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nolassolace · 3 months

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̳S̳̳o̳ ̳w̳̳h̳̳a̳̳t̳'̳s̳ ̳w̳̳r̳̳o̳̳n̳̳g̳ ̳w̳̳i̳̳t̳̳h̳ ̳a̳̳n̳̳o̳̳t̳̳h̳̳e̳̳r̳ ̳s̳̳i̳̳n̳?

Demon version below the cut😘

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hanzajesthanza · 21 days

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geralt "i will NEVER deadname my best friend" of rivia

"he will ALWAYS be dandelion to ME"

#also 'including milva in male costume' goes SOOO HARDDD #everyone say thank you regis for citing a dozen precedents to pull that off. the effect of knowing your herstory <3 #c: geralt #s: i want to be by your side #geralt is like the reverse situation of a transphobe who 'has known you for 20 years so he can't call you something else now'#it's that he has known dandelion for so long that he can't call him anything else but his STAGE / CHOSEN NAME :')#the 'viscount dandelion' is so funny to me #i can accept that he's a viscount but I DRAW THE LINE at calling him by his birth name #milva: 'you can accept that he's a viscount??'#also it's lost in english but that his stage name and birth name begin with the same letter & thus sound. jaskier... julian...#not the 'chosen name starts with the same letter as the birth name' stereotype. and swag #the witcher books #book: lady of the lake #excerpt #one thousand million years ago in posada:#dandelion: 'don't you want to know my name' | geralt: 'but i already know your name. it's dandelion'#dandelion: 'but it's not my real name. don't you want to know my real and famous name' | geralt: 'not particularly'#geralt has the same relationship to dandelion's birth name and viscount status as dandelion has to kaer morhen 💀#geralt and dandelion are like i don't care who you were back then i cannot comprehend your sad backstory all i care is about who you are no #i think this kind of friendship helped them both slightly detach from their exaggerated levels of perceived self-importance #geralt from his 'woe is me i will never be seen as a normal man' and dandelion from 'im the most interesting man in this tavern'#only SLIGHTLY detach. when they're around each other they temper expectations. but when they're apart it grows back

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adri-atics · 22 days

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What if Ba'alzamon keeps calling Rand Lews Therin because he's just really bad with names

#like think about it the man is thousands of years old there's no way he remembers the name of every Dragon ever #wheel of time #rand al'thor #wheel of time books

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ihatebrainstorm · 10 months

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Ford F-150 Raptor R

You ever decide to design a transformers character for a new commission sheet, but don't know what vehicle to choose, so you revert back to the meme? Well that's what its like to draw a Ford F-150

Bonus lines only vers:

Comm page coming uhh- sometime soon! I hope..

#His name's Spotlight btw #I was inspired by this one time I drove in front of one at night and was immediately hit with the power of a thousand suns #Those headlights are BRIGHT #Man TF characters are so fun to design #transformers #transformers fanart #maccadam #maccadams #tf oc #tf ocs #transformers oc #frootertooter archive #spotlight

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movedtodykedvonte · 11 months

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Another interesting thing about the chase scene with Miles and all the other spiders is he never puts his mask back on until he’s about to go home.

The entire time he is running away as Miles cause he was rejected by the society on the basis of being Miles, the anomaly, not the Spider-man. Not cause he didn’t wear the mask correctly but on the arbitrary basis that he wasn’t supposed to be the one wearing it. The exact opposite of what being Spider-man is supposed to represent.

All the Spidermen that are eventually on his side have their masks off the entire time denoting a sense of personalness to the chase and their relation to Miles; coming to him as friends rather than Spiderpeople doing their duty. How they see him for he is, face to face and who he can be with that mask even if they aren’t quite at that point during the chase. It’s a notable contrast to all the Spidermen with covered faces who are just following orders and acting as Spidermen, even Miguel. It’s only at the end when Miguel makes it clear that this is more personal with Miles, when they are face to face, when his mask truly starts coming off and he is acting in the interest of Miguel rather than that of a Spider-man.

I think it’s a really clever way to show how it’s not important whose under the mask but at the same time noting how whose under the mask makes the Spider-Man and how they choose to uphold that mantle. Miles made up how he was going to do that at the end. Rejecting the society as Miles and returning as his own Spider-Man.

