#inconsistency is me tm

[zrllosyn-art]

Warmup sketches of them

[c1trvswurld]

Im kinda so very much out of the vivziepop helluva boss loop since its been a while since I watched anything of hers (And because spme of the writing and some of her...choices character design wise turned me off from interacting further) but one thing I will never not have in the back of my mind is how they portrayed striker* as being unreasonably petty and angry at the mistreatment of imps and that his agenda was misguided hatred.

When from what I get in lore from what I remeber that imps systematically are treated like shit and so infantilized by higher-ups that they are treated as pets so I honestly I dont blame him for being a hater as well as not understanding why anyone would--esp an imp would wanna be in cahoots with these infamously elitist classist set of assholes.

[coriander-candlesticks]

Me: I'm not sure if my health can withstand a commute. Should I try to go in tomorrow?

Apollo: no

Me: should I plan to work from home?

Apollo: no

Me: ...

Apollo:

Me: migraine?

Apollo: migraine.

[sisselkalle]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates - 4koma Anthology Comic, Volume 2 (Bros. Comics EX/Enterbrain)

Scanned at 600dpi, edited for colour clarity and resized for upload High resolution scans coming in the future

Volume 1 dust cover scans coming soon, colour correcting it has proven difficult as it's printed on textured paper that has yellowed over the years

[humanmorph]

what did brnine do to asepsis anyways

... is what I wanted to make the post about (I'll elaborate) but I was looking through a transcript for info & this is so funny to me. Keith

I should make a compilation sometime bc last week Ali said something about integrity that reminded me of a specific lyke moment & made me laugh... I knew I wrote it down somewhere I just can't find it now.

[dellovestorant]

Some of you are way too wrapped up in agendas and hatred to see what's right in front of you

[midnightexe]

" Choice "

...If you had been in his place, you would understand his pain. Years of suffering, constant fighting, effort and communication, All in vain. ... His world ended all over again in those few minutes. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4- A 'choice'... but who's really choosing?

Ramble under the cut

Uhh hi Tumblr I've been lurking I swear... This is a huge project that I've been working on since the literal upload of "Sun Makes a DEADLY CHOICE" on the TSAMS YT. My lovely partner ( @haven-creates ) and best friend ( who does not have tumblr ) have been getting the most sneak-peeks of this since I started working on it. I've been on and off working on this (as you can tell by the inconsistency in some of the earlier frames) and debated several times in not finishing it / leaving it uncolored, but here I am, with a fully colored animatic and detailing I haven't put into my art for years now lol (+ an extra lil animation at the end). Sun is by far my favorite character in the entire show, for many reasons, so it's no surprise Dark Sun is a massive source of curiosity and affection for me. His motives, his behavior, his speaking patterns, it all just adds up to this glorious plate of "Midnight's favorite Little Guy (TM)." I wish we knew more about him then we did right now, and honestly, the fact that Mrs_Shadow came out with a Dark Sun song yesterday is just,,, so fitting for the fact I'm posting this today.

N e ways; Thank you to my partner for their encouragement, for The Sun and Moon Show and The Lunar and Earth Show (and The Eclipse and Puppet Show) for all existing and being as high-effort and high-quality as they are. I won't get into the emotional bits, I just love these silly little heartbreaking shows so so much AUGH.

( *Note: Some of the designs here are slightly tweaked and not full designs, like Earth's hair reacting to her emotions. Moon and New Moon are both placeholder-ish designs, here.) Uhhh also give this a lil share? Mayhaps?

[quelmdn]

would you be open to deconstruct how you draw Laurent's hair? bc his hair is so gorgeous but messy at the same time (looking at you, book 3 duel piece) and wavy but straight and combed yet unkept unless specifically put into place (looking at you book 1 prince viewing piece) and it looks amazing, but every time i look at it i go "?????????" and aussie!laurent now only added to my confusion. it's consistent how you draw it within one "thing!"laurent, im just so lost his hair is gorgeous i need more Laurent's hair please

The true answer is: I draw it inconsistently as hell 🥹 You get my dilemma. Still, here we go with doodles from a few minutes ago:

Long answer:

First Laurent I ever drew already had his hair pushed back because I wanted a colder looking piece, but his hair was quite straight in it... I prefered it wavy, bc that was closer to my imagination of him! So I began experimenting with wavier hair soon after, joking that "his hair gets wavier when hit by humid hair, so in the books, as they progressively go souther, it would get a little puffier 🤭 For real, I just like drawing some waves in his hair, make that yellow shine ✨

Along with waves, came the multi-purpose Loose Strands(TM). I tend to put more strands when I want a softer look, or when he's a mess (duel scene 🙂‍↕️)., or whenever. Because I love drawing hair strands in general, even in pieces I want that colder, restricted look, they tend to show up.

