#oops long post

[veilofthorns]

[catthepillarr]

After watching tfes, I seriously can't help but fixate on the uncanny resemblance Prowl has to cats.

This is slightly embarrassing to admit but I find the thought of Prowl being unusually similar to a cat genuinely amusing, so obviously I'm going to put him in a cardboard box.

And I obviously also have a scientific explanation as to why Prowl needs a comically large scarf and box. Listen, if you compare tfes Prowl to the rest of the cast, there's a pretty glaring difference in height. Prowl is tiny, so naturally, he'll be much colder than everyone else because smaller objects tend to lose heat much faster than bigger objects. And if you take into account the fact that they're, well, metal, an excellent conductor of heat, he's going to lose heat way faster than most. Therefore, if he doesn't want to freeze to death, he'll probably have to find alternate solutions because heaters don't solve everything. Scarves are insulators of heat due to the multiple air pockets in them, and similarly with cardboard boxes. So, technically.. it's pretty logical to put a scarf on Prowl and keep him in a little box.

Yeah sorry I may or may not have gotten carried away. Anyways, if you're somehow still reading, I just want to thank everyone for the overwhelming amount of support I've received the past 2 days. Seriously, thank you. I'm literally elated that there's a place where I can FINALLY dump my hundreds of Prowl doodles..

Since you're already here, I just want to know;

Also sneak peak on another Prowl w scarf comic ha... (I'm unhinged)

[thecourtfinchster]

there are less than two weeks until somewhere beyond the sea!!!!!!!!!!

today I am thinking about the implications of Linus learning how to knit. thinking about the joy Arthur would have after receiving a very lumpy pair of colorful socks as a gift (such a touching notion compared to Charles thinking Arthur's socks are stupid/too silly). thinking about a bashful Linus gushing over the imperfections, but that first pair becoming Arthur's favorite.

Linus knitting sweaters and vests for the children, getting better and better at patterns and sizing as their collections grow. special sweaters for christmas or birthdays!! a parade of pomeranians for Sal. yellow flowers for Phee. root vegetables for Thalia. etc. Theodore stealing stitch markers and adding them to his hoard, along with miscellaneous yarn scraps.

Arthur getting Linus a beautiful array of knitting needles, including ergonomic grips when Linus' hands start cramping. Zoe whittling a set of wooden needles as a gift. maybe eventually Linus picks up crochet as well.

thinking about Linus slowly becoming comfortable with knitting clothes for himself, and feeling good in them. that man belongs in an adorable homemade sweater vest, covered in symbols corresponding with each member of his family. it just feels so right that he should pick up knitting, he's such a perfect character for it.

[earhartsease]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee we're getting our new wheelchair this afternoon! thanks to brexit it's taken 3 and a half months since ordering it (all the bits are coming from Germany to the UK)

pics to follow of course, expect green and gold

anyway this is only our second wheelchair, and it's a better fit for us than the first, has a much more supportive backrest

but the main change is our current chair has power assisted wheels that you still push to move, and thanks to a combo of eds (increasingly slippy ribs and shoulders), poland syndrome (born with some missing muscles), and ME, we just can't do that self-propelling any more even with the assist

so the new chair has similar powered wheels, but they do all the work and we drive with a joystick - we had to get a whole new wheelchair because the new powered wheels didn't fit our current model, but we're ending up with a wheelchair better fitted to our body so it's been worth the palaver of getting it all

we're incredibly grateful to all the people who donated to our fundraiser, and to three charities that between them paid for just over half the cost of all this (the entire setup cost around £8,400) - we couldn't just buy an off the peg power chair, because they simply don't make them for really tall people unless you get a custom one for twice the cost of this one

and we're still processing our internalised ableism over this switch from self-propelling to power chair - because the general public seems to treat those very differently and it's a shitshow tbh - we're sad to not be able to push ourselves any more (like we "should" be able to - that's the kind of thinking that had us waiting a year longer than we could have to get a wheelchair instead of struggling with crutches), but also incredibly happy that we'll be so much more mobile! well be able to show up for stuff not tired and in pain just from getting there, and that's magic tbh

anyway, this is partly to thank everyone on here who contributed, and also to encourage you to look at what your attitudes are to power chair users compared to self-propelling wheelchair users, because some people out there are very weird about it - and also to encourage you to get a wheelchair if you're really struggling with other mobility aids and this would help - and also to let people out there realise that a wheelchair that's properly fitted to your body is not cheap, so please do help others with their fundraisers if you can

also we want to explain that our current wheelchair is called Saoirse (sound like sore-shah, irish for "freedom"), and the new chair will be still be Saoirse because it's like the Trill from star trek, the consciousness will transfer to the new chair (via the seat cushion) :)

happy rolling, all of us! ☀️🌿

[petal-boi]

heres a masterpost of inscryption cards I've made so far including the new ones i haven't posted, from now on I'll probably reblog this post with new cards

heres the process.

color cards with boiled down coffee and turmeric, iron them flat cuz they like to warp, do outlines name and stats then sketch out then ink, i grid both my physical card and the reference to better make sure proportions are correct.

also bones, the in-game version is hard to sculpt every time, but making little bone shapes is fun. im not amazing a painting lol

[redyarns]

who’s your favorite character to write in undertow?

oooo good question. definitely a juggle between sentinel and megatron. sentinel because his struggle is masked externally by the glory and comfort/ease of being an aristocrat as well as the future prime. his insecurities and fears are so potent that it leaves him incredibly weak to manipulation (as weve seen), which contradicts with his outward appearance of being very strong and leader-like. aka hes a character who i love to whump on for some reason. its strange but by this point i kind of consider him a different character from canon sentinel, tho that makes sense i suppose. canon sentinel is gross and i want to shred him into paper, but undertow sentinel i want to knit a scarf for

megatron is just really fun because so far hes the most mysterious character. weve gotten little bits and pieces of who he is, his backstory, and who he once was, but not all of it. ive been purposefully trying to limit his pov as much as possible (which u will recognize if u compare his pov to others. he deliberately does not think of his past much and in situations where he feels he cant be himself [like with moonracer and smokescreen] then he'll kind of "fade away" and the scene entirely focuses on other characters. isnt it neat?) to preserve that feeling. its funny because initially he was meant to be super sexy and cold and cruel, and maybe at times he is, but hes also still a complete goofball which i adore

all the characters (aside from magnus) are meant to be somewhere in their early 20s, and i really wanted to convey that young adult vibe. so they have the maturity to face real world challenges and feelings, but theyre also completely inappropriate at times, and have a sense of humor u can relate to. orion especially has a pretty interesting inner monologue, since he tends to think of funny stuff at serious moments or he curses a lot lol

i would say the most difficult character to write is bee. i adore him but hes the one ive written the least so its hard to stabilize him into a character i can write consistently. im still figuring it out so hopefully ill be more confident with him soon! the next scene is in his pov and im worried i wont be able to pull it off. fingers crossed

[spacefoxy-irl]

I hate being THAT guy, but I kinda agree on your thoughts about Ace. Don't get me wrong, he was great in the band. He was an OG and he had talent, but goddamn there were so many things about him that rubbed me the wrong way. And it IS hard to be super critical because of all the Ace simps, but truthfully, I never was one. He was never as great as he hyped himself up to be. Tommy surpassed him YEARS ago. He just refuses to accept it.

Spice ahead.

These are always super difficult things to talk about. I avoid speaking my mind because like I said, I don't want to upset anyone. That's not my intention here. And let me get this straight, I'm not villanizing anyone for liking Ace. I don't believe for one second that anyone likes him for the bad stuff he's done and said. So yeah, I'm not saying anyone who likes him is a bad person or they should stop liking him.

But back to my point - yeah super difficult stuff and I don't want to start any fandom discourse here. But I kinda boiled over. Because I rarely do that, I seem to have gained some kind of reputation as someone who blindly adores people and there are some people who for whatever reason believe I'm an Ace defender (again I'm very confused where that came from since I don't even talk about the guy, like ever) or that I defend the dumb shit he's done (that n*zi dressup ask I got ages ago, again very confused because I have never even touched on that). People have gotten a very skewed image of me as a fan, it seems. I do have opinions. I usually keep them to myself because like I said, I don't want to anger or hurt anyone who likes these people.

I'm reaching the end of my tether with Ace though. Tommy does not deserve the shit he's getting and him trying to pull Eric Singer into this is super scummy. Those two kept Kiss afloat for the past 2 decades and while Ace checked out both times he was in the band. For heaven's sakes, he checked out on his own solo band too to the point Todd had to make most of the music and he just showed up to play on it. And lets not even begin with him doing drugs with his own daughter.

Ok I'm getting a bit too deep into it now. I guess this is mask off - whoops, Jen's not just blindly adoring people and not acknowledging the problematic shit. But yeah, I'm tired of him having to lift himself up by dunking on Tommy who has never done anything to him. I can't stand it.

