#sorry if i'm a bit harsh

[nazbruhh]

// Hsr 2.4 massive spoilers

NGl, for some reason I thought Jiaoqiu would just be a random (actually could be boring) charecter who just likes cooking and I didn't expect much of him until...

Someone please free my man.

[star-trek-dumb-comics]

God dammit I've reached the stupid pah-wraith shit in my ds9 rewatch..... I'd forgotten about that

[fictionadventurer]

After very little research into the other writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, my hypothesis about the Little House authorship question is that the writing is mostly Rose's, but the heart is Laura's.

In Laura's newspaper columns, the parts that sound most like Little House mostly come from the extracts she shares from Rose's letters (incidentally, it's kind of adorable how proud she is of Rose: "My daughter's in France!", "My daughter's in Albania!", etc.) The prose of Old Home Town, Rose's inspired-by-my-childhood-home novel, has some of the same concise descriptive prose that I've come to associate with the Little House style (I could hear passages in the voice of the Little House audiobook narrator).

Yet the Little House soul is all over Laura's columns. She's fascinated by the simple tasks of life, believes in home and family and hard work, believes in holding onto the goodness of childhood and looking forward with hope toward the future. There's an optimism, almost a romanticism, about life. The children's series that bears her name clearly comes from the same woman.

Rose, by contrast, is much more pessimistic. When writing about childhood, she's almost cynical about the life of a small town. She highlights the dark stories underlying the wholesome exterior, is extremely sensitive to the pitfalls of the social scene around her. Part of the difference is that Rose is writing for adults, but there does seem to be an essential difference in the personality behind the pen, despite the stylistic similarities to Little House.

(At the risk of pop psychoanalyzing people long dead, Rose seems much more neurotic and introverted and sensitive than her mother. In her writings and in the books about her childhood in Missouri, she comes across as child of a fairly comfortable modern life, with all the modern anxieties, in contrast to a woman who grew up starving on the prairie and knows that there are much worse things to endure than small-town gossip).

It's not much of a thesis, but I'm just fascinated by the fact that the Little House series can share so many stylistic similarities with Rose's writings, yet feel so much more like Laura.

[touchlikethesun]

name one father in haikyuu. not "father figure," a father. name one father that was actually around to raise his kid, or one character that has a good relationship with their dad.

the hq boys are all fatherless this explains so much.

[esteebarnes94]

Art Style #3 Practice

I have three art styles that I'm working on. There's my main (the more anime-ish style), my second/cartoon one (as seen in my Enid fanart; the one with the round heads and big eyes/pupils), and my very-inspired-by-Strawberry-Shortcake one (as you will see). The third is my least developed, but I'm liking how it's coming out so far.

As always, no reposting, editing, tracing, claiming, or using my art (in general), or using my artworks for any program, NFT, or AI. Nor do I permit using the designs of any of my original designs or characters for any purpose other than fanart of them.

I've started adding finishing dates on my artwork, since it's not like I can write it on the back.

This girl is supposed to be from the '90s (you know, jean overalls, high ponytail, all that), but I don't have a name for her yet. She's really just a design so I can practice. But in my head I've nicknamed her Ponyheart or just Pony for short. Because of the ponytails and the heart motifs, y'know? Maybe I'll come up with a name for her someday.

The strawberry background is a nod to my inspiration for this style, and also because I just like drawing strawberries. Clip Studio Paint was being a massive pain for me when I tried to use the align tool, so I just ending up doing the rows down by hand.

Shading was an...Attempt. Let me know if you have any polite tips! Sometimes I'm open to help/constructive criticism, but sometimes I'd rather just be able to doodle without worrying about getting it, "right." But in this case, I'd like some advice! Just be nice. :]

[crossingalaxies]

hot take apparently but to me it’s tiring and boring and frankly a baffling way to approach tv or any other media to engage with fictional characters only to ‘judge’ them. like you can’t just let them make whatever mistakes they’re making or be as flawed and fucked up as they want without judging if they have behaved well enough for whatever standard you hold them up to and how they should correct their behaviour moving forward. are you watching a fictional show or filling up an employee evaluation sheet???

‘this character should have done this’ ‘that character should not have done that’ okay???? who cares. it would be supremely boring, not to mention unrealistic, if fictional characters only behaved in the most adequate perfectly reasonable way possible. so they fucked up? so they fucked up again and again and didn’t learn their lesson the first time? okay??? that’s life???

