running around in circles. nimona and ballister. do you get it. she wakes up from a nightmare and immediately calms down when he comforts her because she trusts him. he quite literally jumps off a balcony because he knows she’ll catch him. she tells him what shapeshifting feels like. lets him bandage her leg. he’s absolutely overjoyed when he sees her again at the end. he goes from rejecting her to accepting her to begging her to come back to rejoicing when she does. not only does she come back to life but she comes back to HIM. to her HOME. SHE FINDS HIM AGAIN IN ANOTHER LIFETIME. SHE GOES BACK TO HIM ON PURPOSE. DO YOU GET IT.

Why yes, I have seen every animatic on tiktok to this song, why do you ask 🥺

[repost without the mature warning cuz i checked tags and no one else does it LOL]

i love my monthly tumblr login and seeing so many graham posts... my boy is alive :,D

what they don't tell you about making comics is that layouts are literally the hardest part of the process

has anybody please seen my lump of dark brown needlefelting. its dirt

a new day brings a new adventure, but for now…

rest easy, heroes.

im absolutely frothing at the mouth over kakashis chronicles (a boys life on the battlefield) like they start off with him being a pissy little stickler about obito being late, contrasting starkly to the first time we even meet adult kakashi way back when he was late to pick up team 7!! LIterally right off the bat they are establishing that kakashi has changed deeply and irrevocably, and hinting that theyre gonna explain why soon

and then we get the bit about following rules and after rin gets kidnapped obito looks back at him and says, a ninja who abandons even one of his comrades is worse than scum to me. and thats what kakashi says to team 7 on their first mission when they get thrown in wayyy over their heads facing zabuza??

and THEN obito goes and says that he thinks the white fang is the real hero? hello?? HELLO?? his FATHER who fuckin offed himself because he got villified by the village for saving his teammates over prioritizing the mission and dragging out the whole war?? I KNOW it was said in a manipulative ass way but come ON this is a formative moment for kakashi realizing that maybe he understands his dads choices and he doesnt believe he would truly make a different decision, even if it leads him down the same path??

jesus fuckin christ the parallels have been building since the BEGINNING god kishimoto is one of the best fuckin angst writers out there i cant take this im wailing screaming crying throwing up rn

Tbh it gets tiring seeing any adult content of fat characters and all the comments are about the ✨somft✨ tummy and thighs

yeah i can’t stop thinking about the parallels between hearth and alex’s backstories… they were both born into a life that, under slightly different circumstances, would have offered them a lot of privilege. their families had a ton of money and a good social status, and hearth and alex were, in many ways, set up for success.

but there was a catalyst for each of them, something that ended up setting them up for failure instead - the way hearth’s father reacted to him being deaf and alex’s father reacted to her being trans. both of them, despite being born into a life that would have offered them plenty, ended up ostracized and shunned from their families. constantly ridiculed and criticized and blamed for something they couldn’t control and didn’t ask for, but in a better world should have been able to celebrate. hearth should have been able to celebrate his deafness and alex should have been able to celebrate her transness, but they were both robbed of that. they were robbed of their childhoods, growing up in toxic environments and spending their formative years being abused, all for some of the only people in their lives who understood them or cared about them to die.

and yet, each of them were able to cut ties and make their own way in the world. they both managed to build a better life from the ground up, bringing together a solid group of friends to spend the rest of their life (or afterlife) with. they were both taught to hate themselves, spent every day of their childhoods being mistreated by their fathers and told they were worthless, and yet in the end they both manage to undo all that and learn how to love themselves. they learn how to celebrate the very same parts of themselves that their fathers tried to stamp out, choosing instead to surround themselves by people who care about them.

additionally, they both embody the paradox of wanting to distance themselves from their parentage and yet simultaneously reclaim it. alex wants nothing to do with any of her parents, yet deliberately reclaims loki’s urnes snake symbol. hearth has no desire to be associated with his father or former life, but reclaims the rune of inheritance.

but in reclaiming their past, neither of them return to it. alex doesn't try to go back to her house after being kicked out. hearth accepts the othala rune in the end, but after his father is killed, never returns to alfheim again. they take what's theirs, leave, and never look back. so, both of their journeys ultimately involve leaving their former lives behind - giving up privilege, wealth, social status, and the acceptance of others in order to be themselves. becoming the people they want to be, rather than the people society and their fathers wanted them to be.

because there arent any flamboyán pictures bigger than 10 pixels apparently

Stoppp setting fics in a game's canon present day but aging down characters that are old for the sake of them being more attractive, I am going to start biting

^^ me listening to coyote stories and thinking so fucking hard about the life series

I'm like a feral animal that's trying to domesticate itself so others will like it

song i listen to when i’m feeling especially normal about yoite and miharu

anyone else feel like this when they're understimulated

Who wants to make a peller box?

Guess what! I finally gathered my pages of scribbled notes, my camera of haphazard in-progress pictures, and finally compiled a set of instructions for making one of these bad boys!

And not only that, but I've got two versions of this baby. I like mixing and matching my unit families because sometimes 1/32 inch sparks joy and sometimes 14 mm is just so convenient, but especially since all of my chipboard comes in english thicknesses, here's a version of the process for my fellow imperial units weirdos:

And here's one for the sensible folks of the world, raised on a base-ten system rather than dividing everything in half and then in half and then in half-- I won't subject you to inches, when there's a workaround, but I was tempted! Have your localized version of the story and have fun with it:

Mad credit of course goes to Hugo Peller, who developed these things in the first place, but also to Jack Fetterer, who preserved a set of notes from a 1990 class, which, as far as I can tell, are the most complete set of instructions available online. But I'm an engineer, I couldn't be satisfied there, I had bludgeon it into a system of equations, sorted by usage and material. And I also go into some of the hiccups I ran into trying to follow those class instructions, like being a green amateur at leatherwork, or not having the equipment to saw plywood boards in my apartment. These instructions still do make some unfair assumptions about the base knowledge level of anyone who wants to give this a try, like using bookcloth rather than plain cloth, but I may try to loop back and adjust that soon.

I can't claim any kind of expertise in this type of work, but I beat my head against an interesting problem, and it's time to share what I got out of it! And, secret goal, I want to help more people make more cool things, and maybe improve on my process in ways I can absorb and chew on in the future. Save my work, change it, I dare anyone who sees this to improve it!! I want it to be better. Credit would be cool, and of course the actual experts I leveraged for this deserve all the credit in the world, but that's not my priority. I want the world to have more exciting things in it, and I want more people to have exciting skills. Go forth and go nuts!!