HE WAS GOING TO LIVE FORVER,

Ishmael/Captain "Du Lebst. Dafür musst du dankbar sein." [You're alive. For that, you must be thankful.] / "WEVE NEVER SEEN EACH OTHER. HOW CAN WE KILL ONE ANOTHER? HOW CAN WE? HOW CAN WE??" [Im Westen Nichts Neues {2022} / Waterloo {1970}] Lover of all sorts of things. Mostly Phighting and my OCs at the moment. Blame the sleeper agent in my head OC TAG: #sodas little guys ARTFIGHT!! MAIN INTERESTS: Moby Dick, Catch22, Phighting!, Madoka Magica, horror films, Ersatz, ships [ironclad and pre], Classic Literature in general, All Quiet on the Western Front, law, the Human Condition, PETSCOP, Blocktales PFP: w4tabax on instagram BANNER: probably a twitter post idk

[caffeiiine]

ARTFIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!! KETS GO TRAGEDYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

do you remember why you followed prev

yes :)

no :)

Remaining time: 3 days 22 hours

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

do you remember why you followed prev

yes :)

no :)

Remaining time: 3 days 22 hours

[thatsadguymochi]

turn away

[malware-riddled-computer]

@caffeiiine

[waackery]

Animation I made as a tribute to Louis Wain, both to his art and him as a person, I hope my animations convey how comforting I find his art. Each cat is drawn on paper❤️ “I am happy because everyone loves me”

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[temporalreverie]

anyone have that picture with the 100 pool toy baltos. Its like a modern terracotta army

[temporalreverie]

THEY SHALL PROTECT MY MAUSOLEUM

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the problem with not having watched anime growing up is that when I watch anime now I am suddenly assaulted with psychic blasts in which I recognize the source for all mannerisms and aesthetics of my peers

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

anime character: [does a gesture with his hand]

me: [involuntarily skyrockets backwards through time while screaming]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

you guys I am having a fucking moment over here because I just started hunter x hunter and I am faced with the strong possibility that my old enemy from study abroad based his whole personality on one of the characters

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

is this how cosmic horror protagonists feel when they receive secret truths about the universe that unravel their sanity? because I don’t know if I can keep mine burdened with the knowledge that I spent six months of my life violently beefing with someone who kinned this guy:

[wainswright]

sorry for elevating the tags op im trying to reconstruct this scenario in my minds eye.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

literally the first day I met him I was like “this guy talks and acts like he’s trying to be an anime villain” and somehow it didn’t occur to me that he was trying to be a specific anime villain.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

he’s the guy from this post in which I really downplayed just how fucking weird he was because it distracted from the point of the story but oh my god. I swear to god he quoted lines from the show. he kept his fingernails filed into sharp points for slashing damage. he thought suddenly appearing behind you and grabbing you by the throat was a really funny way to greet you. do you know how much psychic damage I am taking from this revelation? do you know???? after our first fight he brushed himself off and said “oh what fun that was!” in this stupid voice, even though I’d kicked his ass. I can’t believe I thought I was maybe going to be murdered by an alcoholic hisoka kinnie. how do I un-know this.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

hey! you’ll never guess what he’s up to now!

he works for the department of defense.

[fool-counter]

the problem with not having watched anime growing up is that when I watch anime now I am suddenly assaulted with psychic blasts in which I recognize the source for all mannerisms and aesthetics of my peers

anime character: [does a gesture with his hand]

me: [involuntarily skyrockets backwards through time while screaming]

you guys I am having a fucking moment over here because I just started hunter x hunter and I am faced with the strong possibility that my old enemy from study abroad based his whole personality on one of the characters

is this how cosmic horror protagonists feel when they receive secret truths about the universe that unravel their sanity? because I don’t know if I can keep mine burdened with the knowledge that I spent six months of my life violently beefing with someone who kinned this guy:

like the voice is the same. the mannerisms are the same. he talked like that irl. he wanted to be this pink clown so fucking bad and i feel like that explains. everthing about him.

sorry for elevating the tags op im trying to reconstruct this scenario in my minds eye.

literally the first day I met him I was like “this guy talks and acts like he’s trying to be an anime villain” and somehow it didn’t occur to me that he was trying to be a specific anime villain.

he’s the guy from this post in which I really downplayed just how fucking weird he was because it distracted from the point of the story but oh my god. I swear to god he quoted lines from the show. he kept his fingernails filed into sharp points for slashing damage. he thought suddenly appearing behind you and grabbing you by the throat was a really funny way to greet you. do you know how much psychic damage I am taking from this revelation? do you know???? after our first fight he brushed himself off and said “oh what fun that was!” in this stupid voice, even though I’d kicked his ass. I can’t believe I thought I was maybe going to be murdered by an alcoholic hisoka kinnie. how do I un-know this.

hey! you’ll never guess what he’s up to now!

he works for the department of defense.

fool count: 14

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

[bodhimcbodeface]

Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?

[wanderbythewayside]

No

Y’all need better self-esteem

[wanderbythewayside]

Alright I have been enabled so I’m gonna say somethings.

Fatalistic sarcasm is a thing, however, it usually hides deep feelings of insecurity, and whether you consciously recognize this or not, it validates them. Seriously, I used to constantly make jokes about how other people’s work was better than mine, and it did nothing for my self-esteem, it was a tool to deflect from my own feelings of inferiority and it actively worked against me thinking critically about my own and other people’s work. If it was a joke I could put myself down instead of analyzing why someone’s work was better and trying to incorporate that into my own

As someone who took creative writing courses I was constantly surrounded by other brilliant people, if I hung my head in shame every time I read something as good or better than mine I never would have lifted it. 

As someone who has watched a lot of writers with very good idea’s crash and burn I mean it when I say you either develop a healthy sense of respect for your own work or you stop writing. 

There’s three things I really wish more people consider

1. Do you think their work is better because it’s a different style, one that you like? There’s an element to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, I have seen people work in some amazing styles that I wished to god I could replicate, some I managed, some I never did, but there’s nothing wrong with either. having a different style Is Not the same as having a bad style, each has their own strengths and you can admire one without putting yours down

2. Knowing someone who is a better writer is a blessing and if they knew you were using their work to bring yourself down they would not be happy, mooch off that friend, analyze their work, ask them to edit your shit, as long as you’re not annoying them be shameless about it. the best thing creative writing did for me was give me the confidence to ask people to critic my work and shamelessly better each other for that sharing 

3. People need to normalize being confident in their work, the quality of your work has literally nothing to do with your worth as a person, the quality of your work has nothing to do with your worth as a writer. You can write something really shitty and the only thing I’d say to you is that your trying and I respect you for that

[januariat]

this is true for art too btw

[awesomebutunpractical]

You can have any animal for a pet. Any complications such as “keeping the animal healthy and happy” and “the time and effort it would take to keep happy and healthy pet” and “keeping yourself uneaten” and “the pet I want is kind of extinct” have all been solved perfectly. You don’t have to think of that.

What is your pet?

[corrodedparadox]

Year of the horsie

[cyberratz]

me when i find out something will cost a pretty penny but i only have gross and ugly pennies left

[bgm05]

the reason usa birth rates going down is because we have a whole generation of women whose sexual awakening was Sans undertale and none of the men want to wear jorts and drink ketchup and go Er er er

[penumbraphantasm]

[karvina]

[janedoodlee]

@thats-a-cat

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[arolexion]

ooooooooosketchess

[peacevine]

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

[peacevine]

[tinfoilmagician-deactivated2025]

Opening the notes and immediately taken out by prev.