#creativity on display

[apieceofnickel]

|| SNAKE ||

Close up:

Hello!!! this is a remake of this fanart:

[bixels]

Posting a sneak-peak of this now because I'm about to be In The Shit school workload-wise, so this'll take me a while to finish.

Doing some character design exploration/expression sheets for Celestia and Luna. Figuring out Celestia's weird ass anatomy while I'm at it.

[honeystarcamper]

"  Take heart, victory will be ours. "

Day 3 of @essthereal's 850+ editing event . . . a character with your MBTI type OR a character that shares your birthday

f2u with credit! :D

[40cleverways]

Star Trek: The Next Generation #40 "Possesion"

Vulcans cannonically hang up their kid's artwork. I feel this is important information.

[gobstoppr]

first draft at a john design..

some design notes in the tags

[theartoffresco]

"I was black and white and grey." Saying see you later to my past eras. Have you kept up with my stories and know what's coming? 😉

[a-r00m-with-a-m00se]

Anxiety and kisses

[thelostgirl21]

Ever since realising that Joey referring to Jaskier as sapiosexually connecting with Radovid was likely 100% intentional, I've literally been losing my shit over the potential implications...

Like... new headcanon!

What if Jaskier has always approached the act of having sex with someone else as a form of performance art, driven by his desire to please his "audience", and making other people passionately respond to what he's doing for them?

Like... what if what normally sexually interests him isn't so much inspired by the other person, but more by the general idea of being wanted, needed, and the anticipation of the positive feedback he might get from sexually interacting with them.

He readily experiences primary aesthetic attraction towards other people, finds them interesting, becomes curious about them, and feels instantly affectionate towards them; but he's not sexually aroused by / attracted to them, per say.

He really wants to make them feel good, and bask in that sense of intimacy, togetherness and praises he receives from being sexually involved with them (yeah, because he's that good at figuring out what pleases them, and offering it to them).

And somehow, audience response/participation tends to really inform how good or "smooth" he is when it comes to his ability to seduce someone, and convince them to become sexually intimate with him in the first place?

For example...

So... what if Jaskier is a bard and an artist through and through? Not just on stage, but in the sheets as well?

Turning sex into poetry and something very deliberate, where it's all about a sense of artistic expression, and a pure melody of various physical sensations and emotions!

Sexually? Jaskier is an artist, a creative, a free thinker... All is fair!

But it's not something that he usually feels any urge or need to engage in based on the way someone else inspires him any sudden desire to have sex with them specifically.

He loves his sexual partners, he's intrigued by them, he wants to connect with them - even if that connection lasts but a night - and sex allows him to do that.

But maybe he has no idea that sex might be experienced differently by others.

Maybe he just thinks they're like really really REALLY expressive and appreciative of the sex itself, or something, whenever he notices how hungrily some of them appear to throw themselves at him, or at each other.

Also, I've somehow always found it a bit weird how Jaskier seems to fully remain clear minded during Yennefer's magical orgy.

Yennefer comments on how Geralt seems to be immune to her spell, as if it's some kind of big deal!

But then, there's Jaskier...

He just waves at them as if he's totally unaffected by everyone else fucking each other around him, and being surrounded by a bunch of naked bodies having sex...

And/or looks like he's not quite comfortable with the way someone's hand is moving closer to his crotch at some point...

Grant it, he's slowly being suffocated to death by a Djinn's magic, and likely has other priorities than sex in mind!

But that's just the thing...

Isn't Yennefer's spell supposed to override people's ability to think rationally or fully understand what's happening? Everyone snaps out of it looking confused, and poor Jaskier just basically passes out, but he's never once looked like he stopped looking at what was happening around him from an outsider's P.O.V.

Whenever the camera cuts to him, he seems to be sharing the same reality as Geralt and Yennefer, not the kind of sexual haze everyone else appears to be happily trapped in.

Would being affected by the Djinn just make him immune to the whole "sex weed magic thingy" as well?

Or would the usual lack of primary sexual attraction towards other people make it a bit harder for Yennefer's spell to take a hold on him?

(Another headcanon theory I came up with - should Jaskier be revealed as being the direct descendant of Fjall and the Lark - would be that, perhaps, the small touch of magic in his blood would be enough to make him more resistant to certain types of spell... On top of being able to eat whatever he comes across without freaking poisoning himself, I swear!)