Overall, I'm a short haired!laurent truther, but his hair is not thaaaat short: it's longer in the front and shorter in the back ( to show off that nape line 🫢). If he used a bang, it'd cover a big portion of his face. I use that to make me feel better because... a few times through the book, Laurent lowers his head and text says his hair hides his face: fully combed back doesn't match that ;; then I lie to myself cheat with make use of the strands getting looser and partially hiding his features :)

As you can see, the hard science behind it is: whatever way my brain is leaning that day. I like to follow a certain look, but it's sadly inconsistent, and can change anyday.

PS: Aussie Laurent is not a design of my own, I just draw too bc it's such a cute design 🥹🤌 so I cant talk much abt him.

[thebibliosphere]

Hello there - I had a question which I think(?) you might be able to help with. Or at least point me in the direction of more information.

I have a few chronic illnesses and disabilities and as such there's many gremlins I deal with. One thing that crops up a lot are comorbidities between my conditions.

I'm trying to be more vigilant with regards to my health - as a child there were many, many missed opportunities to get my symptoms seen to by a doctor (all squandered due to my parents nor believing me about my symptoms).

Anyway, I wanted to ask about MCAS and if you know it's possible to have it but not realise it?

I've had a few incidents like this, but mostly forgot them or ignored them. But yesterday I ate some basil from my windowsill plant and I had what can only be described as an allergic reaction. I'm not allergic to any foods (as far as I know) but I've eaten from this exact plant before and been fine. I have mint growing next to it which I also ate and it caused the same reaction. Again, I've eaten from this exact plant before. It was like my mouth was burning or stinging and the leaves felt, spicy? In my mouth. I'm not sure how to describe it but I hope you know what I mean. Today I ate from the exact same plants and had no reaction whatsoever.

I've definitely had similar things happen before- but events like yesterday are few and far between. But utterly confounding when they do happen. I have urticaria (diagnosed since age 18) which I suspect is relevant, somehow.

I'm starting to wonder if a lot of my symptoms I've written off have actually been MCAS. But I'm not sure. Do you have any advice around talking to a doctor about this or if I have a leg to stand on so to speak?

Sending my best wishes!

Hey friend, sorry to hear you've been dealing with some neglect.

And considering MCAS was only really recognized as a condition in the last 15 years, it's absolutely possible to have it and not know until symptoms get worse. I was experiencing anaphylactoid reactions my whole childhood, but because I tested negative on IgE tests (I still do), it was dismissed as anxiety right up until I hit my 30s and I experienced my first episode of full-blown idiopathic anaphylaxis.

(Note: anaphylaxis is not a requirement for diagnosis, and not everyone experiences it.)

You should discuss your inconsistent allergies with your doctor or allergist. I would also advise pursuing allergen testing, as new allergens can develop at any time, even if you don't have mast cell instability.

If you suspect some form of mast cell instability may be the root cause of your issues, I'd suggest checking out The Mast Cell Disease Society. (Their website is in the process of being updated, still. But they have good resources there.)

Their signs and symptoms (and triggers) page has recently been updated and is fairly concise:

If any of that rings a bell, it might be worth bringing up with your allergist, but fair warning, not everyone is receptive to the idea of mast cell disorders outside of mastocytosis. (And even then some doctors gaslight their patients to hell and back.)

If you do find yourself in this situation, try joining a couple of support groups to see if there are any MCAS aware doctors in your area, or alternatively, try the TMS physician finder tool:

Sorry if it seems like I'm just throwing a lot of links at you, but they are very useful links and I'm not at my best right now to explain things.

I hope this is helpful and if I missed something, please let me know.

