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depresseddepot · 4 months

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I'm going to learn whittling because I need to do some sort of woodworking or I will go insane

#i made a table and a bookshelf in high school and it kept me going for a few years #but i need to do some sort of wood craft every now and then or i get so weird and paranoid. must reject modernity return to wood or whatever #i cannot get power tools while living at home bc my parents will mock me #BUT. I CAN WHITTLE #do i know how to whittle? no. am i afraid of knives? yes.#but i need it. i need to hold wood in my hands and make little useless dingles #i need to make a whale and a bird and three thousand magnets #i need to craft Or Else #im really worried im going to hurt myself but bc im so scared of knives i think i can translate that into extreme caution #im getting whittling gloves but the knives are so sharp that sometimes it doesn't matter #its okay. im scared but i can do it scared.#i will be careful. i will be patient and cautious and i will focus.#and on god i will make little wooden animals.#its me and wood against the world #when i get my own apartment (and get over the fear of being noisy) i will get power tools and finally #FINALLY #be able to start making furniture again #but for now: i will whittle

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d4ydream-girl · 2 months

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comments from smosh cast + crew on shourtney's wedding post!!

ft. mythical, thomas sanders, and www.chess.com?? lol

#courtney miller #shayne topp #smosh #shourtney wedding #shourtney #smoshblr #if i missed comments... umm im not going thru those comments again i cant think straight #thought it was funny how some of the smosh gang are also acting confused in the comments AS IF THEYRE NOT IN ON IT #theyre REALLYYY selling it if its just a prank #real or not i KNOW they were all laughing around the office abt this #the battle btw angela damien and sarah trying to get first LMAO #this day is going to go down in smosh history as the day the the fandom broke #tbh real or not im just really impressed with this whole thing #even if im dying for answers #head vs heart ykwim #“guys its literally april fools” vs “guys theyre literally married now”#now watch me try to tag as many ppls names as i can TT #angela giarratana #chanse mccrary #amanda lehan canto #anthony padilla #damien haas #sarah whittle #arasha lalani #noah grossman #olivia sui #trevor evarts #tommy bowe #ian hecox #spencer agnew

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mistress-light · 7 months

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Forspoken • Tanta Cinta's Familiars

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moths-in-the-mix · 4 months

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I think my favorite genre of game is “fighting for your fucking life” where you are fighting for your fucking life

#yes I count armored core among this genre #I can’t feel anything unless I’m getting shit thrown at me from all angles and can see my hp get whittled down #all while traveling at Mach speeds and barely being able to see past the gunfire #desperately wanna play helldivers 2 for this reason actually #armored core #ac6 #armored core 6 #revisiting to say halo on legendary too #so #Halo

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brennbug · 10 months

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absolutely had to do my own take the unused prompt "oompah the goth octopus" from drawfees most recent video

a couple of fit ideas and a headshot based more off a dumbo octopus

#ive never actually drawn an anthro character before can i get the furry tick of approval on her?#also hardest part was not the octopus hardest part was whittling down what goth is #still dont know #drawfee #drawfee fanart #oompah the goth octopus #art #my art

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charcoalowl · 8 months

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I Love Yoo is such a story. It's a complex and nuanced look at human relationships. It's a treatise on abuse and power dynamics. It's a discussion about how we hurt the people we love, intentionally and unintentionally. It is chock full of metaphors and symbolism. It never fully condemns or absolves any of its characters. It has a friends-to-lovers ship that is more high stakes, intense, and emotionally charged than so many enemies-to-loves pairings out there. It is 100% a respectable narrative belonging in genre of 'drama'. One of these I'm going to find the person at webtoon whose idea it was to market it as a cute love triangle romance and I am going to kill them.

