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asoftepiloguemylove · 10 months

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hi!! i was wondering if you could do a web weave on feeling unloveable but in the romantic sense? like in the way where you’re one to have really great platonic and familial relationships but when it comes to craving and seeking a romantic connection it’s like everyone wants absolutely nothing to do with you all of a sudden

Olivia Laing The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone / unknown / Margaret Atwood / Taylor Steele Shocker / unknown / pinterest / Sierra DeMulder Today Means Amen

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punkrock-confetti · 2 months

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If prohibitedwish has 1 fan im that fan, if prohibitedwish has 0 fans im dead

#can you tell i headcanon that prismo talks alot?#i imagine he just says his thoughts alot since hes used to being alone #he just says whatever man shits crazyy #prohibitedwish #fionna and cake #adventure time #prismo the wishmaster #prismo #punks art tag

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wordscanbeenough · 10 months

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My life felt empty and unreal and I was embarrassed about its thinness, the way one might be embarrassed about wearing a stained or threadbare piece of clothing.

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

#olivia laing #the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone #quote #words #books

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sohaoying · 2 years

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unfinished business

#your turn to die #yttd spoilers #sou hiyori #shin tsukimi #kugie kizuchi #yeah i'll make a ghost au #i didn't have room for more dialog but i think he'd want to be called shin here #shin's my fav and i like the greenblings so much but sometimes i forget that he was kind of a cringefail brother #sou being to kanna almost like what midori was to him + kugie rubbing it in >>#but also there's no way to know what their time in ch 2 was like for sure #it's only ever others who say kanna was being used while kanna herself denies it+her whole thing is that the main cast overlooks her agency #they had normal conversations (e.g. mint choco ice cream) and kanna was more aware than she let on (e.g. knowing sou wrote the phone note)#but the one conversation we saw of them alone from sou's pov (post-nightmare to be fair) was not a good look #we just don't know how healthy their dynamic was overall!#kugie wasn't the best sister initially either so i think she's reminded of her regrets too. but the dunking comes first #sometimes you see something you hated about yourself in someone else and go hm. hate that #i think they should have ghost adventures after their initial beef though. why? bc the kanna hallucination cg is my fav and i said so #and yttd is all about feeling empathy for everyone y'know?#art

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sonknuxadow · 1 year

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every time i see someone say that sonic would be homophobic or transphobic or racist or ableist or anything along those lines or use him as a mascot for those sorts of beliefs im like Dont make me tap the sign ↓

#also the part in sa2 where sonic is like There always seem to be a lot of police around when you dont need them #also the official art of sonic with a pride flag #and the episode of sonic x where he ditches the president to take a girl in a wheelchair on an adventure #and the part in idw sonic where he says that the world needs all different kinds of people #specifically in reference to some people not being able to fight as well as he can #leave sonic ALONE !!!!!#i see people do this with shadow pretty often too because of the way hes viewed as an edgelord and its JUST as annoying #shadow would not support any of that shit you dont know him like i do

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a-caterpillars-world · 7 months

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you're gonna be ok, kid

don't tag as ship

#adventure time #fionna and cake #fern the human #twos art #digital art #you dont understand fern as a character makes me so emotional #his life was so fucking miserable. he was constantly suffering or distressed or being used #he didnt know a single moment of peace in his entire life up until only a few minutes before Dying #and we go to fionna and cake and. hes Okay. hes living a normal life seemingly unburdened by all the problems of ooo #shes seemingly got very little wrong besides nightmares Of That Past Life and its just.#even if your life was miserable the universe still loves you. there is a world where you can be ok. there is a world where you are happy #even if it seems impossible you are not doomed. fern might be with dj flame!!! she is loved!!! she isnt alone anymore #isnt it so lovely that even if it isnt Home Universe Fern there is still a world where he gets to be at least happier than what was

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seaweedstarshine · 4 months

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This part of The Crimson Horror novelization lives rent free in my mind:

‘I could materialise the TARDIS around her on stage!’ cried the Doctor. ‘No—’ he concluded bitterly. ‘Too conspicuous. Blow pipe?’ ‘What?’ ‘Use a blow pipe dart to knock her out. Just for a bit. Long enough to get her back here. Strong cuppa. Two rounds of toast. Gentle interrogation…’ ‘Right,’ I sighed. ‘Or—’ ‘Befriend her as a child! Easy! I can nip back in the TARDIS, make a huge impression on her when she’s just a nipper then reappear in her life and then it’ll be all bunting out, hail the conquering Doctor, all that. It’s worked before!’