‘but we didn’t see this character learn from their mistakes and grow’. you ARE seeing it, it’s a process, not something that happens after ONE time they were confronted with their mistakes, especially if said mistakes are tied to one of their cardinal flaws rooted in the very essence of the character itself. it’s so much more interesting and rewarding to me as a viewer, not to mention easier for me to get attached to characters who are complete and utter messes, characters who stumble and fall, even when they should know better, characters who don’t immediately learn from their mistakes, who fail again and again, but keep trying to be better, and still through it all, they are loved, because they are deserving of it no matter what they think.

‘but this conversation should have happened sooner’ okay well it didn’t. people make dumb choices all the time, they act irresponsibly and unreasonably all the time, no matter how mature or level-headed they might be.

‘but this relationship doesn’t feel healthy’ okay here’s the thing: ‘healthy relationship’ has become just another buzzword that tiktok users throw around without understanding at all what it means. ‘healthy relationship’ doesn’t mean two people need to be on the same page about everything, it doesn’t mean mistakes are made once, dealt with and never made again; a healthy relationship isn’t based on 100% compatibility or perfect communication at all times and perfect solutions to every problem. it’s based on mutual respect and love and the willingness to make compromises, and to keep trying to understand each other better and choose each other every day. if there is a failure of communication or a disagreement or an inability to come to a perfect soultion for whatever issue, that in itself doesn’t make a relationship unhealthy. and honestly even if it did, so what? it’s fictional, it adds flavour! (not to mention expecting humans to always be perfectly emotionally healthy is... well not realistic, to say the least).

‘but they should learn to communicate better before they get married’ marriage isn’t some kind of prize that only perfectly functional couples are worthy of, some final achievement for the perfect relationship. relationships are changing and growing all the time, they don’t have to reach a perfect final level of ‘healthy’ before they can be awarded the prize of marriage. relationships keep evolving and couples keep learning more about each other all the time, during marriage just like before. the idea that a relationship is doomed unless it reaches its final form of perfection before marriage is crazy.

and on a final note, HOW do you watch a fictional couple that disagrees on having children work out not necessarily a final solution, but a compromise, with one of them admitting they have issues to deal with and trauma to process, and the other realizing that the kids issue is not a dealbreaker because ultimately what they want most is their partner, and come away thinking ‘well that’s not a very good relationship’?????

[tinknevertalks]

Well, that was unsurprising.

[eoinmcgonigal]

I'LL SUGGEST JIM!!! Full cast sweep here, let's go.

YESSSS LE'TS GO!!

Hmm, trying to find a good screeshot where he doesn't look mildly concerned is tricky. I know there'll be one, but given that there's usually some variation of this expression on his face, this'll do nicely. Handsome chap. Sturdy. I have zero idea how he survives in that many layers. Impervious to so many things, which is useful if Lewes is your C.O.. He's always there, somewhere, but fits unobtrusively into the scenery, so to speak. He looks like he's lurking with intent, just waiting to give a hug to anyone who asks for one. No one has yet asked him for one, though. He lives in hope. Perhaps this is also why he is so loyal to Lewes. He naturally gravitates towards whoever is in need of hugs, but is too polite to just give them one. Like one of those anxiety service dogs coming up to you in the waiting room to comfort you, if he's loitering just on the edge of your personal space you should probably hug him. It's for his benefit. And yours. He can sense your need.

Looks: 10/10 Huggability: 9482324/10 Derangement: 8/10 Utterly essential upport character vibes: 108/10 Other: -4 for making me concerned with that heavy jacket Total: come-here-and-hug-me/10

You just want cuddles, don't you

[d20unfuckability]

cody defender anon here - I'm gonna clock out from this game because it is making me real life upset to see people characterise him as an incel misogynist since he's a comfort character of mine ! nothing against anyone who sent asks or you op but since this is just for fun I'm not gonna really participate in something that is no longer fun for me. Good luck to all involved and thank you for running this tournament <3

don't get me wrong, i'm all for doing what you've gotta do- this is all for fun, and if you're not having fun, of course you can and should bounce

but like. this isn't an airport- no need to announce your departure.

between you being on anon, one of probably multiple anons who have defended cody over the course of the last couple months, and the fact that i'm not keeping track of who is and isn't interacting with posts, i truly would not have noticed that you stopped interacting. (aside from remembering a handful who interact all the time and/or are mutuals with me on my main, but even then i wouldn't put any energy into thinking about why they weren't showing up in the notes anymore. no one owes this blog jack fuckin shit, let alone accountability for whether or not they're participating in this silly little game)

i don't know what you want me to do with this message. i'm not gonna apologize for the lighthearted, good-faith ragging, and i'm not gonna try to convince you to stay.

i get that comfort characters are important to people and can be a touchy subject, but, and i mean this with nothing but kindness, go touch grass.

it's Not That Deep.

