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we're not kids anymore.

if i look back, i am lost
Today's Document

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

Andulka
Jules of Nature

pixel skylines
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

oozey mess
Cosmic Funnies
NASA

izzy's playlists!
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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YOU ARE THE REASON
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
almost home

roma★
sheepfilms

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@pqrachel
I know I don't really post on here much anymore but hey look Art Fight. https://artfight.net/~pqRachel
Protect him
HE PUT IT INTO WORDS💞💞💞💞💞
If you're doing stuffed aminal art requests, could you draw Pikathulhu and/or Shankz?
I've had Pikathulhu since middle school. Shankz is a more recent addition, tho the rainbow vibe seems like it'd fit ur art style real well.
what a cute duo!!!! hope i did them justice :D
behold my bugs!!!
Oh my gosh I think tumblr finally fixed the image loading bug on desktop. It's been more than a year but I think they finally fixed it.
i'm really scared of posting art online these days 1 like = one me posting something random from my files for you even if its unfinished
@thecodiferus
can we go home now? (next is the team outings to the rooftop!)
I'm so sick of people saying water doesn't taste. Water fuckin TASTES
Doing daily art over on Bluesky, some of them are lewd. ;)
My Personal GotY (2025)
Normally I do this when the Steam Replay comes out but I still wasn't decided between my top two and I had over 100 hours of playtime in both, so it didn't help me decide. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Here are this year's nominees for my personal Game of the Year:
-Blue Prince -Dispatch -Hollow Knight: Silksong -RAT RUN (Variant Sudoku) -Rift of the Necrodancer -Rivals of Aether II -Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair
Starting off the year I was playing so much Rivals of Aether II ranked but when I moved to a new apartment my internet connection got so much worse and it became really annoying to play a competitive online game, so I stopped. The game is still amazing and I love the free quarterly character drops and I play them in arcade mode when they come out, but no Rivals 2 is not my choice for GotY but once a bit more single-player modes come out I can see myself getting back into it.
I didn't actually play Dispatch, but I have to show it the respect I think it deserves. That game looks amazing. I watched Jacksepticeye's playthrough of it, cuz it's been so long since I've watched a full game playthrough from him, and he actually voiced a character in it. His playthrough was almost exactly what I would've done and he got a good ending too. And it just looks fantastic, like the animation alone made it show up here.
I played a little bit of variant sudoku before this year mostly cuz of the Cracking the Cryptic YouTube channel. But this video: https://youtu.be/4Gs61djPhWU?si=1FaYbozq-JRk9epx got me back into variant sudoku in a major way with the RAT RUN series which was so fun. Then right after that I found Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair which was insanely difficult and so FREAKIN GOOD, I can't wait for it's sequel in 2026. And as amazing as both of those were, they don't really compete with more traditional games. But I had to include them because they were amazing and I think more people should try variant sudoku, it's so much more interesting than classic sudoku.
And since we're talking logic puzzles, Blue Prince is next. I really liked playing it and I also got to talk about my playthrough with multiple people as I was working through it, which made it even better. There was a lot of small annoying things that kinda bugged me as they happened but I still ultimately enjoyed it and came to like it the deeper I went. And I've played so much bad puzzle games this year that in retrospect Blue Prince was even better than I initially gave it credit for at the time. (This is a callout to The Roottrees are Dead, be better.) I still haven't FULLY beaten it but I've gotten so much enjoyment out of it regardless. But no it's not my GotY either...
Which leads me to the final two nominees, the ones I still haven't decided between. There's the obvious choice Hollow Knight: Silksong, everyone's played it and everyone's talked about it. I absolutely loved the art style and while the pacing and difficulty of Act 1 & 3 were kinda fucked to be honest, Act 2 was a practically perfect gaming experience. I kept wanting to go back, I speedran Silksong Any% and it was so fun to play and learn (HiHalls Arena excluded). But I just wish the rest of the experience was as good as its peak, because its peak was basically a masterpiece but then the rest of really completely infuriated me like no game has in a while.
And the dark horse, the one that barely gets mentioned as far as I can tell, that I just adored is Rift of the Necrodancer. An amazing rhythm game that just kept getting better the more I played it. And I kept playing and it kept getting better the more I got better at it. And I'm still playing it and still trying to get better. The soundtrack is incredible and it's making actually enjoy rhythm games and music theory, and it's just a joy to finally enjoy a whole new genre of game cuz I normally have a hard time enjoying rhythm games. It's not quite as grand and incredible as Silksong but there's no down-side it's just awesome.