#like whenever Miguel talks to miles with the mask off it’s super personal but when he puts it on he’s sorta subdued #there’s a way Spider-Man acts but that doesn’t not apply to the person under it yet it can bleed into Spiderman #The entire time Migue is sorta trying to force a separation of those two things and forcing Miles to be Spider-Man first and Miles second #the mask allows you to hold the name but that’s about it it’s all determined by what’s underneath it #plus it makes miles seem more genuine and personable because we are seeing Miles go through these revelations not the hero #a scared boy running to save his dad under the mantle he believe would fight for it #while thousands of his own mask untied under his same beliefs try to say he can’t #anyway i should sleep #atsv #across the spiderverse #itsv #spiderverse #miles morales #miguel o'hara #atsv spoilers #into the spiderverse #across the spiderverse spoilers

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fictionadventurer · 4 months

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Guide to PBS Kids writers:

This is an early episode of a quality animated show and is one of the most hysterical things I've ever seen on children's television = Joe Fallon

This is an early episode of a quality animated show and is very funny = Ken Scarborough

This episode has strong, vivid and realistic female characters = Kathy Waugh

This is an episode of an animated show that has undergone a notable quality drop where the characters get lessons preached at them and seem to exist only in a very narrow urban upper-middle-class worldview = Peter K. Hirsch

This is an episode of that show that has undergone a notable quality drop but the characters are believable and I'm actually laughing at several really good jokes = Ken Scarborough

#arthur #curious george #adventures in babysitting #curious george came on and the niece was living for it #and i think i was having more fun than she was #it was the donut episode #which i'd seen snippets of before but apparently not the whole thing #it was a riot!#george accidentally orders a thousand donuts and solves the problem by just eating the last zero #he wonders how he's gonna solve the problem of the hundred boxes and he just #takes one box of donuts and books it!#and gets chased down the street by a crowd of cheerful donut-bearing bakers #and then i see the next ep is credited to joe fallon so i look up who could have written the donut one #sure enough it was joe!#it's amazing how reliable this is #and this came after experiencing several surprisingly funny late episodes with ken's name attached #and as for pete #i've got rants about that man's worldview #i don't think he's stepped outside a city in his life #under his reign we get an episode about a little free library #on the renkins farm #i repeat #a little free library posted ON A DIRT ROAD!#you could not have made a DUMBER choice for such an episode #half of the show is set in a city!#it would have made sense there!#you've even established there's a largish country town nearby at this point in the show #that would at least make more sense #but this is downright boneheaded

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some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat · 2 months

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I am once again daydreaming of making my own social media platform and how to make it not give a hoot about American laws (no relation to American soil, I'm European anyway) and be structurally resistant to enshitification through independence and community ownership unfortunately I am one inexperienced programmer with not much spare change to throw at such a gamble so I'm only daydreaming

#sfw #personal #ok to reblog #I wanna minimize costs to minimize the need for it to make money in any way. No appealing to advertisers or investors.#Wikimedia and AO3 have that from what I can tell but they both rely on donations to keep the servers running #(I don't shame them obviously but it's difficult and unreliable especially if you're not as big and well known as them)#I know I'm way out of my depth trying to figure out a way to use servers differently but again only daydreaming #At least I'm not the guy saying I wanna make 'the new PDF' lmao #or the guy firing programmers based on how many lines of code they write and replacing a brand name known to most humans with 1 letter #or the guy suggesting users should be able to 'devowel' articles #or whoever's deciding to replace volunteer translators with AI and remove every single useful feature #or a thousand other bad ideas for making more money and stroking their egos. man I just want a little island of weird internet surviving #and yeah alternatives exist but I don't know how they'll avoid dying or surviving wrong either

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fionnaskyborn · 3 months

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Was tagged by @oceancamp to post my current five favorite songs! (They should invent a stages-of-grief-esque model that encompasses and accurately describes both types of anguish I had to go through making this list - the one of limiting myself to only five songs, and the one of trying to put as little videogame music on here as possible so that I don't end up looking like an absolute goddamn geek, which... I am... Oh well!)

Thank you so much for tagging me - here are the songs!

Heaven Pierce Her - War Without Reason

Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Space

This specific arrangement of Death And Republic + Meet Again

Winger - Junkyard Dog (Tears On Stone)

The Protomen - Light Up The Night

Is it courtesy to tag other people after you've been tagged in a post like this? If that's the case, I'll tag @spiralled-fury, @solradguy, @swamppossum, @five-by-five, @northstarring, @ineedmoredragons and @tbonechessor!

