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liam-summers · 10 months

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You know, as a child/teen, I always had a preference for AtS over BtVS, but rewatching AtS as an adult now, I can’t remember why that was. Like, I definitely still do like some parts of the show (shoutout to season 1), but I’m finding that a lot of the shine has worn off and that it’s just not as enjoyable as it used to be. I used to really love all the characters, much more than the characters on Buffy, but now I find myself not really caring about the majority of them most of the time, and actually feeling more for the BtVS characters. The show is, a lot of the time, really inconsistent with characters, plots, themes, direction, and I’m just finding it hard to be as invested as I once was…

Maybe this is a result of rewatching the show multiple times and becoming more critical about certain things that I always wished were different but never really thought too deeply about. Idk, but tbh I don’t think that I will ever rewatch AtS all the way through again. I think I’ll just rewatch the episodes that I really love.

#it’s really interesting to me because you would think that as an adult I would relate more to the characters on AtS #and less with the characters on BtVS #but I’m finding that AtS isn’t really more adult or darker #it’s way too disjointed and inconsistent in what it’s trying to say and how it portrays its characters for that to comes across for me #there’s a lot that I need to ignore to make some of the things on Ats make sense #and alot that the show just tells me is adult and dark without ever really exploring it in a meaningful way #idk if that’s just a me problem though #anyway #just been thinking about this and wanted to write it out somewhere #ats #text post

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chalkrub · 1 month

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saw some mangy dog on the outskirts of town

#my art #oc #els #werewolf #furry #anthro #illustration #you would not believe the hassle this gave me lmao....i want to do more with it but i have to wipe my hands of it #idk if this looks good but it has to be finished i have to be finished with it #WORD OF ADVICE that allows a small glimpse into the horrible time i've had: PLAN YOUR COMPOSITIONS #GOD. initial drawing of els: 1-2 hours at most. trying to find a composition that doesn't suck: 100000 hours and ongoing #i think my problem is this els looks better zoomed in but finding a way to keep it zoomed in....mission impossible #i love this els face though. i will admit. i had to persevere to get SOMETHING that at least vaguely worked so i could show off this els #okay. okay. anyway it's greengage season again. big ups to greengages for making life just that much brighter #also the owls are goin crazyyy outside my window rn they are speaking and i am listening. in a delirium

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future-crab · 8 months

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It's been said before, it will be said again, but it's still worth saying: the fact that art centering on straight romance is allowed to just be bad, but art with queer romance in it always has to be indicative of A Serious Problem With the Way We Tell Queer Stories makes being a queer person making queer art deeply stressful

#just saw smthing about red white and royal blue #and like i never watched/read that one so maybe everything ppl say about it is true #and i never watched heartbreaker or love simon so maybe those ones are also genuinely a sign of a serious problem #but idk. the fact that this happens every damn time makes me think that maybe queer stories are being held to different standards #and it's exhausting writing stuff while having a chorus of voices in the back of my head saying i'm misrepresenting my own identities and #making the whole community look bad by writing mediorcre romance #and knowing that even though i'm neither straight nor a girl there WILL be ppl calling me a straight girl fetishizing queer relationships #lgbt #queer community #writer stuff #idk what else to tag this #asexual #bisexual #nonbinary #venttag

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sunlit-mess · 6 months

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A little less lonely

#messyr #doodle #i just have so much love to give idk how to express my gratitude #but every so often- these 'little' things mean so much to me and it makes me forget all my problems #even though i just stick w the internet 90 percent of the time. I feel less lonely here...

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sevenines · 6 days

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i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