So yeah even as I'm writing this I'm not quite sure which of those two I wanna pick. Silksong peak higher than maybe any game has but failed in so many ways, and Rift of the Necrodancer made me actually enjoy a rhythm game for once. (I'm being a little hyperbolic for both games, but hey, it helps me compare them.) And I don't wanna do what I did last year and change my mind a month into the next year cuz I'm still actively playing one either. This time I want it to be definite and not question it later, so my ultimate pick is...
Yeah it's 🎉 Silksong! 🎉 Like I really wish I could pick a little indie game that I think more people should play like I usually do but come on it's Silksong. How do you release a game with the expectations of being the sequel to Hollow Knight and actually fucking deliver? That's insanely impressive. What ultimately made me pick it over Rift of the Necrodancer, was the community aspect. So many of my friends and mutuals played Silksong and it was cool talking to them about, and while Rift has been amazing to play and learn, it's been mostly a solo experience for me, and any game that gets me talking to more people about it deserves some love. And this wasn't some bit to push my thoughts and make a longer post, it was genuinely super close and I didn't know who I was gonna pick going into this. So congrats Team Cherry and Silksong, you definitely earned it!
Silly fun fact about me: Every time I read the word "buoyed" I smile. I don't know how it's actually pronounced and I don't care. To me it's BOY-OH'D!!! (the exclamation marks are mandatory) and I enjoy it every time.
My Art vs Artist for 2025. (I included an alt version with my recursive self-portrait.)
Super happy with this year's art!! (I had so many good pieces it was really hard to narrow it down to just 8.) And I'm so excited for 2026. I wanna push my art a lot more in 2026: more art challenges, studies, and straying well out of my comfort zone.
Doing a 12 days of Sketchmas challenge. Just doing pencil sketch of pinterest refs to practice shading and values.
How long do y'all think I can keep the daily art streak going this time? My best was, as far I can tell, 49 days. I thought it was higher when I went to check so hey maybe I can beat it.
Tumblr's still being annoying on desktop so I'll post all the sketchmas drawings here all at once on Dec24 but if you wanna see em as I finish em check my Bsky. It's also @pqrachel.
It me.
(Shout out to @discount-supervillain for the self-portrait drawing the self-portrait idea.)
Also does Tumblr just not fucking work on desktop for anyone else? I left Google Chrome like a year or two ago cuz it stopped working there and now it's just not working at all on Opera either. Like why??
Fursona posting.
I have a feeling tumblr will appreciate this more than Bluesky.
(The pixel art one is using the pxls palette cuz I thought about adding it to the next pxls.space canvas but I'm still not sure if I'm gonna.)
Because SOMEHOW people need to be reminded of things from literally ten years ago:
"Free the nipple" never meant "free to not wear a bra" or "free to breastfeed." Those were adjacent conversations that of course "free the nipple" supporters would boost, but that was NEVER the core of free the nipple.
The core of free the nipple was always that the breasts of people perceived as women ("female-presenting nipples" to use some Tumblr speak) are in no way different than the breasts of people perceived as men. And that since the chests of people perceived as men are not sexualized and are allowed to be exposed, so too should the breasts of people perceived as women. If men can be topless, so can women. If it's inappropriate for women to show their chests, neither should men. It isn't sexual assault for a woman to walk around barechested, because it isn't sexual assault for a man to do so either, and breasts are NOT sexual organs.
Claiming breasts are inherently sexual organs is factually and morally wrong, it is sexist and controlling, it is a tool of oppression, and it defines normal body parts (and bodily functions) as sex which leads to inherent sexualization of people with those parts. It leads to 12 year olds with large breasts being accused of seducing 40 year old men or trying to distract and corrupt their classmates.
"Free the nipple" doesn't mean "free the nipple in a god-fearing way." It means FREE THE NIPPLE, full stop, end of sentence. It means to free the nipple of the faulty social constructs that cast it as a sexualized, malicious force of seduction instead of a normal body part that should be free of expectations of shame or "modesty."
Breasts and nipples aren't shameful, sexual, immoral, porn-adjacent, kinks, a distraction, or things to be feared. They are a part of your body just like your elbows and ankles, and being afraid of them, thinking they will corrupt some innocent person or that being exposed to them is trauma akin to sexual assault, is the entire fucking problem.
Free the nipple, not just for breastfeeding, not just from bras, but from the fucked up social constructs that cast them as malicious instead of innocent. Stop trying to sanitize "free the nipple" for puritanical, conservative audiences who already hate you and the rest of us. You aren't helping anyone.
Free the nipple means FREE THE NIPPLE.
Rift of the Necrodancer X UNBEATABLE Fan Art
I had this fun idea that the Rift crossovers also bring the enemies from the other games in and I think that'd be freaking cool.
(And sorry I haven't been posting here as much. Tumblr is being annoying fuck-ass on desktop and so I've only really been here on mobile.)