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clearlyaginger · 10 months

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wait people are actually paying for spotify I thought that was a joke

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cringengl · 5 months

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As much as I am obsessed with the new Percy Jackson show, I do have to say that it would have definitely benefitted if it wasn't made in this insane modern era of 'make sure series have as few episodes as possible and just make the episodes a little longer to try and make up for it'. Maybe this strategy saves on production costs, or maybe because it's straight to streaming and not cable, they don't have to worry about filling smaller, but a higher quantity of, weekly slots, or whatever cable TV does.

I just miss having slower pacing and episodes where you could just have some breathing room to understand the world building, instead of this capitalist strategy of 'get to the action ASAP otherwise our viewers will get bored and the show will get cancelled'. Because I promise you, it won't. 99% of what of what people have been freaking out over about the show is the little details, such as the blue food (specifically blue candy), Clarisse's spear and Dionysus' diet cokes.

Idk, I just would have preferred having 15-20 episodes that were 20-30 minutes long instead of 8 30-50 minute episodes, as the show can feel a little rushed and streamlined at times, such as the Mrs Dodds fight, which did not have as much build up as it did in the books.

#i've spent like 2 whole days saying how amazing this show is (because it is)#however #it isn't perfect #and although it could easily be a 9/10 for me #it'll never be as good as the books for reasons like this #that's not to say I don't like some of the changes such as the whole Dionysus dad thing (Which was very canon and hilarious)#but it's stuff like this that makes me dislike living in this tik tok ifield capitalist mess #but yeah everything else about the show is great it's like the book jumped out onto my laptop screen #ESPECIALLY THE CASTING #which I am in love with btw #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show

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buwheal · 2 months

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What we thinking of the setup /j

I spent all day making my desktop look like this & love it sm lol it was so much fun doing it and looking and learning all the stuff.

Anyways im back from my midterms break and hopefully im gonna start back up again!!! Yay!!! But first i have to finish a section of the reference sheet i was working on :-)

#thats his habitat. Enrichment.#oughhhh dont get me started on the little rabbit hole i went down when getting windows media player 9 skins #now i need to make one of those ‘character on default computer background’ wallpapers with spamton to get the whole deal #…don’t analyze my desktop.. its barebones because im still getting stuff back on from my old computer #and this sudden motivation to change the entirety of my windows to look like XP was all because my family member showed me an old tower with #XP he was working on and i got to look around and explore it and even draw spamton… and i realized #Wow. I am missing out. I hate the windows 10 look but i never fully took in how fucking lame it is.#so i took it upon myself to research everything to make it look like XP. Even the windows menu!!!!#if you guys (the one person reading the tags) want to see the spam i drew on XP i can post it :-)

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crescentmoonrider · 3 months

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j. jakedirk kissy?

dorks

sorry for the wait !! it was 3am where i am when you sent this, so i was eepy, and then i had to take a day to recuperate

hairy Jake with the shitty teenage attempted beard.... glasses getting in the way, noses getting crushed.... ah, young love~

i missed them, thank you for getting me the opportunity to draw them again !

#yumi's art #homestuck #jake english #dirk strider #dirkjake #small valentines event #yumi got asked stuff #slowpokedragon #dorks #<- yes that is literally my dirkjake tag lmao #two homestuck asks for this event !!!#im so happy !!! its really nostalgic hehe #but also with this i am !!! done !!!#i definitely was Not expecting 9 whole asks #last time i did that i got 2 sdfsfdgfh #if i do this again ill have to change things #not sure how. but ill have to plan #damn i cant believe ive reached a point #where i cant just go 'this could be fun'#and just throw up a post #and not get almost buried in my own hubris #well its not hubris if you think too low probably #altho self-deprecation /is/ still selfish in the end #where was i going with this #oh yeah the event !! lots of fun #but also maybe too much work #for what little thought i gave the initial idea #so yeah. lots to chew on later #but for now i rest !!! take care yall <3

