amaryllis :   what is something or someone that your muse takes pride in ?how do they express that pride ?

mint :   does your muse view themself as virtuous   &   moral ?what do these words mean to them ?

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amaryllis :   what is something or someone that your muse takes pride in ?how do they express that pride ?

i think that it would have to be her homeland, tahra. she’s proud of how fiercely her city has fought against the empire, and how strongly it persists even in the face of hopelessness. and of course, she’s proud of linoan for stoking the people’s hope. she’s a very patriotic lady! we can see that through her constant action and devotion. a lot of what she’s doing is for tahra’s liberation and rebuilding. in fact, it’s her mission to tahra is what brings her to us in the first place. so yeah! she’s got that Tahra Pride

mint :   does your muse view themself as virtuous   &   moral ?what do these words mean to them ?

she would never admit to it, honestly, but a part of her does believe that she’s doing the right thing. ‘right’, in this case, being the course of action that will bring peace to thracia, and help those who have been ceaselessly oppressed. 

safy’s ending has her devoting the rest of her life to aiding the sick and poor. so i think that’s what virtue and morality mean to her; to be virtuous and moral is to uplift those who have been disenfranchised. and i think that’s the essence of what she and the rest of the liberation army are doing in-game.

Hello OFMD crew! I love you and I'm happy you're here. 💕

Something just came up to me!!

Remember when Taissa and the girls were discussing The Allie Plan, and Taissa waits until Shauna says, Jackie is not gonna like it. And the scene when Jackie wakes up late and everybody just hush between each other instead of saying anything directly to her because Shauna is right there. When Taissa pitched her Go To The River Idea and Jackie disproved, they go to a tie, UNTIL Shauna raised her hand. When Jackie invites everyone to the seance, they seam undecided until Shauna aproves the idea.

ANYWAY!! I'm so obsessed with the Ruler/Knight dynamic. When a Ruler owns the crown but the Knight is the one to really wear it. Jackie represents structure, she owns the crown and bear it's duties. But Shauna wears a sword.

And isn't it just insane how our Queen Bee died when her Knight exchanged her loyalty? Suddenly, a crown, a structure, is futile. You don't own Order anymore. Because a kingdom without it's blade is just an idea.

It's so tragic, yet so understandable. Jackie with her cheer and positivity. Jackie with her kindness and smooth edges. Jackie who is trying so hard, so hard, to grasp into something civil, like love and morality. Jackie who was not meant to be there.

And finally, Shauna. Shauna with her reason and logic. Shauna with her desire and sharp edges. Shauna who never truly believed in being good. Shauna whos shadow creeps from the background into the Jackies life, taking what she believes it belongs to her. Everything. Her influence? It's not really hers. Her boyfriend? It's not really hers. Her friends? They're not really hers anymore. Shauna who was meant for bleed an animal out, shed their skin, cut into pieces.

It's so cruel how they wouldn't survived without each other. How love, by itself, it's just an idea.

if this ask is a plane i'm laura fucking lee.

this is very mushy but even when I don't read or watch or seek it out, "this is a poem/novel/film/whatever I think you'd like" is one of the most touching messages I can receive, and I am always grateful for it.

Your art is one of the reasons i started teaching myself to draw again at the age of 26, so i would say i feel very positive - it's just shaped and colored so well!

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mnnnnmh i wish we could…

thanks andrew it means a lot 🫂🫂❤️

this is so random but i would love to hear your opinion on mydramalist as a fellow asian drama lover. because it’s obviously well known as a reliable wiki of sorts in dramaland but i beg to differ. (the only plus i feel being the summary and cast list for info)

i mean, i’ve not seen a single comsec w more than two brain cells as a whole? there’s always complaints about female leads rooted from misogyny, they are never happy about story progression, and i just find so many of them kinda dumb sorry lol. like zero media literacy to be found, insufferable arguments, etc. the star ratings are rly just given to popular dramas w high profile actors too.

and i personally find it disheartening that so many ppl end up referring to mdl when considering dramas because so many gems are then lost and not given appreciation.

