#so it doesnt feel as drab

[fjordfolk]

anyway here's the rest of them

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I think I remember you mentioning corset tops in some tags, so let me tell you that your fashion sense sounds amazing. I love when people are able to express themselves through clothing, it's always so cool, and your art is impeccable so I feel like that might be a good indicator too lol. love your blog!

AWH ty for lovin my art AND my alleged fashion sense 😏 i dont own a lot of corset tops- just like. Three (tho ngl i would like more) but i do have a. Particular style i suppose (enough of a style that people are semifrequent to compliment it). S’def real fun playin round with clothes and accessories :]

[ohdeerfully]

hello there!

was wondering if I could request Alastor and reader having a debate over whether radio or the newspaper is better than the other (reader was a journalist in 1930’s New York in their past life). Heated debate that ends with fluff.

thank you!❤️❤️

hi thanks for the request!! honestly it doesnt really end with fluff, more just alastor being confused and also confusing, and im super sorry for that :sob: but i hope u enjoy it anyway!!! kiss kiss

What Would the Papers Say

Alastor x Reader (not explicitly romantic)

TW: none! join my discord!

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Alastor stood in front of you, a tight smile and narrowed brows decorating his face as he stood ominously over you. You swallowed, hard, as you had to crane your neck significantly to look him in the eyes. He waited impatiently for your words, his smile inching to become larger and more sinister by the second.

You took a deep breath and steadied your gaze against his, staring into his maliciously red eyes.

“Why can’t you just admit your wrong,” You said snidely, “The newspaper reached so many more people. And gave more people jobs. And was just better in general, really.”

Alastor laughed at you with closed eyes, something he would tend to do in arguments. He liked to make the other person feel ridiculous. 

“How wrong that is!” He snapped back, eyes settling on you again. “My dear, the radio had much more value. Could your rolls of paper play music? Speak to people? All I see is a boring, colorless, dry wad of useless writing.”

You balled your fists in anger, restraining yourself from getting physical. You wouldn’t be able to land anything, anyway, so there was no point in trying. 

“That ‘useless writing’ was my life’s work, you dick!” You spat, heart clenching slightly at the thought of him considering something so important to you useless. “Some people don’t like to listen to an annoying asshole yap in their ear for forty minutes!”

Alastor waved his hand dismissively at your attempt at an insult, his smile never faltering in the slightest. If anything, it grew wider when he saw your growing frustration. “But more people like listening to the asshole’s stories than reading the drab paper, no? News travels so much faster verbally! Why else do you think the paper lost popularity after the radio was introduced?”

You lost any response you had, eyes falling to the floor in defeat. Your stomach churned with unease, hating that you were losing an argument to Alastor. Yeah, it was hard to win against him in the first place, but it still pissed you off.

“At least we had fun comics to read…” You muttered in a weak attempt at a retort, folding your arms.

Alastor only barked a laugh in response, stepping forward and grabbing your chin with his sharp claws to tilt your eyes back up to him. He wanted to see your eyes glimmer with defeat, it was something he loved to see when he beat somebody in an argument—especially over something they were so passionate about.

However, his smile weakened by a hair when he saw your eyes, slightly shining with held back tears. You still had a look of frustration and you were confidently staring right back at him, but for once… he didn’t really like the look of miserable defeat. Not on you. 

Alastor’s grip on your chin dropped so fast, as if you burned him, and his eyes darted away from yours. His brows were furrowed in what you perceived as confusion, but the expression vanished nearly as soon as you recognized it. 

“Agree to disagree, then,” He said finally, looking back down at you through slitted eyes. He turned with a dramatic flourish, briskly walking away. He turned his head slightly towards you as he spoke one last time, “though, the radio’s never been used for fire kindling.”

Alastor did not like the way you made him feel. He didn't like that your grief made his own emotions go haywire. He was going to find out what it was about you that made him feel... weak, was it? He wasn't sure, but he just needed to get out of there.

You cursed at him, though he paid your words no mind. You could tell by the way his ear flicked in your direction that he had at least heard your frustrations. You finally let your confident face fall, and with a pout you traveled towards the hotel lobby. You needed a drink.

“Bold to argue with Alastor like that,” Husk gruffly commented as you sat down, slumping your shoulders. His arms were folded over his chest, and you awkwardly rubbed your arm.

“You heard all that?”

“You aren’t exactly the quietest.”

You sighed, resting your head against your palm and drumming your free hand against the bartop. “That’s embarrassing,” You said simply, chewing on the inside of your cheek. It wasn’t uncommon for racket in the hotel, but you typically held yourself to a higher standard than being the cause of said racket.

Even though you were upset about the argument, you couldn’t help but visualize that expression on his face when he looked at you earlier. What was that? Concern? Regret? Or were you just reading too much into it? And why did he leave the room so quickly?

You pondered over this as Husk slid a drink over towards you, the glass leaving a watery trail from building condensation. You gave him a small smile and silently sipped at it for a few minutes.

You tried to tell yourself you didn’t care one way or another what those emotions Alastor displayed were. He was a jerk. He put you down for what you were passionate about, and what you had dedicated your life too. What a dick. You didn’t care. Nope.

With a groan, you tilted your head back to finish the glass and nodded a thanks to Husk again before you made your way up the hotel stairs. Without realizing it, your legs seemed to take you to a particular floor and to a particular room that you would’ve rather avoided. You briefly wondered how strong that drink was that Husk gave you.

You held your fist up, paused for a few seconds, and then knocked. Why were you even here in the first place? You weren’t going to apologize. You opened the door yourself when you heard a faint ‘come in,’ slowly pushing it forwards and cracking it open just enough to peek your head through. Your eyes trailed around the room before you finally saw the demon in a bayou-like setting. 

