#also before anyone asks or wonders

[anartisticalniche]

to celebrate the blue boy comin back, i drew my version of him x3

[dailyhatsune]

Draw miku with a favorite character of yours from one of your fandoms?

just realised i haven’t featured my other favourite genshin character on here yet

[wyrmswears]

jay dump

[dnpbeats]

I do think they're probably hard launching/get married but I don't think that's what they're teasing. I think that's going to happen IN ADDITION to whatever they're teasing bc dnp like to do big projects at the same time as major life events for some reason. Idt they would hype up a wedding or hard launch like this. They've definitely been dropping hints, but I think that has more to do with them liking to ease into big scary life changes rather than jumping in headfirst. I think that they'll either hard launch before the tour announcement or right after so there isn't that elephant in the room when they meet fans and do promo. then they'll rebrand the gaming channel to "dan and phil" and continue to make the content they were before with little to no changes. I'm definitely wrong about all of this but maybe not! We'll see lol

okok you're right that they wouldn't tease a hard launch like this but listen hear me out this is why a doc or something retrospective would make sense... they could hard launch through it in a way that they get to control the narrative, say what they want to say, etc. but like they wouldnt just be giving us details for the sake of airing their personal lives yk they'd be talking about it in a way that it's them finally being able to tell their story on their own terms... so that comes along with a channel rebrand ("since we've built not just our lives but also a career together, we want a joint channel that will be reflective of more types of content than just gaming" some shit like that right). then after that + ppl have calmed down is when they go on tour do u see the vision

[butchsophiewalten]

Man this is so random but this theory is stuck in my head and I wanna see how other people feel about it because I don't see people talk about it a lot (I have no clue if the link will go through properly since I've never put a link in a ask box)

https://www.tumblr.com/art-w0rm/667910993425350656/theory-time

Oh god not this theory again. I really truly try not to be mean to people for no good reason on this blog, but this theory is literally one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen in my entire life. I don't talk about this theory because to me it's like the walten files theory equivalent of that tubby custard mechanically separated chicken post.

Most of the time I genuinely don't even consider it worthy of my time, because it's nonsense, but this is a very nicely worded ask, and I really don't mean to dedicate any of the vitriol I hold towards this theory to You, poor anonymous person, so I will deconstruct it. I will go through the theory point-by-point and deconstruct why I disagree with it.

First up, this:

Showbear is not a character in The Walten Files anymore. Showbear was fully retconned and is never going to appear in the series again. He was effectively just a cameo of ThunderingStatic's (one of Martin's friends) OC, but when The Walten Files blew up and people started assuming Showbear was Martin's character, Static decided to withdraw his character from the series and focus putting him in other projects.

Martin talked about this on Twitter forever ago, but I wouldn't be able to find that tweet now. But here's a bit from the interview he did with KnowYourMeme back in 2021 where he talks about it:

Now this:

This is just stupid to me? Like a complete logical incongruity? I barely even know how describe what is dumb about this because I can't even fathom how anyone draws this conclusion from this information. How is it strange for a man to say 'if my wife isn't home by the time she said she was going to be, let me know, in case something happened.'????? Why would Rosemary be out cheating on her husband with her fucking daughter with her??? If Rosemary was cheating on her husband why would her whole life collapse when he went missing? If Rosemary was cheating on her husband why would she show up at the restaurant every day after he disappeared asking if anyone had seen him and hoping to find him alive??? Why would she make paintings of herself and him together after he disappeared????? What the fuck are you talking about?

Ok now this:

Whatever. This is maybe the most coherent part of the theory, to me. I definitely agree that Sha evokes a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' sort of aesthetic, but I do remember Martin saying something in a Twitter Q&A at one point about how that wasn't actually intentional, and that Bon was the character he actually meant to seem unusually predatory. I looked for a while and couldn't find a screenshot of that, but I did find this one where he says the thing about Bon:

So whatever. take that with a grain of salt.

I don't even know what to say. here. Whatever. sure she was rolling in the hay

yeah Rosemary is asking if she's still beautiful because she cheated on her husband and not because she was chopped up and stuffed inside a big animatronic sheep. I think this is correct and is the True Deep Lore.of the walten files. I'm sure this doesn't have anything to do with the recurring motif of the double-meaning behind the word Beautiful either.

I don't know why it's weird that the lost lingering spirit of a mother would be calling out to her only living child. I Don't know why that needs additional explanation involving this batshit infidelity conspiracy theory.

Sha's chest is also ripped out

So is Banny's, honestly? Just a little less?

ok now this:

I guess I can't disprove this except that I think this is dumb. I think this is a really incredibly stupid logical leap to make. Y'know I really meant to go into this levelheadedly and very calmly go through every point and talk about why I think it's Decisively Disagreeable or whatever but I can't. I really can't. I just cannot keep my patience with this sort of thing.

You'd think if there was an infidelity aspect here it would've been lampshaded in some respect, at all, in the old /sophiewalten findjackwalten page text. Where it's literally Sophie talking to Jenny about what she remembers about her family.

