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FUCK IT. PEARL
#fave one so far not gonna lie#better pics to come i’m BUSY#splatoon 3#cosplay#side order#off the hook#also pearl would have a dirty mirror i’m being method#squidposting#freshbeeth
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♪ Feeling goooooooood in my skin ♪
Los Angeles, Night XV. (29.01)
#harry styles#stylesnews#stylesedits#hledit#hlcreators#hljournal#1dsource#gif*#flashing tw#if you see a little skip in frames idk what happened there#i thought it was photoshop#but i did two methods and it turned out the same#probably from the video#anyway... look at him slaying that body roll like nobody's business
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"I've grown these for you."
My first entry for the @rexobibingo - because what is a Gardener/Gardening about if not making leafy things grow out of love? (You can, of course, grow your leafy things out of spite too, I guess, that's always a very fair motivation if you ask me)
Keeping to good old habits from my previous bingo experience, please allow me to wholeheartedly and very passionately recommend @dharmaavocado's fic that has been on my mind throughout the whole time while I was working on this drawing We Who Love Our Hands in Dirt which was likely the first fic that has sold me on this ship, and Hanahaki as allergies will never stop being fascinating to me as a concept *w*
#rexobi#obirex#rexobi bingo#rex x obi wan#my art#captain rex#obi wan kenobi#star wars fanart#tcw fanart#artists on tumblr#digital art#fanart#I haven't drawn flowers like this in a bit I was starting to feel bad about it#please make sure to check out dharma's fic if you haven't yet once AO3 is back in business again#Thank you everyone in the discord server for helping me with the colour picking!#if only my rl allergies could be cured by the simple method of a bit of introspection and *shudders* admittance of feelings#fuck allergy season it is only entertaining when it's happening in space#look at me showing up with personal art that isn't the Hades AU XD
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tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.
but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.
#qsmp neg#qsmp crit#discourse#<- for blacklists#im not grumping or anything im just musing on like. the mechanics of why everyone is so upset about the latest fight#and how it can be avoided while still keeping these fights genuinely difficult and intense#its hard because there's so many players and they all have wildly different strengths and weaknesses#so someone who could take on the code easy needs that enemy scaled differently than someone who isn't a big fighter#but it's hard to do that in a world where they interact w the same enemy#and you only have so much man-power to cater to a big server like this one#and then you bring in the big powerful items that the players can and can't access but which the admins have ultimate power over#and the fact that some of the admins themselves have lag issues or aren't super great at pvp so they accommodate that with better gear#and it starts getting messy#but for the fights themselves yeah regardless of what armour or gear or killing-methods they use there should Always be a win condition#and idk maybe there was one and we just didn't get to see it#but if that win condition is 'parents sit in the safe room with their babies while the others are overrun'#then i think there are ways to build better win conditions#anyway i love game design and player/dm interactions qsmp hire me now i want to know your behind the scenes#jk im too busy to apply#but man. i wanna nerd out so bad that sometimes i think about it
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Imo Jason is “irredeemable” by default because I don’t see what he needs redemption from.
#I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but joining this fandom made me fucking hate the word ‘redemption’#no person I’ve seen who is in love with the concept knows the who what where when why or how it should work in a story#apparently it isn’t just themes and tropes anymore people don’t understand the proper use of the word ‘villain’#kelseethe#also hilarious: Jason should recieve sensitivity training HR style from Bruce ‘I’m the government and children are my cronies’ wayne#if Jasons headstrong/‘answers to no one’ attitude towards vigilantism is what makes people think he's villainous#I hate to be a broken record but the baddie you’re describing is Bruce#nobody thinks he’s a villain for only trusting in his own methods/self and repeatedly isolating himself#and on top of that gaslighting and hurting people around him in attempts to do what HE **thinks** is the right thing#you people always thought *him* heroic not problematic for all these traits#the only difference is Jason isn’t psychologically abusive & controlling#yet he’s still the bad guy just cause he liberally kills folks in the crime business.#l'd argue goth ham war is the b*tman story to remind you of everything that makes Bruce authentically himself#Idk how to tell you that Bruce mentally compromising/crippling his son in a twisted attempt to ‘save him from himself’#is perfectly in line with slitting the same son’s throat because he couldn’t stand to see him avenge his own killer#and yk what a redemption arc could be interesting for someone like Bruce#because he rarely questions or doubts his choices esp wrt Jason. no matter how morally dubious they may be#I think it would be quite fun to witness his extremely restricted worldview be challenged/shattered he deserves that humbling experience
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"Could I have your hand, sir?" Max didn't move, which Dexter was, sadly, getting used to.