I wish you luck in remedying your chronic health issues <3

[mirensiart]

every time i draw Chain, his braid gets longer lmao i'm the queen of inconsistency tbh

at this point Chain's hair is just Long (tm) don't ask me to be consistent with the length lmao even i don't know

[biowaredisasterbisexual]

Challenge Accepted

I was tagged by the love @ofcrowsanddragons to post a snippet of something I’ve written that I’m proud of.

So, below the cut and definitely unbeta’d, find something I wrote that genuinely makes me smile from the Modern AU (tm).

I’ll challenge: @hyperions-light, @thedissonantverses, @dymme, @bygonesigh, @basedonconjecture, @mageofquandrix, @galluslonging, @swamp-jello, @corvus-frugilegus, @littlemissgeek8, @jouskaroo, and @mortal-ethos to post something you're proud of and tag friends who you'd like to have a chance to reblog!

Turning to face her, a sheepish grin on his face, was Rook. “Didn’t realize I’d be accompanying the Neve Gallus.”

Neve doubted her expression hid her shock.

Rook was the Shadow who’d pulled off the Nessus Job? Rook?

He shifted his weight, almost bouncing on the balls of his feet. “Surprise?”

“You seem to be full of them,” she managed as she assimilated this new information.

His combat gear was well-worn, whether from wherever he’d gotten it or through his work for the Shadow Dragons she couldn’t guess. The bruises she’d seen on him earlier were no longer there, and she was surprised at the relief she felt. “You drank that healing potion?”

He chuckled. “Ah, well…someone smarter than I am mentioned that a healer might be a good idea, so I tried that instead.” She noted genuine apology in his eyes when they met hers.

“Good.” Neve drew closer to the desk, and looked down at the blueprints Rook had pulled. Tarquin stepped out of her way, and ushered Ashur into a corner for a private conversation. “This is the warehouse?”

He followed her lead. “In theory,” Rook said.

“These are the blueprints they submitted for their permits. But obviously they wouldn’t include anything that they might want to hide; anyone can get these. Even the maintenance guy.” He smirked at her. “Still, the external doors should be accurate - inconsistencies there would be tough to explain - so unless we go in through a window these are going to be the entry and exit points.”

“There are security cameras here, here, here, and here,” Neve said, indicating their placement on the plans.

Rook looked impressed. “Any sense of their line of vision?”

She took her phone out and opened her recording from earlier that day. “Let’s see,” she murmured as it began to play, focusing in on the view of each camera this time rather than the subjects of her inquiry.

“May I?” Rook asked. She glanced over at him, where he was, even in the midst of all this, smiling.

She smirked. “If you mess with my phone, I’ll hunt you down,” she warned as she handed the device to him.

“Don’t threaten me with a good time,” he muttered as he watched the video with the sound muted, and Neve felt butterflies in her stomach.

She’d chalk those up to nerves.

About the job. Not Rook.

He handed her phone back and reached into one of his many pockets. With the pencil he’d pulled out, Rook carefully started sketching lines that went from the camera locations Neve had indicated to the walls on the blueprint.

“At the end there, which door did the Flirt Master leave through?” Rook asked. Neve pointed to the front employee entrance and exit.

“There.” She cocked an eyebrow. “Flirt Master?”

He smirked as he checked over his handiwork with the plans. “You saw him last night. That was a master class. I’m planning to study it.”

Neve snorted. “Trust me, you’re better off without.”

Rook turned and caught her gaze. “Promise?”

Tarquin cleared his throat, and Rook pinked.

Interesting.

“Do you have some kind of plan, or will I have to listen to this all night?” The Templar grumbled.

Rook traced a path through the front door in a light pencil line. “If we enter here, we’ll be in the office area and not in the stacks, plus we can stay in this blind spot up until this point. Their camera set up actually isn’t that good. Especially if they’re storing more than overpriced perfume for the highblood crowd.”

He stood up and rubbed his chin in apparent thought. “Do we think Daddy Bataris maybe doesn’t know about Junior’s moonlighting in the culty artifact business? Because if so, security might not be as bad as I feared.”

“Never say ‘Daddy Bataris’ again.” Tarquin sounded physically pained, and Neve stifled a snicker as Rook smirked.

