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brown-little-robin · 2 years

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speaking of fictional characters who have committed atrocities—

#truly the most tim drake thing about me #is that I'm capable of atrocities and know it #but I'm strict with myself about Not Going There #so I come off on a scale from Striving For Righteousness to downright Kindly depending on how much I'm trying #and how well I'm succeeding.#like I'm decidedly not on the side of the atrocities. but I do *somewhat* live in a world of moral grays #so I can be friends with the Jason Todds of the world.#rereading Young Justice number 36 and 37 and discussing it with Rebekah made something CLICK in my head about Tim #and it was: he wants to be a paladin but he lives in a world of grays. He's jealous of people who live in black-and-white #such as Kon #but he is incapable of doing that #and part of the reason is... compassion.#He can empathize too much with darkness to completely condemn sinners.

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birdmenmanga · 4 months

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I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts...#disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!!#people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :((('#well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic...#'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve'#okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing?#a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine...#you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick.#how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

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mylittleredgirl · 2 months

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if i ever create a sockpuppet account i wouldn't even use it to shower myself with fake praise or Start Shit, i would use it to send myself prompts and then i'd write it and be like "look at me, benevolent author of the people, nobly writing the most self-indulgent thing i can think of. but don't worry! it's not personally revealing or anything, because it's definitely that other guy's fault, whose convenient 'birthday' i definitely didn't select specifically for this occasion." like those anonymous kink memes where people just happened to request the particular filthy shit you happened to be thinking about. prompt laundering.

#YES we should all kill the fear of cringe holding us back NO i haven't succeeded #if you never answered your own prompts on kinkmeme well i'm sorry for how cool you are #remember that time when i went on a podcast while psychiatrically sedated and gushed about my teenage self-insert #and told everyone to resurrect theirs because we are taking back cringe!!!!! and then i DIDN'T.#on fanfic

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unknowablea · 1 month

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da hye really went from "i will leave you" to "i will leave for you" just to make her third 180 and finally decide to stay instead of running

#i'm rather indifferent to her but their little plot compels me #his utter loyalty to the boy?#amazing stuff #it's so rare to see good and present fathers in dramas #especially when the child is still a baby #yes drama fathers may love their children but how many were aware of the vaccination calendar?#breath of fresh air tbh #and da hye falling for the dummy when she had succeeded in her plan already?#coming back when she could've just as well disappeared one more time #as i said it compels me #queen of tears

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let-them-sing-of-others · 6 months

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eyeing cassgender very heavily. hmmm. i like that label

#claire talks sometimes #cassgender #i'd best describe my gender as being a woman but in the least feminine way possible #sure i'm a girl but i don't identify with femininity #which is why the idea of being perceived as a man or generally androgynous is a cool feeling #because it means i've succeeded in being as unfeminine as possible #and also the idea of being a he/him woman sounds very cool #but also. like. i don't care if someone sees me as a different gender or perceives me a different way #it's not accurate to me #but it doesn't feel wrong or unpleasant #like yeah i have a gender it just doesn't really matter to me #if that makes sense #which seems to align with cassgender experiences pretty well #we'll see how this goes #gender

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fisshontoast · 1 year

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ID: a digital drawing of marcellus pye. He is a young man with brown skin and dark brown hair, and is wearing a red tunic with gold embroidery and a black, high collared cloak. He has 3 gold rings on his left hand, one on his middle finger and two on his index finger. His hair is held in a ponytail by a gold band. In one hand he is holding a cup of bright green liquid, and with the other he is adding glowing blue drops to it with a pipette. He is holding the cup over the end of a table, and the background is a bookshelf with diamond patterned glass doors. /end ID

Marcellus <3 what's he doing?? Idk <33 but it looks cool

#my art #art #septimus heap #artists on tumblr #marcellus pye #digital art #this took Forever ngl #also the bookshelf actually exists with detail it just turned out it looked better blurred #some of it isn't as good as I wanted but I had a lot of fun so!!!!!#trying to make the characters I draw look less white if they're. Not white #idk how well I'm succeeding but it's better than before definitely #unfortunately I'm not very good at eyes?? Like the eyes I draw aren't shaped quite so much like human eyes #especially when I'm using a simpler style #so it ends up looking kind of weird whenever I try and give them variation. Idk I'll figure it out sometime ideally #m&ms au #<-is it explicitly m&ms au?? No not at all. But I know that it is and that's what counts