"Sir?" Max jerked, then turned and stared at him, lost and blank. "Your hand, please."
Max's hand lifted shakily, and he laid it gently in Dexter's upturned palm. Dexter gave a quick and quiet "thank you," then turned it over in his own hand, observing him closely.
Too closely - his knuckles were rough and his fingernails were dull and cracked in places. His once-soft, not-a-day-in-his-life-subjected-to-hard-labour hands were now, already, toughened and split and scarred in places, especially the heel of his palm. He turned it over again, this time to stop looking so intensely. He had only wanted to give it a cursory glance to begin with.
"Do you know what I see, sir?" he asked as conversationally as he could manage, running his fingers along Max's abused flesh. He seemed to be at least half paying attention, his eye gazing down between them, and he'd occasionally twitch, encouragingly Dexter thought. He seemed to want to curl around him, then stopped and shook, his hand squeezing into a fist. Dexter coaxed him back out, encouraged him to hold himself lightly.
"What do you see?" He was almost startled by Max actually continuing their conversation, that happened so rarely now, shaking and quiet as it was. He took a deep breath, was he really going to do this?
"I see a hand, with five fingers." Max remained quiet, though his brow curled, and a guarded look came into his eye, though he still wasn't looking at Dexter. He felt a pang of guilt, but he had to try. "What do you see?"
Max's eye unfocused and began to water. He looked up, but not enough to reach Dexter's gaze in return, instead staring through his chest, and he felt just as hollow and empty as he must look to him.
"Do you take me for a fool, DAX?" Quiet and as close to angry as he'd heard since they'd been here.
No, not angry.
Betrayed.
He swallowed down the stinging lump at the back of his throat. He had to put on a brave face, had to keep his composure if he wanted Max to get better. That was the only thing he wanted, more than anything.
"Of course not, sir. Genuinely, what do you see?"
Max pulled his hand away and turned his body, his bandaged side facing Dexter. Shutting him out, pointedly. Dexter's empty hand curled into a fist, he was no better.
"Please, don't..." Max took a shallow, shuddering breath, and several beats before he spoke again, even quieter. "Don't ridicule me." Dexter could hear his breath catch, and he wanted nothing more than for this all to just stop.
"Sir, I didn't-"
"I've had enough of that." He shook his head stiffly, the action strange and wrong, like he had forgotten how. He stilled, his head turned even further away. "More than enough."
#Doodles#SCII#Helix#ZEX#Dexter Favin#And a drabble-fic under the cut#I ended up writing that the night after I read - I was a bit too inspired while busy so it's a little on the unfocused side haha#I would've cleaned it but I worry it wouldn't make it out of that stage! Please enjoy it for now <3#This set is mostly periphery ideas - inspired by events rather than directly shown ♪ I suppose the first two kinda count tho#But they're more directly of the little scene I wrote ouò Poor ZEX </3#And Dex! He's usually so capable! But he's stretching himself so thin ahh it's hard to watch in the best way#Of course he doesn't want to give ''Max'' over to just anyone - anyone at all really - both of their trusts have bottomed out#But how much could he reasonably care for him in that state? When he's still being actively haunted and most importantly - Not Max#He needs helps he needs support he needs to sleep and shower but a second with his eyes off Max and - then what? He'll immolate from fear#It's hard to imagine him crying but pushed to this extreme? To the thought of losing Max utterly and completely? Hhhhh#I do also just love him being possessive even outside of how terrible the situation is - he's always had his glimpses but this situation#Brings out the worst in him <3 In terrible ways#Really his method is just setting ''Max'' up nearby and prompting him over the sound of the shower like that's not nerve-wracking at all#Like he already doesn't answer half the time if that#As for the mini fic I was really interested in Dex's line about indulging ''Max's'' delusions#Apart from the fact that they're not delusions - not that anyone believes him outside of the Institute - what it means to indulge is weird#I saw one example of how to handle delusions that stuck with me - how not to deny them outright while also not reinforcing them#Since it's not actually helpful to be told ''That isn't Really happening to you'' when to you - to ZEX - it really is! How invalidating#And so rather to take the approach of ''I don't see/feel/hear what you are - I can't find any evidence of it myself'' and extrapolating#Dex taking the approach of ''What reality are you experiencing right now?'' and trying to build from there!#Unfortunately ZEX has already been treated like....well like all that - he's not in the mood for games even well-intentioned ones#He /knows/ he's in a human body. He can feel that and see that and understands that. It doesn't change who - what he /is/#The idea of a completely broken ZEX is so sad to me :( He's so strong and prideful and vivacious - Max really is another him </3#It's not the same but he was saved from death! To fall into torture... But even despite that I want to see him succeed! As much as he can#Even in that small and shaking way I want to see him be hateful and spiteful - angry. Powerful <3 Fighting ♥
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Saw a Sansa fan say this about Arya when ranting about how unfair it is how everyone is treating Septa Mordane. "Ned gave her the impossible task of making a lady out of Arya, but he indulges his daughter when she rolls on mud or behaves in a socially unacceptable way. So Arya obviously doesn’t listen to Septa Mordane (or Catelyn, for that matter) when she tries to correct her behavior. Why would she? Septa Mordane’s power comes from Ned, and with his behavior he’s taking away her authority to establish rules and to enforce discipline". They just want to completely ignore the fact that Septa Mordane bullied Arya to the point of tears, attempting to embarrass her in front of Myrcella.