I'll end this with something positive, so this is not gonna be just a huge post of me foaming at the mouth. Ace is an excellent guitarist. If anyone wants to look up to him in any way, let it be his skill in playing.

[toburnup]

Just wanting to pick your brain( bc I'm kind of like this too) what is it about Steve? He's the common denominator in all the ships you write (Which you do so beautifully btw) like steddie, stommy, and now stonathan (!!!!!). And you've also said it's easier for you to write in Steve's POV than Eddie's. Is there a particular reason? Do you relate to him in canon or your writing?

You are such a genius, I could listen to you talk about your writing all day.

I cannot wait for whatevers coming down the pike: the wip stonathan fic, the iylo update (see what I did there?) . Everything you put out into the world is a gift anyway so <3

!! thank you! hah, why steve? i'm not sure! i was a steve hater for a long time. still am, in a lot of ways.

in canon, i like steve best as a side character. his character motivations shift so drastically between seasons that i find the more screentime he gets, the less sense he makes lmao (probably why i disliked the scoops storyline, tho i love s3 robin).

and honestly, i think i like writing steve as much as i do because i want to read him a certain way, and it's not a version i see enough (for my taste). i really like steve as someone with grey moral values, a bit selfish, rude as a default. not necessarily stupid but he doesn't care if he's wrong. competitive to a ridiculous degree. distracted by trying to figure out who he is but also caring too much about what other people think to really find an answer.

i relate to him (the way i write him) in a few ways, but it's hard for me to pinpoint the exact reasons why tbh. some people who know me well can read my writing and see when i'm projecting onto him.

the big thing for me is i like writing him falling for different people. i love his friendship with tommy and carol, and all the potential romantic overlap. him and eddie are fun (and i love eddie, but steddie isn't my ~OTP~ or anything). jonathan is a PAIN to write but i'm liking it so far. and i know some people will give me grief for it, but i'm also writing a metalsandwich fic (so steve, billy, and eddie) which has been super fun.

i find the s2 confrontation between billy & steve at the byers house to be one of steve's best scenes ("were you dropped too much as a child, or what?... she's not here") - lying to billy's face feels like a fucking wild choice and i love it. steve with anger simmering beneath the surface. finally learning to plant his feet. still gets beaten to a pulp <3

he's an idiot boy and i love him.

did this answer the question? maybe! i can also talk about steve forever, so i love getting messages like this :) :) thank you for reading my works.

[faerie-punk]

Ok because Nick specifically asked us for it, a post about I Can't See Anything I Don't Like About You:

- "I am prone to fits of fright, moments of intense neuroticism/but when I'm good, good god, I'm great": my first thought on hearing it was that it's such a great description of how my feelings work. I feel everything really intensely, so the bad is really bad, but the good is really good!

- "but you've all heard all this before/so I will try and elaborate": really cool because it feels like breaking the fourth wall, almost? You've all heard it before (in all the other songs), so let's switch it up a little!

- "I am Joel post memory reset": not a lyric thing but I just love the sounds here, how Iain sings it and everything. It scratches my brain in a good way

- "and botched green hair/in disrepair": I will be so honest I thought this was "box-green hair" until like a week ago, as in box hair dye. I had no idea it was a My Hero Academia (?) reference but also I've never seen the show. I like how it ties back in the narrator being all of these things though, like with literally having the hair. Not just I like them, but I am them.

- "I am everything and everyone all of the time": again, I feel so much all the time, and it's nice to hear (in the way I understand it) that someone else feels that too

- "I exist inside this puzzle/we all exist within this room": sometimes I feel like most people don't care about me or what I have to say, and some of the only times I don't feel that way are with my best friends (people you would invite to a barbecue!). Even if it feels like I "don't exist" in other places, I exist there.

- "I play along but I'm not here/I'm lying facedown in your neighbor's pool": kind of a direct contradiction to the last one, sometimes I feel mentally not there, even if I'm with people I love. Physically I'm here but mentally I'm lying facedown in your neighbor's pool

- "when my friends would all go swimming/I would drown within the shallow end": I'm sure this is a metaphor but as someone who doesn't swim super well I'm taking it at face value. I feel that

- "I sleep better on the sofa": the "because I was asleep on my friends sofa" Confidant sofa maybe? The "I always wake up on your sofa and I walk out to your balcony" If I Just Ask Politely sofa perhaps?