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casiavium · 3 months

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I didn't really have a song in mind for Link to be playing in my ghiralink Orpheus and Eurydice fic—mostly just unnamed song in an unfamiliar language because that was easy lol—but I'm listening to Zelda music and I think it would be fun if it was Laruto's Lament :) it's a simple harp melody, and the lyrics are in Latin, which would call back to the Greco-Roman origin of the myth:

Ad idem, Ad infinitum

In memoriam, cor unum

vi et armis, vale

As is the same eternally

in memory, one heart

with strength and arms (weapons), farewell

The Latin isn't... great. Also I did the translation while listening to the song so I may be

If you look it up online the most popular translation is

Ad Idem (Of the same mind) *idk where they got mind from, and ad mean to/towards not of

Ad Infinitum (Without Limit)

In Memoriam (In memory)

Cor Unum (One heart)

Vi et Armis (By force and arms) *vi et armis is ablative, so it could be with or by, usually determined by context that doesn't exist here. This translation went for a darker interpretation

Vale (Farewell)

We share one mind

Time cannot bind us

Remember

The heart we share

Now the enemy arms destroy me

Farewell

Which isn't exactly what it's saying but works well enough!

#it fits the sequel I haven't written where Link and Ghirahim become permanent inhabitants of the temple #the sequel if from botw Zelda's pov visiting the spring of power and sws Link shows up as a spirit to guide her #because he was also 'late' in becoming the hero and seen as weaker than his previous counterpart(s)#but he succeeded #and he's kind of like. do you really want hylia to answer you? this action will have consequences #Ghirahim's there but sulking in his sword form for some reason. Link mentions him and warns Zelda that botw Link should avoid him #and it would get into what I set up from the previous fic about how Ghirahim can only be drawn by someone who is worthy and would except #the dark power without changing it #mostly it would be a link&zelda thing #I'm just thinking about sws Link who in an Orpheus/Eurydice situation took Ghirahim's curse on himself as well #and is now stuck with him forever but in like an underworld spirit-y kind of way #the spring of power being revered by Hylians as the place where Hylia trapped Demise's sword #because power is usually associated with ganondorf and therefore the hylians see it as bad #and sws Link there to tell all who come after him asking the gods for help to hurry up fate or change it or something #that it doesn't work #also I like the song #ghiralink

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thequantumspace · 2 years

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This little side story is about how Levi helps Hange deal with obsessions and guilt in his own way.

#levihan #hange zoe #levi ackerman #shingekinokyojin #aot #my art #This is very different from what I usually do.#I didn't think I'd take it on.#I'm not a good writer #and English is not my native language.#But I really wanted to draw this comic for a very long time.#It was difficult to combine words and pictures so they work together.#I don't know if I succeeded or not #I don't even know if it makes sense to anyone but me #but I enjoyed working on it every second (well almost).#Just glad I finished.#I also can’t put into words how I see their relationship so I use pictures.

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meymeyzart · 1 year

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Abandoned to the depths

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kitty-unlimited · 6 months

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Alas, poor Jonathan!

#jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo's bizarre adventure phantom blood #phantom blood #jjba #jojo #dio brando #dio #jonathan joestar #jonadio #my art #i was trying to do something with this but I'm not sure how well it succeeded

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cartoonsbyandie · 2 years

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I almost got scammed! How to avoid my mistakes.

I’ve been pretty quiet on my social medias for a bit for a lot of reasons, and one of them being that I very nearly fell for a scam that would’ve cost me $2000. Several calls to my bank later, it’s finally all been sorted out, which means I can finally talk about the whole thing. Even though I didn’t end up losing much of anything (certainly nowhere near $2000), I don’t want any other commissions artist to go through this for the crime of giving someone the benefit of the doubt that doesn’t deserve it.

