering wars between Dalmore&Wales and Feendrache at least twice, the second time while the kids had already joined Feendrache's military and would have been directly put on the line if a war broke out. Hell, Mordred and Arthur almost died because of a scheme Merlin put into motion in The Strength to Wield. So much for making sure the kids are safe.

Not to mention that the orphanage he dropped the kids into was always near a border and therefore in instable situation. in SIEGFRIED the kids talk about how they have had a lot of hardship because of the conflicts breaking once in a while in there (Siegfried's flashback about the death of his godson happens nearby the orphanage Mordred and Arthur grew up in while the kids were still there to start with). AND that because of the position of that orphanage, Mordred and Arthur grew up in poverty and actually ended up resulting in petty thieves a lot to get by before they joined knighthood (their introduction in Divergent Knighthood is about that).

So honestly it's not that Merlin abandonned them to the orphanage the problem, he could never take care of those kids.

the problem is that, by this choice of leaving them HERE out of anywhere else, he doomed them to a painful life always at the center of conflict, and Merlin started to make his massive moves against Feendrache the moment the kids joined the knighthood and every single one of his schemes have endangered the kids drastically in some way or another. (even if there is to argue that it's why Cruz is there since in every single of those situations Cruz helped Mordred and Arthur out, however considering Cruz also worked to undo Merlin's schemes, there is a question of how much of Cruz's actions to protect Mordred and Arthur are actually under Merlin's orders and how much of it is him rebelling against it)

so yeah Merlin is not fit to raise children, but he's not fit to even be a distant uncle. This man is a menace.

AS FOR HIS BABY FACE PLEASE LOOK AT HIM

also bonus, Mordred and Arthur's fathers just roasting the hell out of him:

so yeah he's been Going Through.

[bicheetopuff]

I guess it’s this kids birthday so I’m gonna remind you what character development can do to a mf

He deserves to be happy