Lyrical Dissonance

[trumpetangst]

A drag of musical instruments

violins: the magikarp of instruments, after years living with terrible squeaky, teeth-grinding scrapy music you will be blessed with a powerhouse of emotion that is still somehow overrated

violas: awkward teenager of the strings, but when bold enough to speak actually sounds rather lovely

cello: beautiful bastards who are much smoother than their owners 

bass: big daddy who seems tough but needs the most looking after

flute: levelled up recorder who sacrificed tone for range

piccolo: steam train whistle on speed

oboe: so high maintenance that from what I gather if you start using a different toothpaste the reed might complain

cor anglais: the soul of a goose is trapped inside every one

clarinet: two modes - pompous rooty-tooty or slutty jazzman

bass clarinet: loveable foghorn

bassoon: old gentleman fart machine

contrabassoon: old elephant fart machine

horn: sound can vary from anything between ‘love incarnate’ to ‘surprised cow’

trumpet: used and abused by large egos everywhere, personalities include ‘royal announcer’, ‘moody parisian drinking in a jazz bar in Budapest’ and ‘imperial parp parp’

trombone: chill enough most of the time but secretly relishes going from 1 - 100 with 0 warning and scaring the everloving Jesus out of everyone

bass trombone: like a great dane needs a strong, patient handler

tuba: like a really big, heavy, noisy four year old who sits on your knee for the whole of rehearsal

harp: the musicalisation of an impressionist painting, beautiful but too much time, effort and money are involved for most people

piano: most people’s gateway drug into music

timpani: ‘the shower in a friends house’ at first glance looks simple enough to use, but upon closer inspection complex set up is required to use them effectively.

percussion: like ordering a mystery bag online, you’re provided with a bunch of things you probably will never use or don’t know how to use. If you’re lucky you might get a triangle.

(not intended to be a complete list

[askcosplaysenpai]

tag yourselves, I’m imperial parp parp

[kyrstin]

hear me out: a cutthroat kitchen-type contest for fanfic writers. contestants are given a different trope to write each round. sabotages include making an opponent write in first person, requiring them to write in a particular AU, making them incorporate the opening structure of my immortal. alton brown looks over your shoulder while you write the smut.

[zygomafantasy]

Oh, god.

@bipolar-berry-crunch

[anotherjen]

A grab bag of horrible euphemisms are on the table, you bid for the privilege of being the only author allowed to use “cock”

[berlynn-wohl]

You only get to use the character’s names and/or their pronouns once for every 1000 words. Beyond that, you must say “the taller one,” “the detective,” etc.

[fifteen seconds before you’re eliminated] “So this is a, sort of a, rustic, deconstructed high school bodyswap fake relationship fic…”

“I was so psyched to write my Fuck Or Die fic! I immediately picked up symbolic flowers, a prostate massager, and the dog they would adopt together…and then I realized – I totally forgot the aliens to make them do it.”

The most brutally sabotaged contestant ends up writing something so bad it becomes the most famous fic in all of fandom, forever. No one remembers who actually won the contest.

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

lets bring back sheetwares

[ardatli]

When you’re carding, spinning and weaving everything from scratch, using the big squares exactly as they come off the loom must seem like a fucking brilliant idea. 90% (or more) of pre-14th century clothing is made purely on squares (and sometimes triangles cut from squares). 

[annathecrow-that-was]

How did they get the fabric so fine it draped like that? Was that something medieval europe forgot? Or do I just have a completely misguided image of historical clothing?

[ardatli]

Medieval Europe also had incredibly fine weaves, though the ancient world tended to have them beat. Linen was found in Egypt woven with a fineness that we’re still trying to replicate, and there was a kind of cotton woven in India called ‘woven wind’ that was supposedly still translucent at eight layers, and wool shawls so fine that the entire thing could be drawn through a wedding ring. 

The way they could get away with pinking and slashing doublets in the 16th century was partially because the fabrics were so tightly woven that you could simply cut a line on the bias and nothing would fray. 

Modern fabric machining sucks ass in terms of giving us any kind of quality like the kind human beings produced prior to the Industrial Revolution. 

[spazzbot]

*yells about textile history*

[dapurinthos]

cloth was kept in the treasury because it was that awesome and that expensive. 

awhile back, there was an exhibition with copies made of tutankhamun’s wardrobe and here’s how they made those pieces.

[gummyseacreatures]

just belt it

[thefloatingstone]

I actually managed to finish it in time! :D although I don’t think the third picture I wanted to do is gonna be complete for Halloween.

These people who can put down quick comic ideas in like a really sketchy doodle style??? How do you guys do that???? It’s friggen witchcraft, I swear.