Alastor was sitting leisurely on a metal chair, one leg thrown over the other as he sipped on a mug. His eyes were barely open as he relaxed, and you could only slightly tell that he was looking at you.

“It’s rather impolite to interrupt somebody’s alone time,” He quipped as you walked the rest of your body into the room. “Especially somebody you pestered and yelled at only an hour ago.”

You bit back an angry comment, and kept your breathing level. You shouldn’t let him get under your skin like this. You clenched your fists, but otherwise maintained a cool attitude. You walked towards the corner of the room, examining the scenery before you. You wondered if the forest was actually that big, or if the wall was just an extremely well illustrated illusion. It wouldn’t surprise you if Alastor was eccentric enough to manifest a whole bayou in his own room.

Alastor looked up at you from his seated position, though he still seemed incredibly tall even as he sat. He had a grin spread across his face, and his head tilted slightly at you.

“Need something?” He tried prompting a word out of you. You hadn’t said anything since coming in, and curiosity began gnawing at his thoughts. He was frustrated, truthfully, about the earlier experience he had with his own confused, jumbled thoughts.

You honestly didn’t know why you came to his room. You didn’t really know what to say. You weren’t going to apologize or grovel for forgiveness, and you knew he would never ever admit he was wrong, either.

“You know,” You started slowly, voice just above a mutter. “The newspaper and radio could’ve worked together… one doesn’t have to be better than the other.”

Both grin and eyes widened at your comment. A wave of Alastor’s hand materialized an identical chair across the table, and you sat yourself neatly—and, a bit awkwardly—when he gestured for you to join him.

“What a thought,” He replied, bringing the mug to his lips again. His comment didn’t really give you any insight to what he actually thought about your statement. Though, you should’ve guessed. He has a superiority complex so big he would never admit to anything being on an equal level to him.

Still, you smiled weakly at him. You watched as his gaze studied you, maybe a bit too intently, and you momentarily saw that strange expression shift across his features. Just as before, you barely had time to consider it before it vanished.

“Tell me,” Alastor said, leaning back into his chair. A mug manifested in front of you as he spoke, and with a smell you could tell it was your favorite tea. You wondered if he actually knew, or if it was just something he could do magically. “If you are so keen on the radio and paper working together…”

He paused dramatically, and you clenched your jaw in response. How aggravating his knack for showmanship could be.

“Would you care to make a deal?” There was a sinister look in his eyes as he said the words, his grin twisting up his face with his sharp teeth bared at you. You felt a prickling at your neck, a bit uncomfortable.

“I don’t really… want you to have my soul, dude,” You responded, fiddling your fingers around the rim of the mug in front of you. 

That sinister expression lightened, and he cheerfully waved a hand at you. “No, no, no,” He laughed, leaning forward and letting his elbows rest against the table. “No soul contract. Just… say, a mutually beneficial partnership. Radio Demon and Newspaper Demon. Interesting, right?”

“I… guess,” You replied slowly, considering it. Hey, if your soul wasn’t involved, what was the big deal? How much power could Alastor hold over you if he didn’t have your soul?

A lot, probably.

You shrugged. “Sure, deal.” 

Immediately after your response, a shining sheet of paper and an outdated quill appeared in front of you. You eyed Alastor warily as you took the sheet, reading over the terms of your deal. Honestly, it didn’t seem that bad. It only really iterated your loyalty to him, and in return he’d give you the same. 

If you didn’t know any better, you’d think this was a weird attempt at courting you. Weird.

Your eyes moved back to Alastor, who was watching you intensely. He had that strange expression once again, and it was starting to frustrate you. Why did he keep looking at you like that? And what did it mean? The room was silent for a few moments, save for the flickering noise of the ever-present radio frequency that followed the demon in front of you.

You took the quill, signed, and after a dramatic flash of light the paper was gone and you saw Alastor sitting with his eyes closed in an overly pleased smile. He clapped his hands together for a moment, before settling his sharp gaze on you once again.

“Well, my dear,” He leaned his chin on top of his hands, which were clasped together. He had a dangerous glint in his eye. “Mind if I take you for lunch to celebrate our new partnership?”

[wakasaz]

heard u wanted reqs oomfieee! may i ask for wakasa smoking during sex? doesnt matter what kind either^^ (ex. like, angry sex, lazy sex, etc, you get it) THANK UUUUU wakasa is my heart n my joy and i damn well know this mf smokes during sexy timmeee iuwhgkjaubakj

— @puprdou

Smoke & Sin

Wakasa was already smoking when you walked in. He's laying on the bed, shirt off and pants unbuttoned. He was obviously too lazy to take them off all the way. 

The room has a slight haze and the lights are dimmed. He tilts his head when he notices you walked in tapping his thigh “c'mere” he says blowing smoke out his nose. You crawl on the bed and Wakasa huffs yanking you on top of him. “Not there, here” sitting you down on his hardened cock. 

His hands are on your hips, rubbing circles with his thumb, your dress rising up your thighs. “Got all dressed up to go see Takeomi?” He says raising a brow, blowing smoke out hitting your face. 

Takeomi and you had always been friends, it's how you met Wakasa so you don't understand why he's acting so upset— maybe it's because you're wearing the new dress he got you. It's short, barely covering your ass, and your chest looks killer in it. 

You tilt your head. “You know Omi is just my friend” 

He scoffs “omi” he says in a mocking tone. 

