#feeling rather talkative today...

[koifsssh]

Hiii do you have an specific tool you like using? (I mean an specific pen bc of the texture or idk anything you wanna point out that you like about your drawings) it can be digital tools or traditional whichever you prefer 💐

hmm... a specific tool... that is a good question!

I suppose i like all my tools, my grandmother had given me a very specific pencil! it's... soft? i suppose? it doesn't leave traces like mechanical pencils, or normal wood ones! i'm not sure what it's called, or where she got it from! but it's certainly something i use quite often!

amongst other things i love using markers! i have a box of 40 alcohol markers, i take it to school with me most days and absolutely tear up my sketch book when i'm bored... you know how it is!

but what i do love the most is digital art, there's much more you can do, plus! your markers do not dry out and your pencils do not need to be refilled! ( err... the mechanical ones i mean! )

as for anything specific in that aspect... i'm not quite sure! i had used a pencil brush for a while for my art, i did favor it quite a bit when i first got into welcome home!

this drawing in particular is a good example of it! very sketchy! i will always love that brush... but right now i pivoted to a rather smooth one!

as for my drawings in general hmmm... im not sure! for my completely detailed drawings i think i like using filters the most! it enhances it, and often times makes me see things differently... like colors for example!

this one little snippet is another example,,, the glitch sort of effect with the noise looks rather well... it is slightly blurred, too! but i just like adding unnecessary details no one will see... bwah!

hehe! i hope you are doing well, neighbor! bwah!

[helenofblackthorns]

I'm constantly thinking about this passage & I need other people to talk about

like "here is someone you already know"????????

[nabaath-areng]

Been impossible to take photos of these nails due to horrible weather lighting, but since it was specifically inspired by Ieeha I needed to figure out a way... thank you closet for having surprisingly decent lighting and dresses for being a surprisingly decent backdrop!!!

[aro-aizawa]

I HAVE A CAT

[meowrimo]

the day the earth stood still is the day i felt your presence leave it, and then every day after that.

[freddyyeti]

“You need to be respectful towards people who aren’t comfortable sharing their F/Os, they have boundaries that need to be respected just as much as anyone else’s” and “While it’s completely fine to keep your distance from people who share your F/Os, you shouldn’t be putting them down just because they’re fine with sharing and you aren’t” are sentiments than CAN, and moreover SHOULD coexist

[dashiellqvverty]

like i would not be mad if you told me you liked bix's ending i would absolutely get it and respectfully disagree. but if you try to tell me that its actually MORE feminist to like the ending and actively ANTI feminist to dislike it in any way whatsoever. well. im gonna fucking kill you. this isn't about what "is feminist" or "isn't feminist." this isn't "is it GOOD to show women as mothers or BAD to show women as mothers." this is critical analysis of a character in a television show. this is about BIX, specifically, as a mother. can we drop the buzzwords and put on our critical thinking caps and have a productive discussion of the writing of this show. this is a show with very good writing and everything that happens is very intentional so when it feels like something falls short i want to dig into that!!!

[i-am-pup]

Would be pretty cool if my flatmate actually listened to me when I spoke. Retaining the info I tell them would also be pretty snazzy but that's definitely pushing it

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

i hope u guys know it is truly the very kind things you say to me that keep me going here a lot of the time. ive been in the worst fucking writing slump to the point ive really been barely writing at all and i finally felt like,, the same spark i had been missing this whole time after going through my hall of fame tag. thank you for everything so sincerely

[youmakethelight]

Okay, but I'm casting my mind back to try to imagine how I would have felt about tboc daryl before season 10 got me so stupid about this show, when I used to be a casual viewer. And I still think I'd have just thought daryl lost his mind tbh.

This is just me going off on tangents about the show now, don't mind me.

He felt a bit off in season 1, I can't lie. The costume change would have thrown me even if I wasn't as attached, because I'm probs just the type of neurodivergent that struggles with too much change at once, and him being away from TF, in Europe, and looking so different, then calling Laurent useless, then the ways he looked at Isabelle at the end of 1x06 - that was all just too different to the Daryl I knew idk. But I stuck with it.

But having his first on-screen kiss be so entirely unpredictable for what I thought I knew of his character felt gratuitous*. And then it's like suddenly I'm being railroaded into following him on this rolleroaster that I don't understand. One minute he's longing for home, the next he's playing baseball and "just having fun". Then home has found him, but now he's invested in this kid I still haven't learnt to feel invested in yet. And he's never even talking about anything to do with home anymore, even after Carol is there? It's suddenly all just about Laurent, and part of the problem for me is there wasn't enough balance to convince me of the story.

And I think this was most of my difficulty with enjoying TOWL, too. (Don't come for me please for talking about my personal experience of watching TOWL.) I watched TOWL first out of all the spinoffs, and I remember this one part where I think Michonne and Rick were in a kitchen or something and Rick felt so different to me and it made me sad, and then she called it out. And he said something like that it's been so long, he's lost who he used to be or something like that. I can't remember exactly, but it made me sad. And I think, for me, I didn't get enough glimpses of the Rick I recognised within the short 6 episodes that I never felt satisfied or happy with it. And maybe I needed more TF references or something??? I didn't even feel enough concern for Judith or RJ from him - maybe I'm misremembering, but I think your memory of the feeling something gave you is important. I get that the leadership want these spinoffs to be accessible to people who didn't watch the flagship show, but I think that's a big part of where it's losing the magic for me.

