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anghraine · 2 years

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Huh, I see a lot of lit-fic fans insisting that the stereotype of lit-fic as "college prof/writer having affairs and people being miserable in a stylistic way" is just a defensive genre fan take that took off.

I wouldn't know, myself, because nearly all my literary reading these days is in the periods I study, ending at around 1815. But my best friend is getting an MFA in creative writing and damn if every lit piece he gets assigned isn't "people being miserable in a stylistic way, especially writers having affairs."

This may not be representative of modern lit fic as a whole! Like I said, I wouldn't know. But the idea that the stereotype is completely manufactured by defensive genre fans seems ... maybe not quite fair.

#the ricochet from 'there's no bias against genre writers or fans any more you just like feeling persecuted'#to 'you're inventing unfair stereotypes of lit-fic because you don't want to challenge yourself #with important deep things instead of the trash you read' is ... hmm. certainly an intriguing kind of whiplash.#anghraine babbles #general fanwank #for lack of a better tag!#sff blogging #since i don't have a lit fic tag for obvious reasons

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tapakah0 · 3 months

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Animation commission for @bread-loaf-heart, thank you again >-<

#animation tag #When time passes you notice that you could do better #But since there were plenty of details and I concentrated more on keeping them right #It ended up lacking the dynamic in movement and lifeness of it >---<#And it takes definitely more time than just an art commission *sigh* but god it is worth it....

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egophiliac · 1 year

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they're baaaaaack

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 6 spoilers #<- are we still tagging those? i don't know where en is #tagging basically just because it's college ortho #anyway HOLY CRAP THEY'RE BACK #TSUMSUTE 2: THE STACKENING #the disappointment at the lack of episode 7 news is tempered by my glee at the return of the most delightfully stupid event of all time #sometimes i think about how the characters were canonically visited by tiny stackable toy versions of themselves from another dimension #twice now!#it doesn't get any better than this #eyes #itty bitty little ominous eyes #look i know it's going to just be more charming shenanigans until the tsums abruptly ascend back to heaven(?) until they're needed again #but if they decided to do like. a tsum slasher flick parody. i would lose my entire goddamn mind #that's why we have fanart i guess

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joycrispy · 1 year

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"I'm a little bemused as to why Crowley should risk destruction for you..."

As angelic methods of communication go, the bitchy raise of eyebrows is quite versatile. For example, Aziraphale's meant:

"Where the hell have you been? He's pined for me since Eden, and here's you sitting in our car --somehow unaware types were invented the moment he laid eyes on me --he burns his feet on church floors for me-- talking shit."

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #good omens 2 #the way Aziraphale KNOWS he has that snake wrapped around his finger #he's so powerful #good omens meta #for lack of a better tag #no but I really love how she tries this jab in particular #and he's just like. wow. that was embarrassing for you.

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miwtual · 1 year

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im so fucking tired of the disrespect gifmakers get on the gifmaker website

#kai.txt #negativity tw #(sorry these are gonna be a lot of tags. i have a lot of feelings and i dont know where else to put them)#we make gifs and nobody reblogs them #when they do get reblogged all people want to tell you is that your gifs arent good enough to them and rip it to shreds #'you're missing x' 'why didnt you do y' 'if i made this i would have abc' 'hey op ur wrong and this is why' 'i dont like this op'#reposters dont even reblog your fucking gifset but they'll save your gifs to repost later asking for how to do something #that they could have asked you how to do in the fucking first place #we reblog ourselves constantly because nobody else will and maybe to make our work look like it has more notes than it does #to make ourselves feel better about the lack of interaction we're getting #and then when we TALK about this frustration we have. people who are too afraid to say it to our faces #go on anon in our askboxes and tell us how we're somehow selfish for wanting people to interact with the sets #that we spent time on. hours. days. WEEKS in some cases #or we get anons who tell us the reason we dont have notes are because we arent good at gifmaking in the first place #but this is all on anon. because they're too scared to tell it to our faces #they're too scared for us to see that they ARENT a gifmaker and that they dont know how to do it any better either #they dont see us as people doing something we love as a hobby. they see us as content machines that dance like court jesters #im just so fucking tired of the disrespect #and this sentiment goes for more than just gifmakers. graphicmakers. artists. literally any creative hobby shared on this site #we get treated like shit and for what? literally for fucking what.

