#i am keeping you on your toes.

[chesthighwater]

by thé way. wips roundup that absolutely no one asked for

first of all in the daudmartin brainrot corner we've got

sequel to bctbk, as promised. i have a major "plot" point planned, and then it might go one of two directions... we shall see :3c

the high overseer martin/assassin daud fic that i've posted a few excerpts from. essentially daud manifests himself into the abbey suggestively asking for ~spiritual guidance~ (lol) and things escalate from there. this has to get finished at some point because its like one of the first things i started writing for them. it deserve to see the light of day

a mildly humorous high overseer martin/spymaster daud fic. kind of a challenge for myself also- i find spymaster daud hard to imagine, and am not that used to writing daudmartin where they're not constantly trying to one-up/double cross each other/at each other's throats flirtatiously. presumably will not be nsfw (or at least, i'm not planning on it, but i make no promises. can't know where the ol inspiration will take me).

oh heres another high overseer martin thing! who wouldve thought! this time with Responsibility and Abbey Politics and Decisions. and working through issues. so many fucking issues. this one is actually actively in the works so ill leave it at that for now ;>

daudmartin pwp with genuinely 0 plot. like, negative plot. this thing defies plot. i can barely even tell you if it's an au or what, i might sprinkle a few nonsexual sentences in if i'm feeling generous but that's it. other than that it's literally just about martin being very quiet during sex and daud trying every trick he has in his book (which admittedly isn't many) to change that instead of like, communicating

augh speaking of plot-defying pwps. "what if overseers had (some appropriate equivalent to) confessions". there is some lore in here obviously but the entire point of it is confessional dirty talk. i dont KNOW

[REDACTED] pwp which im not even gonna advertise itll just appear one day and if you find it you found it

mostly unplanned ideas that i might flesh out: sokolov portrait thing. some dunwall noir stuff purely for martin in a cassock reasons (and sexualising religious guilt reasons. if i knew anything at all about priests i'd be working on this much faster). something involving the outsider appearing to martin (this might just get absorbed in a more well fleshed out idea at some point). martin Suffering More, because i want him in a situation where his wit fails completely (more desperation! more excuses! i am weak for this i really am.). something involving some more Action- fighting together against an acute threat? i think there should be more fighty martin out there. i am the change i want to see in the world

(not including the various snippets for the eternal serkonan vacation au which i already laid out there)

in the thief crossover brainrot corner (i bet you forgot i allude to thief crossovers in my description!)

also a sokolov portrait thing, but i have it way more planned out. corvo really, really wants garrett to sit in for a portrait (especially now when he's officially the empire's shadiest most mysterious spymaster ever). he reluctantly agrees, but Under One Condition.

a sort of relationship chronicle via heart lines. definitely starts with corvo's diplomatic mission and possibly ends with some happy dh2 era content. obviously i have the heart lines planned out.

possibly something involving more political intrigue/royal drama type stuff? i'm lucky enough to have access to someone who can give me some really good examples/plots if i fail to come up with anything myself.

(this is just a thief thing but i have had a viktoria/lt. mosley thing running around my brain for AGES. i want to explore how their relationship develops so bad. i know they have literally one interaction in canon but they are my blorbinas and i have mentally expanded their backstories so hard the story is basically begging to be written at this point)

anyway if you read this unreasonably unnecessarily long post i love you. i am sending you a kiss. wanna get married

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Teehee! (Spritesheets your Wangxian)

[evansbby]

go ahead have at him

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AT FIRST GLANCE I THOUGHT THIS WAS FRANK ADLER AND WONDERED WHY YOU WERE SENDING ME FRANK ADLER PICS WITH NO CONTEXT 😭😭😭😭 i mean i hate Frank Adler too but not in a funny way like Andy, more like in a passive way jsjsjsjsksk

but this… bestie this is something else… i actually have never seen these before and i would like to know the context 🤔🤔🤔 he looks kinda sweet and vulnerable ngl 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[chaos-princesss]

Please don't take me too serious or literal.