You roll your eyes, going to grab the blunt but Wakasa tilts his head back “ah ah ah, only good girls get to smoke my shit” he says his eyes racking over your body “and you've been quite the slut, flaunting around what's mine to your precious ‘omi'” he blows more some in your face before flipping you both around so your face down ass up on the bed, his cock pressed up against you. “Guess I have to show you exactly who you belong to, babe” 

He pushes your dress the rest of the way up your hips and walks your panties down before you feel the tip of his cock at your entrance making you whine. He takes another drag and a hot piece of ash falls landing on your ass before he smacks it and pushing into you. 

His pace is brutal, he snaps his hips into you with force, wakasa is usually a lazy fuck but you can tell he's mad and he's taking it out on your cunt. 

He groans behind you pushing down on your back so you arch more, giving him a better angle. 

“W–wakaaaa” you moan, feeling yourself clench around him. 

He slaps your ass again, blowing more smoke into the air as he leans over you, his mouth next to your ear. “Did Takeomi like the dress I bought?” 

You whine, not sure if it's from the smoke he just blew into your face or from how good he's making you feel. 

Wakasa keeps fucking you and you feel thay familiar heat telling you your about to cum— and then it all stops. 

Wakasa flops down on the bed, arms behind his head and smirks at you around the blunt.”Awe, did my pretty baby want to get off?” He raises a brow 

You whine frantically nodding your head as you feel tears well up in your eyes from your losses orgasam 

“You wanna get off baby, c'mere and do it yourself” 

You climb on top of him and lower yourself on his cock moaning at the feeling of being full again before staying to bounce and grind on him. Wakasa thrust his hips up every once in awhile to meet yours— to “help” you. 

Wakasa lays there with hooded eyes as he watches your bounce on him. He groans when he feels you tighten around him telling you how good your pussy is and making you promise it's his.

Wakasa grabs your hips and starts moving you. “Fuuuck— keep going baby, just like that” 

You throw your head back cumming all over his cock as you moan his name and Wakasa follows shortly after. 

You lay down on his chest when he takes one last drab before passing you the blunt and kissing your forehead

“You are my good girl, aren't you” 

[silver-tongues-blog]

i hope the people that remake areas in games in latest unreal engine stop and ask why something looked the way it did in the original

This shit, yes it looks pretty good visually but its completely tonally dissonant.

for context heres what it looks like originally

now, theres a reason that the colours are faded and washed out and the lighting is kind of drab. its because it takes place in a world at the end of its life. a world with a light thats burned so long its turned everything to ash and is fading into nothing but embers. thats why DS3 had cold tones.

it was quite literally a world where the light was dying.

thats why the warm tones that these dumbasses give it when ploping it into unreal

doesnt work. it loses the atmosphere and sense of gloom that DS3 had. it loses the artistic intent that DS3 had.

you cant just plop a level into unreal and call it a day, you have to actually commit to what the intended feel and theme the level is supposed to have. and the thing that pisses me off the most is that this warm lighting COULD WORK on a different area in the dark souls trilogy

It would have been perfect for majula, a place that already had warm lighting.

[torchtour]

I absolutely LOVE the way you colour your work!! Would you be willing to show us how you do it/give any tips?

aww tysm!! it's kinda a newer style for me but i can give the rough overview haha

general tips:

-you've heard it a million times, but use references! this style specifically works best as an abstraction of preexisting colors + values, so you'll need a solid starting point to work off of

-keep colorpicking to a minimum (i personally keep my references on a separate device to stop the temptation). you'll never get better at choosing colors if you let the software do it for you all the time, and sussing out your colors manually will improve your color sense

-have a grayscale layer and full saturation layer handy to check your progress. if you can tell what youre looking at in grayscale and it looks sorta 3D, youre on the right track. a saturation filter is mostly a me-thing but i feel like it helps check for cohesion in the palette

-dont be precious. get real loosy-goosy with it; there'll be time to tidy up at the end when you're happy with colors, but for the meantime just zoom out and slap stuff down as you experiment. start big and narrow in from there, because theres a good chance youll change up big areas and undo detail work early on

more in depth/technical process below cut vvv

for references, id recommend using milanote (and to use my friend referral link to give me more space...please... *NOT SPONSORED!! https://www.milanote.com/refer/rcEZd79TldqRGqntPI ) or another tab/app to collect images

here's an example that has nothing to do with starkid lol:

the more the merrier. the colors i used for my starkid pieces were based on screenshots i took from the proshot. references are your friends!!

i use a real scrungly brush called "Fine Brush (Sumi Ink)" in the dogwater app i use (MediBang Paint) that doesnt have great control and helps me loosen up

after i get the lineart down i pick a base color that matches the "tone" im going for (yellow here because it's got a light, happy/jovial vibe), and then get reallyyyyy rough colors by eyeballing my reference (no colorpicking!! go for colors that work relative to the base color). perfection is not the goal here, only a starting point to improve upon

these are pretty drab and uninspired, so at this point i like to analyze the colors i chose by temporarily boosting saturation 100%. after considering how not cohesive magenta, orange, and lime green are, i chose to hit this piece with a low-opacity orange burn layer to unify the palette warmer-ish and bump saturation. layer modes are your friend here, and there will always be one to make your colors more interesting

then i start amending the colors, trying to match the references' relative values and colors but staying w/i the color context ive established (not matching ref exactly, just going cooler/darker/whatever in a similar way but with my colors instead)

ill flip on grayscale constantly and work out self-described problem areas

it's a lot of push and pull until im happy, and after tugging around for a bit ill merge everything and do some global changes with overlay, saturation, burn and sometimes divide layers. i have no process with this besides trial and error tbh

ill have a detail layer overtop usually to fix stuff that i couldnt be bothered with in the lineart stage and thats kinda it? it's really hard to articulate my process 1) because it changes every time i draw and 2) im constantly improving at art and 3) im me and not you and what works for one might not the other

also. i feel like you were asking how i got the painterly look and not the value choices i made? but the truth is i use an angry, scratchy brush and it comes out looking somewhat painterly. so uh go nuts

[wyrmways]

I love prehistoric planet so so dearly but i do wish that they made the animals a little less gray.