But yeah, let's just imagine, for a moment, that sapiosexual Jaskier would have no clue (or very little clue) of what it actually feels like to specifically be sexually attracted to someone (rather than the sex itself, and all it may represent to him) in a way where you are viscerally craving that sexual contact with that specific someone, and you feel like you might go crazy if they don't finally have sex with you.

Then, along comes Radovid, that he develops a sapioromantic and sapiosexual attraction for...

And, for a while, Jaskier thinks he's just losing his freaking mind, because there are moments where Radovid is just there, simply being all sensitive and insightful while discussing dwarven politics with Yarpen, for example...

... and poor Jaskier's never been so sexually aroused in his life!!!

But Radovid is not even technically doing anything that's supposed to be "sexually charged"!

He's fully clothed, being all smart and sensitive, talking about a topic of interest to him while having lunch by the side of the road...

...and Jaskier is just there, casually eating next to him while listening to him talk with their friends.

It's 100% casual and totally trivial, day to day stuff... No plan for Jaskier to try and seduce him and have sex there!

So, how come does he suddenly feel the urge to pounce on him and beg Radovid to just take him right here and there, in front of all their friends at camp, and it's taking all the self-control he can humanly muster not to act upon that impulse?!

Instead, Jaskier stands up, awkwardly excuses himself, and decides the best way to manage the situation is to go take a random dip fully clothed in the nearest river.

"Why?", they ask. Because he was getting hot, that's why!

And no, he couldn't just remove his clothes instead! He liked them really baggy an concealing that day, thank you very much!

As a matter of fact, he might decide to just start wearing his shirt over his pants from now on, because he's starting a new fashion trend! No other reason!

Oh...

Oh, no...

NO.

Don't you dare look at me all concerned while trying to read into my behavior, you stupid prince... Wait. Is that a smirk?

You're smirking aren't you?

How do you look like you've figured it out, when I've no fucking clue what's even going on with me?!

Great! And now the river's cool water is not even working anymore!

That's it! I'm never walking out of here again, and I hope you know it's all your fault!

No. No, don't take off your shirt and get into the water with me, that's not...

Oh? Oh! Everyone else is going and leaving us alone? Okay, nevermind! Fuck! Why's it so hard to walk while standing waist deep in water? Surely there must be a way to get to you faster...

And I'm just imagining poor Jaskier trying to ask Yennefer if Radovid might be some kind of sorcerer with latent magical abilities or something... Because, whenever he's around, there are moments where he randomly feels this overwhelming urge to make love to him, even if the context is not appropriate for delivering a sexual performance of any kind!

Like yes, it has happened to him before to have "the muses" whisper in his ear that sex with a certain someone might be good, and he's typically very open to sudden bursts of inspiration and unplanned sexual improvisation!

But that's not the same thing!

It only happens specifically with Radovid - especially when he's saying or doing something really witty, sensitive or insightful - and it's like his whole body suddenly catches fire, gets all tense and trembling with need; and being touched by him and having sex with him feels like finally being able to breathe after someone's forcefully been holding your head under water for a while...

Radovid must be bewitching him, somehow, for sure!

And Yenn is like "You know that what you've just been describing is simply what regular sexual desire feels like for most people, right?"

And Jaskier's just going:

[queen-mabs-revenge]

not to be brainrot-stories-for-the-brainrotted on main but crowley!chase aziraphale!foreman hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[pixellangel]

words of affirmation become wings to carry the now

[schoethe]

@sorrel-ly: #what is a philosophical talk about the Urpflanze if not #the 18th century version of gay people on their first date at a botanic garden #fun fact the house where they met got bombed away but the current building in its place #has their letters running in an infinite loop along two walls #Briefwechsel-Apollo-Filiale my beloathed <3 #OTP: Ein Gedicht. #and that's how i met your mother.

Und dann auch noch:

