Celestial Obsidian

💜My Name is Celeste💜 🔮She/They🔮 I draw, I create, I’m a lawful evil bisexual who cares not for Minecraft villagers If you’re a “proshipper” or whatever the fuck, just block me.

[misophonie]

god with me on a random night in 8th grade

[celestialobsidian]

Me but with bisexuality

[celestialobsidian]

The Internet Angel

The SpeedPaint!:

I have very complex feelings on Needy Streamer Overload. It is one of the most raw and accurate depictions I have ever seen of mental illness, with one of the most accurate characters struggling with their mental health. Everything about how Ame engages with the world and how she speaks is so stunningly accurate to how someone in real life would engage online. This includes how the game writes her flaws. Ame is not a good person, however her actions are never meant to dehumanize her or reduce her down to her struggles, and I appreciate how the game shows the raw human side of someone struggling so deeply like this. The true ending of the game stuck with me in a way I can’t really describe, even now. I just had to step away from my computer and think for a few days.

That being said, the game isn’t without its flaws. While it does give a proper flash warning in the beginning, I feel as though the content warning doesn’t properly prepare the player for some of the events that can happen in game. I’ve always had this issue with how media treats content warnings, oftentimes the creators are far too vague about the type of content happening in their games for fear of spoilers and just leave it at “This game contains dark themes.” Which, as a result, leaves the player to have a Russian roulette wheel of potential triggers that can be set off at any time. For me this was Ame’s first ‘Self Destruct’ mini game, and while I won’t say what happens here for fear of my post being taken down, it contain the topic of s/lf h/rm. I was completely blindsided by this, as I thought the game had already shown me the full extent of its dark content. Luckily I didn’t have a full blown panic attack, but it did leave me quite shaken for a while. So please keep that in mind if you ever play.

The second point of contention I have with the game is that I find the gameplay to be a bit to repetitive at times, especially if your going for all of the achievements and endings like I did. After a certain point of clicking around and figuring things out with no direction, I felt as if it started to play ‘reset the day’ simulator to get different results. After a while I resorted to using a walkthrough, which didn’t take away from my experience by any means— it just made me wish that there was some sort of checklist or hint system that could help you find endings.

Overall, apart from some design flaws, the games a solid 7.5/10 from me.

[xalatath]

Tumblr banned porn to appeal to advertisers only to exclusively host ads for links you wouldn't touch even while wearing full PPE

[celestialobsidian]

Student Loans are the most complicated blood oath I was ever forced to sign.

[madtomedgar]

I think with the culture wars a lot of people don't understand anymore that humor changes over time and sometimes what was funny then just isn't funny now not because "everyone is offended" but because it just doesn't land, tastes have changed and the punchline doesn't read.

There's a whole scene that gets cut from every production of Tempest because it is clearly supposed to be funny, but the punchline is "widow Dido," and the best guess is that it was essentially a meme that we just don't get anymore. So the scene doesn't work, it isn't funny, it's barely comprehensible. Widow Dido wasn't canceled, society just moved on to different stupid jokes. One of the bits in Merry Wives of Windsor, a genuinely funny play, that is clearly supposed to bring the house down, and probably did in 1598, is that this one guy is French. That's it, that's the joke. Hon Hon Hon baguette du fromage. Get a load of this Frenchman. At best these days it comes off as silly and juvenile. But to an Elizabethan English person, some French guy fumbling a good English girl was hilarious.

And yeah there's also an element of xenophobia and nationalism there and that's not great, but mostly it's just not really funny anymore that French people exist, it's just like... ok? And??

And i think a lot of like. Bits where the punchline is that people are gay, Steven, or like. A woman is doing something, a Trans person exists, this guy wore a dress, isn't it sooooooooo funny that these two dudes are saying romantic words at each other ironically or acting like a couple like...

Yeah the idea that this would be funny is rooted in bigotry. But also,

It's just not funny? Like ok? This guy is wearing a dress? So what? Like ok this character hit on someone thinking they were one gender and was wrong, that's just a random Thursday in a South End bar, we've all been there? Nu?? Sometimes people are from Wales, yeah, that's how geography works?

So like. Is it actually being "canceled" or did tastes just change? Is this being ruined by sjws or woke or whatever, or is this just going the way of 2000s mustache humor?

[celestialobsidian]

“Welcome to the therapy. I’m Doctor Easterman; I want you to think of me as a friend, a father, a confidant. Somehow I... can’t help but feel like I’ve met you before. Like a princess in a dream. Maybe this place was made for you, and you for it. Maybe there’s no such thing as “too healthy,” no such thing as “too much love.” I think you and I may achieve something miraculous.”

This was my stab at Dr Easterman, particularly how I headcanon how he looks. I’ve always read Easterman as a man who’s fundamentally stuck in the past, like a permanent arrested development. I was inspired by a lot of old Hollywood actors alla Vincent Price and Gene Kelly, particularly with the pencil thin mustache. I’ve just never really pictured Easterman as clean shaven, tbh. Hope you like him!

[celestialobsidian]

Happy trans day of visibility’

[celestialobsidian]

Broken Angel (2026)

Cw: Mild gore

I did the broken doll face trend from a while back with Simon and I’m very happy with how it turned out. My poor boy needs a break though.

[dumbpuppyfag]

there's a massive, underreported subculture on this site that i can only describe as secular mormonism if mormons voted democrat

[dumbpuppyfag]

zero moral nuance

queer-inclusive but still misogynist

don't have to be from the US, do have to act like you are

ostensibly welcoming to everybody, mysteriously white as hell

terrified of the idea that sex could be enjoyable for anyone

absolutely incapable of structural critique, everything is individual moral choices

enforcement through public humiliation and isolation accountability :)

fear of infiltration by a corrupting outside influence - asserting a right to privacy or failing to publicly demonstrate moral in-group status is treated as a confession

the worst music you've ever heard in your life

[celestialobsidian]

there has to be a middle ground between woobifying a character and wanting them to graphically kill themselves onscreen

[all-roads-are-now-bent]

[celestialobsidian]

The Prey and The Execution

Sometimes you find friends in high places, sometimes you find them lower, sometimes, you find mysterious strangers outside your bedroom window.

[celestialobsidian]

The more I develop my villain characters, the more disgusted I become with them as people.

Like omg, ew. I made this. There are people out here who genuinely have this mindset and think like this, wtf that’s so icky.

Then there’s the whole new layer when you *draw* the character and you’re just staring at your screen like…holy shit. I made this abomination. I created this thing with my own bare hands.

[squircatlies]

Fun fact! The reason Markiplier's portrayal of a person stuck in a falling apart, piece of shit, frustrating death trap of a vehicle was so realistic is because he used to own a tesla.

[ottoillustrates]

these shapes.inc ads or whatever are getting on my nerves. i am not making a chatbot for my ocs. i will lay awake in bed and think about them like i'm ebeneezer scrooge being haunted by the ghosts of Characters past present and future and then i will stumble out of these visions with nothing coherent to say about them

[celestialobsidian]

Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

I wanted to do some cute/memey Valentine’s Day cards for this year, and I wanted to do the main trio from Simon says. I had a lot of fun coming up with their outfits (including Simon’s refusal to wear one) so I hope y’all enjoy and appreciate these!!

[drawingden]

So how’s the art coming along guys?

[bumbleshark]