#also i'm not tagging everyone officially

[azurebolt-fr]

lair rainbow(?)

[cutiesigh]

❤️🖤🩷

Wuthering Waves has taken over all of my free time recently, so here's a sketch of Scar!Ren I originally shared in da 14DWY Discord!!

[degrees-of-lili]

I've done it. I've drawn all the named NPCs Edit: For the record; Gender Symbol is their gender identity and Color is Sex/Genitalia (Blue = Penis, Pink = Vagina, Purple = Hermaphrodite). Probably self evident but I figured I'd state it. Edit 2: Added Charlie. Sorry Charlie. I've done it. I've drawn all the named NPCs Edit 3: Forgot Eden's label.

[olessan]

HEWWO???

(source)

[flecks-of-stardust]

wholeheartedly and with as much gentleness as possible, i truly think there needs to be more discussion about downpour in the community as it is now. for a variety of reasons.

[zukkaoru]

🖤 the body i'm in 🤍

Once the coughing has subsided, Ryuu whispers, “My body is a warzone.” He sets the glass down. “It cannot even hold enough food to improve my health. My lungs are rotting. I cannot run for more than a few minutes before I must stop to catch my breath. I must rely on my ability to compensate for my physical disadvantages, but in doing that, I will never be strong enough for Dazai-san. You do not want my body; yours is everything I wish mine could be.” It would be worth it, Gin thinks, if it meant she could feel at home in her own skin. She would take Ryuu’s terminal illness, she would take his dysfunctional lungs, she would take his too-thin frame and his skin that bruises at the slightest pressure and his perpetual cough and his weak immune system. She would take everything he hates about his body and wear it with pride because at least she wouldn’t be so feminine.

or: ryuunosuke and gin find themselves, over the course of seven years.

🖤 akutagawa & gin ft. minor sskk and tachigin 🤍 3 chapters, 18.2k words, complete 🖤 written for @aktgwsibsweek days 2, 5, & 6

[1pcii]

zolu playlist Zzz( - __ + )_ﾒ ﾒ ﾒ ⊃♥⊂( • ◻ ˊ • ｷ ) =≡⊃ ))

[wreckedhoney]

a while ago on the discord i brought up the "which desk at the station is forrest's desk" question when the answer should probably have been obvious. he's been at the job for approx. one week, so it's the desk with all the unpacked boxes. it just didnt occur to me because thats Frankly A Lot Of Boxes and my first thought was this is where all the storage and junk are piled on, but no. it's all stuff forrest brought (/hc). he's a heavy packer. he spite packed all the stuff he didn't want his old job to keep even if he doesnt need or even like them all that much but now that he's blacklisted then no one in the entirety of chicago can have them

[wutherwaves]

hiiii no need to respond I just wanted to thank you for your services, with the guides and posting about events and allat here :) it's very useful to me

[maulfucker]

do you think there were obi-wan impersonators during the clone wars era. do you think they officiated weddings like elvis impersonators.

[loveletterworm]

and this is the other "insane overachiever mode" attack I made so far...I initially just wanted to draw something quick before I went out to get snowcones yesterday, but I had so much trouble deciding between two sketches that I ended up making this whole blender setup so that I could finish both, and also add 2 more drawings that weren't even initially planned. This is actually also a 3d render!

The characters belong to lamby on artfight, who I think has a tumblr at @neogeopet ? Not sure how often they log in but like last time I might as well @ them

[wavvie]

just two idiots and their idiot children

[terry-pratchett-book-bracket]

Hi all! So as my bio says, I'm running two other tournaments currently (@galavant-song-tournament and @indie-queer-movie-tournament) and the latter will take me until May to finish with but then I should have time for this. I'll make a proper intro post then as well and set up a bracket and whatnot. Basic info for anyone interested: I'll be including every published book written (or co-written) by Terry Pratchett, no matter if it's a novel, non-fiction, short story, or what. So submissions aren't necessary. I won't do plays or other media not published originally as a book. I'll accept propaganda at any time; I'll just file it away for now to use later so it's no trouble that we won't start for ages. (Also if someone's already done this bracket let me know; a quick search and I didn't find anything but idk, I only see some fandom content and could easily have missed it.)

[faithfromanewperspective]

My name is Ariel. I'm the first ever person to be recognised to have a PDA profile (of autism) without autism. And I've realised recently how much the random stuff I do on here, is what I want to be doing for the rest of my life.

So much of my existence has been spent masking, hiding who I really am. And how could I not? When there is no representation of a neurotype anything like mine. When there is no category for it in people's heads either, and so the way they perceive me--and I see it in the way they communicate with me, in their language and behaviour--tends to be a facet, a side, a view of the real me that never shows the whole picture. It's exhausting, never really being known. Existing in fragments of myself to accommodate for people who genuinely do want to know me, but I don't have the language to explain the extent of who I am to them and as a result, the first thing they see becomes everything, in their mind. After that's happened it's hard to explain how it's always not been the case. How I didn't mean to deceive them. I didn't ask to be this way.

I relate to late-diagnosed autistics in this, the confusion of people around them as they unmask. But they often will say they get to fully be themselves in autistic spaces. I don't experience that relief. I feel the kinship of being neurodivergent, and I share the experience of hyperfixations and overload in the ways they present for me. But it's like communicating with neurotypicals, only different. I don't feel a sense of home. I'm like you in some ways. In other ways, not so much. Just different ways. And it's exhausting living in fragments. But this weird partial dual citizenship has superfinetuned my communication skills. My empathy. My ability to understand brains and experiences which are wildly different--and when I'm taking in all of this information all of the time, feeling all this empathy, shifting gears in my brain for every neurotype of every person I lose myself in the experiences of a little--it gets overwhelming. I get overloaded, yes, from the volume of it, and I wish I could relate to empaths more on these things, that I didn't have to expose myself to problematic takes to try. But I also see patterns and trends. I'm hyperaware of authority structures and power and hierarchies as a PDAer. And so some of these patterns concern me. But who can I debrief what I'm seeing, what I'm exposed to every day I interact with people (and I always am interacting with people) with? No one sees it from the vantage point I do. And it's exhausting to have to explain it.

But a silver lining, I guess, is the sense of purpose it brings. The sense that maybe little by little, I can be a part of putting some of the things I see right. There are many areas I'm passionate about, and I talk a lot about them on this blog. It's good to have the outlet. There are many ways of addressing them that I can see, and imagine playing out from my unique perspective, predict how every stakeholder will interact with them. See whether they work, or it's time to return to the drawing board. I'm a PDAer, I'm a natural problem solver. And every effort I make takes a weight off my chest. I'm processing things and doing what I can for them. I can rest knowing I've done my part. I'm not ignoring the injustice, the elephant in the room or in my vision, the thing that when I'm involved with gives me sensory overload (or the closest thing to it) and I'm so empathetic to the people involved with at all times, I can get overloaded from feeling how it must be for them.

I have to look after myself. Manage my energy. But it's hard, because the accounting formulas we're given don't work for me. Even common profiles of neurodivergence--I'm energised by novelty. By connection. By creativity, not by routine. I need each of the carefully constructed tasks in my routine to regulate me in order to be able to do the next, which will regulate me for the next and so on. It's a hard system to put together. I don't know anyone else who has to do the same. And I know a lot of people.

I think my neurotype only assists me with my biggest form of art, the main thing I want to do with my life. I like to joke that every urban planner/designer who graduated from my high school is a PDAer. I don't have a large sample space for that observation. But I'm usually right. We see the big picture. We care about justice and we're good at finding it among fake claims of it. We're natural problem solvers. We're empathetic artists. We're practical at our core. We hyperfocus. And perhaps most of all, we're communicators.

I've heard the main thing an urban designer is is a communicator. No wonder. I shuffle through information and perspectives like a deck of cards I'm trying to sort by colour, number, and shape. I match up people's opposing perspectives and I unpack their fears in front of me. And then I draw. I write. I compose melodies--anything to get this constant stream of ideas out of me and doing something productive. So of course I'm going to be standing up against power abuses in religion, unpacking every way this infiltrates into our lives and all of its impacts. Of course I'm going to dissect colonialism and present ways we can do better. Face and push through the fear that has us trying to lord over others without realising. Of course I'm going to reach out to anyone even vaguely like me that they might not have to be alone in it. I might not have to be alone in it as well. And of course I'm going to understand them perfectly.

Is it a skill? Sure. Is it a neurotype? Absolutely. It's myself, the 'me' I never understood how to be until I understood everyone else. Is it a disability? It disrupts any ability I have to do anything else I or anyone else might want me to do with my days. It tires me out. It overloads me in ways there aren't really any normalised ways to explain and I can't say no to it when I feel compelled to do something. It impacts my mental health. It limits me. But it's who I am. Why would I want to try to be anything else?

[sadpeopledancing]

in the new year, i solemnly swear that i'll always be fashionably late <3 but here are my top 9 albums of 2023!

i looked back on my top albums throughout the years and realised that some of my choices haven't stood the test of time. i trust my past self and she's still very valid, but i haven't listened to some of my top albums in years. so for this year, i decided to choose albums not by how good i think they were, but by how much i kept coming back to them (not mutually exclusive tho!) through all the ups and downs (& headassery) of 2023.

other albums that nearly made the top 9 (or i really loved these albums but a couple of songs are skips):

scarlet by doja cat

arrived anxious, left bored by flume

but here we are by foo fighters ('show me how' is simply INSANE and one of the best songs anyone's ever created)

gag order by kesha

did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean blvd by lana del rey

made in u by loboda

guts by olivia rodrigo (i think 'vampire' might have been the best song of 2023 (and just in general i was surprised to love this record so much))

albums i listened to a lot at some point (& then kind of forgot but i still think they're really fucking good):

red moon in venus by kali uchis

ben by macklemore

endless summer vacation by miley cyrus

& albums that just brought joy:

all of this will end by indigo de souza

falling or flying by jorja smith

dead club city by nothing but thieves

everything is alive by slowdive

i’d also like to continue w the category for ‘the album that somehow escaped you in the past but has truly grown on you this year’ and give it up for magdalene by fka twigs. it's an album that truly healed my soul <3

once again happy new year! you're all great and i love you and i wish everyone peace and a couple of billion dollars each 💞💞💞💞💞

[maydayfireball]

If you follow me on twitter you may already be aware of this, but we’ve announced Piko Live Party 2: Summer Spectacular ! This concert will be released next summer, and we’ve already begun development on it ! I’d also like to take this opportunity to announce this year’s design contest ! 

Our first contest theme is Yukata ! Artists can design a yukata pattern and obi for Piko to wear as though he was on his way to a summer festival. This design is for JUST the pattern of the yukata and obi, not an entire outfit. We are asking contestants to use one of two design templates to work on in hopes it’ll making judging a bit easier. You can see the templates here !

Our second contest theme is Racing Queen ! "Race queen" (レースクイーン) is a Japanese term for a type of promotional model found as part of a pit crew in certain kinds of motor racing" We want contests to design their best version of a "Racing Piko"! No template is required for this contest, though we do have an optional nude base you may use to draw over if you would prefer.  You can get that base here.  Unlike the Yukata contest, this is for an entire outfit - hair, clothes, and shoes. (though if you want to keep his default hair, that’s okay too of course.)

When you've finished your design, you can submit it here !

Prizes:

- One winner will be picked for each contest and will receive a 3D model of their design that will be used in concert, as well as a 25USD cash prize.

Rules:

Deadline for entries is January 15th, 2023 at 23:59 PM CST. Winners will be announced January 22nd.

Artist may enter both contests multiple times. However we will have a different winner for each contest.

Close-ups of small details, written notes, or larger scale versions of decals / designs is recommended but not required. 

No NSFW / R-18 Designs allowed. While Racing Designs do tend to lean towards the more risque, we ask people who go in this direction to try to keep it tastefully suggestive rather than inappropriate.

Using the base for the Racing Design contest is not required. However you must use one of the templates included for the Yukata contest. 

Cash prices will be sent out via Paypal after winners are contacted.

I wish everyone the absolute best of luck, and I look forward to seeing your designs ! Keep an eye out for more future updates !