#what matters is that I really enjoyed

[lovebeing-a-girl]

sooo I was feeling a bit artsy and this was the first time I have ever painted and this is how it turned out 😭

I mean it looks shitty but it was the first time so it is what it is🫠

[chloesimaginationthings]

Cassidy loves to scare the FNAF night guards..

[sciderman]

well - webtoons is over, gang

[mintypsii]

i can't believe one piece invented gay people

[nellasbookplanet]

I'm hardly the first to make this observation, but the problem with many self-proclaimed cozy stories is that they're so scared to take risks, scared to do anything that could make the reader even slightly uncomfortable, because being uncomfortable isn’t very cozy. Characters lack in flaws and messiness; conflict is lackluster or quickly resolved or avoided altogether; a darker moment must always be followed by a peptalk, never lingered on; moral ambiguity is eschewed, because anything else would be problematic and messy. If a main character has flaws it’s always those of the good victim, someone who needs to heal and be validated but not grow and be challenged. Challenge, of character or reader, is anathema.

As I'm playing Stray, I'm struck by the thought that this is quite possibly the coziest piece of media I've ever experienced. You're playing as a little kitty cat. You’re carrying around a tiny robot companion in a backpack. Your enemies are tiny white blobs called zorks. There are game mechanics to meow and scratch up people's walls and furniture and knock paint cans off shelves and take naps. The pacing rarely rushes you, rather actively encourages you to slow down. You can stop and listen to a guy play guitar, or look for flowers to gift someone, or take a nap on a cushion while beautiful scenery full of plants and fairy lights roll by.

But it’s also a game set in the ruins of a near dead world. The cute blobs will eat you alive. The robot you're carrying is an uploaded mind earnestly struggling through an existential crisis and mourning an entire species. Under the plants and the fairy lights is garbage and rust and buildings falling apart. There’s no sunlight. There are creepy eyes watching you in the sewers. There’s classism and oppression and the downfall of man.

And through it all, the robots who inherited the world are working so hard to find pockets of hope and happiness. They paint and play music and play games and dance and grow plants and create cozy little homes for themselves. They resist for the sake of freedom and autonomy, they create an entire language, they dream of a world most think they'll never see.

This dichotomy of dark and light is something I see often in (better) cozy media. Dungeon Meshi is a fun cozy adventure where they make delicious food and talk about self-care. It's also about grief and the inevitability of death and the impacts of social inequalities. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is a cozy found family road trip in space; it’s also about the difficulties of understanding each other across cultural barriers and the massive ramifications when we refuse to do so. Legends and Lattes is basically a dnd coffeshop au; it’s also about struggling to find happiness and purpose and self-worth after a life of violence, not knowing if you're able to successfully achieve anything but bloodshed. And All the Stars is full of found family and pastries and characters just hanging out; all of this happens as they're hiding and fleeing from invading aliens who see them as nothing but a resurce to be used. One of my favorite episodes of critical role is the beach episode of c2, where they basically just hang out; this happens soon after they buried their friend who died trying to save them, as they're trying to figure out who they are and what they want after his loss.

And that’s the thing, isn't it? Any story that is uniformly the same thing all the way through ends up as bland. A grimdark story that never offers respite or moments of hope will numb you to the horrors, removing their bite. A cozy story that offers nothing to be struggled against, nothing for which cozy moments and aesthetics is a break, lacks impact. A story needs ups and downs, a rhythm of misery and hope.

[wuntrum]

[flashing warning] ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS!

[youtube link]

[storytellering]

I think I saw you but I know I'm not supposed to

[kaleidoscopeminds]

𖤓°⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

[koushuwu]

“In this moment, i want for nothing.” happy holidays @yoojunghyuks <3 i love you a lot. thank you for being in my life <3

[gabrielisdead]

my vampire lore iceberg, open for criticism and suggestions

[wackywatchdotcom]

sometimes i am haunted by the imagery of gangle putting on a mask that has a face but no actual holes for the eyes or mouth. that the other side of the mask is completely, utterly blank

[lookninjas]

Pick a song from a bad description! You do not have to recognize any of the songs to vote (although tbh I feel like this is one of my most obvious ones -- there is an actual song title in one of the choices). Just go from the vibes. Pick whichever is funniest to you, or matches your current situation, or whatever makes a random bad song description appeal to you.

At the end of the week, I will take the poll results and use them to arrange the songs in a playlist, from the song with the lowest amount of votes to the song with the highest amount of votes. If you would like to hear the playlist, leave a comment or put it in the tags of your reblog, and I will tag you when the playlist goes up. And if you really can't wait to know what a song is, send me an ask and I will answer it.

And please reblog the poll! 'Cause this is as close as I can come to sending you guys a mixtape, so if you share it with your followers and they share it with their followers it's like we're all getting a mixtape, and that's fun. So let's keep the mixtapes moving.