Especially in cases of animals that are theorized to have sexual display traits like frills or crests?? They put some color on them but compared to real life animals (especially reptiles & birds!) they are just sooo dull.

Nanuqsaurus was especially disappointing for me. Maybe it's just because it's normally depicted as some kind of white color, but i feel having the opportunity for such a unique color on this dinosaur and making it mostly the same grayish brown as so many other dinosaurs in the show was a missed opportunity.

Part of this is definitely the filter and lighting they put over certain scenes to make them look more 'natural' i suppose. I think the male hatzegopteryx's crest is actually very beautiful, but unfortunately due to the lighting of the show it often appears so much more drab and dull than it should be, even in broad daylight .

(color in show vs art by ttorroo on instagram)

This is a major reason the corythoraptor design stood out to me, because they were just so bright and beautiful in comparison to everything else in the show! Every time they were on screen i thought it was amazing to get to see these dinosaurs in such vibrant color! This shows that they /can/ depict dinosaurs in this way at least.

And i feel as though the only reason they /were/ blue is because they were based off of the modern cassowaries (one of which i got to see in person recently, they are a GORGEOUS blue. So much brighter than you would expect, heres a picture)

I just feel like, even though i love prehistoric planet, its quest to be overly 'realistic' holds it back in this area at least. The only animals they were willing to make super vibrant were the ones they based on a living similar bird, instead of considering that if the bright colors of a cassowary are possible, there's nothing that says that other bright colors could be possible on other types of dinosaurs.

Especially considering the colors of other birds! If they wanted to base the dino coloring on real life animals, they could have been inspired by other kinds of birds. Just because cassowaries are more 'dinosaur-like' doesnt discount the fact that birds are an incredibly diversely colored and patterned group of animals. There is plenty of potential for other colors in dinosaurs when looking at modern ones.

In fact, i would argue that the fossil evidence we have shows that dinosaurs could have been more brightly colored and distinctly patterned than the ones in the show, at least. While there haven't been bright yellow or blue dinos found, there has been evidence of brighter reds and browns, some greens and purples, iridescent like feathers, and more distinct patterns like stripes on several dinos.

It kind of baffles me how they were able to make leaps like the dreadnoughtus air sacs, but they weren't willing to make the dinosaurs a little brighter? I mean, so much paleo art nowadays depicts dinos in vibrant colors, i dont think it would be too much of a stretch.

Tldr, i love prehistoric planet and i think it has done a lot for the perception and depiction of dinosaurs as real life animals, i just wish that it didnt associate looking 'realistic' with 'looking gray' as much as it does, especially considering the amount of potential traits for sexual display dinosaurs had, and the colors of living birds and fossil evidence of dinosaur colors.

[analogboii]

ngl the scene in ep 4 where phu and cir are on the phone held so much symbolism (to me).

like cir entered his childhood room and it was dark and drab. and it pans over and theres a sliver of light. however, he doesnt approach it. not until phu calls. then he sits, basking in the sun. the sun also being phu being the light of his dark life. (why the bedroom is so dark but theres one spot that isnt). it can kinda symbolize his entire life is dark and drab but phu makes it not so.

then it pans to phu whose room is bright and full of life and color. hes just the sunshine (in multiple peoples lives im sure). and even when the sun goes down, when cir is on the couch, its brighter around him. (now this could just be how the light is hitting from the studio lights and filming) but im choosing to believe its cause he feels light when he talks to phu.

okay anyway. overanalysis over.

[santae-salt]

Dont post if not anon. Throwaway just in case. Active anon staff here - not long enough to feel comfortable to reveal myself, but long enough to see how things are falling apart. Since the AI posts, CJ hasnt just withdrawn from the community - he doesnt converse with us internally either anymore, is never online, and doesnt join the weekly staff calls that HE organised months ago. Everything is running on automatic, with everyone on the "front end team" feeling left in the dark on what's going on. Players ask questions which mods and admins arent able to answer, so take to the staff team discord, just for the question to sit there and not get answered for days, making the front end staff look bad for not providing a response. The public discord is dead, and the news posts are becoming drab. Everything feels tense and its stressing me out. I'm considering leaving as things just arent the same as when I first joined a few months back.

☁️

[battleangel]

Hospital Hellhole

Where are the open windows in hospitals?

Hospitals are exactly like corporate cubicle farms, where you see the windows in your office, but theyre never open.

So, no fresh air ever gets in.

Stuffy, recirculated air with zero outside fresh air + constant either central indoor heating or air conditioning + a bunch of sick ass people stuffed into one building isnt exactly a recipe for holistic health.

Nor is it meant to be.

Its actually a veritable hotbed for communicable diseases, viruses, infections, germs and bacteria to develop, spread and grow.

Idgaf about how "well the hospital is ventilated" -- you need fresh air, jackass!

Good luck ever getting it at a hospital.

They'll just parade you around bare ass in a drab ass drag ass light blue gown that doesnt even close all the way in the back yet have the nerve to talk about how "functional" it is.

They'll parade your literal bare ass through the hospital hallways so you can "walk around" -- but nevah outside.

Yeah okay.

There are windows, why cant I open them?

Because you cant.