Once again, Papyrus’ costume is originally by @kohn-ningezoo-fanart

[taiga-ameca]

what she says: i'm fine

what she means: if they weren't sure about the status of a fourth golden sun game, why did dark dawn ask so many questions? how did alex survive the golden sun event and his encounter with the wise one? and what the hell has he been up to since? who are the tuaparang? who is the high empyror? what is the umbra clan? what are their motives? where did isaac and garet go? who let garet grow that bad dad mustache? was that big psynergy vortex at the end the mourning moon? where is felix? where's piers? did piers hook up with mia's daughter? WHY DID CAMELOT MAKE THE FIRST PART OF A STORY THAT THEY WEREN'T SURE THERE WOULD BE A SECOND PART TO?

[it-refused]

ok like so a lot of darker papyrus stories are interested in putting him into situations where he kind of has to face the awful realities in the world.  like the stories where sans dies first and he’s the one in the judgement hall.  and the ones where like flowey possesses him and tries to make him kill people and so on.  like, figuring out how papyrus would act in these situations–would he give up on hope, or would he keep believing in everyone?–makes an interesting story.

meanwhile, i’m like “what if papyrus suddenly has to deal with mortgage payments”

[imagineyouroc]

spoil your OC's storyline/character arc with no context

(inspired by those “spoil the ending of your favorite game/movie/book but with no context” posts)

[hexensaber]

Woops a baby of light!

[raspberrymilkyway]

Kidnapping and amnesia oh boy!

[sleepyhugs]

Learn to embrace your fears, literally.

[cocokoalatea]

Deaf Frankenstein…only with robots and not corpses.

[taiga-ameca]

Okay but... now what? THE GAME.

[dogbomber]

Undertale Cards, Part 2!

Now that people have started receiving their cards, I can finally show the extra cards I did for the set. And here they are!

Burgerpants - Page of Wands Bratty and Catty - Two of Cups Mad Dummy - Ace of Swords Dogamy and Dogaressa - The Lovers Small Bird - Knight of Pentacles/Coins Onionsan - Eight of Swords Stronger Monsters - The World Lesser Dog - Page of Swords Mettaton Neo - The Star Grillby - The Sun (You can find the original 22 cards here!) Hang on. It seems that one of the original cards has changed a bit.

Looks like Gerson’s in the Hanged Man spot. Who was it before…? I can’t remember. Oh well! Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who’s bought a set, and to everyone else who’s enjoyed the cards! I hope you like them as much as I loved making them. Big shout out to Toby Fox and Fangamer for making all this possible!

[ffxivreactions]

When your Ramuh EX party is about to wipe

[memewhore]

[cartel]

Don’t know what to get your special someone????

[fullofowls]

Originally posted by blueyedskele

[taiga-ameca]

FFXIV sentient weapon quests

Post Relic/Zodiac/Anima Quest Me: Dammit, making this sentient weapon took FOREVER, thank the devs for allowing us to use this weapon to get ahead in the new one.

Animus weapon: Go get FATE dropped crystals.

Me: Not this shit again.

Animus weapon: Or you can take that sentient weapon you already made and we can turn it into the stuff you need.

Me: ... ... ... ...

Me: ... I’ll go farm your damn crystals.

[swagreninja]

[dolleyeresponse]

HEY NINTENDO YOU CAN’T JUST DROP THAT SHIT ON US. YOU CAN’T JUST PUT A DUGTRIO WITH HAIR IN THE DEMO AND NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT YOU CAN’T JUST. NINTENDO, WE’RE REAL PEOPLE? YOU DON’T TREAT PEOPLE THAT WAY, YOU CAN’T JUST DROP A BOMBSHELL LIKE THAT ON US WITH NO WARNING. I NEED DETAILS. STATS. TYPES. ABILITIES. WHAT WAS THE ECOLOGICAL PRESSURE THAT MADE DUGTRIO GROW THREE FULL HEADS OF LUSCIOUS GLIMMERING HAIR. NINTENDO I NEED ANSWERS AND I NEED THEM NOW

[coelasquid]

Hey kid, what’s going on, want to check out my pit of souls?

Yeah, those souls sure are way deep down in that pit there huh?

Or… not? Get your hands out of my soul pit.

Okay, I’ll admit that’s apparently some impressive reach…

Like, really impressive reach….

[taiga-ameca]

Writing while deliriously tired

While Writing: I'm so creative right now, it's like all the normal constraints have been lifted. Wow I wrote 2,000 words in 30 minutes! This is going to be great.

Rereading the Next Day: I used the word 'Beautiful' 8 times in this sentence and instead of 'reassuring' I wrote 'refrigerator.' Also the tenses switched 3 times in one paragraph and I started writing about a character who isn't even in this story.

[bentejam]

Based on the Lilo and Stitch scene. How your best friend came into your life.

[tajemniczepudelko]

OMFG XD

[mintffxiv]

I NEVER wanna forget that!!!!!!