I do commissions online. I got a message on Instagram from someone wanting me to do a picture for their daughter’s birthday this month, offering to pay me way above my commission rates ($200) for what I assumed was a rush job. They provided pictures and lots of details about what their daughter liked and what would be good to include in the picture, and I even drew up a sketch for them. The way my commissions work, I take the full payment once the sketch had been approved, and so far, everything was looking normal.

That is, until, they revealed they were going to pay by check. And really I’m just going to give you the biggest TL;DR piece of advice: Just don’t take checks. It’s not worth it. The reason is that they’re prone to scams because when you deposit a check, the funds will show up in your account. That doesn’t mean the check has cleared, and won’t bounce. This is incredibly annoying to research because so many google results will tell you that a check ‘clears’ within 1 to 2 days, but that’s because the law requires the funds to be made available that quickly. If they find out the check is forged or bad-- WHICH CAN TAKE A MONTH OR LONGER-- you not only get hit with a returned item fee, but the money vanishes from your account.

So say, if the person you’re assuming is trustworthy has told you they “accidentally” wrote a check for $2000 instead of $200, and gave some excuse why they couldn’t simply write a new check, and came up with the brilliant suggestion of just having you deposit it and then Zelle them the remaining $1800-- If you do all that, suddenly you’re out $2000.

I came dangerously close to falling for it. When the person wanted to email me a scan of the check (so I could use mobile deposit, which I did because I figured it’s a rush job and they didn’t want to wait to mail the physical check, look I’m not smart okay--) AND THEN suddenly demanded I use Zelle to instantly give them the money, that’s when I got suspicious. I literally googled “Scams that use Zelle” and found my exact situation. But I figured it’d be fine if I waited until the check fully cleared and kept my bank in the loop, which is why I risked depositing it. I figured I was at no risk until I actually sent them the money, and I still wanted to believe this was a legitimate customer, and I really liked the idea of making $200. Which definitely blinded me to better things I could’ve done. Like, you know, not depositing the check and demanding a different method of payment.

It’s been about a forty days since I deposited the check. Three calls to my bank’s fraud department + one physical visit (two of which told me they might find me culpable for depositing the check and burn my account, which was scary) is what it took to get this mess sorted out. ONE OF THOSE CALLS TOLD ME THE CHECK HAD 100% CLEARED AND HAD A 0% CHANCE OF BOUNCING. I almost Zelled this person the money that night.

Seriously. If you get a bad feeling, trust that. That’s the only thing that saved me here. So did getting lots of advice from family and friends about how this stuff works.

TL;DR Here’s a quick and dirty list of red flags I learned just from this single experience:

Insisting on paying with a check is a red flag by itself if I’m honest, but especially if they just mail you an image of it and expect you to mobile deposit it. Seriously just don’t do this I don’t know what I was thinking

Especially especially if they insist on paying with a check and then want you to give them money with some instant form of payment, like Zelle.

If all their accounts have different names. (This one was Jessie something, their email was Shawn, they wanted me to Zelle to another account with a different name.)

If their account is a generic name + number thing. (Like jessie.10 or something.) I know a few legitimate people with accounts like that but it’s just one of many boxes to tick.

If they seem way too trusting to give a stranger on the internet a crazy amount of money with the expectation that you’ll pay them back. I’d never met this person and they were saying they trusted me with the $2000, I just had to give them my word that I’d give it back.

If they’re offering you well above your commissions prices. They want to blind you with the idea of a big payday when they’re paying with imaginary money.

If they put a ton of pressure on you to respond quickly. This person kept spamming me with Instagram audio calls early in the morning or while I was at work.

If they say stuff like this, which honestly was the biggest gift they could’ve given me because it just removed all doubt:

#not art #I don't even know how to tag this #There's a lot I'm leaving out like. A lot #Like I'm aware I'm an idiot but there's gotta be a million idiots like me out there and I don't want anyone else to learn the hard way #Or the REALLY hard way of the scam actually succeeding #I don't want to think about what would've happened if I gave them the money #The account's name right now is andrea_34vo though #And I'm sure these accounts are a dime a dozen #But I might as well share since apparently they're targeting people like me

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gierosajie · 1 year

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Raine and Nameless Bard could both be pretty intense at times and it's kinda terrifying but also wow

#*points at them* IT'S ALWAYS THE BARDS MAN #idk how to articulate it well at the moment because I'm just really too tired to think #BUT #I feel like they'd throw away anything if it means achieving their goal #even themselves #like please don't there are people that really care about you pLEASE-#still screaming shaking crying at Eda's Requiem and the finale #(and any episode involving them maybe Idk)#and then Nameless Bard is over there going from 'I really wanna see the birds and the sky' to TRYING TO KILL GOD??? and then succeeding??