The air inside a hospital is endlessly recirculated, stuffy as hell and filled to the brim with germs, bacteria, viruses and pathogens given that a hospital is, y'know, a building full of sick ass people.

Who in the hell thinks this is a good idea?

Exactly noone as hospitals are designed to mentally break you, dehumanize you and give you a different illness then the one you checked in with or make whatever your current issue is worse.

Being in a building with no outside fresh air and no open windows full of sick, dying, dead, incapacitated, vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing, wheezing, bleeding people isnt supposed to make anyone else sicker?

Yeah okay.

You need fresh air even in the best of circumstances forget about when youre sick.

You need to be in nature as it literally heals us, even their studies confirm that.

You need fresh, unrecirculated air from outside.

You need the sky, the sun, the grass and the trees.

But what do you get?

A dark, drab, sterile, lonely room with a large ass loud ass TV in it, a phone, a bed that you will be stuck in for most of your stay, a bathroom and a window you cant open.

Sounds exactly like prison.

Being stationary -- unless you are a literal invalid or completely physically incapacitated -- is awful for you.

They know this.

They know that being stationary in bed can cause DVT (deep vein thrombosis), blood clots, embolisms, poor blood circulation and bloodflow, swelling, edemas, muscle atrophy, weight gain, bed sores.

Not to mention depression, lack of mental sharpness and acuity, lethargy, anxiety, fatigue, listlessness, hopelessness, dread...

Its almost like its by design, isnt it?

Hospitals should be near parks or be built inside of parks.

All patients that are literally physically capable of going outside for fresh air and natural sunlight should do so, or if possible, should be taken outside in wheelchairs.

Blinding white bright ass unnatural fluorescent lighting has repeatedly been proven to deplete our melatonin levels, disrupt our natural circadian rhythyms, disrupt our sleep, cause insomnia and other sleep disorders -- so why is the lighting in hospitals so fucking bright???

Why do you think?

They dont want you well.

If you happen to get better after being hospitalized, its an unintended side effect.

The goal is to find -- or make up -- other things that are wrong with you so they can feed you further into the many tentacled medical industrial complex.

More diagnoses, more pills, more injections, more shots, more IVs, more surgeries, more specialists, more tests, more false positive results.

Just the way they intend it.

If youve ever visited someone in the hospital or ever been hospitalized yourself, youve probably experienced a general feeling of feeling run down, fatigued, sore, tired, like you were coming down with a cold, feeling out of sorts and out of it if you were inside a hospital for a few hours or more (days, weeks or even months).

Thats by design.

Patients should be outside every day, breathing fresh air, getting natural sunlight, touching fresh grass, hugging and sitting by trees, looking up at the clear blue sky, soaking up the sun, picking flowers and soaking up natures natural healing properties.

Nope, you get to walk up and down a ridiculously overilluminated bright ass fluorescent hallway with drab muted colors surrounding you, machines beeping, nurses having bored conversations at lunch, doctors being self-important and your bare ass cheeks on full display in your gown that doesnt "quite fully close all the way in the back."

You should be letting butterflies land on your hand, picking sunflowers, laying against trees, walking barefoot in grass, staring up at the sun and soaking up the individual rays, taking deep breaths of the fresh air all around you, looking at the clear blue sky, observing some of the cloud formations, lying on your back on the grass and staring up at the big blue sky supervised by hospital staff for about an hour a day.

That should be happening every day in every hospital.

It could be done in shifts.

Even a small park or garden even on hospital grounds or property would suffice.

In your everyday life, dont you walk outside once a day?

Even just to check the mail? Run errands? Pick up groceries? Go to work? Get takeout? Go shopping? Go to work? Meet up with friends and family? Go out to eat? See a movie? Take a walk? Go jogging?

Why is this simple freedom denied to you in a hospital?

When you need nature the most, they wont even open a window for you.

Antiseptic sterility, vomiting bleeding dying patients, coughing sneezing wheezing patients, patients with viruses, bacterial infections, open wounds, bodily fluids and emissions, mucus, phlegm, stitches, sutures, transfusions, transplants.

How would you NOT need fresh air even after one day in a hospital?

Why is hospital food so comically bad?

Youre literally back to the slop you were being force fed in elementary school but as an adult.

Since youre sick, shouldnt there be an interest in providing you with nourishing, holistic, healthy, fresh organic foods that will help heal you and aid in your recovery?

If youve ever been hospitalized, it took you back to your school days with rubbery chicken, mystery lunch meat, dry bread, nothing is seasoned, everything is out of a box, warmed over and bland as hell.

Why?

It doesnt have to be expensive!

Fresh spinach for salad is cheap, quinoa is cheap, tofu is inexpensive, steel cut oats are inexpensive, chickpeas are cheap, hummus is inexpensive, lentil beans are cheap, kale is inexpensive, kidney and black beans are cheap - these are all chock full of protein, cheap, healthy, good for you and can be prepared with fresh or cookied veggies, rice, noodles.

It doesnt have to be like this.

They want you sick and defeated.

Hospitals are literal hellholes.

Its not you.

Youre right to think they are creepy depressing prisons and incubators for all kinds of diseases and infections.

Because they are. By design.