#*gasp* THE OWL CAN TALK??!#i love yoo #i love yoo webtoon #the mismarketing is at least half the reason why the fandom was so annoying in the beginning #and still is to some extent #the years seemed to have whittled down that part of the fandom though #nowadays more of the fandom seems to appreciate i love yoo for its complexities

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gaylittleguys · 7 months

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two of them

#two of them #they’re almost the same guy #accidentally #just two friendly bighuge elven guys who love nature and animals and whittling #and each other :)#doodles #august #halsin #bg3 #juuust the two of us #we can make it if we try :)#doodleys go here bc I want to share but not to a big audience yknow

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abirdie · 3 months

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Gael García Bernal in Neruda (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

#gael garcía bernal #neruda #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #neruda 2016 #what is there to say about neruda that can be expressed in tag form?#it's intelligent and beautiful and fantastical and creative #and it asks questions about fiction and poetry and history and politics and life #(also a lot of it's funny because pablo larraín)#and i really wanted more than eight gifs #i started off with FORTY and had to whittle them down #even as i type this i'm thinking 'i really should have included one with mercedes morán' but i am not messing with them any more

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childrenofthesun77 · 3 months

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I know mahiru is often seen as not smart (his official stats from the guidebook give him a 2 out of 10 for tactics and I think the mental stat is more about mental stability?) and sure he's not a tactical genius like mikuni or touma (both have 10/10 in tactics) but mahiru is extremely socially/emotionally intelligent, which is an intelligence often overlooked in favour of "classic" intelligence (like being good at math or things like chess).

But unlike other characters mahiru knows when to stand his ground and when to lay low and change a person's view slowly over time.

Misono wasn't on his side in the beginning, even saying mahiru could be his servant when mahiru agreed to work with him, but mahiru quickly picked up on the fact that misono was lonely and offered to be his friend. Now misono trusts him completely and recognizes that mahiru's strength lies in gaining allies.

Shuhei openly hated vampires and treated them as things and mahiru responded by humanizing them, listing examples of vampires acting just like normal people, laying the first stone for shuhei to stop wanting to kill all vampires.

He was the one who proposed the idea that tsubaki would come to rescue lilac because tsubaki sees his subclass as family and he was right.

Neither lawless nor licht were overly impressed by him when they first met him, but by the time he asks them to rescue tsurugi especially lawless is one of his biggest supporters.

In C3 he understood that he wasn't going to be able to move if he opposed them and joined them instead, allowing him and the other eves to meet. He also correctly concluded that getting tsurugi on their side was key because he was central to C3's/touma's plans and in the end it saved his life and allowed him to stop touma.

Mahiru consistently trying to protect tsubaki's subclass might also come in handy soon. They might not like C3, but both lilac and sakuya can vouch for mahiru as a person they can trust not to kill them and to aid them in stopping tsubaki from destroying himself.

And stopping tsubaki by convincing him to stop is perfectly logical. A servamp can't be killed as far as we know. Combat only gets you so far. If C3 want to create a lasting co-existence between vampires and humans getting both sides to stop killing each other and to learn to forgive is the only way.

Trying to solve this conflict through conversation and not violence is neither shortsighted nor childish, it's the only reasonable solution.

#servamp #mahiru shirota #mahiru doesn't have to be a genius at tactics as long as he has enough of “smart” people on his side and gets them to exchange information #touma was kind of screwed the second mahiru got tsurugi to turn against him within a week or so #and even with 13 mikunis it looks like mikuni might be screwed #it might turn into a simple numbers game at this point #all the eves sans mikuni and almost all servamps sans jeje and lily are on mahiru's side #add to that the enterity of C3 including some people believed to be dead and tsubaki's subclass against tsubaki lily and mikuni #(I'm excluding jeje because he's captured right now)#that's a lot of people against a small group that didn't bother to gather people loyal to their cause #this isn't chess where both sides start with the same amount of pieces and you can whittle down your opponent #while mikuni played chess mahiru played shogi even if he didn't know it #taking pieces mikuni discarded and adding them to his own side #I'm not sure if superior skill/power in a few single persons means that much if you have a huge number of also skilled/powerful people #working together to stop you #even without literary knowledge that tells me that the heroes are going to win I would bet on mahiru's side #even mikuni's arguments trying to stop tsubaki's subclass from intervening are weak

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powdermelonkeg · 27 days

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Beat the first half (I assume it's half) of Inscryption. It took me about 7 hours, even knowing what things did and where powerups were (watched a few Markiplier videos before deciding I wanted to play myself).