He liked the results on Amy, so he tried it on Kazran Sardick, until causing lasting childhood trauma is one of his go-to solutions for easy compliance! That's my eleven. My eldritch horror.

#twelve years and four psychiatrists works great for this manic pixie dream eldritch horror #'is friends the right word for the people you acquire?' -the dream lord #eleventh doctor #11th doctor #Amy pond #Kazran sardick #doctor who #new who #the doctor #crimson horror novelization #words by seaweed #dark!Doctor #am I using that tag too freely? I was hoping to use it for my serial killer AU doctor fan arts I have yet to fully render let alone post #this novelization is however. very. mark gatiss (you know if you know)#the ONE exception to novelizations always being better than the episode #not only because he apparently forgot about the whole impossible girl arc which is the reason they're in victorian times in the first place #Kazran is a companion btw I will die on this hill. in audios the Doctor took him on adventures without Abigail too

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fatedroses · 4 months

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Poor Emmanellain sending this relatively new, silent, stoic adventurer off on a delivery only to realize its going to take twice as long as just delivering it himself.

Zenos gets to deal with both the pain of not being able use Aetherytes and being dramatically stubborn of doing a job he was given regardless of it.

#ffxiv #concept #fan art #sketch #adventurer zenos #zenos yae galvus #emmanellain de fortemps #sometimes i'm just occassionally blindsided remembering that these two are the same age #I might draw a scenario later of Emm taking in Zenos like Haurche does for us #travelling alone he actually starts to learn that its kinda nice helping people who dont put you on a pedestal #or jump to calling you a monster behind your back (*cough* Asahi and Varis *cough*)#Also Ali's words really just live rent free in his brain #in fact looking back to how I've worked on writing him #it might in fact be the only thing living in his brain at the moment #him being an adventurer is boiled down to 'if I do stuff for other people maybe i won't end up alone forever'#because I am still on the side that no matter how much he'll want to he's physically incapable of dying anymore #resonant/emet's experiments go brr

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fishyfishyfishtimes · 6 months

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I drew Ahti II and his never before seen, very best friend Karleeen (three e's is intentional) for Halloween! They're dressed as Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens :) Someone likened Ahti II to Azi once and given that he already had a dark-haired "best friend" who is part edgy animal... it was only natural to have this costume arrangement. Please don't spoil anything about the show though, I am only in the first few episodes of season 1!!

On another note, imagine having to buy pants with eight pant legs. The cost would be insane...

#i almost forgot to post!#self indulgent art post because ahti II and karleeen are my everything <3 #oh my god oh my god they-- you dont get it they--#they-------#theyre besties and they met when ahti II was looking to be alone in the shoals of the coast and accidentally startled karleeen via jumping-#on a rock in all his fishy glory and theyre both a little bit socially awkward for different reasons and have a hard time being in large -#groups but together theyre so open and carefree and they like hiking and swimming and drawing and they go on little adventures together -#where they have picnics and ahti II loves to dump all his fish knowledge on karleeen and karleeen loves to listen when shes working on -#something and they have each others backs and would in fact fight someone if they insulted the other and karleeen makes ahti II laugh -#so much and he often feels very burdened by his responsibility and like he has to be perfect for the whole world and hes only really -#comfortable talking to karleeen about his woes and he also absolutely listens to karleeens troubles and helps her with her abandonment -#issues and and and----#theyre in a funny sort of relationship where neither would be opposed to getting married and theyre a little bit in love but theyre happy -#to exist as best friends and just want to see where things go #ummm yeah! yippee !! ahti II lore! i dont talk about that often. thank you for reading! i appreciate that.#ahti II #my art #halloween

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eryanlainfa · 6 months

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I think this is one of my favorite work ever but for some reason I never posted it ??? We had to make 4 illustrations based on a song without lyrics, and I thought it'd be really cool to connect them to make one big piece!

Featuring 3 of my past teachers as adventurers. As I have the fun habit of making everyone a DnD counterpart haha

#eryart #scenery #illustration #dnd #art #ocs #dnd art #adventure #definetly overdid the textures but it was soooo fun to do !!#definetly had multiple breakdowns while working on it lmao #also I just really like the base colors alone so I put it here :³ #with a friend we made a whole story of those three theachers specifically being transported to a fantasy world and that was so fun #we had character sheets and a storyline and everything- eventually we wanted to make a silly comic about it !#sadly homeworks tired us too much so we never got the chance to finish anything :'(

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trees-and-planets · 1 year

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— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

#olivia laing #The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone #quotes #quote #literature #poetry

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kanene-yaaay · 2 months

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Look. Look.

