#yeah ill rb that

[echo-goes-mmm]

Me, .5 seconds after posting a chapter: notes? notes for the poor? please sir can you spare a read? just a wee comment for a lost soul?

[verdantmeadows]

To me the joy and beauty of vocal synthesizers has always been that they don't sound real and exploring that to create artistic expression that can't be achieved by human voices, so seeing them become more and more realistic is disheartening, almost? Especially since a lot of artists make the same voice banks sound so different and have their own personal charm. I'm glad that people will be able to make things that sound realistic, but I'm worried that songs that intentionally play out of sounding as realistic as possible will be sidelined, discouraged, no longer created, impossible to find, or unsupported by fans of vocal synthesizers. I don't want things to just push towards being as realistic as possible. There is beauty in how everyone's usage of the same voice banks sound different. There is beauty in the lack of realistic sounding vocals in vocal synthesizers.

[liquidstar]

My new commission post, so hopefully I can scrounge up some extra cash for the holidays!

My life has been a lot busier and I've become a lot more tired, so the prices are slightly higher than before BUT I've added more variety in options. So hopefully that makes up for it!

The only strict rules I have are no hardcore gore or nsfw, but suggestive stuff and some blood is fine. I can do furry stuff, but I'm not great with mecha (Sorry!) Ships are all fine as long as they're nothing incestuous or pedophilic, please! There are some fandoms I'm not too comfortable with drawing, but if you're unsure feel free to ask! ALSO, due to the nature of the pixels, it may be hard to fit complex designs into them- We can negotiate simplifying them though.

If you're interested please feel free to DM me here or on Discord @/finn_again. If not that's totally fine and there's never any pressure, I hope you have a nice day anyway <3

Oh, also, I made a Ko-fi! That one post convinced me hehe, here's the link: https://ko-fi.com/liquidstar

Thank you everyone!

[astrelle]

sighing so much i love lesbians.........

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

no ok @funonion001 you've made me So fucking unwell over this it needs its own post

bc i also used to be like "ah, the neighborhood's a panopticon and Home is the 'warden'" but recent updates & general things ive read changed my outlook entirely. cause like... if Home (the town) was a panopticon, then Home (the house) should be at the 'head' of it all, where they can view everything. but Home can't view everything directly - half the buildings are behind it.

however. i don't think the panopticon thing is entirely wrong, either. there's some truth in it? i'm pretty sure that the neighborhood is Home. it's like Home is the brain/eyes/heart, and everything else are nerve endings. there's this one piece of livestream trivia that i think of, in relation to Housewarming: "...everyone believes their houses are alive in their own special way". what if this is kind of literal? all of the buildings are extensions of Home, or Home is just the core of it all. one big living, breathing neighborhood. Home might not be able to see it all, but he might be able to feel it

and then yeah from the more abstract side of things - your phrasing of "all the other houses circle home" made me put my head in my hands. because there Are a lot of conclusions/interpretations of all of that. also that sentence makes me picture a pack of wolves circling in on a kill, which is. hng.

Home is caged in. Home is surrounded. Home is always being watched. Home is never not alone. everything leads back Home. Home is holding it all together.

and like... it reminds me of Clown once mentioning (loosely, im going off of memory here whose reliability is tenuous on a good day) that part of WH's story relates to the autistic experience / when does a home become a house / will your neighbors treat you differently once they see the authentic you. and that, at least to me and one of my experiences, relates to a feeling of being watched/judged every time i leave my house. or even when i'm by an open window - everywhere i can be Seen, it feels like everyone is keeping one eye on me. existing in public spaces feels like a performance. i'm hyper aware of every single movement i make and it makes me feel so inauthentic and fake and alien and its So So stressful/uncomfortable.

so that pov + Home (and by extension, Wally since they're kinda one in the same) = well! all of the above! can Wally ever relax outside of Home's four walls? they're all looking at him. the entire neighborhood surrounds him - he can't go anywhere without running into them (the buildings and the neighbors). there's no escaping their watch and/or judgement. it's as if Wally and Home are under constant surveillance, or at least it feels like it - which is half the problem. or it's the entire problem? the fear of possibility, not reality.

and then for a different (but also connected for obvi reasons) interpretation - Home and Wally are alone. they are Singular in the neighborhood. everyone else is next to each other, even the stores are paired. but Home stands alone in the middle of it all. which directly relates to Wally and Home being aware - and also together in whatever state the neighborhood is in at the time of the whrp's creation. in a town of neighbors, Home & Wally have none. and that can connect them being at the center of it all, holding their world together - or breaking it apart

also: on the neighborhood map, the path only ends at Home. it's a loop except for the bit leading up to Home's doorstep. where Howdy's Place & Eddie's Post Office are the path widens into one huge circle with no end. Walk the circuit, end up at Home. walk the entire perimeter, and you go nowhere. there isn't a path out, the path doesn't end at any of the buildings except Home. there's something in that, i think.

there's more in my brain but i can't quite reach it...

[oifaaa]

Why does Batman have his no killing rule? Is it due to how back then there were rules comic book creators had to follow or something? Also why did Damian think that adoption was not considered “real” family?

No so got confirmation of this a while back batman and his no killing rule predates the comics code - on a meta context having the hero have a no kill rule is easier as killing off villains and having to come up with new iconic ones constantly would just be painful especially when you have someone like batman who's villains are half the appeal the other option would be to come up with a reason for why the villains aren't being killed and that's basically what the no kill rule is there to do - the in universe explanation is that batman a good guy I don't know why people don't seem to understand this but killing another person 99% of the time is wrong and Bruce himself has a strong belief in humanity he believes anyone can change for the better there's also just what gives Bruce the right to kill another person why should 1 person get to be judge jury and executioner?

