settle down, rest for now

laurel | ey/they | nonbinary lesbian | a mix of interests, mostly final fantasy, fire emblem, pokémon, art, etc. | love talking about OCs & ttrpg :3 | wife is @freckledfemme 💚

[bloomlaurel]

I’m doing artfight for the first time this year! I’m team comedy + will be prioritizing revenge and attacks on mutuals ☺️🧡 Follow me on Artfight.

[squid--pro--quo]

[bloomlaurel]

wanna see the process I went through to design olly (this is from the original canvas I doodled them on)

[Begin ID: An art video depicting Olly’s design process where I try out a bunch of different character designs, some with long hair, some with different angles and expressions. I eventually settle on a direct portrait of a person with tired eyes. Their hair is in a fluffy short hair cut and at the end of designing their face, I erase the hair style and try a few options: long curly hair in a side ponytail, an androgynous bob, and curly hair at shoulder length. I eventually go with a short curly haircut. I adjust their skin tone and hair colour and add some character information for Olly in the margins. End ID]

[eurig-morgan-deactivated2017121]

Baby armadillo plays with his toy

[puppy95]

Are you fucking kidding me

[figpal]

i have never been happier 

[the-frightening-ghoul]

ㅤ

[beadyeyes]

Please email me one weed gummy

[faunna]

My favourite witch🧙‍♀️

[sleepsentry-ffvii-blog]

There's this one shot from FFVII Rebirth where we very briefly see Cloud from Barret's perspective.

I found it very funny and cute to realise that this is what Barret has been seeing the entire time he's known Cloud. It reframes so many of their interactions. Like... Oh my god... He's just a little boy... (T v T)

[shushuslss]

G'raha Makes Revolution!

(ヒカセン的にも オールオッケー‼)

[soup-mother]

Sober as fuck at the back of the club going onto Wikipedia and typing "List of birds"

[romanceyourdemons]

i love the implication behind the blair witch project (1999) that someone found the filmstock that was the last earthly remnants of three college film students and thought you know what would really honor these people? if we edited this record of their madness and gruesome demise up real nice and sent it to film festivals

[dubiousculturalartifact]

#well yeah they were film students. it's what they would have wanted

(via @big-ass-magnet

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

[skopostheorie]

Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

[cnmcn]

absolutley enchanted by cobepee

[abnormoinfo]

new ebbits! new site!

[poison-liker]

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

[sonic-gems-collection]

can someone explain this to me?

[shadeddaxion]

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

[abnormoinfo]

ooh i love the explanation

[trickstertime]

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

[razerbackbitch]

[autisticjonathanjoestar]

bouncing on it in repentance

[autisticjonathanjoestar]

crying and begging for forgiveness on it

[ghostapop]

i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

[illuthra]

Fates Week 2026 | Day 6 - Nightmare napped too long rip