The "Septa Mordane was trying her best" takes are always hilarious because they always ignore the context of the situation. They act like she was some poor, frazzled old woman who was at her wit's end when it came to dealing with Arya.
First, nowhere is it that Arya routinely disregards Septa Mordane. I know people have this idea that Arya was just running around Winterfell doing whatever she wanted, but it's clear she was subject to very structured learning practices. The two major examples of her disobeying Septa Mordane are both under uncommon circumstances. If Arya was truly so disobedient and never faced consequences for her actions, then she wouldn't have been in her sewing lesson and attempting her work in the first place. Instead, she is working on her lesson without issue until the moment when Mordane remarks negatively on her work and embarrasses her to the point of tears. Arya's remark that she's going to "shoe a horse" is in response to Mordae telling her she has the hands of a Blacksmith, so it's obvious that her insulting Arya's work and making an example of her was a fairly common occurrence. She also uses her as a measure of bad behavior; she tells Sansa that she is "as willful as Arya" when she's behaving "improperly" and Sansa internalizes this + later thinks she felt as "wicked as Arya".
The second time is when Arya leaves a meal without permission. The lack of empathy for Arya is just so blatant because moment's before we have Arya's internal monologue of mourning her friend's death and thinking she doesn't feel safe among her father's men like she used to. All of this gets ignored and this moment is reduced to Arya being difficult. This person used Ned's quote about Septa Mordane turning Arya into a Lady but apparently, they neglected to read the entire conversation.
"I wasn't playing," Arya insisted. "I hate Septa Mordane."
"That's enough." Her father's voice was curt and hard. "The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman. Your mother and I have charged her with the impossible task of making you a lady."
This moment that they quoted is Ned doing exactly what he, supposedly, never does and supporting Septa Mordane + disciplining Arya. This entire conversation between the two is Ned telling Arya that she has to grow out of her wild behavior and listen to her teacher. And the only reason that they're having that conversation in the first place is because she went and told Ned of Arya's behavior. So I'm really lost on this logic. There is not a single moment in the story where Septa Mordane is undermined by either Ned or Cat. She has their support in both instances of Arya disobeying her. She isn't even ever faulted for Arya's lack of progress. She is allowed to be incompetent at her job with full authority. So I guess??? Ned and Cat were just never supposed to be nice to Arya or allow her to have fun??? I'm not sure what their idea of Ned "properly" supporting Septa Mordane looks like since we already have that in the story.
Septa Mordane as a teacher, and an adult, has authority over Arya. Whether or not her every word is being directly enforced by either Ned or Cat, that power dynamic still exists. And again, both times that Arya disobeys Septa Mordane she faces consequences. I'm not sure how Arya playing on the way to KL is an example since literally nobody but Sansa remarks on such as an issue, but it's obvious this person is just in the camp of "Arya's behavior is unacceptable". That's why they want her to be constantly corrected by everybody and think it's a failure on Ned's part that he *checks notes* allows his daughter to have fun while they're on a very long and tedious journey. I'm sure this person was also upset when Ned comforted Arya after her emotional outburst. As for Septa Mordane's abilities as a teacher, I think the fact that we never actually witness her teaching anything says it all.