anon. anon anon anon if you know the way i sat straight the f*ck up when i saw the notification and then read through this ask bc yes. yes to everything here that is exactly it. almost three fourths of what i've watched this year was either 1. not received well by the general MDL crowd (Moon in the Day. where is the taste brethren to not like MITD and not even for reasons that actually make sense), 2. received well but had a good chunk of people bitching in the comment section, or 3. received well but had the main point of the show (and its relevant characterization) go over their heads. (The Worst of Evil aka TWOE comment section, i am f*cking looking at you. i can count on one hand the number of people who understood what that show was supposed to be about) the one fourth that managed to escape was bc the toxicity did not reach the comment section and everyone was pretty f*cking civil. alas if only it could be like that all of the time

case in point for the ratings example, since we've already briefly tackled the lack of media literacy—j-dramas on MDL are notoriously rated much, much lower than either k- or c-dramas. half of the time that's bc there are less users watching (and rating) them therefore the average is lower but the other half it's bc people simply do not understand good media when they see it. don't get me wrong there's some freaky ass sh*t in the j-drama world that i would not touch with a Grinch level pole but to see MDLers out here talking about how slow j-dramas are and that nothing's happening. have you considered that you are either watching the wrong genre or you shouldn't be watching j-dramas in the first place bc their entire setup and general narrative framing arcs are not your style. have you even thought about that for six seconds or are you too busy expecting it to read like a typical tropey rom-com k-drama with your trending oppas. (no hate on my tropey rom-coms with [most of] said oppas, i need them when i don't want to think i just want to see sh*t on my screen and scream about hot people and the Hand Umbrellas in the Rain and the Back Hold when the male lead catches the female lead before she falls and you have the fifteen second focus on their faces just looking at each other)

and the misogyny. oh God do not get me started on the dichotomy that was the Cult, as we affectionatly called ourselves, on the feeds while THEE sageuk of the year My Dearest was airing (beloved show [that i still need to finish. JangChae i'm sorry ily life hates me like the mf it is 😭], beloved commentary on the feeds. they saw the vision on the feeds) vs the sh*tshow that was the landmine field of the comment section (the takes i saw on Gil Chae, Eun Ae AND Ryang Eum respectively.......... the misogyny wasn't enough we had to add the homophobia into the mix. buy one get one free deal fr fr). you mad man. that sh*t was insane there was a point i banned myself from scrolling farther than the cast section until the show finished airing. i kid you not on average they didn't have even half a braincell. maybe a quarter of a quarter of one. f*cked up just say you are not decent people and go

this is not to say that all of MDL is like this. i have gotten tuned into absolute masterpieces of content (and have tuned others, amen) bc of a comment comparing a show i'm watching to another one or a review being posted in the feeds about a film with less than 500 people interested. i have reconsidered my choice to not watch something after having spirited discussions in private messages discussing the pros and cons of the premise and whether they managed to get it done without f*cking sh*t up. i still contribute semi-regularly by adding relatively unknown actors and crew members to the database so they can get the credit due them. if you know where to look, you can get some good sh*t out of that place. problem is most users who are new to both the site and East/Southeast Asian cinema as a whole don't know where to look, and the cycle continues, and the ratings continue to be skewed/bloated and no one pays attention to the plot, if there even is any to pay attention to.

tl;dr: begging people to not let MDL be the be all end all for their drama recs a la 'well MDL doesn't like it so i won't watch it'. babe we have said MDLers complaining about how the ratings on Viki are too high but in my entire time watching dramas i've found that in the past two to three years the Viki ratings are making more sense than the MDL ones. sit with that for a sec. when you're done branch out and see the world (literally and cinematically), i promise you will be a better person for it

snapdragon :   is your muse merciful ?  why or why not ?