[critter-wizard]

ep 43 had me tearing up in a fucking shopping centre ‼️‼️

b+w alt version that I truly couldn't decide if I liked it more . Also I included a lot of thoughts in the tags but they're somewhat incoherent<3

[huellitaa]

the ultimate girly media guide! ✧˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀🧁

from a CERTIFIED gal's gal ♡ 💬

──★ ˙ ̟ '👛🧸 video games

♡ infinity nikki

THE girly girl game of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! released in 2024, girly fashion style game with an interesting story and beautiful interface! perfect 4 the dress up girlies, gorgeous open world and my childhood video game dream (🎀🗒️note: be careful w ur storage!!!!!!!!!!! can be quite demanding)

♡ style savvy (nintendo ds, wii u)

♡ dress to impress (roblox)

♡ doki doki literature club

okay okay so i know this doesn't exactly fit here if you've played the game BUT i love the ddlc style and aside from the story its super cute!!!!!! psychological horror, SUPER disturbing at times with heavy topics!!!!!! read up on the game before downloading!!

♡ girlsgogames

yes im seriously recommending this. i LOVED this when i was little and i will still unironically play it every now and then I DO NOT CARE.

♡ royale high (roblox)

──★ ˙ ̟ '👛🧸 music and albums

♡ tommy february6

♡ girls' generation

♡ mariah carey

♡ paris hilton

♡ kali uchis

♡ to feel alive (ep) ♡ por vida (album) ♡ red moon in venus (album)

♡ nicole dollanganger

more creepy-cute morute style; beautiful, angelic voice and dark lyrics ♡ ♡ natural born losers (album) ♡ observatory mansions (album) ♡ heart shaped bed (album) ♡ curdled milk (album)

♡ girls day

♡ kara

♡ megan thee stallion

♡ gwen stefani

♡ love angel music baby (album)

♡ chloe moriondo

♡ suckerpunch (album)

♡ ariana grande

♡ thank u, next (album) ♡ sweetener (album)

♡ illit

♡ wonder girls

♡ pinkpantheress

♡ yena

♡ red velvet

♡ ive

♡ avril lavigne

♡ the best damn thing (album)

i also really really love these playlists on youtube of super girly cute music! ♡💬🎀

──★ ˙ ̟ '👛🧸 tv shows and movies

🧁𓂃 ࣪˖ MOVIES

♡ clueless

♡ legally blonde

♡ mean girls

♡ bratz: the movie

♡ the princess diaries

♡ 10 things i hate about you

♡ monster high: haunted

♡ marie antoinette

♡ all of the barbie movies ever

🩰𓂃 ࣪˖ SHOWS

♡ puella magi madoka

one of my favouirite favourite shows ever!!!!!!!!♡ magical girl anime, but do be warned can be quite dark at times!!!! watch with caution!!!!

♡ nana (2006)

♡ monster high

♡ lolirock!

♡ glitter force

♡ winx club

♡ totally spies!

♡ sailor moon

♡ bratz (2005)

♡ star vs the forces of evil

♡ powerpuff girls

♡ my little pony: friendship is magic

♡ barbie life in the dreamhouse

──★ ˙ ̟ '👛🧸 general media

♡ shushucherry (brand)

♡ sanrio (brand)

♡ j-fashion

♡ gyaru styles

♡ angelic pretty (brand)

♡ scrap booking

♡ blythe dolls

♡ fashion magazines

♡ girl blogging

♡ decorating

♡ vocaloid (genre)

♡ sandy liang (brand)

if there's anything i've missed or anything you'd recommend, then feel free to reply or reblog this post with those! ♡ these r all my personal favourites n ideas for the more hyperfeminine style. you don't have to be a girl to be girly! ♡

all my love! 🎀💬🐈‍⬛️🫶🏻🩷

[white-hole-station]

[Headcanon]

The space program took a whole month off of development after Tektite's accident, so that Slate could have the time to perfect their leg. They'd already been working on articulated flaps for in-atmosphere steering for Feldspar's ship - conserves fuel to not use jets for that - and hey, an artificial ankle is just another type of flap to articulate, right?

Gossan wasn't so sure - especially with Slate's full-tilt approach to experimental engineering, at odds with Tektite's trepidation - but all of the founders agreed that the program could wait until their neighbour was back on their feet. And to Slate's credit, Gossan had never seen them show as much sheer methodical focus, before or since. This was somebody's limb here, after all: their ability to move of their own accord, their ability to get out and about in the community and do the things they love, their ability to still feel like their body is their own. Slate was hardly about to phone it in, or risk any wild experiments when it came to Tektite's comfort and requirements.

It took several iterations, and several difficult test walks around the town square gripping Slate's arm, but together the pair of them worked out a final model that's been serving Tektite well to this day.

(...Of course, the dedication and focus that so pleasantly surprised Gossan only made Slate's awkward avoidance of them after their own accident sting even more. Was it really that hard on their poor guilty conscience, to think about doing something similar for a friend, instead of darting their gaze away just short of Gossan's face?)

[lilmeowmrow]

quick comic redraw of *the* tkm scene