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brother-emperors · 1 month

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I got. thoughts. about valens and voices in imperial roman history. but I also got a lot of thoughts about uhhhhhh choosing your brother for co ruling the Fratricide Foundation Story Empire. many thoughts about themistius' oration too

Brotherly Love, Themistius (trans. Peter Heather & David Moncur)

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta

#it's also the Incest-Cannibalism Empire but that's a discussion for a different blog #all of the heavy hitters were Incest Empires btw. that's a feature of Empire across all of time. not always Cannibalism tho. TRAGIC.#but rome specifically being the Fratricide&Stuprum Empire is funny AND makes parts of this speech feel. uh. UHHHHH.#feels like you're trying to overwrite history and while you succeeded ONCE the uncle-nephew antagonism with a body count #somehow feels worse????? feels worse. i dont like anything that happened to valentinian 2 #anyway. as a result: i personally will be including the bigamy accusations against valentinian into my belief system #stuprum babyyyyy! a requirement for every emperor! valens is lacking here so valentinian has to pick up the slack #valens will be giving me an opening to fire shots at figures in christianity i dislike which is honestly better than scandalous sex #later roman empire tag #komiks tag #brother emperors tag #IF. you missed my brother emperors posting. the head in hands thing here is meant to be a little bit offputting on account of #valentinian being valens' imperial maker. that's a life in your hands. overtures of fratricide. etc. you get the point #whatever other subtext you want to apply to it from the subtext spice cabinet. im not picky. this was a quick comic i did #to shake off the depression cobwebs lmao. eventually i'll style guide this era and do comics with more intentional thought later

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sk3tch404 · 22 days

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RAHHHH IF I DIDNT MESS UP THE LAYERS THE COLORS WOULD BE BETTERR

This will do. Douma braintot 4eva 💞💖

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mothertkachuker · 8 months

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#this is theee tkachuk brother dynamic #perfectly encapsulated imo #brady tkachuk #matthew tkachuk #hockey poetry #for lack of a better tag

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front-facing-pokemon · 26 days

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#dunno if this counts as a sniffer or a muncher so i'll tag both:#sniffer #muncher #and bonus #anime #under the cut #sandshrew #sandshrew is so cute. i got one billion of these guys every time the wild area thing or whatever it's called in pokémon XD alarm went off #wild area is gen 8 but. those of you who've played pokémon xd you know what i mean #i feel like i have a lot of thoughts on that game that have somewhat solidified over time as it's been a while since i played it and i've #had a lot of time to process my feelings about it #i'm not sure if i ever talked about them here but i think i mentioned having been playing it a while back #either way i think it's not as good as pokémon colosseum. that's the gist of my feelings #it has some things that are better that make it hard to go back to colosseum but i just like colosseum more despite all of its #lacking quality-of-life features that XD has

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amelia-yap · 9 months

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AUEGH

#ruby rose #rwby #obligatory tiny distressed ruby #my art #HELLO I HAVE OFFICALLY FINISHED YET AGAIN ANOTHER ONE OF MY SEMESTERS #and holy shit it was the most awful by far #i felt like absolute shit the entire sem and was behind in literally all of my classes #it was so shit that i actually skipped a class because of the stress of being behind on work. which i had never done before.#i am a criminal now lmao i feel so bad #also a little mad at myself because i know i could've done better. i've been doing the bare minimum and cutting corners #which was very noticeable lol #im gonna actually split my upcoming semester this time my ass and health cannot do this anymore #BUT ANYWAY I FINISHED MY SEMESTER RAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #COUGHS OUT BLOOD AND SINKS BACK INTO EARTH'S CORE AND EVAPORATES #IM DONE!!!#also my eyes are really red now for some reason #probably from the lack of sleep or the long hours staring at my bloody laptop idk #probably both #yeah i should go sleep now lol bye #ranting in the tags because i don't know how to talk like a normal person lmao #sorry if you read all this nonsense jkdhkfsdhfkhd #but i should be more active around here again!

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roukabi · 5 months

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I feel like when it comes to the Dusthide debate, a lot of people seem to misinterpret the main point of Ancients as both a game element and a product.