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grimgummies · 5 months

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#Grim draws stuff #Grim's characters #spooky month #spooky month oc #fan character #ohhh Mortis lore finally #only took me 9 months since his creation and a good 50 rewrites to get to this PFF #can't believe my boy already has 100 images on toyhouse too??#I don't have a fave OC istg #anyways #lore crumbs :3 #I changed some stuff from his backstory like 90% of anything I've written/drawn about him in the past is outdated #those were warmups guys I swear #I swear I wasn't super committed to an old idea that highkey sucked pff #but hey #I improved I learned #now I think I got a solid story #more coming in the future hopefully #I won't be doin things in order it's either lore bits or I'm committing to whole comics maybe but never in chronological order #maybe even stories too (like actual written stories)#you gotta guess what goes where /hj #also I better be stickin to this story now cuz those rewrites weren't for nothin #I love that he started as a silly guy that hunted ghosts now he's a fully fleshed out character and he's an exorcist instead #I originally intended on him being just a silly character with no super deep story but here we are :3 #I think this all started when I decided to make him lose an eye #from that point on I was like 'okay but how did he lose it?'#and then the illness began /silly

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limelocked · 3 months

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transgender

spilled ink

dimension 20

the bad batch

ofmd

elden ring

david tennant

nex benedict

avatar the last airbender

since at least 10am gmt 26/2

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starburstsobsessions · 1 year

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Guess what!!! It’s rangers apprentice Jenny!!!!!

Hiiiii flanagan is full of shit btw Jenny did not get skinnier and prettier because of it. She is fat and she is so pretty and she is wonderful and has about 3 paragraphs in this whole series so far. Trust me I’m a professional btw. The line in book 8 rlly pissed me off so!!!!

#Me: WHERES THE CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS #Flanagan: bad take #Me: not that one you IDIOT *Redraws them ignoring what I’ve heard*#I though kicker was a white horse this whole damn time and book 9 sahs uhhh he’s brown #no he’s fuckinf not #anyway it’s changing his bad takes time #I love rangers apprentice but it’s def got some uhhhh . BAD takes. It’s better than a lot of series’ for its genre #/time frame of release #but ugh #ANYWAY #what’s her last name #rangers apprentice #jenny dalby #Starbursts art

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michi-chelle-draws · 9 months

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there, fixed the ending cg

#room no. 9 #daichi kobayashi #seiji azumi #fanart #screencap redraw #seiji you absolute coward #hold his hand goddammit that’s your whole bestie he’s literally crying and reaching out to you for support after a life-changing experience #like i don’t think it’d be that out of character for seiji to grab daichi’s hand in that moment of vulnerability lol #esp considering they’d already jerked each other off like 10 minutes prior even tho it was sorta kinda against their will but anyway #me holding this game: i can fix this *removes the homophobia and baiting and gives the characters and their relationship proper development*#tho my fujoh ass acknowledges that the homophobia is pretty much what’s supposed to make their dynamic and their situation spicy #like a ‘it’s hot because it’s wrong’ type of trope which i mean sure i get it i guess but i just need seiji and daichi to wed that’s all #room no 9

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ghosts-of-love · 6 months

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if you were reading a fic 👀and there was an important plot point involving a letter/email that hadn't been received/read 👀 would you prefer to read the letter as a chapter where it might fit into the timeline of the story? or would you prefer to read it as a standalone part after the whole fic is done?

#sorry i know this isn't helpful and is deliberately vague #but like. i can either give it to you as a random half chapter 9 i guess. or you can not know what the letter says through the whole fic #and choose to read it as a separate part later if you want #it's basically like. do you want to have the same information as the characters. or do you want to know more than they know #hmmm actually i guess if i'm already giving you a random chapter from Cap's point of view then??#i should choose one to give you all the letter after that too.#or change things so there's no cap's perspective and that's included as a separate part later too?

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henrysglock · 1 year

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S4 Victims: Story by Proxy?

Okay so. In spitballing with Em...something stuck in my head.

So we all know how serial killers leave crumbs because deep down they want to be caught/want the truth to be revealed? Well what if the Duffers, or even current Henry, are doing the same thing. That is, leaving breadcrumbs.