The thing that was better for me about DD season 1 is that it was all about getting home, and his determination felt relentless throughout the first 5 and a half episodes before it suddenly got weird with Isabelle acting like they've been a family for 19 years. Like, before that, I felt connected to his mission.** But then in season 2, it's almost completely gone, and Carol feels like the only part I can still connect with. Like, I know Rick didn't mention Daryl either I think, but I wish both of them had talked about each other. Idk, it just would have felt more like it's giving me something I can connect with? Rather than just throwing the characters into entirely new situations and also deliberately making them feel a bit out of character?

That whole part in TOWL where Michonne feels surprised to find Rick a bit changed is so similar to what they seemed to want to do with Daryl and Carol, and I don't really get why they did it to either of them. It's more believable with Rick than Daryl bc 1. He isn't Daryl and definitely adapts more to new environments, and 2. It had been many, many, many years, not like a month. But idk, I still wasn't keen, but at least they gave it a redemption arc or whatever you'd call it. With daryl it's still just like - ???? And for what reason??? I don't know. I just don't find it compelling idk idk idk.

*Even in season 9, when we met Connie, I felt a bit like 'oh are they gonna force a ship here bc they have them spending time together 🤨 (rather than just letting connie want to help for her own character reasons rather than making it about daryl and shipping), but if it's gonna be someone who isn't carol, I think I'm okay with connie', like bc we actually had reasons to like her and there was chemistry with Daryl. So why neither Connie nor Carol, but Isabelle? The show just never got me invested in darabelle in any way.

I already liked connie before they had her going on missions with daryl, so I actually cared about her a lot. I loved seeing her on those missions bc I was excited for her to have more screen time and I found her character empowering. So, I didn't want to see her reduced to just being Daryl's love interest, and tbh, I don't think they handled it well, bc they still reduced her to being Daryl's accessory, rather than giving her her own character depth. But I *still* would have been more on board with pairing up Daryl with Connie than Isabelle. Tbh, by the time that Carol was broken up with zeke, and they had the conversation about running away together, I didn't think of Daryl and Connie as making sense to pair anymore... But I also didn't see much point in the Leah romance either, so whatever, I guess this show just has a pattern of pairing up Daryl with random women he doesn't have chemistry with, instead of the ones he does?

**I always remember that Zabel pitched the idea for the show as "what if, in trying to get home, you find something else?", and the thing is, in order to get me to be convinced that Daryl "found something else", I'd have needed A LOT stronger of a pull for the French story. There was nothing there that hooked me to becoming convinced of Daryl finding something while trying to get home. Just having him voice the words "I found something", having Laurent the prophet say "you miss her too, I can tell", putting his crossbow next to Isabelle's hospital bed, and having him look at her for an extended time after she recovers, doesn't suddenly convince me of that idea. Idk. I'm not in the TV industry, so I don't know how that magic gets done - like when season 10 slowly turned Lydia into one of my favourite characters after she was introduced as an antagonist. But I have enough brain cells to see (from the moment they nonsensically forced them to share a bed??) that they were trying to convince us Daryl found "something" in France, and tbh, if I can see the strain in their efforts to make it happen, it's probably not working. And even NR couldn't answer why Isabelle when asked at NYCC. He was literally like, "idk they have similar pasts?? Idk???". Like, girl, if you don't know, why should your audience?

[serenadeofsunshine]

maybe it’s ok to let yourself feel loved… Just because

[veggiecorner]

One thing that I'm afraid about for the next Zelda game is that nintendo is clearly going down the botw route for future titles. I loved botw and totk, but to me these two games HIGHLY prioritized gameplay rather than story. Ocarina of time created a formula for its future zelda titles that in my eyes prioritized story over gameplay (now the quality of the stories could be debated aksjdbakbd)

Overall i just hope the zelda team finds a REALLY good balance between the two

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

sometimes i think about that moment of dana talking about the cast's music taste and it makes me quite disappointed because i feel she got it completely wrong and missed the potential of what hunter would listen to. sorry but linkin park feels so basic??? hunter feels like he would like obscure shit. AND AS SOMEONE WHO LISTENS TO METAL LIKE BROO i have like opinions. also WHAT do you mean luz listens to kpop. i completely fucking disagree sorry. j-rock is more like it if anything or indie pop/rock. it does not fit with her at all. kpop feels to mainstream?? and besides she likes anime right? dont you think shed want to listen to anime openings and like all sorts of things having to do with the culture. j-rock fucks. i dont listen to MUCH of it because i havent found much but like she doesnt seem like shed listen to that dana why would you say that :(. ive been constructing her taste in my mind for YEARS and you say the wrong thing. BOO. hottest take ever and you arent cooking. your burning it.

[dummerjan]

today the examiner of our journeyman exam is coming to take a look at our designs to give feedback if it is enough, if something needs to be changed before we register for the exam but i am home sick and will have to wait

[tiranniesu]

the way people took some of the most fundemental parts of humanity and mangled them into tools of suffering. love and the need for companionship, the desire to have children, sharing food and cooking as a show of affection, etc. and traditionalists, instead of trying to restore these joys of life, double down and fight to make them as soulless and miserable as possible

[tongutzz]

And you'll never know how much I really really like you. cause I'll never even tell youuuuh