#i don’t know if pay rates differ per networks #but a.ivi and s.urrashu have said that they needed to work outside of su in order to make sufficient funds #it only makes me wonder what other ways su suffered from a lower budget #that we as the audience never got to see #in the vein of the too-little characters complaint #another part of that is that low-stakes episodes should’ve been abt the main cast instead of the townies #like last one out of beach city and too short to ride vs restaurant wars and kiki’s pizza delivery service #i definitely see that especially since that isn’t budget related #nor would it seem to be network related (even if cn had an ‘episodic episodes’ quota it could still be abt the gems #(another side note: /would/ cn even have a requirement that the show make episodes that can be watched standalone?#this is a question for the people who were around when su was airing #what episodes often got rerun?#was it the townie eps or the lore eps?#for example i heard that su once did a ‘peridot event’ where they just reran peridot episodes #which had eps that skip around in the show #did they even care about airing the story so that it made sense anyways?#id get it if the low stakes townie episodes were the ones getting rerun))#but i have such a boring view on that which is i think it’s simply because the creators like townie eps #like in interviews r.ebecca s.ugar has said she’s the type to be really invested in background characters #answers in interviews have been crafted in ways to hide what’s really going on though tbf #prime example of this is rebecca and ian saying the wedding being interrupted was meant to follow the common trope #when later in the art book they said that it was bc cn rejected the ep bc it ‘wasn’t interesting enough’#both could simultaneously be true! it’s a psychology thing though where people make up nice-sounding explanations behind what they create #in retrospect because they want it to be thought out in such a nice way they believe in it #the bigger problem is that not matter how many episodes there are of them #it can be hard for ppl to be invested in the townies the same way they are invested in the main cast #i’m sure that a million writers have made surefire advice on how to get an audience to care about characters #but off the top of my head i think it’s because 1. most don’t have strong motivations to get truly invested in #(exception is ronaldo but people find him too annoying to care about him)#okay i had more points and explanations but i hit the tag limit and idk if anyone is actually reading this so bye

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theswedishpajas · 2 months

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Based on my favorite gif lately

#my art stuff #digital art #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #batstarion #once again specifying this is a spawn astarion with some sort of wild shape thing #bat #good morning #gif #I’ve been in such a weird place mentally about art lately #I just keep stopping myself from drawing things cus I want to draw Astarion -#- but fsr my brain decided I draw him wrong and thus makes it pointless to even start #bat form is fine - I have no problems with it. But in his normal form? no can do buckaroo.#It’s one part why I haven’t shared much art lately - I don’t get happy enough about the “quality”#then just don’t share it as a result - in turn making me feel worse because I’m not posting - making me doubt myself more - etc etc #idk man - I got way too giddy earlier today cus someone could tell this was Astarion - even though this isn’t even the version of him I -#- feel insecure about #I keep seeing these artists making more realistic art and cool comics and interactions - most of which are shaded really beautifully -#- and all I can think about is how I CAN’T do that - even if it wouldn’t fuck me up mentally #I just put too much stress on my ability to create realism and I keep “failing” at doing that (by actively avoiding it for my own health)#idk man - I just wish I felt better about Astarion’s stupid chin OTL

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aroaceleovaldez · 5 months

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actually in hindsight why did Rick repeatedly have Piper solve all the ghost problems on the Argo II when. Hazel was right there. A daughter of Pluto. who by all logic should be able to control ghosts even a little bit. like, we know she has at least some of those types of powers. she just never gets to actually practically use them. ever. and then when there are zombies Hazel once again. does not get to use her powers about it. what.

#pjo #riordanverse #hazel levesque #does hazel EVER use necromancy powers? besides *maybe* a little bit when working for gaea to raise giants?#though that was pretty explicitly mostly geokinesis #where is hazel's necromancy cmon #but like. ''oh no people are getting possessed. i know! PIPER! FIX THE PROBLEM WITH YOUR CHARMSPEAK''#''rather than oh i dont know HAZEL. THE PERSON WITH GHOST POWERS DIRECTLY NEXT TO ME.''#heck Hazel is very familiar with people being possessed. her mother was for. awhile.#why not just have hazel go ''hm yup. that's possession if i've ever seen it. hold on i've got this'' and then she uses pluto powers #you cant even use the excuse ''oh but she wouldn't know how to-''#she's been hanging out with her brother Nico ''Ghost King'' di Angelo for what. eight? ten months? something like that?#and one of her major things is that she's pretty good at picking things up quickly and has highly honed her powers #you're telling me nico never told her ''btw just in case: if you ever need to exorcise a ghost from someone just idk smack 'em''#like why is the exorcising ghosts piper's job #and why with the zombie apocalypse was it like ''oh no we can't do anything until apollo comes over to help us or whatever''#''if only we had a CENTURION WITH NECROMANCY POWERS. like a CHILD OF PLUTO OR SOMETHING''#''WHOSE BROTHER VERY FAMOUSLY GOT A ZOMBIE AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT''#and its like. yes hazel does ultimately play a significant role in stopping the zombie problem #but functionally COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO HER POWERS?