Rook bent back over the blueprints. “From here,” he marked the spot with an ‘X,’ “we should have a good view of the office space without being in the camera line. Hopefully it’ll give us insight into where the security hub is. Once we find it, we can knock it out easily enough. We’ll just need to disable to remote alarm system first.”

He stood up, looking down at the plans with his hands on his hips. “Step one, remote alarm; step two, security hub; step three, Neve pilfers the place for fun and profit; step four, piss off Tevinter supremacists.” Rook looked at them all and grinned.

Neve looked at him skeptically. “Is this how you do all your planning?”

“Pretty much!”

“Explains Nessus,” Tarquin muttered, and Rook pouted.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

why do so many people keep calling ed izzy's abuser? I thought it was kind of funny how wrong they were at first because I love being right but at this point I feel like, if you really believe that why do you even like this show? where the main love interest is a violently abusive indigenous man? that sounds boring as shit. what would possess the writers of the show for them to make such an awful decision?

but then I think, if this many people believe it does that mean I'm the one who's wrong? or is it that the creators fumbled that storyline when they should have been clearer about it? or maybe it's just that most people on here have had their reading comprehension scorched away by Sherlock Holmes conspiracy theories and Steven Universe discourse. I can't tell. sometimes I think the internet may have been a mistake.

No they're wrong here's what's going on. People all read this shitty fic called Hell or High Water where Ed was everything the Izzy stans say he was and then instead of realizing that Ed is sad everyone regressed into thinking that the Kraken Era TM was going to be incredibly violent, like serial killing blond men because they look like Stede levels of violence. Even if you didn't read HoHW you saw art or read fic from people who had engaged with this fic and succumbed to it's premise. So there's been this background radiation of misunderstanding what the Kraken is on the fandom for several months. So inevitably when Ed did some mild violence and then attempted suicide by threatening murder until the crew took matters into their own hands, which is not abuse or torture by any stretch, btw, it's a murder-suicide at worst (I say at worst because I consider it fuckery-suicide I don't think Ed was trying to kill people I think he was trying to force them into a situation where they thought it was kill or be killed so that they would choose to kill him, but that is my interpretation and you are free to think it's a botched murder-suicide I have no problem with that), which, murder is something the show has never condemned and if it did it would be horribly inconsistent. So anyway, Ed's whole Kraken Era was categorized in the show by him being sad and doing so many drugs and begging someone please god anyone to kill him and trying to break Ned Low's record out of the evil boredom, but because it had a murder-suicide element to it and Izzy's toes were getting removed and he waved a gun around at everyone once (in a way that felt to me like he was trying and failing to work up the nerve to blow his own brains out but I digress) people who liked HoHW and were mad that people had called it out were like "see hes being violent HoHW author vindicated" as if anything Ed did rose to the level of that fic

And you want to know how I know this read is bullshit? Because when I watch the show with people who don't read fic or interact with the fandom and then I gauge their reactions without showing my hand they all implicitly understand that Ed is reacting to Izzy in a way appropriate to how pirate captains react to threats from subordinates. The spectrum of reactions has been from "hey isn't it weird how Ed was the Kraken because his dad was abusive and now he's the kraken because of Izzy? Maybe there's something there but idk" to "I don't think you can apply the logic of domestic abuse to a pirate captain and first mate but also Izzy had it coming" to "I cannot feel bad for Izzy after last season, I'm sorry." To "lmao Izcel" and I've showed this show to roughly everyone I know. The only thing I can conclude from the fact that people who don't engage with OFMD fic almost unilaterally thinking that Izzy is in the wrong and then coming online to see people thinking the opposite is that Izzy as victim and Ed as abuser is pure fanon, like how Stede is a cinnamon roll who talks like Azeriphael.

But anyway yeah you're completely right about the fact that this would be a bad show if they decided to make Ed into a domestic abuser. I don't want to watch a rom com about a domestic abuser falling in love and I don't want a show that decided to make it's indigenous lead abusive when the stereotype of indigenous men as abusers is still to this day used as an excuse to separate indigenous children from their families and put them with white Christians in order to erase their culture. Good thing OFMD didn't make Ed abusive, so I still like the show.

[skaruresonic]

Spinning telling me about Netflixavania's impact on how CV is viewed by the mainstream reminds me of the fact that video games, for all of their advancements, still carry something of a stigma.

