#it’s bleak bc I feel bleak

[sourkitsch]

I’m taking a class on abstraction and I just got back from a crit where people were saying my works reminded them of Rothko’s chapel paintings in their intensity. Great how do I get that quality into the rest of my paintings

[trying-to-jew]

Constantly torn between my desire to convert and the crushing weight of knowing that I won’t be able to exist in the wider fandom spaces that I love without being constantly reminded that Jews are always guilty until proven innocent post-Oct 7.

[sendmyresignation]

i truly think nearly every my chem song has more than one meaning (this is true of most things) but also that many of those meanings are contradictions and thats the point because that's the heart of my chemical romance: an enterprise which is both fake shrouded costumed performed and also the most genuine thing on planet earth

[princessithaca]

i'm kind of obsessed with the lockwood and co worldbuilding, actually. like, it's such a fascinating one-step-to-the-left universe alteration. what if, right as 70s britain is careening towards an economic crisis, keynesianism is creaking, and the whole country's about to come down with the 'british disease'. what if, out of the shuttered up city high streets in london and liverpool, or the burgeoning ghost towns of the rapidly de-industrialising north, literal ghosts began to emerge? what if?

[crehador]

one thing i love about slf is how hard it subverts the hot girl harem trope. like yeah you have the mc playing as a guy whose party is all girl avatars. but literally none of them are into him (and the one girl who's into him is Big Time Struggling to get into the party REI PLEASE GIRL USE YOUR WORDS YOU'RE SO OP I'M SURE THEY WOULD LET YOU IN)

like arthur is even a hot girl supermodel in real life but also a complete dick (affectionate) and her and sunraku are just absolute assholes to each other (positive) literally zero romantic tension there

then there's katzo. obligatory spunky tomboy girl of the group. and he's just some guy lmao

then there's emul. npc rabbit with a hot girl form. but sunraku is never not normal about her

maybe i'm just setting a very low bar but it's refreshing and fun! to see these interactions between people that are just. genuinely and completely there for the game

[grntaire]

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[atopvisenyashill]

i'm intrigued in what ways do you think hotd can massively change the ending of the war? (without it being the obvious rhaenyra lives)

mind you this is complete tinfoil hatery here!!! it’s like a combo of “i’m too online” and “i’m too paranoid” and “i know condal & hess have their own opinions on the books and they are as dedicated as they are weird” SO these are the ones i kinda get squinty eyed suspicious over and i have noticed others being suspicious as well-

driftmark inheritance - like i said this COULD be them twisting the knife a little more re: corlys’ bastards but i have wondered if rhaenys pushing for rhaena and baela is hinting towards one of them, likely baela, inheriting out and out.

battle of the gullet - i’ve wondered if they’re going to push it so jace stays alive longer, like as far as rhaenyra’s rule in king’s landing

jace has a baby - i’ve seen both that he & baela will have a kid and THAT kid will take over driftmark, OR be aegon iii’s wife instead of jaehaera/daenaera. i’ve also seen sara snow shows up, her & jace get hitched, and cregan legitimizes the kid to be his own heir? i think all three of these are a stretch but it also feels like the weird shit they’d do?

with that said i do also wonder if they don’t cut daenaera or kill jaehaera during the war to give aegon iii just one wife

rhaenyra doesn’t die - okay listen. i know i’m like basically tb and you’re all thinking “this bitch is just huffing copium” but i have wondered if they’d soften it by having rhaenyra like, live in self imposed exile/fake her death/some sort of abdication in favor of her sons, and justify it as being closer to what happened to matilda. tbc i don’t want this to happen bc i think condal & hess would do a terrible job with it lol

i actually had the thought that rhaenicent might run off together. you know that scene in versailles where that recurring secret protestant girl ran off with her noble friend and the musketeer let them? i was picturing something like that. tbf i was high when i started feeling this one was likely.

these are the ones i’ve seen people yelling about that i just feel are too far fetched-

streets are saying jace & corlys are basically gonna attempt an overthrow of rhaenyra, i don’t think this is likely, i think this is people being dramatic over the scenes where the three of them are fighting after rook’s rest

i’ve actually seen a theory that hotd is meant to be a soft reboot for the entire series and it’s a jump off into a REDO of the main series and once again, feels like cope, but!!! they reboot spiderman & x-men every 3-5 business days!!!

the sara snow thing is specifically about the catspaw dagger btw

daemon survives the fight with aemond and lives in hiding forever

rhaenyra straight up lives, is crowned, wins, and rules with aegon the younger as her heir.

one of the velaryon boys will live altho everyone kinda hems and haws about WHICH one

if you’re like “these seem insane” a) yeah b) they’ve done not one but TWO groucho marx esque disguises this season and i KNOW the cargylls are canon but come on i feel they’re getting silly. and again, respect for condal, but he was the one who defended the sansa bolton story arc!!

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: almost done :)

[milkbreadtoast]

ai is just so fucking bleak man it makes me want to end it all...

taking everything joyful about life... everything i ever wanted or loved or hoped for... and not just that, everything else too... no job is safe... the only way i can go on is to pretend it doesnt exist and just keep creating and trying as we always have done it haha but meanwhile it just keeps getting worse and im filled with sickening dread... the only hope I have is that people will continue to stick together and protect each other even as ai tries to destroy and take everything from us and our identity and our joy sorry to sound poetic and pretentious but i just need to get the vent out. its bleak man.

[b4kuch1n]

Your swsh art always makes me want to replay the game because i love it and its my favorite pokemon game and every time i play another pokemon game i think of it how i miss certain elements from swsh. Then i boot up the game and im once again caught in the 1 hour 40 minutes hand held intro and im like ah- now i remember why i have been playing other pokemon games instead of this one. Happy (late?) birthday!

you don't want to listen to hop? you don't want to hear him teach you about type matchups? you don't wanna let him cheer u on...? 🥺 waa....?

[bunnihearted]

ᡣ𐭩ྀིྀི₊ ⊹

[suffercerebral]

me having gone to bed at 6 am every day for the past week and generally spiraling mentally while rotting in bed waking up this morning: a 4 mile hike in the heat is a really good idea right now, and while we're at it let's start like 3 art projects

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[aerithisms]

okay i LOVE this thread on 73 yards. this reading really makes the episode click for me, and i agree with basically all of it, including that i don't think it goes hard enough on the loneliness of ruby's life. i think part if the reason i found it hard to parse and this didn't hit on first watch is that she just isn't sad enough? if it's about one woman's loneliness and isolation following her all her life and becoming self-fulfilling i want to feel it more. i know they use the birthday cards as a succinct way to convey her age/time passing but their presence kind of undercuts that she's supposed to be all alone in life. maybe they could've done more to convey her surface level relationships besides the montage of breakups. i'm also not convinced all this connects meaningfully to the episode's political strand, but maybe that's okay and the episode is just about multiple things (i do still love the reading that it's about what we do to take action without a fictional hero like the doctor). one thing's for sure this episode gives you a hell of a lot to think about which is the substance i was missing from the first couple rtd episodes of the season

[ofpd]

i feel like everything is so bleak all the time but sometimes it occurs to me how much more hopeful i am than zionists just from my simple implicit belief that safety for jews is possible even without genocide or an ethnostate