Forever alone, but baby, I do it with style

val diehard -✩- bruce springpeen + ocean's 11 loser -✩- poems, fics, + art the beloveds

[sendnood-le-s]

What's up, Tumblr? Ya boy's returned. I think I've got a better handle on how this website works, and I'm more confident engaging with fandom spaces, so here we are :)

[sendnood-le-s]

Alright, 'sup, everyone? My name's Noodle. I’m (gestures vaguely) some kind of chiller.

I also post on Ao3 and/or reblog things here for the following fandoms: Valorant Ocean’s 11 Law & Order (Original + SVU, fuck OCrime) Call of Duty Valorant Streamer RPF (ask me about this, and I will imprint on you like a mutt) + whatever else catches my eye

Excited to be here :) Much love, much peace o7

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Banner: About (MT 97 4) by Mark Tansey, oil paint on canvas

[Last updated Aug. 11th, 2026]

[2002-secretary]

“i don’t bite” well i do so what now

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

[polarity-disturbed]

Being able to draw older people as attractive without reducing or erasing the visual signs of aging, and in fact showing that they're attractive because of those signs, is an artistic skill that should be valued so much more. Honestly, it should earn you an immediate fortune because holy fuck is it a rare commodity. There are so many artists who seem to think attractiveness and aging exist in opposition to each other, so they smooth every wrinkle, erase every crease, and de-age the character until they're basically thirty with silver hair. But when an artist can look at crow's feet, smile lines, weathered skin, deep-set wrinkles, and all the little traces of a life well lived and say, "No, that's what makes them beautiful," that's a level of artistic observation and care I wish we celebrated more often.

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[ghqx]

Method Man’s Fangs

[treecitysessions]

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

You’ll need the link!

Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

[somecunttookmyurl]

when it's "the most significant solar eclipse since 1999" but you live in scotland

[somecunttookmyurl]

periodically nipping back over to the bedroom window to see if there's been any improvement in the cloud situation

if anything i think it's worse now actually

[akinari-kashihara]

My fuck ass nothinggggggg

[somecunttookmyurl]

this is so fucking funny imagine voluntarily coming up here to look at the sky

[herpsandbirds]

Western Lesser Siren (Siren intermedia nettingi), family Sirenidae, found int he South-central U.S.

This eel-like aquatic salamander retains its gills.

They have only 2 tiny front limbs.

They grow to a length of up to 69 cm (27 in).

photograph by Yinan Li

[leondore]

[70sscifiart]

Nigerian artist and actor Bolaji Badejo, who played the titular Alien in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic

[hero1nbob]

[bugdotpng]

it's mud and sludge and guts and gore and violence and death wednesday everyone give it up for mud and sludge and guts and gore and violence and death wednesday

[mutant-distraction]

📷 source; Otto JS

[mutant-distraction]

The common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands

[oldschoolgangster]

Tupac Smoke in 4K