Matt Lifesage

I'm Matt. 29. He/Him. Writing hobbyist. Slowly burning through his visual novel backlog. Formally @mattskitchen67

[matt-lifesage]

my Xenoblade X Cross OC I got from @julymarte

SHE LOOKS INCREDIBLE

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[dasnilogi]

[picsthatmakeyougotsuchinokoreal]

DONT LET PEOPLE ON TUMBLR MAKE YOU THINK THAT:

tsuchinoko not real

tsuchinoko “just a fat snake”

its okay EAT tsuchinoko (it’s REALLY NOT)

its okay Capture tsuchinoko

[vnstudioelan]

A fox girl all alone traveling by herself, in search for someone...

August 15th is Miho's birthday! Happy birthday, Miho ❤️

[beemovieerotica]

[beardedmrbean]

[toskarin]

me: it's fine, I'll be quiet. we can just watch it

me, three minutes into the first episode:

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[normaloperafan]

[dear-ao3]

[captorations]

yugioh abridged is unironically a cultural artifact. it pretty much kicked off the whole abridging scene, yeah, and that's had crazy effects on related industries. but more importantly, it's just that. having been around for nearly two fucking decades and tending to reference then-recent memes, cultural events, and online norms means that you can use it to trace the evolution of, like, our entire fucking society over the past 18 years. it's living archaeology.

and yes that means early stuff is shitty! it was expected for comedies to casually mock gay people in 2006! hell, trans people weren't generally even acknowledged as existing, which led to running jokes about a notably feminine male character that would read as eye-searingly transphobic if made now. and it was transphobic then too, but it was more a reflection of the normalization of transphobia in comedy than an actively bigoted rhetorical choice. most of them could be easily reframed as the currently-acceptable "this character is an egg and somehow keeps failing to realize" gag with very minor adjustments. this is due to the complete lack of implied vitriol or value judgements beyond "haha that's funny."

the creator really didn't mean any harm, he just didn't understand that he was doing harm. and when he started to learn, he struggled with poe's law for a while. and then he sorted it out! and he did so at roughly the exact same pace the majority of the internet did.

and that's cool. that's expected. people learn, as individuals and in groups. and it's wild to be able to track that through a deeply unserious meme-filled parody series making fun of a shitty anime designed to sell trading cards

[captorations]

revisiting this after the creator cracked her egg to say 1. congrats to her and 2. this proves my point forever

[pissvortex]

Family in Buffalo genuinely just asked me if I would rather go to “Adolf’s” or “Nine Eleven” for lunch and they were being completely sincere

[cumdumpstiel]

youtube comments are like "i'm a 34 year old male professional bullrider and part time EMT who's never taken anything up the butt, not even a pinky finger from a hot chick lol.... but something about this song gets me right in the feels!" and the song is like Move Along - All American Rejects

[lamine-19]

scientific fact

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't remember finding fart jokes particularly funny even when I was a child.

[quasi-normalcy]

Five year old me, watching a movie with fart jokes: "Oh, how gauche. They're pandering to the lowest common denominator."

[weabooii]

Battler Learns the Box Step

thoughts below ⬇️

I've had the idea of this piece in my head for a while now, it's based on the impression I had of the game while reading the question arcs specifically, most specifically in episodes 1 to 3. I got the impression that Beatrice was guiding Battler around the story, trying to lead him somewhere he couldn't figure out. It reminded me of a guided rehearsal of a play or of a dance, hence the blue tape on the floor marking the most basic step of the waltz -- the aptly named box step. It might be a personal symbol for me, but I remember doing play rehearsals with blue tape on the floor way back in elementary school 😭.

Lambdadelta and Bernkastel are outside of the frame as observers because at the time, they struck me as a chorus of some kind, being in-universe characters who commented on the events of the unfolding "play". Their expressions partially resemble comedy/ tragedy masks, but that was more secondary for me, I was just trying to capture Bernkastel's bitterness in contrast to Lambdadelta's more relaxed attitude.

The rococo style border is because, well, I love rococo for one, but also because the imagery in rococo style furniture/ frames is inspired by ocean waves/ shells, hence the name.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my image! I'm not completely satisfied with some smaller aspects of it and I did set myself up for difficulty with the idea but I really needed to get it down lol. I can always come back to it in the future if I so desire.

[icarianarts]

Some music is just only capable of being written and performed by a bald person