End table for Orphans!

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[sayruq]

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian

Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!

[smeared1992]

you used to be able to get a job just by circling a listing in a newspaper in red pen

[ratica]

[tartrazeen]

And newspapers

[tealmussel]

It's me and my oc x canon against the world

[achillesinhighheels]

[misty-wisp]

aaaand my last few artfight attacks! these feature:

Fujisaki and Hasu by @purple-cloud-000

Mo and Renji by ghostlyghoulboi and @snippsnoip

Kenna by @ashymations (featuring Reigen tee hee)

Ace by @kaiser-6875935

Lili by Giulz

Tori by BirdOfHermes223

and Constantine, Al, Faye, and Gavin by @serizawasgamecube!!

[tlirsgender]

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

[tlirsgender]

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

[tlirsgender]

Realizing I'm somebody's longterm follower who they don't follow back but check in on every so often. This is what's happening when you see the [Following] in your notes

[engine-oil-or-strawberry-filling]

Kicking off Dragon Age Kiss Week again with Morrigan and little Kieran.

The one from last year keeps popping up in my notifications a year later and I gotta say, I'm glad so many people love Momrigan, too.

Based on the "Venus and Amor" statue by Reinhold Begas!

[kamenridereins]

sighs fondly. godzilla against mechagodzilla

[heckyeahponyscans]

I watched the live action version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on Youtube and I was not ready for the utter lack of emotions from the CGI animals.

Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:

Also, in CGI this song called "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" does not take place at night.

[naamahdarling]

[ktrew]

This is my postcrad for jayce_zine

I also drew a page for Jayce Zine, but I can't show it until pre-orders are closed. The card will have a holographic effect; the rainbow-colored things to the left of Jayce will shimmer like multicolored foil 🌈

[lostxanadu]

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

[bunabi]

[distressed laugh of reminiscence] dragon age

[anarchistmemedistro]

[atomicwrongs]

Having your interests mocked as a kid and general low self esteem will have you insulting the things you like even when they're generally considered very good. Because you like it, and historically when you like something it's stupid and not worth anyone's time. So you will say nonsense like "I recommend this book/game/film, but it's okay if you hate it, it sucks, I really enjoyed it but that's because I'm an idiot" and you are recommending them the Citizen fucking Kane of that particular media type. And importantly: you need to stop doing this it is killing you

[princewylder]

I am having the time of my life with the new Pocket set, dragon lovers FINALLY winning

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

I'm trying a new productivity hack 💪 where when I have things that are stressing me out 😳 , instead of not doing them 🚫, I do them 💯

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Working great so far! 😊

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Problem! 😮 More things! 😭

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??