#logs #ya don't have to participate if you don't want to‚ from what i've gathered - it's all just for fun anyway :]#The link to Yamashita's song is actually a link to a website that hosts city pop songs‚ since those keep getting taken down on YouTube due #to the strictness of Japan's copyright laws with regards to music. Uploads of Yamashita's songs in particular get taken down quite #frequently... The rest are either Bandcamp or YouTube (in case of Junkyard Dog) links #Very out-of-character of me not to put a Кино song on here‚ haha #I had a hard time deciding whether to put HOLD BACK THE NIGHT or Light Up The Night here‚ but ultimately decided on Light Up The Night #because... hoo boy #okay storytime. i've known of the protomen since somewhere around 2021. got The Good Doctor in my recommended feed‚ clicked on it because #i thought the album cover was cool + the title was appealing‚ but i never really listened to anything theirs beyond that song after that.#fast forward to 2022. be me‚ watching the greatest videoessay on planet earth (Steak Bentley's Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake).#the fucking MONTAGE comes on‚ and I fall in love with my second Protomen song. second fast forward to 2023 going into 2024‚ finally got #around to playing the Violence update. i learn of the name of level 7-2. the widest‚ most mischievous grin appears on my face.#i enter the level‚ proclaim ''ULTRAKlLL IS NOW A STEAK BENTLEY REFERENCE'' and blast the song as i get my ass beat by every single thing in #that level.#and let me tell you. getting mollywhopped ten thousand times by the FUCKING GUTTERTANK TRIO AT THE END OF THE LEVEL WAS. not a pleasant #experience. but the song made it better. :) (i played the level before the balance patch came out and uh let's just say i had more deaths on #that level than on 2gabe and 1gabe. SEVENTY-FOUR. FUCKING. RESTARTS. JESUS /CHRIST/.#goodness how i yearn to make a 3d animation of v1 going through 7-4 with that song in the background as a tribute to the man himself but #alas i am a student who has everything in the world but time #thanks for the tag again!! ^^

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puffywiz · 1 year

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I'm so happy you've enjoyed the unspoken name!!! Every time a new person reads it I get so excited I believe we Can get enough people to build a fandom 🙏🙏

Hope you're ready for the next book too haha...

Yes!! I just started book 2 and I know I only just finished the first one but I got so emotional… Shuthmili pov 😭💕

here’s a little Csorwe 😈 I love orcs so much

#I love all these characters so much #I was so happy to see Tal with everyone #he’s such a horrid rat man and I love him dearly #the unspoken name #the thousand eyes #I’ll get better at drawing tusks….

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mumblelard · 7 months

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glory, fire, anointing, a fellow traveler, a wandering earth

in and among other wants and wishes, i currently have unrequited hankerings for jokbal, a french seventy-five, a roadtrip to the house on the rock, a porch with a view farther than i can walk in a day

#knucklebones #sleestaks #a thousand and one true names but only eleven remain #oogy babo boogy yaga #sleeping in boats #a junkyard fool with eyes of gloom #green man's grimace #quantum animism #perkele #petroglyphs #second blue moon epoch #first autumn

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nolassolace · 2 months

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✨Fiiine boy Friday ✨

Hey Nicky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Nicky hey hey Nicky🎶💕

Anywhore he's bbygrls design (of course I'm biased)

Here's your reminder that Nick was the star player in both timelines💕

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theragamuffininitiative · 3 days

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#i let myself put words on an already words and y'all are being suspiciously quiet about it #which is fine don't get me wrong but like #very sus 🤣#also going to say here on my own lil blog post that i do think there are many cults masquerading as christianity #i also think there are many churches that are christian in name that are instead cults #i have recently discovered how close i and my family were to falling into one #not like we were being led directly but like...#we were at a not safe distance going 'what a pretty mountain' and then while we wandered to a slightly safer distance #the mountain revealed itself as a volcano and exploded #like i can see and taste the ash but the lava flows didnt find me ya know?#anyways #had a recent discussion in sunday school about how there are several sects of religion that claim to worship and follow Jesus #but he is not the Jesus of scripture #and people have added doctrines to him often in works based salvation styles #of which latter day saints and jehovah's witnesses and several other things fall into #but so have the dangerously patriarchal fundamentalist churches #and we should just be very very very careful #that the God we are following is the one whose revealed word has withstood the test of thousands and thousands of years #and not a doctrine whose god and testimony cannot stand up to its own witness for a couple hundred years #ragamusings in the tags #my views on what makes good religion have so shifted in the past couple years #hopefully for the better and closer to the truth and further from what man has to say about it

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damage-ko · 2 months

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Is it really old man yaoi if they don't have a bad knee and aren't exhausted?

