~40m speedpaint warmup

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i get the gentle healer trope completely like i understand the appeal fo a character who drains themself for the sake of others of a character who is self sacrificing to the nth degree who dedicates their life to saving people, often at their own expense.

but also clerics are fucking crazy man especially clerics of death and the grave and stuff. i love clerics who cause more damage than they heal who can't touch without harming clerics whose blood runs necrotic and whose gods gifts are acid and poison and violence - not even evil clerics. people who are sworn to the dark and distasteful aspects of service, who perform their tasks with filthy hands, bloodstained faith.

people who are so devoted to their god they take on the things no one else is willing to do, who sacrifice their own innocence and their own peace in the name of faith.

Daguerreotype of a promising young gentleman very talented at brooding, c. 1850s

Lake light

A whole bunch of my upcoming posts are gonna be throwbacks to old projects (seeing as how I love to use the draft function, and then. Forget Those Posts Are There) but I've also filmed a few videos of my current set of dishtowels from a bunch of different angles to show off the different moving parts that make up the weaving process.

I'm using my favorite tie-up/treadling pattern for dishtowels, an easy to remember 6 treadle, quick repeat that is super squishy, very absorbent and looks AMAZING. If anyone wants the handweaving.net pattern number for it lemme know and I'll post it in the comments.

The idea that Mettaton knows about the amalgamates and that's why he and Alphys aren't friends anymore drives me insane and it's an interpretation no one can change my mind about

This made me scream with laughter ...

"He could clearly see Kilindi, illuminated by shafts of sunlight as she undulated past a school of fish." (Windham, 91).

Recurrent imagery of a school of fish and a lone swimmer.

This is thematically setting up Kilindi as Maul's next red fish. We all know how that will end.

mostly political BLINKIE MIX!!!!

im so fucking mentally ill about this if you even care

This is kind of going off my own observations, and to be clear I'm not claiming misogyny in media narratives doesn't exist and women don't become one-dimensional characters because of it. But, I'm wondering if in fandom (general term) people tend to have an implicit bias that views fictional women as less dimensional or more poorly written than they actually are. Because I have seem people claim some pretty ridiculous things about characters being poorly written because they are women but from my perspective they weren't any more poorly written than their male counterparts. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this or maybe I just tend to give them their best fighting chance in the media I like.

National Aviary - Grassland Songbird Habitat

Been reading the Zaregoto series

I’ve been on a nisioisin binge in general lol. I’ve finished up through Cannibal Magical and am currently reading the Zerozaki Human Exam manga (I’m annoyed the LN for that isn’t full translated, but I read the 8 chapters that are in English before hopping over to the manga). This series is awesome. I wanna watch the Decapitation Cycle anime with my BF. I wish that show had a closer style to Take’s LN art instead of being monogatari-fied.

Ii and Izumu are my favs atm btw. They’re awesome.

Pretty happy with how this turned out

Decided to get some use out of the heat and finish these things today

Some of it came out a bit more subtle than intended, but still nifty

So for no reason at all I'm thinking about this:

Sora was not chosen by a Keyblade Master to be a Keyblade wielder, but he becomes a Keyblade wielder before anyone else in the Destiny Trio (yes, I know, Riku's Keyblade--the Kingdom Key--had shown up on the Destiny Islands for Riku, but when Riku chose darkness over light, it opted to go with Sora instead: and there it would ultimately stay and Riku would get a different Keyblade later).

Riku was chosen by a Master to be a Keyblade wielder, and he's the third of the Destiny Trio to get his Keyblade, though still treated so much better than Kairi is, and truly gets to use his Keyblade before her (in having big adventures where he gets to use it, and whatnot): as I'm sure no one is really counting the three Heartless that Kairi killed with hers in KHII.

Kairi was accidentally chosen to be a wielder by a Keyblade Master (Aqua triggered the Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony with her by accident, that is), and this actually happens before the scene where Terra chooses Riku. But it's an accidental thing, which definitely stings a bit. And Kairi is the second of the Destiny Trio to get her Keyblade... though in a lot of ways, you wouldn't guess that.

Edit: I'm wrong. Riku gets his Keyblade second, and Kairi gets hers third, as Riku has his Keyblade when he protects Kairi and Naminé from Saïx. I, and another user on her at what point, just got confused because of Riku (if you talk to him as Sora when you beat Luxord) mentioning how he doesn't think Sora needs the power of darkness or his Soul Eater yet, which almost sounds like he still has Soul Eater at the time, when he doesn't. What a weird line just overall. -shrugs-