[ithisatanytime]

its as simple as this really, why do we paint our walls? why fucking bother!? holy shit its not even one and done you have to keep repainting! the answer is simply because we prefer to look at a bright color than boring old pure white, or wood brown. so you paint your wall blue because you prefer to look at blue over white or brown. so why do people paint there wall with stripes? because it looks nicer than a single color its more visually stimulating to break up the blue with stripes of white (im not a fag ok i dont know if any of this makes sense form an interior decorating standpoint) do you see how the first step, painting your white or wood colored wall blue really shows just how practical so called "art" really is? im slowly adding layers of complexity to show how it can be removed from its original simple purpose, to make us feel better after having looked at it.

this isnt me railing against sad endings art doesnt always aim to make us feel GOOD per say, but its aim is to make us feel, we are the subject of the art as its audience the sole reason for its existence. its easy to get up your own ass trying not to be derivative but imagine instead of an aspiring video game designer or author, you were a tire manufacturer, theres an art to making tires, you dont want to be derivative so you resist the idea of round tires, but they must be round by necessity to function as tires at all. when you think about painting a drab brown wall one solid color like blue in relation to this tire analogy youll see what i mean, the tire first ought to be round, the piece of art you are making aught first to be visually pleasing, than you can add stylistic touches on top so long as they dont detract from the roundness of the tire.

[postmail]

hruugghh complaining inbound. im on my bus trip right now and. my god. i wasnt looking forward to this very much in the first place and yet i somehow still manage to be disappointed. heres my complaints in arranged into a list. apologies if this is repetitive, im not proofreading it. and sorry if its whiny. i am making this post specifically to whine

im rooming with three other people. two of them are cool. one of them is an underclassmen and. by god. this girl is annoying. shes always complaining about something, and majority of the time it doesnt even like. make sense? like one time she complaining that she felt like she was required to go to the pool, just in general, not with anyone or anything. why would we make you go to the pool? why?? i dont know. her logic is an enigma. i think if she stops having stuff to complain about she dies. also, she keeps following us around. this one is kind of petty but for some reason being followed has always made me irrationally nervous or irritated, even if its like. having a minecraft dog follow me. idk its just something that really bothers me for some innate reason. this chick just presses my buttons. not her fault, but still. ugh

i have virtually no privacy, no real alone time. i share a room, i share a bus, we all share everything at every waking moment. i am never not in the presence of at least one other person. and by god does it suck. and plus, being a part of such a huge crowd at almost all times makes me nervous. im at the whims of all these other people, i can only do what the majority wants to do. and i am historically bad at wanting what everyone else wants

most of these people are people i dont know very well. theyve spilt the rooms based on gender, which is to be expected, but still sucks ass because i get along better with most of my male peers than my female ones. most of the people that are on this trip are in the grade below me (its the juniors and the sophomores, im a junior) and i dont know or like them very much. i find myself wishing it was just my grade, or that i skipped this trip altogether

i came here entirely to learn about history. this trip IS a good portion history, but its also dumb touristy stuff idgaf about. the one museum weve went to already was out of my mind boring, it was a jfk museum, and i didnt think i knew very much about jfk going in, but now coming out i feel like i knew more than that entire museum. it felt like i was having all my old, vastly more interesting and fun history lessons be rehashed to me, it a significantly more drab and boring way.

this ones petty and dumb but. we are going to the ocean. i do not like the ocean. i am worried we are going to spend an entire at the ocean. i would rather do literally anything else

i have heard we are going on a dolphin watching cruise. i get seasick when im these kinds of boats. yayyyyyyyyy

the most i have had on this trip is when we are just driving around in the bus. im starting to think it is literally the only thing ive liked so hard. granted im the kind of person that enjoys long car rides (unless its a route a know well, then its just boring), but still

this is all taking place during the majority of my holiday break. i would really rather just be home, actually doing stuff i like and chillaxing. but nooooo i just had to go on this trip, effectively wasting my entire vacation. thinking about this one frankly just makes me feel miserable. i wanna go HOME this is so LAME

after fundraising, my parents spent absurd amounts of money to get me and my sister on this trip. and i just called my mom crying about how miserable i am here

all of my friends, excluding the one that is here, are back at home. i like my classmates, but we aren’t friends. i want to hangout with my friends, not my peers from school and... the younger ones

my book didnt fit in my bag. i really wish i had my book right now

these hotels are capitalist nightmares that wont let me use wifi despite being a paying customer w/o an account, which i am unwilling to make because. well because fuck that. why the fuck should i give you my personal info just for some wifi i should just get, because i am paying to be here. wth

alright thats all i can think of. im sorry if you read this far, all the way through my whining. hopefully ill have a better time soon. we’re going to the alamo soon and thats. cool. i guess. if i dont think about anything else

[blackgirlsvevo]

not to be pretentitious bc it’s not like i don’t have social media or w/e but some ppl be so annoying abt social accounts like omf my friends be like ‘go on twitter and like my tweet’ or smth and i’m like ‘oh i don’t have twitter’ and they’re like ‘ok make one so you can follow me and like the tweet !!’ and i’m like ‘....oh, no idk abt that’ and they ALWAYS start goin ‘omg no go do it!! just make an account and go follow me n fav/like my stuff!!’ like not to be a whole bitch but . sis why the fuck do u care so much, leave me tf alone

[wygolvillage]

REVIEWING EVERY CASTLEVANIA BASED ON HOW CONVENIENT IT WOULD BE TO LIVE THERE

CATEGORIES

-Food: does the castle have a kitchen? a dining room? places to eat? (food items do not count for this.) this is the category most consistently not met.

-Sleeping Quarters: literally any bed, sofa, or anywhere soft to cozy up counts for this

-Entertainment: anything like a library, a coliseum, a ballroom, etc. how fun is this castle?

-Aesthetic Appeal: how pretty is the castle?

