i've always headcanoned dream as an introvert and nightmare as an extrovert and i realized people prolly don't think the same way.
but, like. in my eyes, dream is very outgoing and positive, but at the end of the day he needs to go into his room and just take a few hours to himself. recharge.
nightmare, however, finds himself with a book and sets himself down near his team. he doesn't often interact with them in these moments, but just sitting back and being by people helps him recharge
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I think we should get at minimum 3 names in our lives. When we're born, no one knows who we're going to be. That's a throw away name. Name your baby whatever as long as you can identify them. Ex: frog, goober, purple people eater, etc. Doesn't matter. Name them like you name a pet.
When they become sentient and can now think for themselves- probably when they start school- let them choose their first meaningful name. Being that they're literal children, they'll probably name themself after their favorite character or favorite word or something. Ex: Steven(steven universe), Megatron, Sailor Moon, etc. This is fun and they learn to identify themself and figure out who they want to be. Imagine being friends with a kid named pinkie pie.
Finally- not sure about the age for the last one (probably 12/14-ish, when they're teenagers.)- They choose their final name. The name they want to be known by for the rest of their life. Obviously, name changes are still a thing, but this is the final free one. This name is for once they've grown up enough and are mature enough to know themselves and know who they truly want to be. Ex: *whatever the fuck they want*.
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since there’s not any official info on where arthur was born i’ve decided based on my own half made up evidence that he’s from either wyoming, nebraska, or maybe south dakota but i’m leaning towards wyoming
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Zane would say pardon my French and then begins to speak in French
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I think Clem would be a lovely tattoo artist :) he just has the Vibe of a really chill guy who likes making art for people, like people love going to him bc he's so laid back and makes it a fun experience and talks the whole time and keeps you engaged and then before you know it boom you have a new work of art on your body and also a new friend in your heart
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Any and all iterations of The Riddler listen to Schaffer The Darklord. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻♀️
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Sometimes being an artist is feeling like a baker seeing a chemist making the deadliest liquid in the world and wishing you could make the deadliest liquid as well but you're a baker, not a chemist, and then you feel like your bread is worthless
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at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"
like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.
"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."
... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.
and i'd still keep writing.
i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.
i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley
"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"
and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.
it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.
you create because you're greedy.
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