Gosh the amount of talent on this site is unbelievable. Breathtaking. Dumbfounding. Overwhelming. Every day you log on and see thousands of exquisite artists. Like, people say, "Oh I'm not that good," but that's because you're walking into a living art studio every time you open tumblr. You're good. You're great! You're all great. Look at all the drawers and painters. Look at all the writers. Look at all the writing. Look at the gif makers and the analysts and enthusiastic fans with fantastic recall for what they love. Look at the music. Voice acting. Video editing. Animation. Comedy. Look at the shitposting, a talent of joy if there ever was one. Look at the kindness to compliment each other's stuff. You think you're mediocre? Wrong! Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! Each person here is a star in the sky and together we make constellations.

One of the funniest ways to start a war would be to go to bluegrassers and tell them harmonica is the forgotten bluegrass instrument

Well, you've been inactive for 6 years, but I wanna say hi anyways! I'm a fellow Papyrus lover and new to the game.

Awwww, not writing UT meta doesn't make me inactive (Ｔ▽Ｔ) (Ｔ▽Ｔ) (Ｔ▽Ｔ) ;) but a great big howdy to you! I'm so glad you reached out! It's always fantastic to meet another fan of a series, especially someone coming in with new enthusiasm. Papyrus forever! Seriously, feel free to chat with me if you'd ever like. I don't have the knowledge base for serious meta anymore, but it's always fun to have casual convos about things like Undertale.

Checkmate? What about checkfriend? Cash or credit QPR?

friendly reminder when drawing musicians: remember to research which direction the instrument points

be careful in a quick Google search because sometimes images get mirrored horizontally

Hot take, but I think people are overreacting to the "second" Megamind movie being bad. Yes, I understand people have been begging for a proper Megamind sequel for over a decade, and thus when anticipations aren't met, they're disappointed. I get that. People wanted a sincere and efforted return to the franchise. However, this isn't some shocker bad movie. There is no shock to this. It's par for the course. This is the direct-to-video VHS equivalent of the modern age. It's the same reason I was never surprised a Mulan 2 or Beauty and the Beast sequel was bad. They're cheap footnotes that were meant to be cheap footnotes. This was always designed to be like a backdoor pilot to a crappy stream-only TV show. "Oh my goshhhh what the heckkkk why is it so baaaad?" We already know why it's bad. Call me when we get a theatrical release to a long-awaited property.

Happy actual birthday to Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, Takashi Shirogane, and every other fictional character that creators went Extra (TM) on

After a decade-long absence, I'm in a concert band again.

One of the pieces we're working on is a How to Train Your Dragon suite. And while that's a common piece to play, it smacking me in the face the moment I opened my music folder was...... something... I tell ya.

Now I have to pretend to be normal about it for months until the concert's over.

much of tumblr is

"theoretically I agree with this post but it was written in an unnecessarily confrontational way so I'm not touching it with a ten foot pole"

Respectful engagement of material includes constructive dialogue. Critical commentary doesn't necessitate a negative tone. Evaluating where something can be improved can represent a positive and happy perspective toward source material.

No grilling intended, but common mistakes in viral language-related (English-focused) posts:

"English is a stupid, weird, and nonsensical language 'worse' than other languages because.... [says something cross-linguistically common]"

"This phenomenon in English deplorably arises from ignorant colonists because... [mentions a common paradigm for loanword spread that applies to multiple forms of linguistic contact and in no way is unique to colonialism nor English]"

"How hard is it for people to say [insert loanword that, like all loanwords, in any language, broadly adheres to the phonetic and phonological constraints of the adopted tongue]"

Moral Orel has hedonistic orgies, bathtubs of splattered blood, hard drug addiction, and everything wrong under the sun, and yet one of the most disturbing visuals remains a woman eating an egg.

I need to relearn how to be cringe on main again.

Been contemplating the most insane things and I really should stop, rotflh.