Talked my roommate (@too-many-blorbos) into trying the game. She beat the first half in 2ish hours.

She did not die once on the final boss.

Also a fun fact, where it took me ~12 tries to beat Ganondorf in TotK, WITH my best gear, she ALSO beat him in one go. Without flurry rushing because she hated the timing of it.

My roommate's gaming skills are cracked.

#we were talking about it earlier #i tend to figure out mechanics fast and then go high-risk setups for everything i want #like i'll hunt lynels and get eternal squirrel exploits in order to deal massive damage #but i SUCK at shields #meanwhile she plays it safe until she figures everything out and then she's FANTASTIC at risk v reward assessment #thinking about it more this also happened in bg3!!! my strategy was 'hit things as hard as you can as fast as you can'#and she had to be like 'no. slow down. cantrip on the weak guys. whittle it down'#and THEN we killed minthara #roommate is a strategic genius at gaming #and i have never once beaten her in a pokemon battle since she picked it up in earnest #bee's rambles #real coffee hours

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praggmatic · 22 days

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I've been working on a wooden Yellowfang figurine and she's finally ready for painting.

#She's so blocky #which is just what i wanted #and also she is the same scale as the Bluestar one i made so they can live together on my shelf #warrior cats #yellowfang #sculpture #whittling #woodcarving #woodwork

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silverskye13 · 2 years

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Zweihander for the Ziegenvater!

#spazzcat doodles #docm77 #this is my 'see you can still do art' drawing to soothe my ego #after spending four hours today trying and failing to whittle a fox #my hands hurt and i am covered in cuts

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grinnoire · 1 year

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the way that kevin chu was SINGLEHANDEDLY fighting a battle to make alex mercer dress well and look handsome and was confounded at every turn

#rip well-dressed alex gone but not forgotten #prototype 2009 #alex mercer #alexander j mercer #kevin's notes are consistently like #'he would dress well' 'this would be fashionable' 'he would wear this'#and you can see his really cool trench/three-fourths trench concepts get slowly whittled down into Generic Cool Toughguy #i could feel his soul dying with every pass #when he was finally forced to pop those collars . i cried #expensive fabrics and high-class styles and skinny pants and snatched waist showing off his fantastic ass #to a man who if we saw him on the street we would point and laugh. this is so tragic #kevin tried to make him a skinny little twink so hard #[prototype]

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mcybree · 4 months

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yknow every once in a while I go wow I really am insane… third life was nothing like that to the average person what a strange hill to die on… And then I remember the whittle him down to nothing clip and I go ah never mind I’m right forever and something is seriously wrong with him

#Jimmy takes a while to break down but once you whittle him down to nothing it works. are you hearing yourself #bree barks so fucking loud #anyways does anyone want to talk about that part towards the end of 3l where gri an tells jimmy to go back and get scott #so that everyone can go over the plans for the upcoming desert battle. But jimmy tries and gets sent away with a vague crossbow threat so #jimmy just waits outside the desert border alone until scott shows up. like he literally just sits there doing nothing.#sorry its not that serious. its not. I just think that jimmy being given conflicting instructions and deciding to just sit by the desert an #stand idle until scott eventually decides to go over there is representative of his lack of autonomy that season #(<- take of an insane individual)#deranged.fh.posting

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1eos · 10 days

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your manager needs to calm down... in an alternate universe it would be so funny if you dragged in a rocking chair to your desk. like what is she gonna say now. its honestly a testament to your work ethic that she can only complain about your posture LMAO. sounds like she is reallyyyyy digging deep for reasons to get angry.

but onto my real question. mx kendra when you are developing your original story, what process do you go about designing characters + outlining plot, etc? is it in random bits and pieces or do you try to plan it out chronologically? im not very talented at constructing stories but i do have a few OCs and ideas, but i feel overwhelmed by the idea of planning everything out. i know i ultimately need to sit down and write but i would love some advice or insight if you have any! thank you!

her head would fucking explode if i brought in a rocking chair lmaooooooooooooooooooooooo 😭😭😭😭 and she's scraping the bottom of the barrel and she knows it bc some ppl got 1 on 1 meetings abt their vagues and she couldn't even do it to me bc it would sound so silly to tell someone to sit still

but omg planning a whole story is SO overwhelming. i developed all my stuff in bits and pieces so trying to organize everything has been so daunting BUT not too long ago i became determined to get everything down and i found some youtube videos that really got me together. im doing a comic and struggled with taking the oc lore in my head and merging it into the chronological story i want to tell. bc i have sooooooo much background on a character but that background may not come out until way later in the story u know? and then bc my lore is in prose but the final content would be visual right? so i did some digging and stumbled upon this video!

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basically her process is writing everything down in a story format. like just write every detail that comes to mind then create ANOTHER document where u take your prose and start breaking it down into a script like format adding in a bunch of visuals u want and THEN you storyboard from the script. it made a lot of stuff click

and then i edited the process to work for me as someone who's super scattered w my lore. so what im doing now is taking where i want my story to start and just writing. and as each character or story detail is introduced i go to a special section of the document called notes and write out a random bit of lore associated with that. and i'll even write out future events i know i want to happen so when i get to them in the actual chronological story prose i can take what ive already written and insert it into the timeline

so for example when as im following one stream of conscious as to how i want the first chapter to open and i get to an oc's introduction i bold the oc's name and then make a section where i then dump all of the character history that bounces around in my head. and then i go back to the chronological story. and another thing that's helped is when im plotting my story when two characters have an interaction or a character has an interaction w something important that explains a bit of their character i write a breakdown on that moment in that point in time.

for the longest ive tried to do everything chronologically and only write something down once it comes up in the timeline but im accepting that it is NOT the best way for me to work 😭😭😭😭but its been soooooo nice to let myself run free. i'll write out a character's whole backstory in my random tidbit document and then sprinkle it in bit by bit in the chronological timeline document

and it really helps stave away the feelings of being overwhelmed/pressure to be perfectly organized as u write on the first go. ik my process is specifically for comics but even if ure writing a novel maybe this can be of some help 💖

#asks #ive been paralyzed with starting my planning bc i had SO MANY ideas and it felt like trying to shove them thru a straw #but w this i can shotgun all my ideas down then whittle them into where i want #we WILL overcome the overwhelming feelings!!!!!!!

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arsenicflame · 8 months

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i really liked my tags on this post so i wanted to touch them up and post them as a stand alone! i ended up adding quite a bit to this ''':)

What artistic skill does Izzy possess?

I think he has a lot of 'practical' artsy skills. he’s decent at sewing (mending your own clothes isn't just useful, it's almost a requirement at sea with limited possessions and resources) he's probably decent at braiding hair from having to splice rope- simply anything with roots in being useful I think he has done enough to be decent at by this point in his life.

Singing comes into this as well, holding a rhythm is important for certain sailing tasks, and while I think he can sing in ways that don't translate to shanties, I don't think he has utilised this in a long long time (so excited that we are apparently getting an Izzy singing scene in s2!!!! I need him to know he can have fun)

Another thing is I think he was a really good tattoo artist! I don't actually see him as having the creativity to come up with interesting and unique designs but I do think he is excellent at the act itself, and at copying requested designs. you need a swallow? an anchor? a ship? any common sailors tattoo? he can absolutely do it and it will probably be the best tattoo you have. it was always a mark of honour if you could convince him to do yours on the Queen Anne- he was very busy and didn't often do them, and definitely wouldn't do them if he didn't respect you. He's done a lot of Ed's 'quality' tattoos (though I think Ed also does a lot on himself), he's done tattoos for Fang, and Ivan, and he will do them for the rest of the kraken crew in the future. (he will even do one for Lucius one day, one of his own pieces of art as long as its not an Ed face or a dick. They understand each other now)

anything else? I don't know, I see him very much as, he won't let himself do things if they aren't practical. his canon whittling is as close as he gets and that's more of a 'thing to do with your hands while watching the deck' kind of thing. have knife will whittle

I think ultimately, Izzy doesn't let himself do things for himself. if you love something, if you have a soft spot, it can be targeted, taken away.