#brain puke #like is it really old man yaoi if they're thousands of years old but they act like they're 20???#i just think... if the characters are old we should be able to feel that in the depiction of them #i think if its old man yaoi you need to remember the OLD part #well you dont need too you can do whatever you want #but i think that its something to consider #the definition of old man yaoi is what im raising a question about i guess #like if the characters are 'old' but the text doesnt communicate that beyond stating it does that still make it old man yaoi?#i mean a name and label is powerful in its own right #but i think in order to truly fit the definition the text needs to support that

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werentloyaltome · 3 months

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I want to make an actual edit with it but here’s my crosshunt playlist

#crosshunt #it’s in chronological order from the betrayal -> back to friends -> to lovers (?)#thousand eyes is a tone setting prologue #plainsong is to act as a bookend to cold’s intro #‘i was cold as I mouthed the words… your name like ice into my heart’ ->#“’it’s so cold it’s the cold like you were dead… sometimes you make me feel like I’m living at the edge of the world’#i tried to keep the songs tonally similar to one another ik if you’re not familiar with TS then it’ll seem jarring but it all makes sense #within da plot of the playlist….#hurricane is the midpoint and signals the beginning of the end aka eventual reconciliation #also I’m your man into cardigan is just too good especially if you listen with a fade #posing for cars is the penultimate track. giving an ambiguous sense of closure. will they won’t they type of thing.#plainsong closes them out and answers that question. for me at least.#crosshair’s the cocky sob who says it’s just the way he smiles #crosshair #hunter tbb

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ardenigh · 4 months

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More questions on Tegan & Lucky!

What sort of media would Lucky be interested in?

What sort of books and journals are in Tegan's collection?

What bike did Tegan have and what is Lucky's? How did Lucky get his?

What are Tegan's associates doing about Lucky being around instead of him?

Whether for his curiosity of meeting new people and places or distancing himself from Tegan's social circles, would Lucky consider moving somewhere else?

Since Lucky is still legally seen as Tegan, would he get his name changed?

Since Tegan is the king of street racing, would it be fitting that he also has an unbeatable skeeball highscore in every arcade he's been to?

i was going to open this answer by going "well it's your lucky day" but i just made myself cringe with it lol

it is time for boy lore!

What sort of media would Lucky be interested in?

I think he likes weird mixed-media and self-published stuff, honestly. Audio dramas, video essays. Things he can put on while he’s on the road or stretched out watching the clouds. Reading is nice, too, but he focuses best when he's just gotten up and isn't moving yet.

He likes a classic slasher from time to time, too, but only with other people. Corn-syrup blood and cheesy practical effects are just kind of better enjoyed together.

What sort of books and journals are in Tegan's collection?

Make no mistake, Tegan was a NERD. Aeronautical anthologies, astronomy texts, those weird Barnes & Noble historical coffee table selections. Poetry, like a lot of poetry. Tegan's very much a Yeats boy, although he was also fond of Rilke and Rimbaud. There’s also, like, a few dusty language textbooks, the sort that you buy on a kick and never get around to actually studying. And he wrote a lot. Memo pads and leatherbound Walgreens journals, that sort of thing. Crack one of those suckers open and you get a free tongue-in-cheek existential crisis in mechanical pencil, 'cause that's what he had on tap 80% of the time.

What bike did Tegan have and what is Lucky's? How did Lucky get his?

Tegan had a 2012 BMW F800ST! Torquey and balanced and really well cared for. Midnight blue with some subtle yellow and white accents, little bit of a Van Gogh homage (nerd).

Of course, Janus had mixed feelings on the whole racing thing, but he also recognizing that having a motorcycle was an integral part of his brother’s identity, so he arranged for a replacement — a Sprint 1050. They are both sort of sharp in the front, and honestly, like, a bike is a bike. Only thing is that a bike is not a bike, and so while Lucky does get things done with the Sprint, it’s a little bit too finicky for his taste. He ends up trading with another local bike enthusiast for something a little more his style, and that — a Yamaha FJR1300 — ends up being his trademark bike. He gets it done up in his colors and everything. :)

What are Tegan's associates doing about Lucky being around instead of him?

Aside from the fact that he just isn’t around as much as they’re used to, I think that most of his acquaintances are just convinced that Tegan sort of got scared off the scene by the crash. First one of his career, right? And bad enough to take him off the map for months. I think that what strikes them as the strangest is the way that he just doesn’t seem to engage in the racing game at all anymore — he just seems to be a full-time courier, now.