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before i get into this: let’s define the term ‘mercy’ very quickly:

mercy: compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.

under this definition, i would say that yes; safy is merciful! i think we can see this most in a conversation between her and leif, after you recruit lifis

Lifis: We both know what'll happen! You handin' me over to them is as good as killin' me yourself! Safy, c'mon, we had a deal—I said I'd go to Tahra with you! Safy: ...Lord Leif, Lifis is not an evil man. He's committed many foul acts as a pirate, yes, but he seemed genuinely repentant when we spoke earlier. Give him a chance to redeem himself in the eyes of the gods. Leif: ...All right. If Safy believes in you, I can give you a chance for the time being.

she is in the position to punish— or rather, let the villagers of iz punish— lifis, but she chooses not to. because she believes in forgiveness. because she believes that he genuinely wants to make it up to them. of course, thracia spoils this by having lifis do his Bastard thing and Bastardly Hatch a Plot once safy and leif leave, but hey! lifis does become a better man, for what it’s worth.

in any case, safy believes in second chances. she believes that people can change, and offers them forgiveness if they show signs of doing so. 

Hello followers ✨

First off I want to say I appreciate every one of you so so much. I'm still kinda surprised any of you are actually here and interacting lmao

I just wanted to give a heads up that my posts are going to slow down a bit! I got the guts to start this blog in my last couple weeks of recovering from a surgery. Since I've been off work I've been able to spend all day drawing and answering asks (which has been amaziiinnggg)

I go back to work tomorrow, so I'll probably end up posting a couple times a week instead of pretty much every day like I have been

Anyway, I'll still be here! I just won't have quite as much time for art

Godtube was an mistake.

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A LITTLE CELEBRATION 🎉

Hello everyone, I would like to tell you all that I have hit a hundred followers here on Tumblr, and I can’t express how grateful I am to each one of you for your love for my content. Making so many friends here was unexpected. I wanna thank all my mutuals for giving their love and support, and I am really glad that I joined Tumblr, I love the friendships I have made here. Thank you so much, everyone 🫶🏼

Now as a little treat form my side, I am inviting requests for moodboards or aesthetics of all sorts, they can be the following…

Character

Character x Character

Character x Reader

Celebrity

Aesthetics based on colour

Light academia

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Aesthetic based of any song

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You guys can request based on following fandoms…

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I love you all so much <333

P.S. The requests are open until July 30, 2023.

i won’t be anonymous for this idk if you will see this but, your post about how demanding and rude people are i am 10000% with you on that. You took a break for a reason and no one and I mean absolutely no one should demand anything from you. I am happy you took a step back and decided to put yourself first. I truly believe we can’t make everyone happy and thats okay as long as we are happy with ourselves. Take as much time as you need this past summer you released such amazing works of art and you deserve to be able to take however long you need to relax. I wish you an amazing holiday season (if you celebrate) 💖💖 and and an amazing end of the year! Those who support you will be here waiting until you come back (me included). Until then take care of yourself. 🫶🏼🫶🏼😊

thank you!!! honestly that post was more about tumblr as a whole than just me,, it gets rlly tiring watching the way these writers who put their all into their works get treated, and i guess my breaking point was seeing someone have the audacity to try and demand me to go back to writing 😭😭 like…. what results do you think you’ll possibly achieve with that.

but i really appreciate you saying this, stuff like this rlly goes a long way ! if you’re a reader on this app, pleaaaase don’t be shy to interact with authors on here!!! it can be something as simple as going on anon and being like “i love your work!” because it can be really discouraging to not get any feedback on any of your works.

but thank u again, ur amazing for this mwuah mwuah 🫶🫶

just wanna say i love ur isaac art !!! the way you characterize the characters and put them in different scenarios is super fun and adds some depth to them that we dont rlly see in the game , and your style makes me feel like im watching a cartoon about them :]

*choking up* Literally made me tear up. Thank you so much for your kind words.

I am having massive amounts of fun (despite the raging). The game's a roguelike, so that means infinite possibilities and infinite amount of material to work off of. The game and its themes are not everyone's cup of tea, but I do like to share the fun through making comics of the characters. Even though, canonically, the characters are all just a freaking child in a wig, I'm taking the creative reigns and driving this into the wall, BABY.

Just trying to make the game/jokes comprehensible to folks who don't play the game by adding my own flare and characters they can get accustomed to and like you said "adding some depth."

Thank you so so much. Mwah~

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