Especially if the idea is that Sophie is meant to have been there. You'd think something like that would have come up here. Not 'she was nice and a good mom until my dad disappeared and her mental health started getting worse'

[greatbigbellies]

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[carefulfears]

Explain what you said on Twitter

assuming that you're talking about when i said that imo the conversations around "scully, you're making this personal" aren't aligned with the intent/impact of the scene (actually i think what i said was that the scene is very serious but y'all never talk about what's serious about it so you loop back around to being unserious) and tbh i can do a post on my own feelings about the scene sometime when i'm feeling more with it if y'all want but i just meant that people bitch about that line every single day talking about how it's hypocritical and how infuriating it is and how much you hate mulder in s6 etc etc but i literally never see anyone even think about like...the actual meaning of the scene and implications of the line and the context and where they're each coming from. it's all just a very shallow and reactionary discussion in my experience

(i ended up talking more in the tags lol i never shut up in the tags)

[dragonartist56]

The playable Sarentu being audibly giddy about helping Anqa set up a date with Priya>>>>>>>>>>

[ihamtmus]

I SAW MY NEPHEW FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY 😍😍🥹🥹😭🥹😭😍😍💗💗🥹💖🥹🥰😍💖🥰💕

[owleics-fr]

Art for the DTDAY thread :D

[caffeinatedopossum]

Watching neon genesis evangelion and it's extremely relatable, to the point that I'm pretty sure I have quoted it exactly before without ever having seen it

[bitternace]

i held onto you, with a desperate strength with everything—with everything in me

i was feeling tender, it will happen again.

[Image  ID: A digital drawing of kingdom hearts characters, Lea and Isa. The background is transparent with geometric shapes, mostly in bold yellows,  pinks, and blues. They are shown sharing a kiss with their eyes closed,  Lea half-lying atop Isa, on his belly, his ankles crossed and held high.  He half-props himself up with his right hand, and the other lies gently over Isa’s collarbone. He is wearing burgundy jeans, a black sports vent tank top, a blue elbow brace, a gold sweatband, a purple hair tie on his wrist, and black socks with decorative flames. Half supporting his weight is Isa. Leaning back, Isa props himself up on his left elbow,  his other hand on the nape of Lea’s neck. One of his legs is pulled closer to his body, bent at the knee. He wears a grey turtleneck, black sweatpants with blue sidelines, and blue socks with decorative bananas.  His hair is held up with a grey transparent hairclip. /End ID.]

Close-ups under keep reading.

[Image ID: A close up of their faces shown from their shoulders up. /End ID.]

[Image ID: A close up of their hands and torsos, shown from the shoulder down. /End ID.]

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

XXVI.V.MMXXII

A statue of Joan of Arc in a local church, Durfort, France

Photographed by me

[eclarinet]

same soup... different day

[lo-fi-charming]

Hi, I saw your ideal Elias drawing and wanted to let you know that portraying politically and/or socially power people & people in high positions has roots deep in antisemitism. It's derived from the claim that all or most political figures are actually jewish and that Jews thus 'run the media'.

Some further reading: The Atlantic article on why conspiracy theorists always land on the Jews: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/why-conspiracy-theorists-always-land-on-the-jews/671730/

The Guardian article on QAnon and their roots in antisemitic theories: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump-what-is

Wikipedia article on the international Jewish conspiracy, which also has a short 'see also' section linking to two more Wikipedia articles on antisemitic conspiracy theories: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy

I'm sure you didn't purposefully portray Elias as an antisemitic stereotype/conspiracy, antisemitism often hides in plain sight, so I wanted to take initiative.

Have a good [insert relevant temporal word here] :) /gen

anon im going to be so straightforward and real with you

my thoughts on this:

it is a... silly little joke. a pun yknow? EELias? we all have a sensible chuckle

i drew him as an eel because i like eels. i love them so much. i would hug and kiss them.

pr sure the most relevant angle for that antisemitic stereotype is lizard people? and he is not a lizard. he is an eel

my elias isn't jewish? so...?

also elias runs a dumb little institute that relies on donors... he has like 5 dollars... i wouldn't exactly describe him as Politically Powerful

i GUESS you could argue that, well he is literally the guy secretly manipulating all events for his evil plans, but like... that isn't why i drew him, specifically, as an eel? review points 1 and 2

...i think when it comes to why folks might feel the urge to send asks like this... i get it can come from a genuinely well-intentioned place, to an extent. but i've talked before about how asks like these come off and how they make me, personally, feel. it's not your job or obligation to write out an essay explaining to me why [your interpretation of my art] means ive drawn something you feel is bad, and thus need to warn me of

like im sorry but ultimately my feeling is that it's just not that deep and kind of a reach, and this ask is frustrating to me because to me it feels like you're taking the worst-faith reading of something innocuous as an excuse to be pedantic in my direction

[neopronouns]

Could you make your own version of a cinthean flag? I like the term but don't want to use a flag by someome who is exclusionary.

queued!