#with my third eye opened and all.

[padthaifan]

I hate to affirm the haters (experienced artists) but wow sitting down and watching art technique videos is really… Wow it really does work. But we CANNOT let the haters know that

[hinamie]

spiraling

[swagglessmoth]

My grades are suffering and so are they

[m0nk3y-bl0g]

When the gang is having relationship issues and you try dropping hints that the easiest solution would be if you all formed a polycule together

[isabellaofparma]

The future Mehmed the Conqueror, Radu the Beautiful and Vlad the Impaler in Hunyadi (2025–) 1.06 - "A Hitetlenek"

[beachwavez]

MY 24/7 COMMISSIONS ARE FINALLY OPEN!!! 🔛 ALWAYS OPEN TO NEW COMMISSIONS, NEVER ENDING QUEUE!!!

this week my boyfriend and i have been faced with a handful of unfortunately timed, high-priced issues that need to be taken care of (car maintenance, new bills, and our cat has conjunctivitis and will be going to the vet for an eye exam and meds later this week) and we are in need of a little more money to get us through all these extra expenses + our currently allotted for groceries and current bills.

if you’d like to commission me, please feel free to dm me here, on discord (@/splatzones), or on bsky (@/romeo.smokes.lol)!!! 📥🌾🐯

[eaissilyy]

This post is approved by the Mohgwyn Dynasty PR Department. 🩸🥀✅✅

fun fact : Tarnished only has 2 likes from themselves and Melina who is here for moral support

fun fact 2 : Ansbach doesn’t know how to change his name

fun fact 3 : Varre cannot make his username “LordMohgNo1fan” because some random sanguine noble already used that name (they are not here because thet are busy invading tarnished)

Here’s the ref because it’s the funniest thing ever and I spent too much time on this 🙏🙏

[motherismotheringggg]

nicholas “thique dique” chavez

[tigersharktheautisticseawing]

GUYS GUYS SO YK HOW STANLEY'S RELATIONSHIPS KINDA ALL FALL APART QUICKLY AND HOW HE'S HEAD OVER HEELS UNTIL HE KNOWS THE PERSON!?!?!?

WHAT IF HE'S FRAYROMANTIC/FRAYSEXUAL!?!?!??

THE DEFINITION OF IT IS "A fraysexual experiences sexual attraction to strangers but then loses that attraction the more they bond with someone"

AND THAT'S KINDA WHAT HAPPENED WITH LAZY SUSAN

IDK I MIGHT JUST BE REACHIG HERE BUT THINK ABOUT IT

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…

[creativity-is-something-i-lack]

Crawling around on all fours like a wounded animal because I can’t see him fuck that old man yet

[talxns]

“it’s weird, it’s a family dynamic, they are essentially father and son” well ok that’s still hot though

[watermelonsloth]

Ino Should’ve Been on the Sasuke Retrieval Mission, Not Neji

I realized something and if I don't say it, it’s gonna bother me.

In part 1, pretty much every member of the Konoha 12 can be split into two categories: those who take their jobs seriously and those who don’t. The first group are the characters with something to lose or, more often, prove who tend to be more skilled than their peers. It includes Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Rock Lee, Hinata, and seemingly Shino (although we don’t know enough about him or his motives for me to say this with full confidence). The second group either has superficial or no known reason to have become ninja and for a variety of reasons don’t really take their jobs, training, or (in some cases) even winning or losing seriously. It includes Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, and Kiba. The only one I didn’t place was TenTen because she doesn’t have enough of a presence for me to know which she falls under.

Along with the part 1 finale, the Sasuke Retrieval Arc also serves as a wake up call for the team of genin. The entire series was a slow burn of information about how unfair and dangerous the shinobi world is—bell test set up KIA’d shinobi and that everything was not as it seemed, land of waves set up shinobi being used as tools and team 7 realizing their personal priorities, chunin exams introduced that there were much bigger fish and how cruel the shinobi world is, and the search for Tsunade arc displayed what could become of the shinobi who grew up in this system—that built to the Sasuke retrieval mission being the wake up call that not only did they need to get serious, they needed to get serious now. I could write a whole essay on this arc and what it represents, but I’ll leave it at this: the Sasuke retrieval mission made Naruto realize that he didn’t understand Sasuke nearly as much as he thought he did and the rest of his team (-the backup) realize that if they didn’t start taking their job seriously, they’d get themselves or their friends killed.

Or… almost the rest of his team. Neji doesn’t actually fall into this category. As I already said, he already took his job seriously and he was already very aware about what happened to the powerless. I’d be more forgiving if it helped move his personal arc along more or at least did something else for his character, but it doesn’t. It’s just extra screen time. And as much as I like Neji, he really didn’t need to be a part of this arc (or at least not such a large part).

You know who did? Ino. She never actually got an “oh crap, my priorities out of whack” moment. She doesn’t take her job seriously during the chunin exams, she doesn’t really show up again until the very end of part 1 for a scene here and there, then we don’t see her ‘til shippuden where she’s suddenly taking her job seriously. Maybe you could argue that Choji nearly dying was her wake up call, but it would be a pretty flimsy one considering the only reaction she has is calm relief after finding out he’s okay. Everyone else got their wake up call—Sakura during her iconic forest of death scene and the boys during this arc—but she didn’t.

Now, as you might’ve guessed from the title, I think the most obvious solution to this problem is the best. By swapping them out, Neji isn’t acting as a noticeably unnecessary inclusion and Ino gets a proper moment of character growth (and badassery). As bonus points: I think Ino would have a more interesting dynamic with the rest of the team, Ino would have more emotional stakes in the mission through knowing Sasuke and Choji sacrificing himself prior to her fight, the audience could potentially get some actual insight into why Ino (and the other girls) like Sasuke so much, and both of Shikamaru’s teammates nearly dying on the first mission he led would be even more of a swift gut punch for him. Ino should’ve been on the Sasuke retrieval mission, not Neji.

[assassinregrets]

chash got me a little cheetah stuffy and i named her chicken pot pie and for the last couple of days i've been talking aloud to her like she's my therapist (dr c.p. pie phd) and i just had a really intense breakthrough about something that happened 14 years ago. what the fuck

[th3-0bjectivist]

“Eye Scratched Epiphany” - Animated painting

[peteytheparrot]

Naw bro y’all are making my OCs seem more interesting then they actually are ☠️☠️ /j

Every time this happens though I’m like well it’s intentional NOW 😈😈😈😈