#if it's bad don't blame me

[queerautism]

Unironically I have a solution to this - Encourage young women to also read Lolita by Nabokov in addition to these books.

[tuinendraws]

A while ago there was going around an art challenge where you draw your favourite Fire Emblem character of each letter of the alphabet. Figured I'd give it a shot, let's see if I can finish this. Here's ABC.

[leechaeryeonqs-moved]

#just2.18things -> meow meow ?

[mishiami]

good morning tetro community

@jubileedeeznuts-posting dragged me into this because he's a dastardly awful terrible unforgivable wretch and i HATE her

[taylor-jewel]

RACHEL BROSNAHAN AND DAVID CORENSWET as CLARK KENT AND LOIS LANE in SUPERMAN ( 2025 )

[annieisyourfavourite]

so sorry but that post about "the reason boys and men are being radicalized is bc girls are mean to them" is driving me up the fucking wall. maybe i really am just on a different internet than the rest of you but. this sentiment of "women are being bitches who don't care about men and that's why there's Problems now" is like. such an alpha male podcast classic take. like it's literally "not all men". it doesn't magically become better bc u say stuff with liberal terminology. jesus christ

[a-man-in-the-crowd]

my hunger games au shit is making me think a LOT about the will-eulalie dynamic and the passion with which eulalie hates montresor (understandable). i think she hates montresor enough for will and her both honestly ☠️

in her eyes, he goes against every single principle of friendship she has and she wants desperately for will to see that (even if in the process it does nothing to help will's core problem of not having opinions/not being able to express opinions of his own). though, worth noting, while she currently feels that her friends left her behind — montresor came back for will.

she says friends care, and montresor, however little and for how much he sucks otherwise, does care. meanwhile, her friends routinely ignore and condescend her despite otherwise being pretty okay — a behaviour she's accidentally mirrorring towards will by refusing to hear him out on why he thinks monty's his friend and making statements on their friendship with no room for argument, which undermines will's ability to make conclusions himself.

by doing this, she also inadvertently reinforces something monty told will which, based on will's expression in that scene and his behaviour in later scenes, he's internalized. fun!

[vally-vall-vall]

I'm only about halfway though season 2 of Breaking Bad but I love how so far, the show can be summed up as such:

Walter: Jesse, we need to do The Thing, Jesse

Jesse: Yo, mista White, we can't do The Thing, yo. The streets have their own rules, man. You can't fuck around like that or else you get fucked over like a bitch, real.

Walter: You're a stupid junkie and you're stupid. I Am Right and we will do it my way and we will not get fucked over like bitches because unlike you, I am not stupid

*they both proceed to get fucked over like bitches because Walter ignored all of Jesse's warnings about not doing The Thing*

Walter: Jesse, you stupid idiot meth head! You're stupid! This is your fault!!

[dariing-dearest-dead]

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[andichoseyou]

We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them that they have chosen to show us.

reputation - taylor swift (nov. 10, 2017)

[korobs1]

🐟 Commission for a my fellow fisherwoman @jrakoczi 🐙

[calista-222]

question that u have probably gotten b4 but i can’t find it on your blog ,, what brush do you use for lineart? i’m obsessed w/ how it looks

I very often use modified versions of this brush here (it's free in Clip Studio Assets):

I rarely use a brush I download as is, I modify them until I get something I like working with! I have like, 6 versions of this brush that I use regularly so it's not as simple as saying I only use this brush but this is still a good base if you wanna try it out!

Other than that I mostly just use the basic brushes that comes with CSP (although modified as well)

[midnightcinderella]

My thoughts on Satan's new card story. Contains some spoilers

TLDR: people are making it out to be worse than it is bc it's happening to one of the "good guys." Also are complaining about the very nature of the game

Edit: A lot of people aren't going to see my explanation in the reblogs so I'm sticking it here too

Satan being touched by "Gabriel" and lower angels. Nothing that hasn't already been done to the angels on Christmas. Touched his dick? Gabriel and the other Seraphs all received much more invasive treatment, what with the sounding rods and tails. Plus MC tongued Gabe's asshole before she stuck his tail in but whatever, right? Satan had it way worse (/sarcastic)

Edit 2: ok, NOW I've read the whole story and my point still stands

I don't have the card myself, but went looking for screenshots and summaries (all of which were complaining about the story content) and I didn't see anything worse than what happened in the angels' Christmas cards. And I don't remember seeing these complaints about those cards, despite them also having elements of sexual assault. I'll be making comparisons mainly to Gabriel's story since that's the one I remember most clearly.

The psychological impact on Satan due to being touched and put on display to an audience. Both Satan and the angels were subjected to being assaulted and made into a spectacle in enemy territory, but there is a difference in lasting psychological impact. By the end of his story, Satan finds out that it was just MC the whole time and calms down, accepting all that's happenedsimply bc it was MC. Plus lust is an accepted part of being a devil, it's not a taboo like it is to an angel. Gabriel, on the other hand, is violated in many different ways and receives no such comfort. By the end of his time in that tavern, he's covered in cum and spit, his clothes are torn, there's money shoved into the rips in his clothes, and he now has to come to terms with the fact that he has been exposed and used as a sexual object by many different demons, all of whom he hates, and has to reconcile this with his identity as an angel.

As I said, nothing that hasn't already been done, and I didn't see any such outrage back then. In fact, this is tamer than what we've seen before.

Not to mention, all of this is the name of the game. If you've played for any decent amount of time, you'd know the scenes, sexual or not, can get very intense and extreme. That's just the way the game is. To complain about said intensity, especially when you consider the fact that they are near-immortal beings and are literally in Hell, is ridiculous.

By all means, complain about the writing quality. I also think Satan's reason for coming to Heaven was weak, and that it was strange for him not to pick up on the fact that he was dealing with MC. But the subject matter is not the issue here. There's simply a double standard at play

[holyblanchett]

Kathryn I promise you no one is going to take her from you 😭 she legit held her foot for 4min straight during this interview bbg was down bad.

[ifindus]

What was it like living and working in greece?

Both good and bad!

As I'm sure with anyone who moves abroad, it requires a lot of paperwork and admin to get everything sorted out. I had some issues with this - getting a Greek bank account specifically, and ended up just using my Norwegian one.

I also had some issues finding a place to stay and getting a housing contract - and paying my entire rent in cash each month was a new experience for me 😅

Since my contract was "working from home" I also struggled a bit to meet my coworkers outside of work - the public transport was on a winter schedule and I'd have to walk a fair bit to get there. I once walked to entire way to my friend's place and it took me just under 2 hours.

But I also had a lot of good experiences! I was very lucky with visits from friends and family, which made it possible to rent a car and go sightsee a bit more of the island 🥰 I got to see a lot of cool archaeological stuff and other cultural things like the olive production.

It took some effort to get used to a much more laid-back style of living, and tbh it stressed me out a bit (especially when my landlord ghosted me for 3 weeks - twice), but I believe I have learnt from it. Overall it was a valuable experience and I am happy I did it, but I am also looking forward spending some time in Norway now ✨