I could post "life is fleeting. We only have ourselves."

&& be talking about how my dog didn't want love and affection.

[chalkrub]

no new art to show but I was looking through my files and found this very old character from my ms paint era called syrup that I realised probably evolved into the modern day character of florawell over time....look at this glow up. kind of. I still really like the iridescent tinsel ruff syrup is rocking, he’s kind of stylin

[chiptrillino]

nothing is more humbling then a 8-years-old telling me i don't know how to draw and then demands of me to draw power puff girls for her all afternoon long!

[scrawnytreedemon]

Hello everyone! I would like you to meet the little guy I have been working on for the past week :)

His name is Mareczek, Blade of Olimar (A.K.A Marek), and as you can see, he is a Yellow Pikmin.

He is pale because I created him in a fit of creative malaise and hellsite-related frustration, and was too impatient to wait before I could get the right shade of yellow yarn. I ran out, and that's why he has this sick graft-arm instead.

I like to think he lost it valiantly in battle, narrowly escaping the jaws of death. "Rendered Unto Mars" indeed 💖

More details beneath the cut~

I did the flower by hacking a coaster-tutorial the very talented Mhalee's Crochet put up on Youtube, doing a row of triple-crochets over each of the petals-- It was so, so very janky. I filled the in the gaps by the edge in tying up the ends; the sewing is what gives it its shape and I'm honestly surprised it looks this good.

I made the floret-disc separately. Also! If you look closely in the main pictures, you'll spot the calyx :) I made using the Summer Flox flower by Pora Pora Crochet on Youtube. She has so many lovely tutorials, it's insane.

Little test flower, with my lovely cat for reference. Ended up being wayyy too small for Marek himself(thus the coaster-hacking), but it's be perfect for smaller Pikmin.

Also, as one final note:

I have this to thank for spurring me into action. Marek did end up needing a wash at one point(alas, it is why he is so baggy), so this meme has well and truly been fulfilled.

I hope you're happy, 4chan Anon. Marek has you to thank for his existence.

[its-tortle]

you guys will be glad to know i have aquired a very important magazine 😌

[ashmp3]

would u guys say i am an oversharer? i’m not saying i am or i am not i am just curious how you see me

[cave-monkey]

Monkey King 2009 Episode 3

Them having Stone Monkey (apparently purely on instinct) constantly scratching while being introduced to the troop was pretty cool, since that's a legitimate deescalation behavior in monkeys. Something about how revealing stress acts as a bonding behavior and makes it less likely they'll be attacked. Humans do it too, kind of, when they rub at their hands or shoulders or neck (etc. etc.) when nervous or overwhelmed. ("Empathize with me! I am very stressed!").

Also something-something instinctive behaviors aside Stone Monkey being excited/overwhelmed/maybe a little overstimulated and choosing "ESCALATION!!!" as his response to all of that. He thinks the troop being scared of him is hilarious. He's scratching the fur off his arms but he's also going to get right up in your face anyway. Cautiously join him in admiring his cool new rock? He is going to play-lunge and also scream. Absolutely amazing. The troop has no idea what to do with these mixed signals. This kid is a menace and I love him.

Six Ears even gets in on the scratching behavior occasionally in the background, which might be because Stone Monkey actively terrorizing literally everyone trying to be playful (because he has the social skills of a literal, actual rock) is stressing Six Ears right out or it could be an attempt to deescalate on Stone Monkey's behalf. Monkey version of following in his new friend's wake throwing apologetic grimace-smiles at everyone. Possibly it's both. Point is: They included these behaviors and it's very fun.

You can also tell it worked because in just the journey to the cave you watch the four generals' views on Stone Monkey go from "uncanny valley horror entity lurking in the forest probably to kill us all" to "what a rude little kid >:| Emphasis on RUDE."

And, okay, I admit, I have softened my stance on the four generals. Somewhat. They seem to actually be taking their jobs seriously now. Maybe Episode 1 was a wake-up call and they won't utterly fail to notice an incursion until it's in the heart of their territory again. I don't want to go too crazy, but maybe they'll even be able to even muster a coherent response! Good for them.