This mainly has to do with the S4 victims, their stories, and the order in which they're chosen.

So, it goes like this:

Chrissy: Abusive mother who resembles Virginia

Fred: Eaten alive by the guilt of being responsible for the accidental death of an innocent.

Max: Suicidal over guilt about Billy's death and her response to it. Billy, who died saving her/while she was saving herself from the Fleshflayer, a regenerated form of the Mindflayer.

Patrick: Abusive father, not much else told.

Max (again): Suicidal Ideation, dies, soul taken, but was revived by El. She's now in some limbo-state, where her body lives but her identity/mind is elsewhere. She will likely be brought back entirely by El in S5.

It almost feels like a story by proxy if we piece it together.

So, let's piece it together:

Person with an abusive mother...feels responsible for the death of an innocent...a sibling who was killed while this person was trying to save themselves from a monster which came from Hawkins lab, which leaves them suicidal...and this person lives in a situation with an abusive father figure. This person becomes suicidal, and their suicide attempt was not entirely successful. They were revived by El, and end up in a limbo state. They may or may not be brought back by El later.

Now, let's collect details about our serial killer:

Abusive mother? Check. (No matter how we frame it, Virginia was not a good mother.)

Innocent died? Check. (Henry has nothing bad to say about Alice, which we know he would if she were not innocent, since he does this with every other victim.)

Sibling died as a result of saving oneself? Check. (The Creel massacre was a situation where Henry was, with whatever intentions we may assign for the other family members' deaths, trying to save himself from Virginia and by extension the lab.)

Ended up with an abusive father figure? Check. (Well...an abusive Papa, one might say.)

Brought back by El multiple times? Check. (El was the one who took Soteria out and brought Henry back from being powerless. El was the one who put Henry in the UD/limbo state. El was the one who opened the gate for his return to the RSU.)

IT ALL ALIGNS. So let's put it together with all the feelings involved:

Citations (I guess? Explanations?) are in the tags listed by number!

Henry had an abusive mother who was at least trying to have him shipped off to the lab, if not actually trying to kill him outright. This situation builds and builds, him wanting to be left alone (1), putting out subconscious and conscious cries for help (2), and her targeting him about it, until March 25th, 1959.

Virginia starts it, attacks, and this time she's out for blood (3). Henry defends himself (4). Virginia, being the parent with powers (5), doesn't actually die (6). Victor, Alice, and Henry go for the door (7). Virginia's on the stairs (8). She's got to finish what she started, since her original plan was botched (9). Henry puts his energy into trancing Victor (10), protecting him from Virginia, since logically two people can't occupy one person's mind.

This leaves good, innocent Alice to fend for herself, standing directly in front of the staircase. She's a loose end (11). Virginia kills her, but can't kill Henry or Victor while the trance is occurring. She figures Henry's going to run himself into the ground (12). She figures she can call Brenner in to collect Henry, like they planned (13). If she disappears, she figures it'll go into the news something like this:

"World War II veteran kills entire family in deranged fit of insanity. Wife missing, presumed dead. Son dies in hospital."

And on both counts, she's essentially right. It does basically go into the papers that way. Victor is taken in for murder, and Henry is taken by Brenner, but not before he sees that Alice was caught in the crossfire (14).

Henry ends up with Brenner, the abusive Papa. He's got the guilt about Alice's death, something that makes him sad and angry. Brenner, maybe, decides to push this in order to increase Henry's powers, but it backfires. Henry's powers increase, but he does...something. He lashes out, he snaps, maybe he even tries to kill himself. He's Brenner's prized pet, though, so Brenner can't let that happen. He seals Henry's powers away with Soteria. It's a death for Henry's entire identity, so far as to have him under the name Peter Ballard. Then comes along 011. She removes Soteria from Peter Ballard...and revives Henry Creel. She then exiles him to the Upside Down in 1979, only to eventually bring him back in 1983 when she opens the Mothergate.

All this to say: It could be his own story, told through the stories of his victims.

Breadcrumbs, or maybe...obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Below the cut is where I speculate into motivations for his actions after Soteria's removal, so...not required reading for this particular analysis.