#ask#anon#arya stark#septa mordane#ned stark#asoiaf#Septa Mordane was an incompetent teacher who let her own bias cloud her from doing her job properly#she was fr beefing with a fucking 9 year old and throwing her authority around to try and brow-beat Arya into place#/what did you expect her to do/ uhhmmmm her job?? maybe actually try and teach instead of just berating a child?#you don't have to be a certified teacher to know that's a horrible method that's not going to produce results#people are too busy justifying characters actions without looking at /why/ they're written that way though
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After an incident in Tartosa where Angela and Bianca were robbed at gun point, Pietro decides to send one of his men to be a undercover bodyguard.
#oc: angela#she can tell he's not just some guy™️ she knows her dad's ways#and while she doesn't hate her father's method of 'business' being the daughter of a mob boss gets suffocating and she wants to live
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I opened a shop ^_^!!! Currently doing pre-orders with two babymetal designs and one gloomy bear design, which will be shipped by the end of the month. also selling misprinted keychains there’s only six of each design.
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Why did they create such a useless character to show Cinder's backstory when Salem is literally right there AND the real question the audience wants answered???
Imagine if it had been Salem who stayed at the hotel and saw something of herself in the scrappy servant girl. She saw how the Madame treated little Cinder and offered a way out only if Cinder has the power to be useful to her. Maybe she put Cinder to a test of how far she was willing to go for freedom, or maybe Salem wanted something from the Madame that she wouldn't give so it was up to Cinder to provide
Either way, Salem gets a young disciple that's ruthlessly ambitious and easy to manipulate and Cinder gains the illusion of freedom under a new master
#rwde#ofc salem wouldnt be grimmified in this version bc she'd stand out too much to do under the table shit#or she still could be but the world actually looks like an anime like it did in the beacon days#v4 on is far too grounded in reality design-wise#where the hell are the folks w wild ass hair colors and styles?? the most we get is joannas green but she says like 10 words so who cares#tis some bullshit and why i refuse to call v4+ rwby an anime#anyway this was somehow prompted by me comparing vergil to cinderella#as you can see i am Completely Normal tm#ngl tho vergil is a better cinderella if instead of riches-rags-riches its power-powerless-power#cinder starts at the bottom so her baseline mentality is way off if you want to do a cinderella remake#rags to riches is abt underdogs clawing up the social ladder against all odds#but riches rags riches is abt reclaiming what was yours#if we use cinders random disdain towards schnees in v8 as inspiration we could have a story of rival businesses#cinders father gets booted from power/high society thanks to Jacques's maybe legal maybe not methods and meddling#could go several ways from there:#her father could die and she'd be left homeless and alone in the cruel underbelly of the wealthy and powerful#she could find work w the Madame and try to endure the abuse so she and her father can pay the bills#her father could straight up sell her to the madame#itd be a horrific way to learn the significance of power and how easily it can be taken#i wanna like cinder so bad but v5 on fucked her irreparably. she doesnt even dress well anymore ffs
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Bo sinclair has tried to wax his chest before right like theres no way in hell this man with all his vanity has not attempted to wax himself. Anyways I want to imagine him with one strip of chest where it’s obvious he attempted waxing himself. Imagine ur playing housewife for ur murder boo and u slide ur hand down his chest bein all domestic and shit and then theres one patch of skin that’s like sticky and devoid of hair and ur just not allowed to laugh about it or even ask about it because he’ll throw a man tantrum
#hes bored ok#bfkshfksnfmenf. i dont think he’s like hairy hairy at all but hes got some fuzz#this is also equally funny if hes made a blank rectangle going right down his stomach#he strikes me as the kinda guy who does shit on impulse and then just moves on without any thoughts like he doesnt even register this is#a funny thing to do#babygirl does NOT understand the scientific method#house of wax#house of wax 2005#Bo sinclair#Bo sinclair x reader#also imagine Vincent pushing open the bathroom door cause Bo did NOT close it and Bo’s got a towel on his head and hes midway through his#beauty routine and hes got (1) cloth strip on his chest and vincent just stands there waiting to see if Bo will pull the shit off#he does and his eye twitches in pain and then hes like GIT OUTTA THE BATHROOM FREAK!!! IM BUSY!!!!
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it should be illegal to advertise products that encourage starving yourself i think
#getting ads for apps that give you fasting instructions... uuuuuhhh......#i think it should be illegal to advertise ANY diet thing for the purpose of getting skinny/''looking better''#gee i wonder why people (mainly girls) grow up to hate their bodies for looking average or develop eating disorders 🤔🤔🤔#like. all that stuff abt everyone looking super thin and glamorous on magazines and billboards is true#but imo these days the casual insistence that everyone should strive to be skinny and do whatever it takes to get there is worse#be it influencers or targeted ads for apps like this. it's not only gross but it is dangerous#you are encouraging self harm. you are promoting eating disorders. you deserve to get your business taken down if not worse#(also ofc. i think people should have the right to diet if they want to. that includes using whatever product or method they choose)#(my whole point is that it should come from the individual. rather than pushed onto them by corporate entities)#(and i think inducing insecurities in ppl then preying on that for proft is the grossest thing you can do)#(same is true about any beauty product. but it's especially sinister when it can literally get someone killed.)#anyway that was my rant for you today. sorry#eating disorders //#ed mention //#tw eating disorders#um lmk if i need to tag this in any other way
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'Malcolm, I'm In Hospital, I'm Not Wearing Any Pants': Homosocial Intimidation and Bodily Proximity as Penetration in Armando Iannucci's The Thick Of It (2005-2012)
#what i'm saying is that every time malcolm comes to demand something of ollie it's a penetrative interaction. an intrusion#he penetrates ollie who penetrates emma so the party can penetrate the opposition and malcolm can maintain his– all penetrating– power#against the sink in a bathroom in a corner of a busy party in hospital when ollie is flat on his back. malcolm's method of#intimidation with everyone involves closeness and innuendo but he ramps it up for ollie#and ollie rolls over and shows his throat every time. 'you're bullying me malcolm' 'who do you even answer to now'#'i'm not wearing any pants'. always conceding his own biddability#the thick of it
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Bro I hate people who repost art they find with 'I don't know the source please let me know if you know!!!!' and meanwhile it takes literally 5 seconds to go to images dot google dot com, click and drag the image into the search bar, and immediately find the artist's name if not their socials as well. It's honestly more annoying to me than reposting without even attempting to acknowledge a source
#Like you don't even have to use tineye a lot of the time#I get not knowing you CAN do this but if you're in the business of reposting art#(while attempting to maintain at least a veneer of caring about sourcing) you SHOULD know#like at some point you should think to yourself 'Hmm I wonder if there are any techniques to find an image's source on the internet'#and look that up and thus discover the concept of 'reverse image searching' and then#look up methods to do so
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Yes hello I am here to ask for these unpopular headcanons 😈
i thought long and hard (20min) for a headcanon we haven't already talked about in DMs. so this one isn't a salty unpopular headcanon, but it's one i find very funny:
any connections to high society the Theerapanyakul family has comes from outside sources. the Theerapanyakul family was just some low or mid-level crime family that got lucky and acquired a lot of their excessive wealth and property holdings from Namphueng's first family. no one (rich) gave a shit about them before, and after that still only regarded them with curiosity at best and mild disdain mostly. Korn happened to catch the eye of a daughter from a wealthy and influential family, the rich bitch circles still think she was a fool and think him bumbling but lucky. it's an open secret that the daughter of a similarly influential family married Gun for money because her family was on a decline.
Korn tries to pretend he's high society, particularly through his tastes (having fine whiskey, eating fine food, smoking fine cigars, etc), but he can't actually tell the difference. he surrounds himself with wealth designed by other people's opinions trying to fit in. Gun's 'earned rich' gaudiness gets a lot more sneers, but it's much more honest. however, all these society circles Korn and Gun want to be a part of consider the sons to be 'proper' rich folk. any invitations to society events like bread galas and diamond auctions are extended to the sons due to their mothers, with an extended invitation to Korn and Gun tacked on at best, and Korn and Gun hate it
send an ask, get a headcanon
#the sons dont give a shit#korn and gun are BURNING WITH ENVY#this is technically just an extension of my headcanon that korn has the delicacy of a rampaging bull#because it works as a leadership method for the street mafia he was raised in#but now not only have the times moved on but hes also trying to operate in a SIGNIFICANTLY different circle#kinn actually knows how to navigate those waters thanks to mama and his business degree#but also i just find the idea of korn and gun being considered as kinn and vegas's add-ons#in all the circles they care about to be really fucking funny#get fucked losers#kinnporsche#ask game: headcanon gacha
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✨Cool Old Ladies I love, 13/??✨
Sophie Hatter (vaguely based on Lili Hayes, Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones)
“It was odd. As a girl, Sophie would have shriveled with embarrassment at the way she was behaving. As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.”
#Sophie Hatter#Howl's Moving Castle#Diana Wynne Jones#DWJ#Artists on tumblr#Busy old fool unruly Sophie#She was remorseless but she lacked method#Illustration#Cool Old Women
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