Ayala Atreides

Cosplayer, fanfic writer and fanartist! Over 30 yrs old. Perpetually overwhelmed with feelings about fictional people. My main fandoms are One Piece, Nanbaka, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Mad Max: Fury Road, Noragami, Gurren Lagann, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Don't be shy, drop by and say hi! I am always down to yell about nerdy stuff.

[mx-macintosh]

y'all need to relearn the word erratic and stop using schizophrenic/bipolar/psychotic as a replacement

[mx-macintosh]

y'all need to relearn the word particular and stop using ocd as a replacement

[weresoul]

People need to relearn the word "egocentric" and stop using narcissist/narc as a replacement.

[thatpreciousthing]

People need to relearn the word "impulse" and stop using "intrusive thought" as a replacement

[ayalaatreides]

I have OCD and it takes every ounce of my self control not to become very annoying whenever someone goes “haha I’m so OCD!” because they straightened a rug or “haha the intrusive thoughts are winning” because they had an urge to step on crunchy leaves or something.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[ayalaatreides]

Lint ball vs hand puppet

[blogquantumreality]

"Your species have certain tendencies my people never had. From your mind I can see easily that there are tendencies against the welfare of the whole." [David replied,] "If you speak of such things as crime and war, then see in my mind that the vast majority of humans fights the anti-social tendencies and that though our progress against them is slow, it is certain."

From David Starr, Space Ranger (1952) by Isaac Asimov, writing as Paul French

[junglejim4322]

This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

[turbozarky]

things that dont cost money: hiking, walking, birdwatching, identifying plants, drawing (you have a pen, reading (library), collecting rocks, dancing, singing.... etc wtc etc

if you cant find a hobby you can afford, thats a you problem. and if youre posting online, you have a device to do that, get some free games, trawl wikipedia, study something. stop picking fights online and do something else.

[theonceandfutureharpy]

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

if you can write an essay about it on your phone you can write fanfic or poetry or something on your phone also and it will be much nicer for everyone involved, including you

[ayalaatreides]

And speaking solely from the perspective of an art hobbyist: art supplies have never been cheaper or more readily available in human history. It’s not the Renaissance era, we’re not hand grinding pigments to make expensive oil paints that only Michelangelo has access to anymore. If you have a discount store in your neighborhood you can get cheap paint or colored pencils or crayons. Maybe even some cheap clay or beads. You can order cheap supplies online too. You don’t need expensive art supplies as a hobbyist. A Bic pencil from a 12-pack and a school notebook can be art supplies. If your workplace has a paper disposal bin and the stuff in there isn’t confidential, raid it for paper to use. The kitchen at my winter job regularly throws out cardboard and sheets of heavy paper from food shipping boxes, if I find them before they get dirty I bring them home to paint or draw on.

[unteriors]

Old Cambridge Turnpike, Lincoln, Massachusetts.

[ayalaatreides]

You know, I’ve heard of open concept layouts but this is ridiculous.

[preserving-tiktok]

[depsidase]

[ayalaatreides]

Well gee Mr sigsauer1814, I don’t know, when I was a kid I was told that sharing and fairness were crucial values. Then I got older and suddenly all the adults who had told me to share my toys were telling me that the world is unfair and that every single thing you get in this world has to be earned by your own blood sweat and tears. I decided I liked the sharing and fairness thing better 🤷‍♀️

[dailyflicks]

BARBIE 2023, dir. Greta Gerwig

[clowns-ofthesame-circus]

what happened to the gävle goat the year you were born?

Fire

Destroyed/Broken

Combination of Destruction Methods

Didn’t Survive (other)

Survived with Damage

Survived

Voting ended onNov 24, 2025

Gävle goat - Wikipedia

Gävle goat - Wikipedia

[dowereallyneedthis]

the goat survived and took a trip to Italy on my birth year, but here are some of my favorite years

[ayalaatreides]

BIG win for 1987 🙌

[gffa]

Nothing prepares you for how ugly a cybertruck is in real life. I've seen seven of them now, I'm still never prepared for how fuckawful this thing looks. "Why is there a moving over-engineered trash bin on the ro-- oh my god." Every single time. I'm not even being a hater, the thing is genuinely ugly, it looks like a seventh grade intro to engineering class project that got maybe a C+. There are no sleek lines, there's nothing but dull gray metal, it's not even that intimidatingly large. It looks like it was made out of scrap pieces welded together. It can sort of appear decent in pictures, somehow. But in real life, I am never prepared for how fucking ugly or dinky it actually is.

[ayalaatreides]

The first time I saw one I thought it was a kit car. I thought someone put it together in their garage. And I was like, “wow, that must be someone’s personal project! How cool!” Then I found out what it actually was and how much it costs and I was. aghast.

[technofeudalism]

[technofeudalism]

yeah i’m gonna have to disagree. if you’re not from here and you don’t have family here, do not come here. don’t come to the united states. they are gearing up to deport people from foreign countries to Guantanamo Bay without even notifying their home government. as in like… citizens of the United Kingdom.

the post means what it means. it doesn’t mean come to the largest city in the country with a police force that is extremely, extremely violent and as well equipped as most normal countries militaries or come to a state with a coastline. that is, in fact, probably the riskiest thing you could possibly do.

do not come to the united states. there is nothing here worth dying or being sent to a slave penal colony for.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

We need one of those old fashioned tourism posters for the US with "There is nothing here worth dying or being sent to a slave penal colony for" as the tagline

[isthehorsevideocute]

today's ai bullshit

[ayalaatreides]

Really enjoying the “snaffle bit +” and “curb bit +”. Is that anything like Disney + or Apple TV +?

Also gotta appreciate “crownpee” and “nosenam”. Incredible tack innovation happening here.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I've never seen such a weird front door.

[ayalaatreides]

This feels like the architectural equivalent of the “I’ve made a robot that screams!” comic.

[depresed-duck]

azula (final agni kai version)

[shiftythrifting]

Pitch black snow globe

[ayalaatreides]

The seeing stone, Palantir

[faelunez]

the greatest necromancer of her generation ~ aka a perfect penitent nunlet + loser + hideous witch from hell 🫀💫

[shot-thru-the-art]

Someone just reblogged my dancing ghosts with “#digital art” and it doesn’t matter at all but I’m still fighting the urge to dm them “they are very much not digital! They’re chicken wire, tore my jeans, and left me covered in small, bleeding scratches! I got a tetanus shot about it!”

No computers were used for these - partly because I like using my hands and partly because I have genuinely no idea how to do digital animation anyway. It seems like witchcraft.

These are life-sized because I have very little experience with figure drawing/sculpting so I just used my husband and I for proportion measurements. (Which meant I was chasing him around going “come back! Let me measure your femur!”)

Video description: green light on a chicken wire sculpture of a dancing couple. It’s turning in the wind outside at night so they (hopefully) look alive.

[ladydei]

I saw another version but I'll def reblog this one.

@shot-thru-the-art can I ask: the wire they're hung from, does it just go anywhere the wind blows? vs being on some sort of tumbrel (I think it's called?) that spins them, I mean.

This is the most amazing thing, IDK how anyone could think it's digtal. It's too perfectly imperfect.

Tho I am sorry about the tetanus shot <shudder>

[shot-thru-the-art]

Hi! The ghosts are hung on an arial yoga rig thingy that can spin and sway in the wind without tangling the ropes supporting it. It catches moderate winds but because it doesn’t have a lot of surface area it doesn’t sway or spin in every small breeze.

For this video I went up and shoved it to make it spin.