I do think he maybe dances though. He always plays it off as something Ed forces him to do when they're drunk/on shore but... he loves it- the motion; the reliance on another partner and the intimate understanding of exactly what they're gonna do next? I think he would love that actually.

I think dancing might be the one thing he always does for fun. He never lets himself have it, but if Ed demands a partner? Yes, of course, anything for his Captain.

(Ed always demands a partner. he likes dancing well enough but he likes seeing Izzy do it more- he knows Izzy will never do it on his own, he understands why, but Ed is Blackbeard. Nobody fucks with Blackbeard- and if he wants to dance? if he wants his first mate to dance? they're fucking dancing.)

but that's not the truth of the situation, really.

It always takes him a second to let his guard down, but he relaxes into it. He lets himself loose in a way Ed only sees when he's deep into the rhythm of a swordfight. And perhaps it's the same, to him- finding the flow of the battle, of the music. Feeling his partner, understanding them and being understood in return? It's all the same- but dancing is safe. Dancing is fun. In a swordfight there are stakes- and he loves the stakes, he loves that this thing that means everything to him matters, but sometimes, just sometimes, it really is nice to move like that in a way that doesn't matter.

And when they really get going- all twirls and jumps and frankly being a little ridiculous, Izzy laughs. A deep belly laugh, a kind of joy you didn't think was possible from him. But here he is, letting go at last. He laughs and he smiles and he feels such joy, the rest of the world melts away, and it is just him and his partner, dancing.

(later- much, much later, a man will play a battle song over their raids, a jaunty little tune that throws off everyone they fight against, and Izzy gets to dance, and fight, and feel free, unburdened by the weight that he's carried with him his whole life. They'll dance after too, and he will have finally found a place where he completely belongs)

(if you liked this, can I recommend Talking Bodies by ItsClydeBitches, i feel like that fic fits the themes of dancing incredibly well)

#I didnt want to clog up ops post but Izzy dancing is everything to me actually #I hadnt reread that fic in months but I did just now to make sure it was the one I was thinking of #and yeah I can definitely see its influence in this post #once again the autistic Izzy headcanons thread themselves through this post I cant help it its canon to me #I specifically think that the whittling could be a stim thing for him. hes had too many comments made about his hand movements #when he was younger and has learnt that 'doing something' is seen as far more acceptable. its repetitive and soothing and safe #also heres a fun little gift for my bellhands friends. I think Sam taught him how to dance. like proper dances.#and it was at the same time as he was learning to swordfight which is partly why theyre so similar for him #Ed and Jack came across them dancing in port; not long after they started talking to Izzy properly (hed known Sam a while by this point)#and like. Jack thinks its kinda funny but Ed? oh hes jealous. for the first time he Wants #Izzy and Sam are so close; and they have been for a while but this is Different. its one thing knowing that its Izzy&Sam and Ed&Jack #and its another thing to see them like this. its intimate and personal and for the first time Ed regrets not seeing izzy first #(this is heavily influenced by my personal pirate school headcanons jfgjfhnv)#makes a post to deal with out of hand tags; tags on that post get out of hand #nyxtalks #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #israel hands #edizzy #blackhands #frenchie ofmd #references to him; anyway. i felt it fit to keep him vaguely defined but it is obviously him. my favourite lil guy #this should probably have been broken up into a couple of posts but NO take this behemoth #if youre curious the post is like 844 words long and with the tags its 1220 ish. i am so sorry #references to vague time periods pre canon and post canon idk put them whenever you want. when edizzy was happy. when they will be again #I cut the bit about weaving because it was just a silly little thing and didnt slot into this but know Izzy with a loom is everything to me #im also sorry the tone is all over the place this is half 'i thinks' and half like. semi narrative things? idk idk i have no sense of order #this is as good as it gets for me

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