The Random Musings of a Museless Writer

⚔️💀Zombie Queen of the Clearwater Ritual💀⚔️ Adult with a license to drink, but hardly a grown-up. Maybe if I successfully publish a novel, I can consider myself one.Nonbinary/Genderfluid, Asexual, Demiromantic, and Polyamorous, or simply Queer As Hell. Any pronouns accepted, they/them preferred. I write stuff and I draw stuff, and even remember to post said stuff on occasion. I play games (D&D, Diablo, Skyrim and ESO, League, Dragon Age, FFXIV, and more), and have tripped and fallen from the pinnacle into the pit of Ghost hell. But mostly, I reblog a lot of random stuff because this blog has become less about sharing my writing and more about wasting time. #Rixa's Rants is my personal tag, for all your blacklisting needs.

[emathevampire]

Your skyrim posts are gay. This blog is gay. Your gay that is all.

The #Reviews are in, kids, you heard it here first:

[herssian]

i'm very interested to hear more about it because i realized it today; if you draw, do you find yourself making your rpg customizable characters look like your art accidentally?

[herssian]

i draw like this bro😭

[emathevampire]

Yes and no. It's more like the other way around? I'm often disappointed when I can't get a character creator to cooperate and look enough like my art, especially when I already have an OC design in mind. An rpg's character creator is just another art tool. Of course what I make with it comes out looking like my art! If it doesn't look like my art I'll start over and keep trying until it does (or in the case of Skyrim, mod it until it does). It's not accidental at all.

Like. I drew this almost two whole years before I ever started playing FFXIV. I DO draw like that! But also... while the animation is a pure coincidence, all the work I put in to make him look like that within the bounds of the game is not. It's all about using the tools available to you to execute your vision... which... yeah, it IS going to look like it's YOURS in the end, isn't it?

[caydencrypted]

the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time

[caydencrypted]

another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[nagaino]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[emergencychange]

EXCUSE ME????

[nightfrostbite]

Reblog to share a Frot with your mutuals

[plum-soup]

Yeah the fries and tots are all in same bag they're rubbing against each other all hot and crispy.........

[hard-times-paramore]

Rock OC slider

[soshinee]

if u think abt it i guess bald ppl are the most aerodynamic. i bet if u shot a bald person out of a cannon they wld fly way further than a haired person

[soshinee]

which of course is a huge advantage in day to day life

[silvermoon424]

UNFATHOMABLY based hive mother. Let's pour one out for our fallen bee comrades.

[massachusetts-official]

A modern Massachusetts classic

Official Post of Massachusetts

[meanbossart]

Happy pride month to you and your ocs🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!

[mioxenoblade]

🍜🍥🍜

[ghost-mantis]

[beadyeyes]

[luulapants]

actually once you do vote by mail once, it feels STUPID that in-person voting is even a thing. getting to sit with your ballot in your house, easily see your options, have time to do research and consider your choice, talk with friends and neighbors about their vote. it's especially so for small local elections and primaries where you might not have heard about different candidates and really have to ask around, attend local events, or dig into local news stories to find out who they are and what they stand for. but, of course, not allowing voters to easily research and carefully consider their votes is why there is opposition to vote by mail in the first place.

[chortlebot]

before someone screenshots this and posts it elsewhere this is me

[clawcakes]

PREV TRUTH NUKE

[silvermoon424]

First of all, WOOHOO a tweet about Sailor Moon got almost 200k likes!

Secondly, YES this is an aspect of Sailor Moon that I've always loved but hesitated to voice just because I don't want to be mistaken for a creep, lol. Both the anime and manga/Crystal reboot utilize nudity not only in an artistic sense, but as a way to represent a character being stripped down to their truest self, the essence of their very soul.

In fact, in the manga, characters in dreams, visions, or in the space between life and death (among other situations) are shown to be entirely naked or are depicted with clothes that seamlessly blend into their bodies.

And of course, the finale of the final arc has Usagi saving the day not through a last-minute power-up form, but by stripping down to her purest, truest self:

Sailor Moon has so many great examples of non-sexual artistic nudity and I hate when people are too immature to see what Naoko Takeuchi was going for.

I also love how, at the same time, Naoko doesn't portray sexuality/sex as something dirty and impure. I've said this before, but in the manga Usagi is heavily implied to be sexually active with Mamoru (in fact, it's outright stated that she's already pregnant with Chibiusa on their wedding day), but in no way does that diminish her role as the purest being in the universe and the star that shines the brightest.

I will keep screaming this into the void forever: Naoko Takeuchi and Sailor Moon really were ahead of their time, and that's why the series still resonates with so many people today.

[akindplace]

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