[yanaleese]

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And also I want to thank you Madame Kryptonite, for adding a new rule to the masterlist! Now I can remind others and myself to not fall for this trap, and keep others safe.

Also, if you are somehow not a bot and in actuality a real person, I highly suggest you ask someone you trust in real life. Begging for money is NOT the way to do things.

Therefore under NO circumstances, must you EVER use my inbox for this. This applies to everyone, whether you follow me or not.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I think the hardest thing in writing for me sometimes is the like “show don’t tell/let people communicate through subtext/Normal People don’t just walk around openly explaining their motivations for everything That’s Unnatural” thing because like.. I literally DO walk around openly explaining my motivations for everything, that is how I talk, I am an analytical detail oriented over-communicator who explains everything as thoroughly as possible and and will give a fully detailed 2 minute long answer to something simple like “how are you doing today?” .. like it’s hard to make things sound Natural and Normal when you yourself are inherently unnatural and abnormal in your methods of communication to an extent lol

[that-was-anticlimactic]

lol my student teaching supervisor sent me my feedback video because he observed me friday and it was twenty minutes long and he essentially said that he was disappointed in me and that i did a disservice to american poetry so i'm feeling pretty good about myself

[vigil-recruit]

Rhia - The Moon Blade and her weapons; Sirius (Sword) & Canopus (Dagger)

[prowerprojects]

The first two predated Origins, the first was before we got a trailer. Each Tailstube has some type of topic/theme that co-sides it. First one was a general overview of the world as well as introducing Sonic and Tails, next was Eggman{who didn't have a model at the time, Orbot [and Cubot somewhat] did though}. Next, was Knuckles and Angel Island's history, then Amy along with discussing dimensions [and Metal Sonic briefly], now we're talking about the past with the whole group.)

Hmm, the next will probably have the Eggman model this time. (And I'm sure other characters will follow suit if they do what they did with Orbot) The question is, what topic would the two discuss? Maybe past inventions or technology in general?

Yeah, I mean, the Knuckles one predated Frontiers by a couple of months too I believe. And Superstars hasn't come out yet either. They do both. Promote the next thing that is coming out and discuss some specific concept.

Idk. I don't wanna see Tails and Eggman chatting like friends 😬. Honestly "two smart characters respect each other because everyone else is below their intellectual level" is such an overused trope and I don't care for it just being thrown in there with no regards for the actual characterization. Eggman used to have Tails's respect until Tails got older and got fucking tired of dealing with his shit. Why would he suddenly gain it back? Tails respects his friends and doesn't think they're below him. Everyone has their own strengths. What's more important is that their hearts are in the right place.

I guess Eggman does enjoy lecturing Tails to once again remind everyone who's the smartest guy around here lol.

Sorry for going on a rant completely unpromted. Don't imagine the Big Egg is getting invited to the stream anytime soon. (At least I hope so) (Orbot is another thing entirely) He might try to hijack it again though.

The most likely thing I could see Eggman and Tails discussing together is Gerald's work (Though I'd rather we had Rouge or Shadow for this conversation tbh) TailsTube doesn't introduce new concepts, it just elaborates on what already exists. They already went over the badniks, maybe talk about some specific ones? Or maybe like. Tails could talk about the various vehicles he designed and Eggman pops up like "Bah! As if this is anything worth talking about? Watch this". And pulls up like the pictures of the entire Egg Fleet or something. Or maybe they could compare notes on the Ancients? (Or talk about various old gods since Eggman likes to summon them so much haha)

[green-mug-tomato-juice]

hi friends i'm selling some of my art :)

acrylic on paper of data and lal, 20x14cm: 60€

print digital sketch of ezri dax, 10x10.5cm: 10€

print digital sketch of tam elbrun, 11.5x10cm: 10€

plus shipping

the prints are at a discount cause they're slightly damaged at the corners because i had to securely glue them for my portfolio

technically be willing to ship to anywhere, however shipping costs might get really high depending on where you live so germany and the EU would be preferable

if you can't pay what i'm asking for tell me and we can find a price that works for you

to buy please DM me. reblogs are appreciated :]

[martianbugsbunny]

kay so Cruella is literally just two hours too many of glamorizing the hell out of being a horrible person innit