I’ll turn up all the lights, so now would you take my hand tonight? — BIG DRAGON THE SERIES (2022)

idk what takeda's deal is in mk1 (and i haven't peeped spoilers on that stuff) but i like to think that this takeda is from the previous timeline but older just so kenshi sees him and is like "what the hell i have a SON??" while johnny is like "i'm dating a DILF??" and kenshi wants to die

The thing I still do not understand about this whole movie debacle is why they did not choose to do the filming during free practice..like ok, if you absolutely must suck musty geriatric abuser dick and doing something sensible like constructing the race scenes via CGI is out of the question, there are still ways to do it that don't involve putting a civilian in a race car in actual race conditions in a formation lap (and potentially with protesters on track too??). How did anyone greenlight this at all

if i ever get a book published i don't want it to go viral on several social media platforms or shoved into some specific tropes and marketed that way. i want some unknowing person to pick it up from a bookstore, take it home and read it, and be so disturbingly fascinated by it that they can't stand either keeping it or throwing it away, so they just donate it to a second-hand shop where another unknowing person picks it up and continues the circle. if they are ever ask about it, i want them to take a second to gather themselves, just to eventually smile and say it's just a few short stories they're reading.

—oc evolution tag

Ahhhh thank you for the tag @yuauaua! You're the sweetest! <3

So... Let's talk about MiMi's evolution. MiMi has been one of my main sims for the past almost 2 years (will be 2 full years in May). In that time, my sim style has evolved about 10 billion times but I also learned so much more about rendering as well in those 2 years. I started off as a cycles girly before fully switching to Eevee and I must say, my Eevee renders look way better lol.

I tag @buggin-0ut, @madfeary and whoever else wants to show off the evolution of their beautiful ocs. <3

Stephen Arden Appreciation Post for @sourswitchbladesblog

coming up next on tou-kai watch: ratatouille

That Specific Take TM is part of what led me to stop watching critical role entirely. Wouldn’t go so far as calling myself a “stan” of Nott, but I adored her. And I adored her progression into being comfortable with being Veth. But it feels like people see what they want to see far more than they see the character that’s been portrayed… TLDR I sympathize entirely, it’s kind of miserable to know so many people dislike characters you find very compelling for how they are portrayed simply because they are misinterpreting that portrayal at a rather fundamental level!

I actually do not think a take like that stems from dislike! Misinterpretation, yes, but misinterpretation is not always connected to disliking a character. Like, as many insane and wrong takes I've seen about Orym that have popped up during c3, the OPs of those posts often do not necessarily dislike Orym (at least, so they say). They just have a particular perspective that is not, uh, correct if you actually engage with the textual evidence. I think re: this take in particular, it really does come from a sense of disappointment that the dynamic between Nott and Caleb didn't maintain course, that the Veth reveal did irrevocably alter the dynamic.

Which--okay, there's a lot going on with that, and I think people who were overly attached to the "dynamic" over the individual characters involved tend toward Caleb-specific fans (hence how he's the listless sad boi of the post, the queer neurodivergent guy, while Veth is cast as a flat perfectly happy straight neurotypical woman (that was painful even just to write, but that is what the post is positing), and ignorant of all of Caleb's sad boi feelings--which of those descriptions is going to be more relatable/sympathetic to your average tumblr user, you know?), and if you were to track fandom engagement with Nott as a character, I feel like you would find a significant drop-off of investment in her after the Veth reveal. Because she yelled at Caleb, she altered the dynamic, her story separated from his story, she moved away from him narratively, and when the focus was placed more fully on herself and her character details, I suspect a lot of people drifted away from her. Because Nott was Caleb's funny sidekick and qpr and loving mother all rolled into one, and it's just not the same if she is a married woman, a mother, with goals of her own that may--and do--cause her to shift away from her very tight relationship with Caleb. In the eyes of a lot of people, she was there to serve at the altar of the dynamic, and her role was to support Caleb. Breaking the dynamic is a cardinal sin--it's similar to the way some people react so weirdly to the Nein all splitting ways after the finale. There's that deep attachment to The Dynamic, the Found Family, that rifts and conflicts and alterations to the dynamic are distressing to people and they'll come up with similarly incorrect metas full of projections and act like they're canon as a reaction to that.

So, instead of "dislike", I think perhaps the better word to sub in there is "disinterest." If people cleave so strongly to the original representation of the dynamic, when alterations to it are made they are disinterested in letting themselves be invested in, think deeply about, and care for the new dynamics created, because they're too tethered to a thing that was already lost--OR never really existed the way they're imaging to begin with.

So I teased a character in my last post and here she is! Meet Maeve!

thanks to @alexmey-does-an-arts for the squinky guide :D

honestly, besides being really cute and being great for doodles, this is a really great style for planning/studying characters and getting them down to their details

1000000000000000000000000000000/10

thanks, would recommend

also tagging @twinhearted and @koscheiisms because they did this too (would tag others but i don't know your tumblrs), go follow them, they're both cool beloved (discord, kinda) mutuals

so was anyone going to tell me that the mandolorian takes place over the course of THREE YEARS or did I have to figure that out myself by looking up star wars timeline articles!!?

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i REALLY need to wear my glasses because i may or may not have just flicked one of the pieds onto the floor of my room never to be seen again 💀

i love deltarune n all but also it being my biggest hyperfixation rn s u c k s . i'd feel silly replaying chapter 1 and 2 so soon after i did the last time (i played deltarune three times last year) esp since we're probably gonna get chapter 3 and 4 this year but i'm. slightly starved for content-

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