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the-meme-monarch · 2 months

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also it was very nice of the orthodontic surgeons(I'm not sure if it's correct to call them dentists) that they never commented on my yellowed and crooked teeth. however they did put my x ray on the monitor directly in front of me to just look at for the entire time i was there and i do wonder if it was to shame me (/jokey)

anyway hopefully soon i will get my bottom two wisdom teeth taken out

#it is just the One that is currently an issue(cavity) but thwy recommended taking out All my wisdom teeth like the ones up top too #i Dont think the top ones are a problem bc theyre completely exposed and havent caused me any issues #the bottom two though are only partially exposed like theyrr mostly covered by my gums #and one formed a cavity so. id like that to not happen to the other #but they told me my teeth are otherwise healthy so that was nice #you can probavly see the cavity its that dark Spot on the last bottom right tooth of the image #is this tmi. idk i worry people think im always lying #tooth trauma #words from the monarch

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waterfallofspace · 4 months

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Anyone else not able to say 'bless you', either because it feels too personal, embarrassing, slightly erotic or a mixture of all of the above-

Buuuuuut also whenever an event interrupts the conversation, you feel so much more awkward not saying anything/commenting on it at all, and so you wish you could just... say that phrase, or have some other thing that makes sense to say to just- shrug it off???

#waterfalltalks #been thinking about this SO much lately like- thought about it before #but i grew up in a household where no one said it #and none of my friends ever say/said it so it was never really a problem #we all just pretty much ignore them THOUGH lately bc of one friend they've started #mocking... the noises/sounds.... which is a WHOLE ass experience both when it happens to me or when it happens to someone else #buuuuttt i digress- the point is more that lately its been a lot more on my mind bc #it keeps happening in the middle of a conversation/when we're watching videos #and it just.... feels so SILENT afterwards and i know no one else is thinking about it bc #no one else puts the pressure on it that i do (cept my one friend that knows but he doesnt usually mention it)#but like.... idk guys i just feel AWKWARD not SAYING ANYTHING but also i feel even WORSE saying something and is just so eguheugheuhjgshueg #idk just!!! thoughts!!! and seeing if im alone in this bc i know other people feel awkward blessing but #does anyone else feel that?? silence????? maybe im just crazy ToT #if you made it this far im sorry for the rambling and thank you for reading ittttt feel free to tell me what u think bc im out of my mind <#waterfallrambles

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infamouslydorky · 1 year

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Why is it so controversial to want to be able to have a life outside of work? Why is it expected to work extended periods of time with heavy workloads to the point that by the time you get home, you're too pooped to actually do anything? I don't mind working but I don't want it to be my whole life. I want to work to live, not live to work

#slice of life #capitalism #capitalist hell #im so thankful for my new job. i just think that 40 hr workweeks for full-time minimum is bs #doesnt even guarantee you benefits in some jobs such as my current one. which is a problem for me #love my new coworkers. job itself is hard but gratifying #idk if i could see myself spending most of my time alive doing it for the remainder of my existence though

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midnightmah07 · 1 month

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Ok uh I just saw the Mufasa trailer and I'm somehow even more depressed??? In the way like– Mufasa and Scar aren't blood related so this somehow makes the idea of Scar killing Mufasa even WORSE for me.

Your telling me Mufasa and Scar loved each other so much to the point of calling themselves brothers only for SCAR TO KILL MUFASA???? HUH??????? THIS IS MORE DEPRESSING I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS

#💙! mah rambles #i have a problem with siblings in media bc #i always want siblings in media to be happy and healthy #even though i know realistically it's not what happens all the time #so idk it just hurts me really freaking hard when i realize THIS.#LIKE OK DANG FINE GO ON AND BREAK MY HEART WHY DON'T YA

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moeblob · 3 months

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A succubus and a demon! (The succubi don't have names but the demon is Kronos and the succubus is one of his bosses in Hell and he's not /fond/ of the succubi for many reasons but they all adore picking on him)

Also because I love them and like to point it out, the succubi act more as pleasure dealers in the sense of they offer up whatever a human wants most in exchange for their soul. It's rarely of a sexual nature since it's what they want MOST in life. And most people's ambitions are outside of a bedroom. (happy pride, asexuals are able to get affected by a succubus now without discrimination)