Years of MKUltra torture warp Henry's guilt about the situation into a bastardized, violent, brutal, unethical savior complex based in the notion that he's a predator by nature, but a predator for good. He "saves" the lab kids from a future like his own, filled with nothing but torture. He "saves" El from her ignorance about the lab and intended to have her join him, thereby attempting to "save" her, technically his little sister, from the lab entirely.

He "saves" his s4 victims from their guilt and suffering, which so closely mirror his own, which no one saved him from. I could even go so far as to say he was "saving" Will, who is set up to be so much like him, from a world of horrible people who (from Henry's viewpoint based on his lived experiences) would only serve to abuse and betray him.

This of course isn't to say any of it is right. None of it is right or good...but it makes sense. It follows a pattern. It coheres. The math...maths.

#Citations!#1: Henry often hides alone in the attic.#2: Victor's burning cradle vison (a child in need of help). The drawing of the Shadow Monster. Possibly Alice's nightmares.#2 (cont.): Can all be interpreted as calls for help. Children in distress act out and make disturbing art in hope of conveying that need.#3: Virginia may or may not have been trying to kill Henry but based on the Fleshflayer parallel re: sibling death...it's probable.#4: Henry himself describes that night as self defense/being forced to act.#5: Virginia likely had powers given that Henry has powers #6: Her powers are likely similar to Henry's and Henry has regenerative powers. There are also fishy scenes of her death which imply #6 (cont.): that she may have still been alive. These include: shots from her POV. The fact that her eyes are bloody--#6 (cont.): but still intact in some shots. The unexplained POV from the top of the stairs.#7: Henry looks very nervous and fidgety at the door like he's antsy to leave with Alice and Victor #8: Again the unexplained POV on the stairs...stairs she earlier runs down after Henry gives her her mirror moment in the bathroom.#9: Henry was successful in disabling her initially which exposed her culpability.#10: Henry puts *so* much time into Victor in canon with basically no explanation why.#11: Alice seems to be a smart and upstanding girl. She might not be controllable re: Virginia being alive/the whole scheme with Brenner.#11 (cont.): The only way to eliminate that risk is to kill her...and we've already seen that Virginia is not good to at least one child.#12: If Virginia has powers like Henry's she likely has a sense of how long someone can be tranced before the trancer runs out of energy.#13: Who called Brenner to come get Henry during his coma? How did Henry end up in Brenner's hands specifically?#14: amerion-main's recent post re: Henry's position change in the foyer shots #End Citations!#This is all very much speculation when it comes to the actual path of events re: the Creel Massacre #but we can all agree that we don't have the full story about the Creels yet...so who knows.#henry/vecna/001 #henry creel analysis #henry creel #virginia creel #creel family #stranger things #stranger things analysis

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accursedvoid · 11 months

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You literally can’t wake up a single day in the 2020’s without some historical event happening I swear.

#I’m very tired y’all I’d like a more low-key decade please #oceangate #Russia #I mean those are just this weeks this whole decade has just been like PANDEMIC PRIME MINISTERS DOWN QUEEN DOWN BOAT STUCK ELON TWITTER #REVOLUTION COUPS CLIMATE CHANGE HEATWAVE RISING COST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE #and it just goes on and on and on #and you WILL learn it via the Destiel meme 9 times out of ten #I want to rest 😭

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true-bluesargent · 4 months

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i am watching my life with the walter boys because at the end of the day i cannot resist a crappy netflix show. anyway that isn't the point the point is danny walter is the best walter boy and jackie should be left alone to GRIEVE without all these boys with inferiority complexes swarming her

#im on episode 9 #i do actually love alex and cole both separately but let's be real jackie is not right for either of them #erin and jackie anyone?#best characters in the whole show are danny erin jackie and GEORGE #marc blucas was NOT meant to be the young heartthrob riley finn sucks #he was supposed to be a friendly ranch dad #george walter never change #my life with the walter boys

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oscill4te · 2 months

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there is a serenity that comes with this hyperfixation dying down..... i used to be sad whenever this happened, but this time, im just thankful i had that intense hyperfixation when I really needed it.

now that my life is expanding a bit (as uncomfortable as it is, its been good that ive been seeing family more and talking to old friends), its like... i dont feel the need to mentally escape into this cartoon nearly as much anymore. Its a bit nice that there are other things make me smile now.