-Overall: just overall how good of a life you’d have. also includes anything that doesnt fit into any categories

SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT

Food: there’s not much here, apart from the dining table in the castle keep, and the table in olrox’s boss room, which don’t have any food on them anyway. they are still recognizable as dining tables specifically, so i will count them though. the table in the observation deck on the outer wall could count as a place to eat dinner, with a nice centerpiece and two comfy chairs, but i feel like counting every table for this category is a bit too broad. if you’re REALLY hungry you could count the room in the coliseum with the gory, bleeding hunk of meat as food, but as it stands the sotn castle doesnt have anywhere to prepare food and hardly any places to eat it. 

Sleeping Quarters: there are plenty of nice chairs, but no beds. the best place to sleep would probably be the two cozy chairs in the library next to the little table with the green flame (i think u get the stone mask there?). they just look very comfy. the outer wall’s observation deck could be a nice sleeping spot, but the only chairs in there are a lot more rigid and not nearly as comfortable. drac’s throne could be ok too tbh, but having to go through the clock tower every time you want to leave doesn’t sound very fun lol (alternatively you could go through the chapel, but theres generally just a lot of climbing going on here). your options arent the worst, but they could be a lot better.

Entertainment: the castle’s got a huge library full of books to read, a coliseum to watch monsters fight to the death, a telescope, boat rides in the caves, and so on. I guess olrox’s quarters also can be seen as a ballroom. tbh i think in terms of stuff to keep you occupied in ur daily life sotn’s got you pretty covered.

Aesthetic Appeal: well it’s symphony of the night, of course it’s gorgeous! obvious points of interest include the marble gallery, the chapel, honestly just the whole thing. this game is very pretty

Overall: eh. ok, but could use some work on the essentials. needs a kitchen and a bedroom

CIRCLE OF THE MOON

Food: i’m actually impressed. there’s absolutely nothing that fulfills this category even in the broad sense. even if we were counting food items it’d lose out since they’re all stupidly rare drops.

Sleeping Quarters: ehhhh... maybe the throne room? other than that ive got nothing

Entertainment: ballroom in the observation tower, i guess using the observation tower in general could be counted as entertainment. there’s also some bookshelves in the warehouse, but going into a dingy old storage room to do some light reading sounds not very fun. the battle arena could be fun to watch though

Aesthetic Appeal: this castle leaves a lot to be desired with its drab color scheme. I think the chapel tower and eternal corridor are probably the nicest looking areas of the castle, and some paintings on the walls look pretty nice. probably the worst castle for this category lol

Overall: the worst. carmilla wtf. also may i please bring up the safety concerns of the extremely contaminated water and the huge hole in the floor with a potentially fatal drop

HARMONY OF DISSONANCE

Food: not much here, but juste’s decoration room does a lot of heavy lifting. there’s a table to dine at, silverware, plates and tea. not much, but it’s there, and more furnished for a meal than the ones in sotn. a decent choice. no place to actually prepare food, however.

Sleeping Quarters: thank goodness there’s an actual bedroom!!! up in the throne room, where lydie was kept. not only that, juste’s decoration room also has a delightfully comfy-looking bed. one of the best choices of castles to sleep in.

Entertainment: THIS CASTLE HAS A GIANT PINBALL MACHINE which surely counts for a lot. there’s some books, a radio, and a phonograph in juste’s room. other than that, not much. but its pretty decent!

Aesthetic Appeal: this might be divisive but i think harmony’s castle is really pretty. standout places include the wailing way and the chapel.

Overall: decent! ...if you spend most of your time in juste’s room, lol. If we disqualified it, hod would be much less appealing... and of course, the convenience is certainly hindered by the constant locked doors and weird interconnecting teleporters. not the worst though

ARIA OF SORROW

Food: there are drawers full of plates and stuff in the inner quarters, and waiter skeletons to serve you food. (i hope you like curry!). the basement underneath the dance hall also seems to have barrels full of food, as well as meat hanging in there. i think we can call that a kitchen area, right? there are even butchers to help prepare it. The garden could also be used to grow produce. your food situation is very good.

Sleeping Quarters: there are some comfy looking chairs in the inner quarters- and a very nice chaise lounge in the headhunter’s boss room. this is your best option for sure, and not bad at all!

Entertainment: there’s a pleasant garden, a ballroom, a coliseum, a study full of books, and so on. on par with sotn, maybe even better

Aesthetic Appeal: it is a nice looking castle, very pretty. i find harmony’s more visually appealing, but aria is pretty good. standout areas include the chapel, the gardens, the forbidden area,

Overall: pretty good! necessities are covered, there’s a decent room to sleep in, and there’s definitely stuff to keep you occupied. It’s also the only castle that actually has a bath! I considered making this its own category but i think aos is the only game that actually hits this requirement so it seems superfluous

DAWN OF SORROW

Food: similarly to aria there’s a garden where you could grow your own food, other than that there’s not much which is unfortunate. had the lost village been populated it’s possible you could’ve bought food from local sources, but that’s sadly not an option. the waiter skeletons are back though! enjoy your curry.

Sleeping Quarters: a sofa or two in the demon guest house, and most importantly- a couple of GIANT BEDS :D

Entertainment: there is a giant piano!!! and ballrooms!!! there’s like... slot machine thingies, also? there’s also nice walks through the garden, and there’s at least one toy duck iirc.

Aesthetic Appeal: very pretty castle imo, the pinnacle, dark chapel and the demon guest house are the prettiest areas imo

Overall: not bad but a step back from aria’s high caliber. very clear winner in the bed department though

PORTRAIT OF RUIN

Food: portrait comes with the important distinction that the titular portraits don’t count. areas outside the castle proper have been disqualified- it must be considered to be the same map (otherwise ooe would win immediately via having a nice cozy village, lol). the reason i bring this up is because the “city of haze” portrait has shelves upon shelves of food and a cake shop AND a bar, but because of this criteria i have chosen to disqualify it- the portraits, in addition, are not real locations, but manifestations of the artist’s will. it is hard to quantify this. anyway, portrait’s got a nice dining room where you fight the vampire sisters, piled high with fancy food, but there’s no real kitchen (a running theme, you’ll notice, lol). on par with harmony.

