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Tired of Bot Accounts

Look, if you're an actual account who decides to follow me, please go out and like or reblog posts before doing so.

If I see an empty, Untitled account follow me, sorry-not-sorry, but you're getting blocked. And I won't check to see if you've added stuff later.

#it's bot season #stupid bots #tumblr bots #one way ticket to getting blocked #banned #but seriously #tumblr solve your bot issues please #hanatsuki esperanza

yaraef

To the lazy days that are like hiding procrastination under a rug...

hanatsuki-esperanza

Lazy Days...

#art style #drawing #reblog

janmisali

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution

Voting ended onJun 13

greatlordfluffernutter

Now, one might look at these numbers and be lead to believe that half of all tumblr users don't read posts. However, in the replies to this post you will find over a hundred users who will happily clarify to you that actually the reason why they voted the way they did isn't cause they didn't read the post but actually because they didn't bother to look at the words in the post and process them as language, a technique commonly referred to as reading the post.

#tumblr poll #tumblr stuff #tumblr humor #tumblr #tumblr culture #polls #instructions unclear #reblog

kejokaya

‘Even if the whole world believes you’re gone, I know you’ll return to us, to me.'

Sorry for cellphone quality pic. I tried editing them a bit in Photoshop to make them at least a little bit cleaner. I don’t have access to my scanner rn. 😅

Chrobin & Claudeleth, doodles of my two beloved otps

hanatsuki-esperanza

Such good OTPs.

#fire emblem #fea #fe3h #chrom fire emblem #robin fire emblem #f!robin #byleth eisner #f!byleth #claude von reigen #chrobin #claudeleth #reblog

juniperarts

Final part of my bnha/snk crossover comic titled: A wild Levi appears! (Read left ➡️ right)

Part 1 // Part 2

#CrossOver #bnha #aot #bakugou katsuki #eren jaeger #quirks #reblog #anime

lisosa

To answer your questions about Vaporeon and Empoleon I need to give you more informations about their past so here it is! 💙

(Part one here!)

And a little extra!

#piplup #eevee #empoleon #vaporeon #sea shipping #pen pals #so cute #reblog #childhood crush

artsekey

[PART 1]

Please do not repost or dub without my permission. Thank you!

#snowgrave #deltarune #red soul #deltarune soul #noelle holiday #comic #special effects #reblog

artsekey

Lots of creepy stuff in Snowgrave, but I think this scene tops the list for me.

#deltarune #spooky #noelle holiday #kris dreemurr #angst #horror #reblog #red soul #deltarune soul

comicaurora

I really liked what you did with the darkness in the caves, it reminds me of how winter nights look when there's no light sources around except for some light pollution, which is caught and reflected by snow making it much brighter even as far north as I am

This photo was taken a bit early (even if the sun is well down at half past 4pm in northen Sweden, it can get a bit darker) but I think it shows well what I mean and it resembles the saturation you used. Of course, winter is hardly very colourful, but the needles on the fir trees are almost wholly black in it, not the dark green you'd see in the summer

One of the most interesting challenges of visual art is capturing the way things look and feel instead of what they actually are. Early drafts of the dark pages were just heavily shaded with an overall layer to darken everything, because that made sense. An object in a dark room is still the same object and therefore the same color, it's just darkened, right? But it matters less what color it is and more what our eyes actually see, and night vision sacrifices color data to prioritize light, shadow and movement. It didn't make sense to me that desaturating the space would make it look darker until I tried it and my brain went "oh yea that's dark."

Side note, this is why when filmmakers are like "it's visually dark because that's realistic" I just hear "I don't understand some very fundamental aspects of the art of filmmaking." You don't obtain the most impactful result that feels the most real by playing out the "real" scenario and filming it straight, you have to do some work to construct a feel for what the audience should be experiencing when they look at it. Stylization isn't just a quirky thing people do because they're being overcomplicated, it's a vital component of translating a filmed scene for human consumption. All the choreography in the world doesn't matter if the audience can't see shit.

hanatsuki-esperanza

People should use more black and white in motion pictures and media, not just static media, it would be really cool visually.