When they ask, though, he’s genial. Maybe a little vague. Something's ever so slightly off about him. It’s weird, but who wouldn’t be? The crash was pretty bad. I’m still sorting everything out. Everyone doing okay? Nothing like an NDE to really mellow someone out. He’s still welcome, though, and sometimes he takes people up on invitations on the town, but the atmosphere’s a little different now that Holloway doesn’t step up and dazzle whole rooms like he used to.

Tegan’s best friend is canny enough and close enough that she knows what Lucky’s deal is — anyway, she’s been busy in the interim with trying to suss out what got him killed in the first place. How is she coping with the recent development that the bestie has been format wiped and now perceives way more and also way less than she is comfortable with? Uh. Really well. Don't ask her any more questions.

Whether for his curiosity of meeting new people and places or distancing himself from Tegan's social circles, would Lucky consider moving somewhere else?

Lucky would love traveling, I can tell you that much. You know those people who will tour from one coast to another with a backpack and their bike? That's right up his alley.

As far as leaving permanently, though, Lucky is a creature of sentiment. He's got ties to the city, inherited though they were, and once he starts making them his own, it'll get that much harder to actually leave it behind.

He is going touring though. Someday.

Since Lucky is still legally seen as Tegan, would he get his name changed?

Maybe after enough time’s passed. Feels disrespectful to immediately start over, you know? I think a part of Lucky seeks to understand who Tegan was, and it might just be sentimentality, but wearing the name feels like a part of that, almost? You wear the name, you read the journals, you find the person still lingering in the apartment, the idle nail-carvings on the end table, the weighted blankets and sleep playlists.

In the end, if he gets too used to it, he might just start telling people that he is Lucky, yeah, but he was named after a brother who passed away. Maybe Tegan would be amused.

Since Tegan is the king of street racing, would it be fitting that he also has an unbeatable skeeball highscore in every arcade he's been to

YES. Is it anywhere near as prestigious? Absolutely not, but it's fun to see the neighborhood teens placing bets to see who can beat him.

Did Tegan have any tattoos? If so, what where they and what meaning did it have to him?

He’s got a simple one stretching horizontally above his shoulder blades, the phases of the moon. He would’ve had more, but he had too many ideas for them and often sketched down concepts in his journals and never actually committed to them. Lots of thought went into maybe getting a line or two from poems he liked inked, but he never got the chance.

If Tegan did have tattoos, would Lucky be interested in getting one as well?

The first tattoo Lucky gets might be for Tegan. Some poem on his bicep or chest. But in you is the presence that / will be, when all the stars are dead, maybe. A lonely impulse of delight / drove to thus tumult in the clouds. That one will take some thought.

Other than that, maybe a spade? Is that too on the nose?

#bike drawings pending like i have drafts but you would not BELIEVE how awful i am at machinery . looks ROUGH #like as it is i just kind of look at them and sigh . wistfully #thinking abt tegan makes me miss tegan and its so funny bc man i KILLED him . sorry tegan sdhfj #poems quoted up there are buddha in glory by rilke and an irish airman foresees his fate by yeats!#oc: tegan ''lucky'' holloway #also fun thing here is that everything abt the names here is just . like inexplicably irish? which wasn't a conscious choice #i really liked hol but navidson seemed a bit obvious and i liked the mouthfeel of the name holloway #10 to 1 if i like you i'm going to name a character for you smtime! tegan is named after a gamer friend i had who was really sweet n cool #miss ya teagan i hope u and ur hamster are well!#n i always liked yeats okay but sayer was a gateway drug i am TELLING you. sailing to byzantium? omg #ty for the ask!!!#after 10 THOUSAND years too omg i'm givin u a medal #wading through the inbox like boyyy i got some stuff 2 keep me busy !!

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keeps-ache · 7 months

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they've been having a rough day :V

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #oc #pink space #doodles #they are such pals :D #//low quality babyyy‚ the natural state of all things!! :DD #made this real quick cuz 1) wanted to show my new font (for Hid's native tongue)#/(RIP btw bc i forgot to name the font when i exported and now it's just Myfont. so sad thousands dead)#/and 2) i wanted to draw Hid angy so lol :3 #//[points at these two] they can fit So Much. just So Much man. they are so [shaking to bits gesture]#//and i'm playing around with fonts and speech bubbles more so :DD

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