A big part of Flight Rising is dress-up. While users can argue on what the sole draw of FR is (dragons themselves, breeding, the Dominance system, etc), it's generally agreed that the dress-up aspect is one with a lot of care and resources put into it, and is therefore very important to site gameplay. Dress-up keeps getting updated with new apparel, and if there is to be a new dragon breed, it needs every piece of apparel re-drawn on it. This takes time. A lot of time. Gaps between dragons (now known as Moderns) stretch for years at a time.

Ancients were initially created as a way to fill in these time gaps between Moderns, and the easiest way to do that was to release dragons without apparel. However, this is a game that puts a lot of emphasis on dragon dress-up. Imagine if Obelisks were released without any coded apparel. You'd just have a naked dragon missing a huge element of the game, and for most players, there's no fun in that.

This is where the second point of Ancients comes in: because the appeal of clothing is gone, there has to be some kind of compromise. So... if Ancients can't wear apparel, then they are no longer restrained by the requirements for apparel (1 head/4 legs/2 wings)...

which means that they can break the modern mold freely! You can have a dragon with no legs, or six. Or with two heads, or no head. And now that you don't have to worry about apparel clipping, the tertiary genes can go wild! There is room for customization that apparel can't fulfill - you could give it extra wings, or a jellyfish head, or giant tree horns, or you could give it nothing at all as tertiary genes are optional, and it wouldn't matter because there's no apparel to be drawn around it!

Ancients are supposed to be a trade-off. There's no selling point to a dragon without clothing on the Dragons With Clothing Game, but there is a selling point to a dragon with, say, 13 legs, no wings and no tail. It doesn't wear apparel, because it physically can't, and it makes use of this function in creative ways. The inability to wear apparel is justified by the Ancient's unique proportions.

And this is where the criticisms for Dusthides and other 'basic' Ancients stems from: if your Ancient dragon is just the 1 head/4 legs/2 wings setup, then is it really an Ancient or a Modern you can't dress up? You could have the wildest, gaudiest, 15-limb tertiary gene on a Dusthide and it wouldn't matter, because tertiaries are optional and aren't a permanent part of the dragon that would inhibit the usage of apparel.

If a dragon doesn't have a justifiable reason to not wear apparel, then there's no reason for it being an Ancient.

No amount of linebreaking tertiaries will be able to hide the fact that some dragons seem to be created only for the first, initial purpose: just to tide people over until a better, 'real' dragon is created.

And that's just disappointing.

#lots of discussion going on in the flight rising tag so i'm adding my two cents #well. more like seven cents #i'll admit i don't care for dusthides and i didn't care for auraboas either #i just... don't know where staff is going with this. why all these ancients now? why make them (for lack of a better word) boring?#what's the end goal here? who is this for?#that's my biggest question. Who Is This For?#dusthides aren't for people who like moderns because they're not getting any #they're not really for people who like the mould-breaking of ancients because. well. they aren't #they're not for people who like ancients for lore because they didn't drop with lore #i guess they're for people who like linebreaking genes? but idk what makes those stand out apart from. yknow. apparel.#flight rising #fr #dusthides #fr ancients #rook roars!

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anghraine · 1 year

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hoidn said:

that breaks my heart. i went to several schools where there were ~30 students per grade and even though i didn’t interact with most of the kids in my grades i still knew all of them and noticed if somebody wasn’t in for a couple of days in a row! i’m so angry on your behalf! ffs what was wrong with your teacher? one of my classmates had to have emergency knee surgery and was absent for a month or so. our homeroom teachers got a card and flowers for us to send her!

Thank you <3

I was hospitalized a short while before fall term started, and was sick long enough that I ended up being withdrawn from the formal class, so I didn't have a teacher at all for awhile. My parents eventually had to threaten to sue the school over me not being given ... an education, and the district later ended up arranging for me to have a teacher tutor me each week.

Even my own friends (such as they were) didn't really come to visit or do much of anything while I was sick, though, so I didn't find it that weird. I guess it seemed more of a confirmation that I was really as forgettable and uninteresting as I already felt I was. But a confirmation I've never forgotten, to be sure!

#hoidn #respuestas #nice things people say to me #anghraine babbles #medical malfeasance #for lack of a better tag!

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where-is-zoro-one-piece · 5 months

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