#aurora #comic aurora #color theory #colors #black and white #reblog

fakecrfan

There is such a strange, nuanced distinction between a trope being okay at the micro-level and problematic at the macro level, and I don’t think we appreciate it enough.

Like, let’s take one trope for example: the old 80′s “career woman is unfulfilled and unhappy until she Finds Love and quits her job for a man.”

I think a lot has been said about this being a sexist trope. But I would argue that on its own, it’s actually… fine? It could even be an important story to someone, depending on execution. Because, well–work isn’t fulfilling for most people! Lots of workers, even in very high earning jobs, get burned out and are sort of encouraged to stay in this unhealthy rat race where all that matters is make line go up.

Of course a relationship can be more fulfilling than a job! Damn!

But. But.

While an individual story about a woman going “work sucks, fuck this, I actually just want to have a torrid romance and leave to have wild sex with a muscley lumberjack in the hills” doesn’t necessarily have to be sexist…. that kind of story being the overwhelming majority is.

One snowflake is harmless. A snowstorm is not.

One story about a woman being better off not working is harmless. Every single story being about it, in a culture that pressures women into having less independence and power, is not.

So then what do you do? Do you tell everyone who wants to write their cheesy lumberjack romcom to stop? Will that even work?

perihelions-babyteeth

what you do is encourage other stories too. have your lumberjack decide actually fuck cold mornings and trees he wants to go be a house husband in cozy small town vermont. have your high powered exec leave to go BE a lumberjack. have your highpowered exec be a dude, or a lesbian. The problem isnt ”too much this thing” its ”not enough anything else.”

elfwreck

And that can start with labels and statistics.

If you’re looking at individual snowflakes, you may not notice the blizzard settling around you.

But if you search for “romance” books, and 90% of them are tagged “Corp to SAHM”… you may consider looking for something else. And wondering why there’s so little of anything else.

This is why the people in power don’t like being labeled. They don’t want books to be tagged “white protagonist” because then people will notice how overwhelming those are. They don’t want news articles to say, “Joe Smith, a white man, spoke at the board meeting….” They want the privileged majority to be invisible - for everything else to be identified by its differences from the unstated norm.

There are mainstream romances labeled “reverse age gap.” They mean “older woman; younger man.” They rarely tag “age gap” for older man - that’s the assumed norm.

Book reviews mention “strong female characters” because that’s apparently notable, different from the expected.

…where are the “weak male characters?” (Also, if you want to make people’s heads explode, talk about movies and books that have “strong male characters.” It will bother them. Especially if you talk about “an unusual strong white male protagonist.”) (Because they don’t want the norm, the assumption, labeled and called out.)

To get more diverse stories, start by identifying what you’ve already got. That makes it more obvious what’s missing.

hanatsuki-esperanza

Trope analysis and tags reveals the gaps in media. The stories we tell and the stories we read shape our society.

And yet...the stories we don’t tell and the stories we don’t find are the undertones that some people will never discover.

Imagine if the books on stores had tags like Ao3.

#tropes #trends #analysis #ao3 #tags #ao3 tags #reblog

soberscientistlife

it NEEDS to be paid for accordingly.

themostpowerfulmagicofall

This is so important

hanatsuki-esperanza

If only certain people understood this...

#always hoping for a brighter future #real life #fair wages #reblog

dasketcherz

color study 🌸

#dasketcherz #legend of luoxiaohei #xiaohei #xiaobai #colors #reblog

tutumydear

I’m so, SO glad that Fakir didn’t confess his feelings to Duck in the Lake of Despair.

One of my first questions after watching Princess Tutu for the first time was

“Does Fakir love Duck?”

For anyone who might be in the same position, the answer is yes. Maybe I’ll explain why I think he ends the story in love another time. All you need to know now is that he does.

The followup question after watching the series for the first time was

“Does Duck love Fakir?”