Particularly old games. Call me a crotchety old lady, but there's no respect for them. Not their history, their context, their legacy, or their preservation.

In addition to the revisionist narrative that "Sonic was always inconsistent" people invented in order to elevate spinoff media over the games, I'm reminded of how Silent Hill fans are now pushing this erroneous narrative that James shows little emotion because of "technical constraints," therefore erasing Team Silent's deliberate creative decisions. (Sato stated otherwise in a 2001 interview, fyi)

People will invent narratives to ingratiate their love of viddy games to the mainstream because in some capacity, games are still considered #cringe. It doesn't matter if it's an ongoing series (Sonic), a dead series (Castlevania) or a seminal work in its genre (Silent Hill), folks will still make absolute steaming horse shit up to devalue previously-lauded works. Suddenly Sonic is no longer good and has never been good. Suddenly Silent Hill 2 isn't a masterpiece or a giant of the survival horror genre; no, it's old, and therefore outdated, and the devs were only doing the best they could with what little they had, uwu poor lambs.

I literally had to stop watching a Silent Hill analyst because she too fell prey to the "technical limitations" cruft, suddenly making up flaws she'd never pointed out before for absolute bullshit reasons because she had decided to agree with the mainstream opinion that SH2 is now "obsolete" as a work of art.

I hate the ahistoricity, the revisionism. And it's so fucking xenophobic patronizing to the game devs, sending the message that despite their best efforts, they only made silly viddy games, while others are now taking the same material and elevating it to the status of Art(tm).

[mysteryampharos]

being an explorer must be one of the most inconsistent and risky jobs in the PMD world. Not because its dangerous but because your guild could take like 80% or more of the poke you earn. motherfucker a single tm is thousands and thousands of poke and your bitchass is only letting me have 200 out of 2k????

[aquillis-main]

This "do Sonic games have good writing" discourse has reminded me of something I've been thinking about on and off recently. Namely, what does it mean for a Sonic game to be good?

We can argue about the merits of writing, characterization, and gameplay all day, but specifically, I've been thinking about the yardstick people often seem to apply to the series. Based on the way they talk about Sonic, you'd think the series needs to have an intensive, watertight lore and a story written by Kojima.

I don't think a Sonic story needs to be deep or dark in order to be good. I don't even think the writing needs to be complex or dynamic, necessarily; sometimes a message is handled best when it's delivered simply.

Although it's true that the games do feature darker elements, those elements have always been handled with tact and sensitivity out of a genuine care for the subject matter. Which brings me to what I think is the real crux of the issue: emotional honesty. Is the work trying to be something it's not?

I came to this realization after contemplating why games like SA2 and Forces (put down your torches and pitchforks) made me mist up where other works might not.

There are a number of reasons, but overall, I think most of it has to do with those games being thematically cohesive, if not always narratively cohesive, and remaining genuine to the messages they try to impart. Both are games that stick the landing despite being uneven in places.

IDW and the movies are not emotionally honest, in the sense that they don't employ any narrative or characterization decisions in service of greater themes. They just make shit happen to get a reaction from the audience, logic and theme be damned. And the kicker is that people gas both IDW and the films up as superior to the games when they're actually inferior, just in terms of sheer technical construction.

SA2 may suffer the occasional bit of wonky writing, but it is thematically coherent enough for me to be able to overlook that. And I'd deign to argue that most things people call plot holes aren't really plot holes, if you just thought about the information the game gives you. The game doesn't spoonfeed it to you, is all.

Battle? Has excellent characterization, as well as employs a foil between Eggman's and Gerald's treatment of Emerl as a commentary on mankind's responsibility wrt WMDs. It can be a bit heavy-handed as far as anti-war tracts go, but "This is the final voice of the last war machine" is still Shadow's rawest line, and no one can take that away from me lol.

I'd argue that SatSR is the best-written Sonic game. Its characterization is nuanced, the execution of its themes was tastefully done - subtly, even - and it features symbolism in a way that doesn't quite shove it in your face the way SatBK does.

It's definitely not on par with something like Silent Hill 2, but it's worth remembering that a Sonic game doesn't need to be Silent Hill 2: Sonic Edition to be good. As long as it tells its story honestly, a lot of flaws can be forgiven.