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fiepige · 4 months

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why work on your fic when you can just make shitty art of one of the scenes in paint instead?

look I told you it was shitty okay? lol at least it's out of my system now so I can go back to actually writing this stuff- hopefully it'll turn out better when written down than when drawn...

#I was seriously debating wether I should post this or not- but now I spent time making it so here it is and now we can all move on #in my defense I had to use my mouse to draw cause I don't own a tablet #and drawing with a mouse ain't easy when you're not used to it!#I wonder if people can even tell what it's supposed to look like #I mean if people can't I guess I kinda succeeded?#cause how do you draw an eldritch horror that's supposed to be incomprehensible to the human mind?#and yes that is indeed supposed to be hobie on the ground #well technically- spoilers! not gonna elaborate on that for now #if anyone's even interested in this fic lol #well I'm gonna write it anyways <3 #my post #sadly lol #my art #??? if you can even call it that #also if you can figure out what's actually happening in this scene I need you to leave my home immediately-#cause there is no way you could know that without havig read the stuff I've written down so far- but I'd love to hear theories anyways!

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sapphicautistic · 4 months

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Demolition has actually, finally, started 😭

please send good thoughts that they don't find any problems we don't already know about so we can have a functional kitchen again in a week or 2!!

#so funny how much of what we esp I say is a replacement for older christian habits #even if we (i) don't really believe thoughts change anything it's still comforting somehow!!#anyways the work team leader has zero patience for questions or requests so I'm glad we got to talk to his supervisor as well the other day #n ask questions #he seemed visibly trying hard and barely succeeding at not calling me an idiot and telling me to go away #my sweetie is now trapped on the other side of the house bc we asked if we'd be able to walk through and he said yes -probably to shut us u #but we can't atm lol #anyways #updates on my boring life

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trans-cuchulainn · 1 year

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i wish i could convince my brain that my workplace / being at work / doing my job is in fact safe

i know that there are some objective dangers involved (like covid and the fact that i'm the only person in the goddamn building wearing a mask) but emotionally i wish it felt safer so that i didn't feel like i was putting traumabrain through a blender every goddamn day so that it feels the need to spend every evening figuring out what "safe" is all over again (and not always succeeding at finding it at home)

like. i am okay at my job. my boss is fine. it is not an objectively challenging experience and i am theoretically staying vaguely on top of things. And Yet

#health stuff stopped me doing a bunch of routine tasks at work today #which set off all the Health Grief traumabrain signals as well #that didn't help #bleh #personal #brainweasel hotel #sorry i am like. not actively having a breakdown like i was in december but #i am very unhappy and not okay with being very unhappy and not succeeding at fixing it #things got better briefly but the coping mechanisms set off my fatigue so now they're worse again #i declared my disabilities when they hired me but i did not declare that i am Fucking Traumatised #on account of having only recently really realised exactly how traumatised #a whole lot more than i thought! it turns out!#also actually hearing a counsellor use the phrase 'complex trauma' was like. validating i guess #but also i feel like i'm conning someone somewhere bc most of it wasn't objectively that bad #my health stuff is objectively traumatising i guess but #nothing else really is but bc i am already fucked up i guess it doesn't take much #🫠

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unrestrainedbalderdash · 9 months

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Read a comic where Riddler looks like a dancer on Strictly. But not in a good way. Not sure how I felt about the comic

#think it's legends of the dark knight? it's 5 issues from 2005. arc name was called riddle me that i really don't know how i feel about it.#he got a makeover. loads of surgery. i guess to stop looking riddlery. but that's the thing. it succeeded.#and he wore all black for a good while.#like the comic did have some well-written moments but i just could not really recover from what he looks like #i'm just rambling here. need to cleanse my brain because it really threw me.#i just don't like it whenever the writers make him insult the spandex idk man #riddler brainrot

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