Should probably still not be managing children, though.

Speaking of, Six Ears's increasing despair watching the train wreck in motion that was the four generals fumbling hard in giving Stone Monkey his very first etiquette lesson after he finally settled down and seemed willing to hear them out is also very relatable and hilarious. He knows they failed the test. Stone Monkey is definitely never going to listen to them again. They blew it. RIP Flower Fruit Mountain.

Stone Monkey does check in with Six Ears when he decides the generals are useless about explaining though, and that's pretty cute. He trusts his friend :) He also definitely internalizes that thing about having to ask to leave the presence of the king, so at least they managed to teach him some manners. ONE manners. A single manner. (Spoiler: They immediately regret this.)

But hey! This time Six Ears is left entirely to his own devices and still manages to get caught smack in the middle of enemy action. Not the Generals' fault for once! Six Ears just attracts this kind of thing, I guess.

3/3 Six Ears is Damsel-ed, but only 2/3 it's the adults' fault. The tally develops.

[geroya]

hold on hold on im

[orcelito]

Revealing myself as a 98 vashmeryl truther by how I write vash and meryl's interactions in itnl

[dragongirltongue]

oh no, just remembered that because there's a new captain marvel movie today (which is pretty good by modern MCU standards) all the aggro men on the internet need to make declaring it the end of all media their entire personality for the next several weeks. ugh.

[dirt-str1der]

Thank you jack stauber .....

[thebewilderer]

Changed my mind actually, I'm against self diagnosis. There's a reason psychiatrists aren't allowed to diagnose themselves, and it's because they're biased. Any analysis of themselves will inherently lose any sense of objectivity.

These are *highly trained professionals* who cannot diagnose themselves; obviously the layman would do an infinitely worse job

You think you have Thing? Alright, well you should probably go get checked out for that. Lots of disorders have overlapping symptoms, and spotting the differences is incredibly hard without proper education and training (no, the three articles you read on MayoClinic and the seventeen tiktoks you watched don't count as education)

Using coping mechanisms usually associated with a disorder for your symptoms is fine ofc, but claiming to have something you're not diagnosed with is silly at best, and actively harmful towards said disabled and disordered people at worst.

I've seen countless versions of the scenario where people will start to diagnose themselves in such masses that professionals can't take anything seriously anymore (making it harder for actual disordered people to get diagnosed) or where they popularize the disorder until it loses all meaning (people now referring to dancing as "autistic stimming" very clearly causes the general populace to view autism as not-at-all serious), but one of the worst ones I've seen was someone claiming that PTSD shouldn't be in the DSM, because "everyone has a natural response to trauma and stress! It's not a disorder, it's just a natural response; it should be called 'Post Traumatic Stress Response'" and I cannot even begin to describe the level of anger that this instilled in me.

And the entire point of a diagnosis is to afford accommodations to those who need it. If you're going along just fine without the accommodations, you wouldn't benefit from a diagnosis. If you're having a lot of trouble without these accommodations, self-diagnosing will not give you anything, you should go see someone about it to get the accommodations you need.

Anyways this is just a long and rambling way for me to say "if you think you have Thing, go see a professional about it. If you're self-diagnosing, don't."

[citrus-system]

I am such an upfront person when it comes to my needs, I have developed into an incredibly independent person who knows when and how to calm down.

That being said, I do not give a shit how others feels about the skills I’ve learned to cope. It is not my responsibility to bend backwards for you when I am trying to help myself. I cannot be more forward, literally, what else am I supposed to do.

If me saying “hey sorry, I’m having a rough moment at work right now so I probably won’t message you until [my] lunch, talk to you soon,” makes you anxious then that’s a you thing, seriously. Go to therapy or something. I am taking care of my own emotions and reactions right now, I cannot put that aside to reassure you further. I am blunt for a reason, it’s my not fault you assume I am lying, etc. please work on yourself.