I Can't See Anything I Don't Like About You is arguably my favorite song on the album. Anyway

[auxiliarydetective]

The first high/middle school I went to was pretty terrible. Lots of the teachers weren't very motivated to teach and I understand why - we were big classes of around thirty people, with over half of the class only being at the Gymnasium (quick explanation, Germany has three "levels" of high/middle school education, Gymnasium is the highest and most difficult and it’s your ticket to university) because their parents wanted them to be, not because it was a level they could maintain on their own. Some of the teachers were very strict, especially on those kids. They usually spared me because I was top of my class - which honestly made things worse because they were clearly pulling favourites. Others would constantly complain and not really care about if we learned anything.

But there were also the good ones. My 5th to 6th grade RE teacher who only taught us the very basics that were necessary and used the rest of the lesson to help us with everyday problems. He phoned the bus company because some of us were always being bullied out of the overcrowded busses. He talked to other teachers to have them give us less homework. He taught us valuable things about life and enjoying life. He refused to have me write and exam with a broken wrist and would have done the same for everyone else. And this wasn't your stereotypical young, motivated teacher - he went into retirement after my 7th grade and everyone who had ever had him in class missed him.

But also education-wise, there were good teachers. Our music teacher who was also our choir leader and trained us up to a professional level but never at the cost of our health or well-being, who taught me to look out for my voice and listen to what I felt was right, not whether someone told me to sing louder. My 8th grade history teacher who had such a vast knowledge of his subject and told dozens of anecdotes and is one of the reasons I decided to study history at uni. My 8th grade English teacher who treated everyone with respect and had us exchange letters with her native speaker friends. My 8th grade physics teacher who made his lessons so fun and engaging that they barely felt like lessons at all.

And then there was the second school I went to where almost all of the teachers were like that. Engaging, knowledgeable, motivated. There was always mutual respect between students and teachers, even if the students were bad or the topic that was being taught wasn't really popular. If someone struggled, there would always be efforts to catch them and get them back up to speed gently. And all of that while the government was trying to screw our school over. All of those people inspired me to learn, and they turned me from a person overwhelmed by depression and social anxiety about being a nerd and a know-it-all, one that felt embarrassed about myself and the autism I didn’t know I had, into a person that's happy with themselves and is proudly nerding away at university.

Anyways, long story short: This has been a shoutout to all the great teachers I've had in my life and a reminder that, even if the education system seems horrible, the people in it don't have to be and a good teacher can change your life and, even more importantly, your view on life. If there’s one thing my teachers taught me that I would say is the most important, it's happiness.

"the public education system is intently evil and all teachers are abusive because it was the worst experience ever for me personally"

guys, look, I'm legitimately sorry that happened to you. that's fucked up. it shouldn't have happened, and it shouldn't be allowed to happen again to you or anyone else. I'm sorry.

public school was hard for me too, at times, and I'm still suffering the consequences for the harsh grading, the arbitrary deadlines, the hours of completely useless-to-me homework. I could name a few teachers who have been pretty fucking terrible. the fact that nobody considered getting me evaluated for ADHD has had an impact on my self image and academic success that I can't erase.

and also.

I grew up in an area where education, in particular, is incredibly progressive-leaning. educators are working really hard to create and try out education philosophies and practices that prioritize kids and their learning, rather than teachers and what they think kids should learn.

My sex ed was comprehensive, and came entirely from school. My gay sixth grade teacher taught me about HIV/AIDs in a useful, accurate way. In high school, I learned about the way orgasms work & I was prepared not to feel shame for normal stuff.

I learned that Communism was not what the USSR actually practiced, and what it really means. I learned about atrocities and, specifically, the genocide of indigenous people committed in/by the US. I learned about the military industrial complex, the school-to-prison pipeline, and I learned about manifestations of racism specific to my local area. I learned about Stonewall, and the intersection of the civil rights movement with gay rights and disability justice.

My creative writing teacher taught us about LSD, and the real reasons we shouldn't do it, after a hilariously ineffective assembly run by some local cops. He spoke gently, carefully, and emphatically about his friends and his own experiences. Later in the semester, he read us a story he wrote about two gay men finding each other in a deeply homophobic environment.

My sci-fi teacher made me feel safe & seen as a kid with "weird" interests. My US History teacher helped me research and put together a 10-page paper on the modern relevance and mission of Feminism. My government teacher made me feel appreciated for the work I put into the class, and the thought I put into what I said in it, even though he disagreed with a lot of it. My sixth grade teacher bought me books to read with his personal money, whichever ones I asked for. My third grade teacher made me feel safe. My science teacher in middle school made me excited for and passionate about science, and saw and nurtured the effort I put into her class.