Hmm. This one is a little tricky. I believe that by the end of the story, she’s certainly heading down that path. I believe that what she feels toward Fakir are feelings of love, but she isn’t able to recognize them as such. To her, love feels like a schoolgirl crush. It’s exciting and nervous and giddy. It makes her want to giggle and blush and run around in circles.

Compared to the puppy love she felt for Mytho, her feelings for Fakir must seem alien. Duck isn’t able to give it a name, but she is able to identify it. Feeling weak, but someone makes you feel strong? Trusting someone to stay and fight by your side, without being able to see that they’re there? Letting someone see you cry? I mentioned this earlier, but Duck doesn’t really do that. How could I have forgotten that at the end of her rope, she finally exposed her heart and fears and tears to someone, and it was Fakir? She’s close. But she’s just not there yet.

In the Lake of Despair, here is what Fakir knows.

Duck, during that moment, was in an incredibly difficult position. She was forced to face her secret, selfish desires because at the end of the day, she isn’t the perfect, pure-hearted Princess Tutu. She’s a waddling, toddling duck who was cursed with the opportunity of a lifetime, which she accepted because she had nothing to lose, and couldn’t finish the deal because she wanted to keep it all.

Mytho was going to make Rue his princess. Duck wanted to be his princess. That sucks.

Duck was afraid of being alone again. Afraid of going back to being a regular old duck who doesn’t dance or go to school or have silly friends or a cat for a teacher. It’s horribly selfish and she knows it’s horribly selfish, but despite knowing that everyone would suffer should she not finish the story, she doesn’t want the story to end.

But this isn’t her story. It’s Mytho’s, isn’t it? It always has been.

Regarding Fakir’s love for her, this isn’t their story either. Duck isn’t in a position to be emotionally available for handling a confession. Whether she loves him back or not, romantically or otherwise, the two of them have a mission, and love will have to wait.

Here’s why I’m glad:

To choose not to confess is an act of love. It is! Fakir could have chosen to impose his feelings on her, to burden her with another thing to worry about while the weight of their known world was on her shoulders. To confess to her, to kiss her, to force her to consider him as a romantic partner, would have been selfish of him.

Instead, all he gives her is a promise. Not to be dramatic, but to this day, it is one of the most beautiful promises I’ve ever heard. It is one built upon unwavering faith and loyalty, and does not require a platonic or romantic label to be true.

And as Fakir dips her low, he takes her in. Duck’s eyes are closed, you may remember, so she might not realize how carefully he studies her face. This is truly his last opportunity to tell her while she’s still guaranteed to be human. They’re alone, they’re dancing, this is such a emotionally meaningful moment for both of them. “It’s just too perfect.”

But no, he won’t. Because he loves her

hanatsuki-esperanza

Princess tutu continuing to defy tropes and expectations.

#writing #study of media #princess tutu #fakir #ahiru #love #reblog

lapzoli

love-parched

summary:

sometimes the best things in life don’t go according to plan. sometimes, you find love in mysterious ways. sometimes, the love you’re searching for isn’t the love you need.

based on @edorazzi ‘s mentor au

words: 4,403

pairing: felix/bridgette, adrien|chat noir/ladybug (minor)

“Can I add more sprinkles?”

“Of course!”

Adrien blinked as Bridgette poured more than half the bottle of sprinkles onto the cookies he had been decorating.

“You can never have too many sprinkles,” she told him, ruffling his hair before going back to cutting out the red paper heart chains.

“That’s certainly debatable,” remarked Felix as he came in through the door, setting several bags of groceries on the counter. “It looks positively….pink in here.”

“We’re not done yet.” Bridgette kissed her fiance’s cheek as he began unpacking the food, waving Adrien away when he tried to help them. “The apartment will be bursting with red and pink hearts when Adrien and I are done!”

Felix sighed dramatically, but Adrien could tell the older boy wasn’t really annoyed as he smiled at his fiancee.

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#mentor au #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #felix #bridgette #adrien agreste #reblog