#the hyperfixation always could surge back... in august 2023 I was like wow I kinda miss CT too bad i got bored of it #then for the rest of 2023 it was all i ever thought of or talked about -.-#i still do kin with one of the characters and i dont think i can ever change that #so the cartoon is always gonna be important to me but its not my whole life anymore and thats nice i guess #embarrassing 2 be almost 25 and kinning but i cant help it. my brain has always done that... some have stuck for a while #like bluestar from warriors #i read that book when i was 9 #but it feels like bluestar is here with me. some characters from media just stick with me for a while. idk why #maybe bc over active imagination and finding comfort in those characters

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mrbluesummers-moved · 1 year

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As long as he's not dead for good, I do enjoy the changes to Knives' "death" in Episode 12 was more actively Knives' fault in Stampede than Maximum. In the manga he was 100% at fault, but I don't think it really fully conveyed how much his obsessive quest for power was destroying him.

I will, however, take an entire rating point away from Stampede as a whole if we don't get a scene of Legato sobbing over Knives in Season 2. I will take two points off if Knives is actually dead.

#selfpost #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun stampede #millions knives #legato bluesummers #vash the stampede #i'll also take a point off if we don't see legato and knives in the same room together #it's IMPORTANT #THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS SO IMPORTANT #stampede spoilers #rn it's wobbling between a 9/10 and an 8/10 for reference #i think realistically it'll settle around a 7/10 after season 2.#bc the ending of trimax is my least favorite thing about it and i doubt stamp will change it so much #that knives won't ultimately end up dead by the end of the series as a whole

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frogayyyy · 2 months

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this is so aos spock

#to me #thinking about the impact nero changing the timeline would've had on spock's life #probably a lot more alien phobia (forgot the word)#especially towards vulcans #bc of the resemblance between them and romulans #so like he wouldve been struggling anyway but then this guy comes and attacks the federation and he looks a bit like you and now they have #a whole new excuse to hate you #(a bad one obviously)#also thinking about how aos was made post 9/11...#anyway #that's a whole different post #but #yeah angry kid aos spock

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solradguy · 11 months

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Never posted this doodle of maybe a new fursona design (v.4). Dragon lol I kept some of the silhouette from the previous design and blended it with some stuff from the Somnivagrant, the eyeless & amorphous dog thing I use for my non-fanart stuff. Mostly the sun orb tbh love the sun orb... The Somnivagrant sort of possesses my fursona but it's more like it's bored and just wants to go on adventures than that it's like actively affecting my fursona in any way haha It can leave whenever it wants. But I thought it'd be cool to combine the designs a little. Maybe Somni's been hitchin a ride in my 'sona's meatsuit for so long it's started changing his form a bit. Idk. There's no real lore here

I didn't sketch it out here very much, but I was thinking of a design where he stores energy in his tail kinda like a gecko and there's glowing energy visible between some of the scale plates. Forgot his tusks oops

Somni and 7oby v.3 designs for context for the above notes:

#my stuff #sketches #oc 7oby #oc somnivagrant #I figure if I post this here then maybe I'll finally get around to cleaning up this design rofl He needs wings #The powermullet and leather jacket predate my Sol Badguy era don't @ me I have receipts #It's funny that I've changed my fursona 4 times now across 20 years (!!) but he's always had upside down triangle shaped eyes #House cat -> robot -> spotted hyena/Indian boar Terminator -> dragon? demon? thing? tbd #v.3 is the design I've used the longest out of any of them (~9 years) but these last probably 5 I haven't been very attached to him #Which is probably why his design got so insane lmfao Kept slapping stuff on there to try not to get bored of it but I got bored anyway #I don't know why it's taken me this long to make a dragon fursona though like I've literally been obsessed with dragons my whole life

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