#worth it though lol

[supermarine-silvally]

reading the Ace light novel got me thinking about their first real interaction on the Moby Dick... basically Yara got fed up with Ace trying to kill Whitebeard and attempted to take matters into her own hands, the result of which definitely did not go as she planned inspired ofc by this scene from Princess Mononoke (Yara reacted about as well as San did in the movie lmao she got teased mercilessly (especially by Thatch) about it for weeks afterwards)

Yara-enablers taglist: @auxiliarydetective @oneirataxia-girl (want to be added/removed? let me know!)

[avaetin]

So now we might have a:

- Jasico week

- Rarepair week

- Nicobaster/Alabaster appreciation week (if @drksanctuary is pushing for it)

- And I think I saw a Percico week (sometime August I think unless I saw wrongly)

Please keep me updated. I would like to contribute where I can, even if it's not much 🥹🙏

[therubyreader]

I finally lived out my childhood dream and learned how to do Katniss’ braid from the first two Hunger Games movies and let me tell you how annoying it is constantly have something touching your neck

[judarist]

they could have chilled w the bass though … shit was vibrating through my throat and body

[isadraws13]

My feet hurt

We walked everywhere today

Owch

[imaybe5tupid]

Why bother? (Why bother?) It's gonna hurt me. (It's gonna hurt me.) It's gonna kill when- (Why bother!) -You desert me! (Gonna hurt me!)

Set after Nightmare. Laios is reminiscing and contemplating.

[zzztlk]

Got any speedpaints? I'm really curious about your creative process, it's really good!

Not really I'm so soo all over the place with my process so I haven't really gotten around to making much stuff about it but I'll pull out one of those auto speed paints from procreate for old time sake (⚠️ flash warning ⚠️ )

[woodenela]

why yes, I am back on my bullshit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[aphel1on]

another thing i love about laios:

HE IS GENUINELY A REALLY GOOD LEADER!!

despite struggling with the finer points of socializing, he has all the qualities necessary to be a good leader.

(i refer to the manga a lot in this post as someone who's read most of the manga at this point, but i avoided any specific spoilers)

He cares about all his teammates' well-being

He is extremely level-headed in a crisis

He is excellent at strategizing (within his areas of expertise; in the manga someone eventually points out he's pretty much useless at fighting other humans, lol)

If a plan fails, he is immediately thinking up a fallback plan - he doesn't give up

He is acutely aware of his teammates' strength and weaknesses, and accurately assigns them tasks suited to them in times of need.

He is perhaps not innately a 'leader-type'; he's fine deferring to the rest of the party most of the time, even when he doesn't understand why. (Just going along with the blindfold in the sauna for example, lol.) He was ready to head back into the dungeon by himself before Chilchuck and Marcille volunteered to come along. He doesn't think of himself as particularly smart or special. And when the party meets others (such as the old gnome couple) they don't tend to assume Laios is the leader.

But he has an unwavering vision (during the story it's rescuing Falin), and, you see it again and again: when they enter difficult combat, or any time things fall apart and everyone is panicking, Laios steps up and takes charge. His calmness helps everyone else calm down, and they generally follow his lead. They intuitively look to him in a crisis, to the point they're shocked the few times he doesn't have any ideas.

It kind of ties into another thought I have; he is repeatedly seen as "having no interest in other people" by other characters, but this isn't really true! He struggles to understand people and he is aware that they struggle to understand him. This leads to him mostly focusing on the things he IS good at understanding, such as monsters. But he genuinely makes a big effort to understand the people he cares about. In the manga, there are times you see him think deeply about his friends' struggles and motivations. For much of the early arcs, he understands Chilchuck better than Marcille or Senshi do. He and Marcille don't get each other that well at the start of the story, but by the end they have a very strong reciprocal friendship.

I could go on about it honestly but this post is already very long. Tl;dr laios one of the characters of all time to me and i think people should appreciate his leadership skills more!!

[irelandseyeonmythology]

90% of the time I'm like "the only reason why the medieval Irish material seems bizarre is because it isn't taught as part of the standard humanities curriculum -- Greek Mythology is just as bizarre, you're just USED to it, stop reducing this stuff to Lol That's So Weird", but then I do have to be like. "Anyway the postulated father god of the postulated pre-Christian Irish pantheon, if ever such a thing existed in a uniform way, creates a zombie apocalypse in one text that allows him to become king of Ireland and his wife is a crow (part time) that commits crimes and castrates a Viking warlord (who has a really messy family life btw). He also has a xylophone made out of corpses in another text." and I have to be like. "Okay, so maybe the Irish texts ARE a little bit. Out there. On occasion."

[chellychuu]

Daily reminder to all my creatives; it’s okay not to post every single day! Take breaks, make things that’ll never be posted online, work on projects that are just for you, do things completely unrelated to your online presence! Don’t burn out trying to appease the algorithm ♡

[leverage-ot3]

hozier starting to sing take me to church and then unfurling a pride flag healed something in me actually

if you listen closely you can hear me yell ‘oh my god’ when he does it

[mysticalflyte]

Dichotomy

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[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Those Beyond The Wall

sequel/companion to The Space Between Worlds, set a decade later

character-focused sci-fi set in an area divided in two, the rich protected city on one side and everyone else in the post-apocalyptic desert

follows a woman who works under the Emperor in Ashtown, keeping the peace

when mangled bodies start showing up with seemingly no murderer, she’s tasked with finding the cause, and finds out that it’s the result of corruption spanning both cities and multiple worlds

explores oppression and messy revolution, police violence and apartheid

bi & polyamorous MC

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Oh, for a skeleton key…

Plus a digital mockup to simulate a red ink pass that i discovered could not be achieved well enough with the materials available to me, and the original pencils.

[sleepyeurypterus]

part 2 to this post! had another school project but this time i turned it in on time :> also updated trilobite and opabinia, i thought the first trilobite looked kinda boring and i took huge inspiration from this reconstruction guide from twitter!!!