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The name’s Prisms, I mostly reblog things with a chance of random ramblings at 3am. Sky-prisms is my animaniacs sideblog

[byjove]

*hits the joint* In the Harry Potter universe, Merlin is canonically a Hogwarts alumni and a Slytherin, which is impossible because Merlin predates the existence of Hogwarts by centuries. Of course, JK Rowling didn’t know that because she is a dumb bitch. I’m sorry. Misogynistic phrasing. She is a willfully ignorant and hateful, deeply unlikable and ill-informed, untalented and unspeakably cruel…..person. Seriously, how could you write a series about British wizards without truly understanding THE British wizard. Anyway, Merlin would never be able to attend any sort of organized schooling. He’s definitely self-taught in every universe because he’s the most powerful wizard ever AND he’d have been expelled from any institution before he stepped through the door. The only reason they haven’t escorted him away from Camelot is because he can see the future and he is kind of like the king’s dad. I was so disappointed by BBC Merlin. I turned it on and I was like “What the fuck is this shit, where is my perverted old man?”

[horse-with-wings]

Wait he is a wizard? In the translation into my language of BBC's Merlin they called him a sorcerer.

[sapphosstrongestmechpilot]

i have not watched bbc merlin but my understanding of Merlin as a figure is that his powers come through study of magic which therefore makes him a wizard.

[byjove]

They don’t. He’s the son of a demon and God gave him the power to see the future and the past. He’s not a wizard by D&D terms, all other wizards decided to copy his perverted old man drip:

[anadapta]

You never gained any LOVE, but you gained love, you know? Prints here, now Prints are Permitted!

🖼️ Prints   💎 Commissions  🔴  Website   ☕ Kofi  

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

doing this to my blorbo (he’s a traumatized middle aged man who’s responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands)

[vryfmi]

post so bad tumblr offers 5 delete buttons and no post button

[id: screenshot of broken tumblr queue footer ui with one reorder button, 5 delete buttons, one edit, and one unreadable button where post button should be./end id]

[liyniia]

The "Breath of the Wild"ification of games nowadays (particularly first party Nintendo games) is legitimately one of the most frustrating trends in all of gaming imo No, I don't want my Metroid game to have shrines in a big wasteland with nothing in it to be more like BOTW. No, I don't want an open world Mario Kart if the actual track design is going to suffer because of it. And certainly no, I don't want games that would work fine if they were linear (or even just open zone instead) being open world for no particular reason. Legitimately it is hard to play any game that comes out these days because everything must be a giant open world with small mini challenges on the map because "Well Breath of the Wild did it! We can too!" No! Stop it! Genuinely please stop! I'm tired of every game being open world! Limitations on what the player can do or where they can go can be a good thing! I will take cohesive level design over massive worlds that have nothing to do in them!

[queenofbraves]

[depsidase]

[discount-supervillain]

[ao3commentoftheday]

I'm riding the high of posting two chapters in two days, so I thought I'd share a comment that someone left me at least a decade ago but that I still take to heart.

In fact, I'll share two (both paraphrased)

Your chapters are the perfect length for reading on my lunch break!

I love short chapters like yours for reading before bed because I know I can finish them without falling asleep in the middle.

The comments had more to them than that, of course, but that's two wonderful examples of celebrating shorter form writing (without needing to compare it to longer form writing at all)

[pawthorn]

Really hate that most people don’t understand the difference between “self-expression” and “artistic-expression.”

I say this as someone who sells pottery, and many people who see my art assume I am using art as an outlet to “express myself.”

I am not.

I use art to challenge myself. A lot of what I do is the equivalent of doing a hard sudoko or a half marathon, answering the question of “can I do this?”

I use art to question things and explore ideas. Finding physical synthesis between concepts and working out a design to its end state.

I use art to make money. I make some things just because I suspect they’ll sell well, and I keep making them when they do.

This idea that an artist is “putting themselves out there” every time they create is not only stupid, but harmful, and it kills critique and analysis.

Yes every creative work is influenced by its creator, but the most preliminary step of analysis is to define the purpose of a work of art (functional, narrative, entertainment, persuasive, decorative, ceremonial, etc.) and a vanishingly small percentage of that is self-expression. Even then, it’s generally tied to the self’s relationship with something else—perception, society, etc.

It’s very tiresome to have people assume they know you because they like (or dislike) your art, to make assumptions about who you are and how you approach the world. It’s nothing new— people called the Impressionists insane and the Fauvists degenerate. And now people are expected to hand out their identities and traumas to prove they have the right to explore certain subjects.

But to actually understand art, you have to contextualize it beyond assuming it’s just what the artist felt like making at the moment and it’s somehow coming from their deepest soul, or you’ll badly misinterpret most art you come across.

[salvificidoloris]

I think people would be happier if they thought of tenna as a cartoon character instead of some kind of evil big dom daddy who's emotionally abusive and has around zero positive traits. tenna will do a little dance while he walks and whistle his theme song. he will smell a pie being baked nearby and float towards it with a big smile. he will jump and clap his toes when he's happy and say wahoo. he loves his family and his game boards not harming people

[requiem-on-water]

color study: lavender blue by Ezra Leary

[fostersffff]

[mumblesplash]

[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

[larval-tear]

let’s deprive me of everything and see what happens

[honey-cake-clown]

Hi. Life is hard. Have some brothers.

[koiagain]

losing dog but no one bets on me because i Don’t even lose well enougj

[47witchyneurons]

When I get blood samples at work sometimes they’re still warm from being imminently inside the patient’s veins and my hands are always cold because all the labs Ive work in are in the basement and they keep it kinda cold for whatever reason (and I’m also just a chilly kid).

And I clutch the little warm tubes of blood and feel this sick person warming my hands and I think about how kind you might be and how I wish I could hold your hand and how badly, how really really badly, I want you to get better and stay warm and hold someone’s hand again.

And anyway sometimes it’s better to not think so vividly about the people I’m doing tests for. I’m a good little cog in a vast machine of people all trying to heal and cure, and my cog feels so fucking small sometimes. But I hope the blood I prepare for you helps you breathe better and laugh and wake up feeling well rested.

We’ve never met but you warmed my hands and I want you to know I love you and I’m rooting for you.

[47witchyneurons]

I have over 40k notes on this and it’s the most wonderful thing I could have hoped would get tumblr-famous. I wish you all comfort and compassion every day