What do the spinoffs have? Vibes. That's about it. You can't really enjoy them on their own merits because they don't maintain any internal consistency, which is ironic considering how much people claim the games are inconsistent.

IDW? Can anyone tell me what its core message is? "Sonic offers anyone freedom out of his staunch belief in freedom as a general idea, regardless of if it hurts people or if it backfires on him, because it gives him Depth(tm) and Texture(tm) as a character"? "Sonic vs. Eggman is a dumb and harmful cycle we must stop because reasons"?

That's... kind of cynical, don't you think?

SA2 had things to say on anti-authoritarianism, grief, revenge, hope, atonement, and keeping true to yourself even in the face of doubt and hardship (ex. Shadow asserting he's still him even if his memories were false; Sonic seeking to clear his image and asserting "what you see is what you get": the two are foils and mirror reflections).

What was Sonic 3 trying to say? "I knew Maria wouldn't want me to destroy the world, but screw it, I'm doing it anyway because my pain is what matters most"? Shut up and clap for Live and Learn, you nostalgia-blind pleb.

Like, you can tell the difference. One is trying to say something. The other plays at saying something while saying nothing.

Honestly, this is how I feel with the anon trying to take my well-earned 'Sonic the Hedgehog Fan' sticker, despite showcasing that unlike them, I have more proof of myself understanding the games and how they operate.

Not every story is agreeable to people, and they don't have to be. For Sonic, the games are cartoons that you can play.

[mohgreal]

IMO the biggest sign of the shittiness of Miquella's writing is the fact that his actions between the Caelid War and Mohg's death are so inconsistent and unexplained that half of the "lore fandom" still believes he's a selfish power-hungry godhood seeker even though he explicitly has to abandon his fears and doubts to go on that path, his own mind describes godhood as eternal torment, Ymir and Trina both describe him as making a terrible sacrifice out of guilt, and he sounds absolutely terrified of his inevitable godhood in the final cutscene where he's kneeling in resignation (literally stuttering and baby-talking in Japanese and sounding like he's going to cry in the English voice acting). There are three entire characters who exist for the near sole purpose of saying "Miquella really doesn't want to do this but is resigned to having to to atone for his mother, making a noble but misguided sacrifice" and it still didn't drown out the obvious questions like "wait so what was the vow?", "what was the timeline and reasoning for Mohg's kidnapping, and was that his or Mohg's idea?", and "why didn't he tell his sister and her army anything and leave them to rot in a dead tree and blow themselves up?". One of the most popular interpretations is that he really really just wanted Radahn's bussy (probably because "Radahn is my consort" is literally all he says when he's actually on-screen).

Honestly people praising Miquella's writing in the DLC (especially anything having to do with Mohg and Radahn) feels like gaslighting. This is easily noticeable when you notice that the people praising its "brilliance" have completely contradictory ideas of what actually happened or what the story was trying to say. I've heard everything from "Miquella is tragically noble but misguided" to "Miquella is mentally handicapped" to "Miquella is a victim of fate who is cursed to fail no matter what he does" to "Miquella was an evil scheming mastermind whose nobility was a carefully crafted facade" to "Miquella is a dumb, impulsive, spoiled little brat and cautionary tale against nepo babies", and all of these are supposed to be Genius Writing[TM] despite all these directions being so underbaked that people can think his story is literally the opposite of any of the above…

it also killed the fan interpretation. i used to really really like the idea of it being a misunderstanding where mohg kidnaps miquella for his own dynasty and malenia attacks caelid thinking he stole miquella and you cant even argue that i just "wanted my own au to be canon" no. i just wanted it to make sense 🙏

also the "character existing for the sole purpose of X" in the case with the DLC being just to say something about miquella is so fucking dumb. i get fromsoftware never had very in depth characters but its getting far too obvious to the point its comical;

SOTE also does screw up the entire timeline because the writers didn't know their own lore as proven by me many times on this trashy account whoops

also I agree on the "glazing miquellas writing" part because if you can take so many directions with a character that contradict each other, thats not even interpretion anymore that's straight up having your fans make the character for you 😭

getting a monthly anon rant is always a good thing. sorry if this post is as underbaked as sote's writing its the middle of the night cause my insomnia is always awake