On wings of hope, we fly...

[jen-iii]

The Estate's Secret

(I saw the movie leaks and I was INSTANTLY thrusted back into ATLA hyperfixation and I wanted to give it a go at drawing one of my all time favorite characters because Toph's story is so wonderfully done and theres so much nuance that I HAD to draw em out. This is a two parter piece AND I still have more ideas so buckle up)

[aurantia-ignis]

Life is feeling a little bit sad these days because the last few games I played weren't fantastic and the upcoming few games from series I used to love with all my heart are also looking very mmmmmmmm ok to me I like having beautiful stories to appreciate and love, and the fact that the futures of all my favourite series look so bleak is pretty.. disappointing 8'D

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[lyerra]

thinking about post-conan Shinichi's relationship with the detective boys for my fanfic from an outside perspective is so funny

like Megure be calling like "kudo-kun sorry to wake you so early but come quick there's been a murder" and Shinichi be like "okay I'll wake up the the detective boys" and Megure is like "??? what do you mean"

and Shinichi is like yeah? we were having a sleepover at the professors house

and everyone is wondering why the hell is a 25 yo ass man having sleepovers with a bunch of 15 yo kids and also why they address him so disrespectfully when they think nobody is watching

he gossips with these children as if they were the same age and when people ask them how they became friends he says "oh they're not my friends they're my cousin's" which answers absolutely nothing (it's not like he can say they used to be classmates...)

haibara version under the cut

tbh Haibara would be different because unlike Conan she never really acted like "one of them" and always had that "mature older sister" vibe (in canon adults have taken her for a middle schooler because of that)

so even if she decided to go back to being an adult while maintaining her relationship with the kids (in my fic she's still living at the professors house as Shiho Miyano) their relationship wouldn't change much since they were always more respectful towards her, and there was always some sort of distance in the way she addresses them.

the only thing that changes is that now that's she's legally considered to be an adult she can take them on trips and she does that A LOT. she takes them camping she takes them all around the country and sometimes even on expensive trips abroad they're inseparable. those kids are HER kids

(older, happier shiho with a caring found family at her side my beloved)

(my hc for this fanfic is that while shinichi immediately took the antidote when it was completed, haibara hesitated for a long time but decided to take it in the end because she realized that becoming Shiho Miyano again didn't have to be at the cost of everything she had gained as Ai Haibara)

(meanwhile Shinichi wanted to get his old life back so much that it actually took a lot more time to realize all the good things that Conan had brought into his life and seeing Shiho build her new life on top of what she had experienced as Ai Haibara really helps him come to the realization that Shinichi Kudo and Conan Edogawa don't have to be separate people, at least not to his close friends and family)

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

I follow this lady on instagram who rescues cats, and i have been thinking about this video for literal months. behold the transformation of this wretched little beast

(x)

[whatsallthisnow]

I could not have anticipated that transformation if you had told me ahead of time

[marisatomay]

I was talking about this with a friend but a really interesting cultural shift over the last ohhhhhh ten years maybe is that many people in fandoms view themselves as stakeholders and not audience members. Because of that, they think that the fandom should be running things, or at least have an acknowledged say in how something is run. And every reminder that they are not in control, no matter how small, bothers them.

[marisatomay]

This has always existed to an extent but it used to be very siloed and only noticeably prevalent in certain fandoms and everyone else in fandom spaces generally agreed that it wasn’t healthy to act like that. Now it’s seemingly every fandom with an online presence and it’s all happening much more publicly than ye olde Trekkie forum.

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[muirmarie]

something i find really interesting about (some) people who don't write is the way they'll elevate plot over execution? it's the way you'll sometimes see people who think they have a best-selling book idea, and they want someone to write it for them while thinking they should get the lion's share of the imaginary profits, because it's their idea. and don't get me wrong, ideas are important! plots are important!

but there are so many stories i've read over the years that could be summarized into a few sentences of bland-sounding plot, and it's the execution that matters. it's the writing. it's the writing!

a talented writer can turn a bland plot into a story you want to devour. and someone who only cares about ideas can take the most interesting idea ever conceived and make it unreadable/unwatchable.

like it does feel like there are a Lot of people in this world who don't view writing as a skill that deserves respect, and who think that really it's all about coming up with shiny ideas. and it does feel like that's uhhh infected a LOT of different things in the modern world. tbh.

[elle-thereafter]

These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.

Characters must make choices.

Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.

Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.

If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.

Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.

[aurantia-ignis]

If I thought working with waterfalls going all weird was bad, digging holes in the sea without making the sea wonking is 50 times worse omg HOW DO PEOPLE DO IT WAS SOBBING SO HARD AND NEARLY GAVE UP

Built a small imitation of Seafoam Island for Articuno! Initially wondered if I should make it look more like it could be two islands (OG lore says it was two islands that became one, hence the JP name 'twin island'), but I think this keeps it a little simpler. Articuno likes fancy shiny stuff, but out of the list this little flower vase habitat was the most unobtrusive one... Aircon is ugly but he likes it so I dumped it in a spot where it's barely visible HAHAHA

Not sure about the ladder (since Articuno doesn't need to and can't use it anyway), but it was a staple inside seafoam island... Ah well, can always take it away later

[miyuliart]

Trying to figure out how to draw armour. These are some of my notes I uploaded on patreon. A lot more to come since I really want to figure this one out.

[meltypancake]

april sketchbook :] i had taken a few days off from drawing to rest my wrist (made collages and minizines instead 🤣)

but now we are SHO BACKKK

[aurantia-ignis]

Built a shared habitat for Mewtwo and Mew!

Most people I've seen go the scifi-inspired or straight up laboratory home (or in some cases, Evil Rocket Company/Castle) for Mewtwo, but thinking about the way they were created and treated by scientists... I frankly think that this child has had enough of scifi labs 8'DD;;; After all of that drama and suffering, I think they deserve to live a peaceful life out in open nature, and that was the concept for this!

For Mew, though, there's always been a childlike curiosity and wonder in them. I imagine that they'd be very excited to play around with more human-made toys and things, so I littered them around the area for them to have fun.

[aurantia-ignis]

I spent far too long diving into this with very little planning and thinking I'd be able to succeed, but ultimately there are far too many limitations in da game and therefore (folds hands)

I am giving up HAHAHAHA

[ghazal67]

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

this is literally how i dance

[askinfresh]

This went from “wow that’s pretty neat” to “WTF ITS ALIVE” real quick

[excima]

she did that

[spooky-pens]

If I don’t reblog this Puerto Rican ass mouse assume that I’m dead.

[qqchurch]

[aurantia-ignis]

"Papa! It's you! You look just like the Entei in the storybook, but it's you!"

"If that is what you wish."

-- I initially thought I could get it pretty close, but apparently not, so this is gonna be scrapped 8'D Time to change my hair and clothes back LOL