A lot of stuff sucks, absolutely. But I am seeing new teaching methods being tried out all the time, and I am watching teachers get really excited when I teach their students about the roots of modern graffiti in US black history & to question property laws, and just...

There's hope. there are so many people doing so much work to make things better. so many people agree with you on what education should be, and are trying so fucking hard to put that into action, and so many public schools- not just teachers, but whole schools and even districts- are really doing that work. so much is getting better.

I had more to say, about necessary childcare and trusted adults and outside contacts and time away from abusive family. But like. Please just sit down and listen to more people on this, and please talk to educators and education professionals about what's really going on in this big huge world of philosophy, science, and practice.

[veilofthorns]

Twst plush reviews are my favorite thing ever

[smoosie]

Viktor: *silent treatment*

Jayce: *dies*

[anbaisai]

"Rest well, Jamil-senpai."

[basement-vamp1re]

Famous last words

Hey Tumblr I have more than just this one drawing btw.

[doctorsiren]

Okay, doodle request:

Reigen meeting Serizawa before Claw got to him. Maybe helping him start leaving his room?

I had a lot of fun with this one. I wanted it to parallel the scene of Serizawa meeting Suzuki, and so pages 6-8 are directly referenced from the manga (just in a flipped format so it reads left to right like the rest of the pages) and I also referenced some shots from the anime (like the final panel of page 10). For the dialogue in those middle pages, I referenced lines from the unofficial English translation of the manga, the official English translation of the manga, and the anime. (I was picking and choosing which lines I liked better). I also had fun with the colouring, which is something I love to do in comics especially. It starts out with Reigen in a muted, paler, desaturated palette with no highlights. But when he meets Mrs. Serizawa (I gave the name “Azumi” because it means something along the lines of “safe home/harbour”), she’s much more warmer and saturated and she has highlights. Once she starts explaining her son’s situation, that’s when Reigen has the variation of colour as well as the introduction of some small highlights. Then, the colour palette changes in every panel after that point. Serizawa is done with a grayscale palette, with the only colour on him being the bright light of the TV screen (reflecting video games as his only joy and his escape from reality). As Reigen talks to him, Reigen slowly start to lose some of that variety and saturation (AKA hope) he got from Mrs. Serizawa until he goes grayscale as well when he thinks that Serizawa might know he’s a fraud. He decides to switch up his approach and actually open up, which is what causes the variations in colour to return. Serizawa stops being grayscale in the panel where Reigen reveals that he too is lonely. (He’s a gray-blue palette, but it’s not true grayscale). The next page is in bright colours as Reigen opens up and doesn’t lie, which causes Serizawa to have bright colour as well, since now there is light and hope. In the page after that, Serizawa’s colour fades until he is grayscale again because it’s him not believing fully and still having doubts, while Reigen maintains that bright colour. (Also silly Falsettos reference on that page). I have Reigen’s colours shift from yellow until he reaches pink which is the colour I just have assigned as His Colour (since his tie is pink). Serizawa gains colour again and he shifts from that muted dark blue to finally orange (which is his colour) as he finally accepts Reigen’s help. The light from the TV is no longer coloured, and is just white, because Serizawa now has a new source of colour in his life (that being a real friend.) It ends with them being in their normal palettes at a normal happy saturation, contrasting the muted colours of the start of the comic. With the umbrella, I still wanted to include it and give it a role in the story, but in a different way from how Suzuki used it. While Suzuki used it to directly manipulate and control Serizawa, Reigen used it as a way to open up a choice for Serizawa to either let Reigen stay or make him leave. He asks Serizawa if he can sit and stay for a while since it’s raining outside and he didn’t bring an umbrella, despite clearly having done so. And then I ended the comic with a shot of the umbrella to emphasize that point.

Sorry for the long and probably unnecessary explanation. I just really love explaining my intentions and symbolisms in my art. Yeah I just had a good time over the last few days doing this :) I thought it was an interesting idea and I couldn’t think of a way to reflect it better than in a comic (which was also partially inspired by this wonderful Ageswap AU comic made by @fend13th about Reigen helping Serizawa)

[thimblings]

continuation of my "crowlycule" comic (someone tagged the previous one with that and i'm stealing it i love it) someone also tagged the previous one calling Rook "Viago and Teia's 'get-along-Rook'" and i also love that lol i just love love my weird co-dependent dysfunctional crows