we are nothing if not absurd

Roz, they/them, artist. my art blog is @rosenkranz-does-things

[rosenkranz-does-things]

got an ask recently about the way my digital art looks like traditional, so I tried to explain the steps on my self portrait, feat. some of my favorite artists and favorite brushes. sorry if it's incoherent, I'm not used to explaining my process besides "I've been professionally studying traditional art for half my life and I'm really bad at technology so I just paint digitally the way I do on paper"

[widows-bay]

The ‘Widow’s Bay’ Team Reveals Secrets, Stories & Season 2 Hopes || DEADLINE

[pomegranatefae]

nona the ninth is a fucking roller coaster from start to finish. it's the third book in a series and it starts with three returning characters who were barely in book 2 and everyone else is new. It follows a gravity falls arc in tone, ie it starts as a slightly weird slice of life story and by the end they're fighting ancient eldritch abominations from actual hell, and not a moment in that transition feels out of place or jarring. our first impression of the main character is the list of people she wants at her birthday party and the first five names on the list are dogs. our last impression of her is some of the most heartbreaking dialogue ever written.

[mappingthexfiles]

North Texas Fight The Future

[hatosyscurls]

"what would you do if AI went away tomorrow????"

idk, rejoice that we might get the good autocorrect back again?

[ceruleanheaven]

i am always one wrong word away from being shot by all the people who find me tolerable

[gideonisms]

can someone start some tlt discourse again I need something to distract me

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

Never seen x-files but I'm curious about Chris carters need to punish the audience. Was it similar to a supernatural situation? Or was it more covert?

I don't know anything about the supernatural situation, but it's certainly not covert, and it's still going on (he recently released a director's cut of the x files' 2008 movie which was already bad and is now even worse because he cut the movie's only redeeming scenes). he very badly wanted his two leads to be a buddy cop duo, no hanky panky involved, but the ever growing female audience picked up on the very obvious chemistry and birthed the term "shipping". Chris Carter did Not like that, he kept pushing his agenda despite the actors and most of the other writers' wishes, "platonic coworkers" is still a meme in the x files fandom. now, I'm not a big fan of romance in media myself, and I think he could've made it work, but the way he went about it was incredibly misogynistic (only the male lead was allowed to get laid, and god forbid a woman experiences sexual attraction: she immediately gets punished for it). the original run (somehow, miraculously) ends with them getting together, but watch out! in 2008 he releases this terrible awful no good movie. Mulder and Scully are emptied of all the juice that made the characters work so well together and separately. and then. there are the revivals. Mulder and Scully are divorced for an unknown reason. it's revealed that the child they had in the original series (long story) was actually a product of medical rape. another reveal that follows quickly after this one is Scully's pregnant again. she's in her 50's and infertile, but who cares, because woman must have baby, right? obviously the fanbase was upset with all that, as was Gillian Anderson, who said that she didn't want to do anything with this show ever again. but Chris Carter just kept saying that nobody understands his genius vision, he has plans for more seasons (even after one of his leads noped out of it). fast forward a few more years, he releases that director's cut, emphasis on "cut" because it's shorter than the original movie, devoid of all the scenes that imply any hint of romance between Mulder and Scully (except, ironically, the one where they're in bed together which he couldn't cut completely because they're discussing the case. y'know. as coworkers do). so yeah, sorry this is long and convoluted, but Chris Carter is one weird guy. let it go dude, it's been over 30 years. come on.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[gregor-samsa-daily]

today's gregor samsa is: getting diagnosed by house md

requested by: anonymous

[pinkvbay]

Attack on @rosenkranz-does-things's Juniper

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

hey guys, I don't think "yeah fanfics are stupid anyway" is an appropriate response to a post saying that you should read books and not just fanfiction. books are great and you should definitely read more but don't think that never reading and/or writing fic makes you morally superior

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[peniswizard69]

What if there was toxic yuri between girl who was a lock and a girl who was the key. And it wasn't romance but it was butch4butch. And they both had situationships with this incestuous grift princess that ate a guy, and their only other friends were a supergenius and a living weapon from Planet Nerd who were so codependant they fused into one person named Paul. And the lockgirl was in love with the thing in the locked box, which was the planet Earth but also an unstoppable indestructible Barbie with anger issues but also the sweetest happiest hopefulest lovingest specialest girl in the universe. And the keygirl was Jesus

[clickrtraind]

parents will rlly be like sorry for ruining ur childhood but you were a child so it doesnt matter anymore right

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

not now mom I have to see what my mutuals with masters degrees are blogging about on tumblr

[fairycosmos]

person who genuinely hates themselves so much they can barely look anyone in the eye: i must remain humble lest my hideous ego spiral out of control