Sleeping Quarters: this castle has a pretty comfy looking throne room imo. other than that, not much. there are beds in the forest of doom iirc, if you count portraits, but i dont, and it seems kind of inconvenient to travel through dimensions just to find a place to sleep.

Entertainment: this castle has motorcycles which rules. surprisingly lacking in entire sections that could qualify, though. not even the usual library! behemoth’s boss room is a mini-coliseum though so i shall count it.

Aesthetic Appeal: it’s decent. not my fav looks-wise, but i think the great stairway, the throne room and the master’s keep are pretty nice. the windmill at the tower of death is also a highlight. and there’s definitely plenty of paintings to look at, lol

Overall: eh? not as good as dawn. im kinda questioning my decision to disqualify the portraits themselves but i think its fair.

ORDER OF ECCLESIA

Food: THERE’S A KITCHEN!!!! there are butchers to prepare the food, too, and lots of it. if anything ooe definitely wins in this category

Sleeping Quarters: pretty much just the throne room lol, yet again

Entertainment: the library is absolutely flooded with books, and eligor’s arena... exists. honestly if anything ooe’s castle seems more set up for war than day-to-day pleasures, with areas like the weapons depot and barracks being more utilitarian. as a result, it suffers in this category.

Aesthetic Appeal: HOT TAKE but i think ooe has THE PRETTIEST CASTLE IN THE SERIES. The entrance and the library and the view from the mechanical tower and just asdkjsdfhkjsdf its all so good.

Overall: it has its pros but definitely its cons, the biggest among them being no real place to sleep. mixed bag.

FINAL WINNER: ARIA OF SORROW

[laldupattewali]

5x01 evolution reaction because why not

its mostly in english but theres some hindi too cuz english is just not enough sometimes

okay off the bat can someone tell me why all the miraculous jewels are in the shape of the cat miraculous in the trailer like *insert the thats suspicious thats weird gif*

people of paris<33333333333333333333

NO HOW DARE HE my baby sass loml saale chutiye marja

Not the bitchass/kwami vs them parallel i literally-

ps i will be referring to ykw only as bitchass and nothing else

it has been 2 minutes and i already have murderous tendencies

STUPID CREATURES?? THEY ARE ACTUAL GODS MF plagg would end him if he was there

the way theyre like ._. pls

ALYNO KISS SCENE AHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA

is he like dead? nah chutiye itni easily nhi marte

man chat in this scene and lighting really making me go sghdkjakjbiudabfjd

PLS CHAT REALLY POKED HIM WITH HIS BATON LIKE THAT

toh phir,,,,baaki ke bhi le hi lo i mean

girl you really fell for it twice

AHAHHAHAHA REVERSER HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAH

"i am your master" sir theyre gods just cuz nooroo could feed on your energy doesnt mean 16 of them can

USELESS??? WAPAS DEDE NA i swear nathalie needs to get over her crush like miss girl needs a break

OMG THIS EXPLAINS WHY HE CHOSE THEM OMG

bro- is what i think is happening happening?

nah im crying bro- dude im- this is so- i fucking- *incoherent mumbling* bye

OH SNAP SEE THATS A GOOD COSTUME LEARN FELIX DRAB ASS BITCH

CHANGING PAST EVENTS CHANGES THE FUTURE LITERALLY HOW MANY TIMES CAN ONE SAY THIS

GASP SHES SO PRETTYYYYYY

BABY ALIX IS SM SMALLER THAN GROWN ALIX WDCBKJCBKJBSKJBWDKJBDK

YAS QUEEN CALL HIM OUT SO TRUE AS YOU SHOULD YAAAAAASSSSSSSS HE DOESNT DESERVE YOUUUU YOU GO you are still in the grey area but atleast youre grey now

ANYWAYS WHAT AN EPISODE START TO END RABBIT NOIR ANIMATION NATHALIE SASS TAKING CHARGE ALIX JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ONE i missed what mlb made me feel in the good eps

[pxppinmolly-archived]

people rlly sleep on the shared older sibling trauma molly n arackniss have.

even yeah idc molly n angel r twins now in canon i dont CARE

there is so much potential in molly being a middle child and angel the youngest

angel being the black sheep and runt, molly being not only the only but eldest daughter and arackniss having to take care of / look out for two siblings like that

and again as I said the shared trauma arackniss and molly would have and share and having that sort of bond and understanding angel would never know or understand

like look i just LIVE for that like... tired wounded warrior type of shit molly and arackniss have. i sob thinking how molly can sit with arackniss and not have to put up much an act like she does with angel. how molly feels UNDERSTOOD and at home with arackniss, even if that home smells like cigarette smoke and coffee, where the lights are always dim and the colors are drab and muted. it’s quiet. it’s sad. there’s no words ever spoken but they both just KNOW. they understand each other.

like idk look man there’s so much potential here and yeah im mostly talking on molly’s end cus DUH

but again angel being the youngest and feeling even MORE alienated by his siblings because of this, on top of henroin’s shit. how Angel being a lot more energetic and care free and like. A BRAT because he IS a younger sibling.

Arackniss having to watch as their mother is pregnant with A THIRD CHILD and fucking DREADING it because no child needs to be in this fucking family. and that that child doesnt deserve it and how he’s gonna have to look after ANOTHER ONE and just feel that constant guilt over it even though he could do nothing about it.

like i just. RATTLES.