ain't that just the way

artblog @emily-e-draws !

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[paperpatchnotes]

Ok someone has to take this away from me before I drive myself insane attmepting to idk art better 🙈

Idk how long I'll be on this murderbot train but these ARE my new favorite books to ever.

[lily-stabby]

So imagine a DnD character who's whole motivation is 'X guy killed my parents and I need to find them' and the party just thinks 'ok, revenge quest, that's normal'

But when they finally find the guy the person with dead parents is just like "Hey buddy, long time no see. It's a shame we got separated, here's some money" and they're super chill.

The party is just confused and goes "Wait, why are you giving him gold?"

The guy just goes "Cause I owe him money?"

The party "But he killed your parents???"

"That's why I owe him money!"

[just-illegal]

[pigeon-princess]

An ode to Occtis 🫀💀

[bowditch]

we've been watching a pair of blue jays in our yard for weeks and today THEY BROUGHT THEIR BABIES OUT TO PRACTICE FLYING AND HIDING 🥹😍

[skopostheorie]

To be honest music might be one of the things

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

it's always so dicey trying to do any kind of critique of contemporary romance novels On Here because the denizens of tumblr, like many people, love to reduce any take the humble romance novel to confirmation that the entire genre is Bad, and I don't like to encourage that take because I like romance novels and I do think the casual disdain for the genre gets into really misogynistic territory real quick. and that makes it really annoying to voice informed opinions as someone who's been slamming a romance or two a month every months for several years.

all of which is preface to me being kind of a mean little hater and saying that some romance novels have this very distinctive style that I call Heckin Valid that's soooo annoying because you can Tell the authors are coming from a place of really well-meaning but pretty shallow 2010s internet-style #diversity rhetoric. some of the hallmarks of Heckin Valid style, to me, include:

main characters have Identities that they often feel the need to mention often and frequently Explain, even in their own internal narration.

there is often a Trans Friend. if the Trans Friend cannot be readily identified by using they/them pronouns, their trans status will either be dropped gracelessly in the narration OR the Trans Friend will verbally identify as such by saying something akin to "now, speaking as your Trans Friend..."

this may also be done with a Fat Friend. the Fat Friend is almost universally a woman, and it will always be emphasized that she is Very Beautiful because it is important to remember that fat women can be hot.

the narration is very invested in identifying the racial identity of every non-white character, regardless of how minor they are.

before engaging in sex the main couple will dutifully report to each other that they have both recently gotten tested for STIs and do not have any.

getting characters into therapy is an integral part of the Happily Ever After, if they were not in therapy to begin with.

[drillss]

I really really like it when the character hates her old self so much like yes girl!!!! I love the way you want the old version of you dead and how you don't want to think about how she shaped you as the person you are now🥰🥰🥰

[artvaris]

Ballpoint pen doodling

[yuridiot]

doctor just prescribed me music really loud

[elliespectacular]

Happy 24-6-01!

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[mockva]

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

[mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish

[latedawnsandearlysunsets]

three of them

[olmec-colossal-head]

Courage, Anxiety, and Despair Watching the Battle by James Sant (ca. 1850) anyone?

[newyorkcitywater]

why is the human body composed of such capricious tubes

[zmeess]

take me with you, or let me follow

tip jar

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

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