I need to get it out of my system, okay? I just need to. Immediately

Himmel + cheer up tickles

The reason?

I rest my case. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk I am slowing descending into madness here

#not me literally writing 1863635 tickles hcs about this guy HE MAKES ME LOSE MY MIND #never though I would get attatched to him #literally watching the first ep sent a screenshot of him to my friend saying 'If he dies I'm dropping out'#one minute after I was sending her screams #anyway #never been so close to writing a self insert fic in MY ENTIRE LIFE. probably will commission some art w him in the future LIKE AAAAA #Wanna put him in a mcrowave and SHAKE BECAUSE HOW DARE YOU. HOW DARE YOU LEAVE MARKS HOW DARE YOU LEAVE A PIECE OF YOURSELF IN EVERY VILLAG #EVERY FRIEND EVERY ADVENTURE EVERY INTERACTION #and don't even let me start talking about Friern because I will go crazy #this anime broke and healed me so much #Kanene being Kanene #not even going to tag this w the anime I shall perish alone #'oh but kanene when you say a self insert you mean a reade-' nope. i'm dragging my sona by the hand and throwing into that world #and then carefully building an entire background with daydreamed interactions and relationships until I get to the point of cheer up tickle #Gosh haven't done one of those since..... 2018 I think #Time to get my dear oc out of under my bed as it seems

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vivy-nx · 6 months

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hi!! look at my cool kirby walking simulator fangame i made over the course of last year!! i worked very hard on it!! it's downloadable for windows and linux!

#kirby series #kirby #kirby's adventure #my art #pixel art #it's got a little jank to it but i think it works about as well i could have hoped for.#unfortunately due to “my first time using this game engine proper” brain the two things i'd really like to have added if I could-#those being support for other screen resolutions and input remapping #were kinda. not something I considered at all #and trying to add them in retroactively was a bit of a nightmare #and i kinda lost steam on it and didnt work on the project for a long while #but i figured i'd rather have a release thats rough around the edges than an almost-perfect video game languishing alone on my hard drive #so i'm putting it out as is.#i hope you like it !!!#i learned a lot about godot engine making this thing. hopefully soon i will make even more cool things with godot!!#i can even try godot 4 now!! i've got no idea what that's like because when i tried to port this over to it all the visuals broke somehow #so i just stuck with godot 3.5 #anyway. please enjoy!!!#Youtube

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thebooksaidthat · 2 years

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Talking so much you horrify yourself and those around you; talking so little that you almost refuse your own existence: a demonstrates that speech is by no means a straightforward route to connection. If loneliness is to be defined as a desire for intimacy, then included within that is the need to express oneself and to be heard, to share thoughts, experiences and feelings. Intimacy can’t exist if the participants aren’t willing to make themselves known, to be revealed. But gauging the levels is tricky. Either you don’t communicate enough and remain concealed from other people, or you risk rejection by exposing too much altogether: the minor and major hurts, the tedious obsessions, the abscesses and cataracts of need and shame and longing.

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

#olivia laing #The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone #non fiction #book quotes #essays

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alphagodith · 2 months

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super mood whiplash when you find an awesome new piece of fanart for your fave show and then read the description and the artist is just bashing the SHIT out of the dub you grew up with that made you fall in love with the show in the first place just because a few scenes hit slightly different in a totally different language.

like yeah everyone has preferences and often some stuff does get spoiled by a dub, but not every dub is totally garbage and it's still a bit heartless either way to just tear it apart as if thousands of kids didn't wake up early every saturday to watch it, just like the original. ESPECIALLY on an art post that those kids are very likely to see! (like come on they even tagged it with the dub version of the character name)

#personal bs #this is about the original digimon adventure 1999 #some scenes got censored or even cut in really stupid ways #but the dialogue and voice acting were actually really great #and a lot of the sound effects in the sub are just plain bizarre #and regardless the show is awesome enough that a few slip-ups here and there are not enough to 'ruin' it #and to say otherwise is actually an insult to the original work as much as it is to the dub #same feel when artists call out shippers or just shit all over the fandom for being toxic when they could have just posted the art alone #tho that is more OTHER fandoms #wouldn't you rather talk with other fans about how much you both enjoy the thing instead of bashing the work and alienating half the fandom #besides i'm pretty sure dubs still have to be approved by the original owners/creators of the media so... shitting on it is shitting on the #and the sub is still also just a translation that probably misses a lot from the original language too

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ilovelotsofthings · 8 months

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Ollie! (She/Her & He/Him)