the injury of finally knowing you

• zed • he/they/any • talking to me will directly fuel my canon divergence aus •

[skunkes]

if you dislike your art that much why do you keep making it?

hope this helps

[lucidloving]

Brenda Hillman, "Escape & Logic" // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Louise Glück, "Timor Mortis" // @/art.of.between on ig // Sylvia Plath, "Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest" // @mun-dane, "on love arriving unannounced" // Florence + the Machine – Girls Against God // Virginia Woolf // Molly Brodak, "Molly Brodak" // Jane Austen, Emma

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

[sesamestreep]

it’s that time of year again where you’ll be seeing “it’s okay if all you did was survive this year” type posts going around and I love those posts and I agree with them, this isn’t a criticism. What I want to add to that sentiment is that, for me personally, I actually worked really really fucking hard to make it through this year. Surviving wasn’t “just” anything for me. It’s an achievement, it took sincere and consistent effort on my part, and I’m really proud of myself for doing it because there were times I genuinely didn’t want to and it sucked. If you had a year like that, I want you to take a moment to be really proud of yourself too and I want you to know I’m glad you made it. I hope next year will be easier for all of us.

[kosmogrl]

[chaoticneutralwife]

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

[sinclairsting]

Write if you can.

If you can't write: Edit.

If you can't edit: Outline.

If you can't outline: Brainstorm.

If you can't brainstorm: Rest.

Writing is many tasks. Do whichever ones you can handle and you'll still be making progress.

[holycatsandrabbits]

Sometimes knitting is making stitches and sometimes knitting is untangling yarn. They both move the project forward even though only one actually looks like progress.

[hjartasalt]

Hey girl is that a knife that just fell through a hole in your pocket down your pant leg or is your penis very sharp and by your ankle

[hjartasalt]

[thenon-existingz]

what the fuck. i just scrolled down my drafts and i found a piece of writing that i don't remember making, fully tagged and everything. i click on the read more and there's nothing there???? i only wrote A/Ns and the things above the cut??? i've bamboozled myself

[ayitsbilly]

im obsessed with these, so i made them gifs

[iinsawdious]

they should invent a way for online friends to come over and hang out that doesn't involve money or travelling

[april]

ⓘ Tip If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.

[sycamorality]

nothing more than a target

kind of sort of a direct followup/sequel to this piece! had fun doing this one :]

[sycamorality]

( @rainyinautumn )

yeah. the sightlight directly at the bed. one of his hands slightly angled, suggesting he's ready and holding another bed. the fact you kill her where she's suposed to be safe. and yet it's where she dies now

[sycamorality]

( @crysthemist )

the viewpoint is omnicient, but fulham is a youtuber as well, so i suppose it counts! i suppose its symbolic of the amount of videos that simply focus on beating the game, all of which requires killing the dragon... it's nothing but yet another ranked run where he has to kill the dragon first to win

( @sorbusaucuparia @outofblocks )

yup!! all the hitboxes that don't particularly matter for not getting optimal damage are barely visible because that's not what's being focused on or used. even the bigger head hitbox is slightly see-through, the only hitbox that is fully visible is the small head hitbox — the one that matters the most. her sightlight is also there, but once again just barely even visible (even a bright neon blue doesn't hold up too well to a dark purple background). what she sees doesn't matter because no matter what she will be killed by the end of the day

( @nightshadeowl )

i will always take the chance to go in-depth about my art pieces when people do it themselves. i love explaining my thought process and everything that went into it, especially when we get deep into the meanings and references :') it's been extremely fun to be able to actually do this because people are engaging with it themselves

[sycamorality]

IU GET TO NERD OUT ABOUT SPEEDRUNNING TOO????????

all speedruns are on version 1.16.1 because if you look at the bartering table differences between 1.16.1 and 1.16.2, you can see a very interesting difference....

it's the pearl rates! they SUCK in any version beyond 1.16.1 (and even more since 1.21.6 because they added dried ghasts to it?????)! in 1.16.1 you get 4-8 per trade at roughly 4.7% to get some, while in 1.16.2 and beyond you get 2-4 per trade at a rhoughly 2% chance. this is awful for speedrunning because its already massive rng to get the pearls you need, but modern versions make it even worse.

(that and a lot of stuff like e-raying and 2rd monument (which isnt a strat you see commonly nowadays but yknow still worth the mention) don't work too well (eray works in newer versions but there's a few versions it doesnt work) and more difficult terrain to traverse and on average strongholds being deeper down in the world also just makes it even more annoying and worse to speedrun in any modern version, but the nail in the coffin is the pearl rates)

[sycamorality]

( @atellidoesart )

there is a bug, or an unintended interraction of features, where, if you have enough end gateways opened from killing the dragon enough and you respawn her, there's a chance she'll fly through one of the portals, and be teleported to the outer end. (i don't recall if this reopens the portal or not, i'm pretty sure it does?) you can let her explore what she hasn't before (even if shortlived because the game has her coded in a way that always makes her fly towards 0,0)

[sycamorality]

the lack of a model is meant to be more symbolic, but i really like this interpretation. i actually spent some time figuring out how to make a texture pack to make one that made the dragon invisible so i could get the hitboxes accurate :p

[sycamorality]

i suppose in part it is a criticism on how people treat the game, but for speedrunning specifically it's more of a love letter. i adore the speedrunning scene, and while most speedrunners do tend to just treat the game as something to win as fast as possible, the speedrunners i watch, which are mostly couriway and fulham, respect the game for what it is and understand it more (most likely because both of them have been playing for a long time, and running longer than most hypermodern runners nowadays).

just watching maybe an hour or two of a couriway stream shows you that he holds passion for the game, even if his goal is to beat it a hundred thousand times in a row, because he doesn't reset. he enjoys the game for what it is - he points out stuff like pink sheep, cool terrain and structure generation, sometimes even intentionally loses time in a run to do something like nametag a sheep jeb_ or another mob dinnerbone (when he gets the chance, which isn't too often), and knows a heck of a lot about the game itself. he's got a very nice perspective on the game, and speedrunning! he wants it to be accessible and he doesn't play with a calculator, so he does the triangulation for the stronghold himself!

but in part, yeah. it is a little sad how people treat the game as apathetically as they do. "this old version was better" this and that, then play it, it's in the launcher (and if it isn't then omniarchive most likely has it, unless you're looking for a lost version). the game has so much to it.... and if you don't like certain features, you can just ignore them, or get a mod that removes or changed them to your liking. the game will never cater specifically to your taste unless you make it yourself.

to me, my art is a love letter to the nostalgia and passion i have for the game. it's a love letter to what interests me - hell, there's a reason this piece is a zero cycle instead of a one cycle — the strat is so fascinating to me. they found a way to kill the dragon before it ever perches. that and i could make everything but the dragon hitbox and zero setup pure void to the symbolism.

[elogaming]

[wordx]

[hrjrjj]

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse identification: FurReal Friends "Smores"

[horsefigureoftheday]

#girl

[horsefigureoftheday]

So, fun fact about the skinned FurReal pony - I got the ID wrong, but only because Smores and Butterscotch's necks are semi-fixed in position, and I didn't think to google if the image I had of Butterscotch was mirrored.

The skinned horse IS Butterscotch, not Smores, but all of that's besides the point.

The reason I'm making this post is that y'all need to know that they skinned Butterscotch to turn her into a flamethrower

[gelphienation]

I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives