Commission of a ref sheet for @the-ramdom-sheep of their character Cheneo <3

Who wants to see some pictures of how damn cute @esmevirgo and I look together?

She did such an amazing job with my makeup and with making me feel comfortable being dressed up in public for the first time.

Bonus: scary mask times.

My son's west wall before I painted over it a couple years ago.

AAHH!! NIKAIDOU MY BEAUTIFUL CREATURE!!❤❤😭😭

I told my best friend about last night, about you... 🌙

IT'S BUNNY TIME EVERYBODY

(feat. Dilla)

(bugle accompaniment by Yuu)

Oroboros ✦　

I miss you so much ❤️❤️❤️ hope your doing good ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Finished up some ABoT art that I started a month or so ago!

Image ID under cut:

[Image ID: Four images, all of which are fanart for Phantomrose96′s Mob Psycho 100 fanfic, A Breach of Trust:

The first one is of Reigen and Ritsu, the camera panned at them looking at a computer screen in a dark, cluttered basement surveillance room. Reigen’s sitting at the main desk; his hand is over the mouse and he about to type on the keyboard. Ritsu is just behind him, silently and timidly looking at the screen while tightly holding onto Reigen’s shoulder. The coloring of the picture is muted and a consistent, dingy green.

The second image is also some drawings of Reigen and Ritsu: one drawing has Ritsu, silently crying as he tries to sew back together a red torn-apart teddybear. He is holding the needle in one hand, and the thread threaded through it leads to the blood stains of his other cut up and bandaged hand. The other drawing is a greyscale digital painting of Reigen and Ritsu waiting. Reigen looks impatient, with his hands stuffed into his pockets, and Ritsu looks sheepish. Ritsu is holding his bandaged hand and looking at the floor. 

The third and fourth images are similar except for minor alterations. They both have Ritsu drawn in a bright red and blue color scheme. He is reaching out his hand, which is full of a plethora of small cuts, as he stares horrified at the aura coming out of it. In one version of the drawing he is fully rendered, whereas the other he is only a silhouette. End ID.] 

Part of what charms and compels me in Jeyne Poole's arc is her reaction to her predicament. All the female POVs in this book are dealing with a lot of gendered violence, and they all deal in different but dignified forms... Jeyne is not a POV character and she is absolutely not dignified lol. She cries and begs, she is utterly helpless. But unlike most women in this book who are utterly helpless, she survives. It's frustrating how fans refuse to celebrate that, simply because there is no glory in it.

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

So I have ADHD to the point it's gotten hard to read physical novels. My friend and I have been listening to the audiobook versions of Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, and there isn't one for Dragons of Winter. As a result, we're going to record a chapter each, alternating as we go, and send the audio to each other. I bought the hardcover online and:

IT'S ARRIVING ON CARETAKER DAY Y'ALL

I'm excited. 10/10 good job Simon and Schuster

2x02 / 2x07 / 3x04 / 3x09 / 4x01

quinn hughes is the fifteenth captain of the vancouver canucks! thank you to @swaggypsyduck for all the help with this edit🫶

you know how the islanders are like crazy far away from the og spawn and that rose and the enderking most likely haven't been able to relocate qphil again? wouldn't it be cool if all the areas qphil used to be in are now covered in crying obsidian like the last time he was searching for qphil, but this time there'd be more, the areas being more succumbed to his power as his anger and frustration grows over qphil yet again escaping his grasp right after he found him again

do you think he'd blame rose? do you think he'd let out his frustration on her, focusing on attacking her and wearing her down, making her weaker? or would he eventually notice she's searching for him as well and pick up the pace? would he be calm and calculated enough to realize he has been give a second chance, a second chance to get his hands on the old bird without interference