Damian doesn't think that adoption isn't real family he used to talk about being the blood son but that was more just him thinking he was superior to all of Bruce's adopted children and was more seen early on, it's also more to do with dcs writers bias considering alot of them don't see adoption as real family hence why we now have jon Kent and Diana's new child

[astrumocs]

A late birthday gift to @quiescent-trolls of Lad and Oda's selfie together in front of the fountain that we talked about ages ago by now but that I always thought about, I hope you like it enough that it was worth the wait, <:)

(Special mention to @dirgelwch for color blocking in my fountain lineart/design and doing the water too, <3)

[blondeaxolotl]

hiii so i've been looking through your red butler/swap au stuff and it's really cool!! and i was curious about what william t. spears is like the au, since he's the only reaper left from the british branch of reaper dispatch i haven't seen you post about! i love all the reapers so i need to know

Just like Undertaker, he's a servant to r!Ciel/Sirius!

Unfortunately he's having to deal with being a punching bag for Sirius but he's doing his best!!!!

[forbiddennhoney]

im begging people to turn on the post dates for your feed bc sometimes i see ppl rb advice with good intentions but the advice is from 2010-2017 and therefore is WILDLY outdated!!!! and that's not good!!!!!

[bytedykes]

so embarrassing when people act like yqy is stupid and only worth anything when sj is around

[erumai-maadu]

HI HI my birthday is on friday so i was thinkin maybe i could write some prompts and post them on/around my birthday?? (100% stole this idea from char muhaha)

so yeah!! if you’ve got smth for me to write go ahead and send in an ask!!

any ships or characters that i’ve mentioned on the blog before are fine with me. i’m best at writing team gai and nejiten but i’m absolutely down to go out of my usual zone and write about the other konoha kids, sand siblings, senseis and/or some gaalee, shikatema, sasusaku, etc.

[hiemaldesirae]

woe is me to have come from asian fandoms that always specify ship dynamics no matter how stupid it makes the ship names sound and to integrate into western fandom where i play russian roulette every time i open a ship tag

[trans-mephisto]

When he's drawn with just a little more detail to his mouth/teeth than usual>>>>>>

[always-a-joyful-note]

I think one of the most insane Re:vale things is how they somehow managed to create a compelling dynamic for both old and new Re:vale. Maybe it's because I'm in a small circle but what other fandoms can boast loving an old version and new version equally while being narratively satisfied with how the old version ended?

[charliesinfern0]

my faves and their totally canonical love interests ^^

[sparring-spirals]

RE the Orym/Fearne convo; do you think they’re actually planning on killing Imogen or just incapacitating her?

On the one hand these people are a threat to the Air Ashari and have attacked them before, and I can easily Orym being this ruthless.

On the other hand, I don’t see why Orym would delegate to Fearne unless they were talking about taking her out non-lethally? She seems much more suited to (and less conflicted about) being the distraction.

(I also think it would be kind of hilarious for Ashley and Liam’s plan to just be “knock her out, grab her, leg it” and for the two of them to have chosen just the most euphemistically loaded way possible to discuss this at the table)

Sorry for the delay on this, my brain is cooperating excellently and thats why it took multiple days to watch a two minute conversation. Now that I HAVE seen it, with the caveat of still not having watched the rest of the episode:

I think the plan is to do whatever is needed, in the moment- the conversation felt more like trying to prepare themselves for the possibility, not just for "taking Imogen out" but for acting against her at all. Acknowledging the amount of danger Imogen poses, locking eyes, asking each other: are you with me? always.

They both say, at different points through the conversation: this probably wont be necessary. I'm sure it will be fine. Itll be good! There are already so many things to worry about. But that silent "if", was finally spoken too. If its not fine? If the worst comes to pass? If Imogen becomes another concern, in the middle of hell?

Orym asking Fearne to do the deed was a little surprising, but rewatching that exchange, and thinking about the opposite, I think it makes sense. Fearne is well suited for a distraction, yeah, but- this is more than that. This is an intentional deception against someone Fearne likes very much, that Fearne really cares about. It would be a deception intended to end in harm to something she loves. I think that's very different from the lies Fearne likes to tell. I think it would be- difficult, at best.

On top of that- Imogen is dangerous. They love her, but they know- she is powerful, immensely so. And so against them- she is dangerous.

The person in the "distraction" role is the one most likely to be in danger. im not sure Orym could contend with giving that role to Fearne, even if it means the final moves are less lethal than is necessary.

(Maybe there is a part of him that hopes for that, too. Neither of them want to do this. Both of them hoping for the best. But Fearne is the one to raise the worry, and Orym is the one to voice the hard possibilities. he has to be. If it comes down to it- if- the roles are bad either way. Its all going to be a nightmare.

If it comes down to it- if. Orym asked Fearne: Are you with me? and Fearne said: Always. And that's what it boils down to, right? No matter what they plan out, if it all goes to hell, it'll come down to the trust, and whatever happens from there.)

(I agree. Fearne seems less suited for this kind of lethality, against someone she loves. Duty over emotion. But also. Fearne loves all these people, and maybe loves Orym a little extra. And if push comes to shove, Fearne trusts Orym, the most. His judgement, his love, his guidance. And so. Are you with me? Always.)