Smol-ouroboros

she/her, queer (too lazy to think about it)

[sertxbn]

Drawing of the original version of "Zoey" from K-pop Demon Hunters, featuring the smile from her final version: ✨💚😁

[otrebot]

Transfem Peter Parker drawings I forgot to post

[one-time-i-dreamt]

small brown rodent-like mammals could be used as a very powerful explosive, and destroyed the lab they were in

[one-time-i-dreamt]

what the FUCK

[lightningbreath]

THE CRITERION BLU-RAY / 4K ART FOR KPDH JUST DROPPED

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[tsunflowers]

the thing with romance for me is that you need to convince me through behavior and dialogue that the characters enjoy spending time with each other and seek each other out. even with enemies to lovers a foundation of mutual respect goes a long way. you can be like "he's the youngest ever general of the dragon slaying guild and I'm secretly a dragon, but he's the best swordsman I've ever fought and our sparring matches are the only thing that make me feel alive ever since my family was killed." if he implies something similar then bam, you have a reason for the two of them to hang out even though one of them knows it's dangerous. you can't be like "he's a dragon slayer and he's mean to me all the time but the flex of his arms when he swings his sword is just too sexy." it does not matter how many times you have your protagonist say "I shouldn't be drawn to him... but I am" if you never show a real moment of connection between them that draws them together

[princington]

sweet nothings

[homunculus-argument]

I don't want to get all "hur hur that's not realistic" to amateur writers, but I want to make sure that everyone knows this: in a medieval or medieval-ish setting, someone who's seen an archer before would definitely be able to tell whether someone's an archer just by looking at them.

Archeologists can't tell for sure whether someone was assigned male or female when alive from bone structure, but they can tell whether someone was an archer. Longbow archer, anyway. The way their arms and shoulders were strongly muscled in a very asymmetrical way is pretty much unmistakable, and they were muscled enough that it's visible in their bones. If someone's seen what archers look like, they can tell whether a stranger they've never seen before can shoot a bow or not.

Finding an unarmed and unconscious, soft-bodied and narrow-shouldered stranger in the woods, the first clue that this mf is not a ranged nor melee fighter is not by whether his fingers are calloused in the right places for a bowstring. A medieval bowman was built like a brick shithouse.

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[wizardarchetypes]

i know it's been said on here and said again but people do so desperately need to genuinely do intentional work to build distress tolerance and start figuring out how to recognize the differences between danger, discomfort, and when a situation that is merely uncomfortable is triggering an emotional flashback in your bodies because it resembles a past situation that actually was dangerous which makes it difficult to realize/believe that this moment is merely uncomfortable.

[wizardarchetypes]

i spoke to an allistic person who said their autistic classmate had a meltdown in class, during which the autistic classmate collapsed to the floor in the middle of the room, screaming and crying. they said it was "terrifying" and they were arguing for the autistic student to be removed permanently from the program.

when i asked whether their autistic classmate's meltdown was dangerous or merely uncomfortable, they said, "i felt like i was in danger!"

i understand that. but that's not what i asked.

[wizardarchetypes]

"i shouldn't have to experience that."

yes you should, actually. that's life. upsetting things happen. no one should have to experience any discomfort. but we do. we get stung by bees and sunburns and headaches. we live in bodies in the world.

autistic people are human beings who have the right to exist in society, including during meltdowns. having one class of your entire semester interrupted by a singular meltdown is not anymore of an infringement upon your entitlement to education than having your class interrupted by a fire alarm or cancelled for a snow storm.

one of my peers once experienced a cardiac event 10 minutes into class. it was terrifying. it was desperately upsetting. i was contacted by the school and offered counseling because i happened to be the one who managed the situation until paramedics arrived. everyone was worried about my classmate first and foremost, and then about me. no one blamed anyone, and certainly when my classmate happily recovered and returned to school, no one thought they should be removed from the program.

the difference being that people believe a disabled personal, especially with cognitive disabilities, in crisis are not experiencing something outside of our control, but instead that we are in fact making a choice to make a scene, out of malice.

[homunculus-argument]

Sorry to put screenshots of tumblr ads on your tumblr feed but it just occurred to me how fucking incomprehensible this ad with all its AI slop illustration glory would be to someone who is not the target audience for this kind of thing.

People who have no idea what the fuck is going on: Give me your best occam's razor explanations of what the hell you're looking at.

[p0tat0-g0ddess]

i am actually insufferable once I get comfortable with someone

[p0tat0-g0ddess]

Be My Friend and gain access to top hits such as

wild mood swings

constant need for attention

hearing about All my problems

crying

having my latest hyperfixation explained to you in excruciating detail

forgetting what I'm doing every 5 seconds

[scleroticstatue]

What a beautiful thing to be someone a friend feels safe to be vulnerable with

[p0tat0-g0ddess]

how dare you turn my self-deprecating midnight rambles into a hopecore positive post

[scleroticstatue]

Get hoped

[summercosmos]

ring ring ring hair dye is calling

[paleblue-s]

it’s me again. and i’m here with more Melia thoughts. isnt it so… fun to wake up to a stranger. to see her trusted friend’s face and voice. she knows the host’s body as her friend. the Interceptor. but this isn’t. it’s Aero(in my case). she doesn’t know them, she doesn’t know what happened.

but then the two of them find M2’s diary… oh. yes. imagine the complete shock and horror to see this side of herself that Melia knows exists deep down inside her. all directed to her trusted friend, the Interceptor. hating the Interceptor with every single fibre of her body. being obsessive over them and wanting to see them again. just so she can finally deliver unto them justice for HER ruined world.

the first thing Melia did was to legitimately brush it under the rug and literally move on. she ignores it because she doesn’t even know how to process it. i don’t think she’s been processing any of her emotions in any proper way since her time in Prima Cortex. but she has enough hope and talent to get further than M2 and Aero. enough to earn the right to meet with Variya.

i am just literally itching to write the strained relationship between Melia and the Interceptor despite their obvious deep bond. the stress that they both are burned with getting to them. lashing out at each other throughout the timelines. apologising after. i need it all.

[comicaurora]

2.8.12 - Aurora

last time on Dragon Ball Z

and the timelines finally realign

[amiya-shirou]

actually the way society hates both perverts and asexuals is kinda funny. Real "Anyone who thinks about sex more than I do is a porn-addicted degenerate and anyone who thinks about sex less than I do is a loser weirdo or a puritan" energy

[amiya-shirou]

incredible tag thank you

[is-this-fascism]

its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.

and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer

[is-this-fascism]

see this is exactly what i mean. i thought someone was having a mental break of some kind in my notes until i remembered what i had posted last night