Am heutigen Haus Unterem Markt 1, an dessen Stelle einst das Kirstensche Haus stand, lebte im ersten Stock niemand geringeres als Friedrich von Schiller von Mai 1794 bis April 1795. Man kann hier, wenn man genau hinsieht, auf einer 31 Meter langen LED-Laufschrift den vollständigen Briefwechsel zwischen den beiden Schriftstellern nachlesen. Konkurrierend dazu existieren auf dem Unteren Markt 60 handtellergroße Messing-Bodenplatten, die 30 stilisierte Blattarten zeigen. Dahinter steckt natürlich auch eine interessante Geschichte. Die Plaketten zeigen den Weg, den Goethe und Schiller vom ehemaligen, nicht mehr vorhandenen Bachsteinschen Haus in der Rathausgasse 1 bis zum ehemaligen Kirstenschen Haus, also das Haus, in dem Schiller wohnte, entlangschlenderten. Hier auf diesem Schlenderweg, symbolisch mit den Messingplatten dargestellt, fand das erste intensive Gespräch zwischen den beiden statt. Beide waren sich nach einer Sitzung im Bachsteinschen Haus nähergekommen, bummelten die wenigen Schritte bis zu Schillers Wohnhaus, während sie sich angeregt über die Metamorphose der Blätter unterhielten und ließen den Abend dort ausklingen. Der Rest ist Geschichte. Schiller ist glücklich über diese Begegnung und Goethe erhält bald darauf erste Post von ihm. Der rege Briefwechsel zwischen den beiden nimmt seinen Anfang.

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[apieceofnickel]

*drops this and runs away*

based on this tweet:

rendered the chains individually god why do i do this to myself

[tillman]

Anyways I checked out a long video exploring myhouse.wad. Basically only have positive things to say about that. What a creative medium to tell a narrative in im genuinely blown away at the detail and obvious technical wizardly put into that.

[angelic-eros]

Sometimes I wonder how much of myself I have to bend and shape and work around before someone will say they’re proud of what I’ve become

[dorianwolfforest]

To comment on what an Anon said about grinding, like the daily quests are great and all, but i would love if they had more dailies where you unlock them after you reach a certain rep level with a group. Like in Tailtop village, would love more dailies there. Or even if thy allowed you to unlock a secret questline if you reached admired with a certain factions. Such as if you reach admired with the Warriors, Mystics, and Foresters, it gave you a secret questline where you unite all three herds or something. Just a little more variety for those who don’t like to grind to get clothes or horse tack, but rather like to grind to unlock content.

Regarding the SC, maybe increasing the allowance really isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that theres no other way to get them besides purchasing them or the allowance. Like i would watch adverts or buy merch from them if it gave me SC’s. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think having ads in game still gives them money. That way both parties are happy mostly.

SSE could even set up a shop, where if you buy like 50 dollars worth of merch, you get 50 star coins deposited into your game. But it could be like only with purchase 50 dollars and over, and then 60 dollars = 60 SC - 100 dollars spent at the store = 100 SC. And maybe additionally there could be a thing to where if you finish all the achievements in game, you get 400 star coins for free.

If I had a penny for every time someone described wanting a feature in sso that already exists, I’d have two pennies. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice. Getting quests for completing rep already is a thing. You do unlock more dailies by wrapping up reputation. You’ve just played for so long you’ve done it already.

What you’re describing would still end. You’d finish the special secret quest and that would be All. Back to “no content”. And you’re continuing to ignore the fact that SSE are constantly adding more long term quests for old players, instead going “But there is no content!” because the game isn’t perfectly tailored to your preferences. They’re adding new stuff for older players this month! That will give us something to grind! You’re going to get content!

The SC thing is just bad. I’ve played several games where watching ads and doing things for premium allowance was a thing, and other than purchasing it that was usually the only way to get free premium currency. Unlike SSO that gives a big sum of theirs away For FREE, other companies will have you preform “actions” to gain premium currency. This can be watching ads, but more often than not it’ll be something actively harmful like “go to this gambling site and gamble for the free $20 dollars we’ll provide you with, and you can get the equivalent of 25 SC!” And that’s not. Good. Also illegal in Sweden. You’re not allowed to bake ads into gameplay in any way and you are not allowed to show children ads. They’re very serious about it over here. Children’s shows aren’t allowed to break for any kind of ad, and ads aren’t allowed to target them.

Giving SC for ingame things has never been a thing and it will probably never be a thing. Like I said, SSE are an incredibly ethical company when it comes to premium currency. Not only do they offer lifetime subscriptions, something any other company would never touch with a five pole, they also give their premium currency away for free, which few companies would willingly do. They are actively losing money every single week! It’s a wonder they’re still up and running, and instead of yelling at them for not doing enough, they should be heralded as an example to other game studios to prove that it is possible to survive with lifetime subscriptions and giving away in-game currency.

The merch thing they’ve done before. They used to sell magazines with SC codes, which was cool. Unfortunately I don’t think their focus is on merch, so it’s kind of a moot point. Cant give SC away with merch if there is no merch.

[theartoffresco]

It's me. Hi. In my rainbow era... 🌈