DAVID TENNANT sprinkled with stars attending The Olivier Awards 2024 (April 14, 2024)

Just have to add absolutely hilarious tags by @destinyandcoins because everyone needs to see these spot on comments💯💯💯💯💯

theyre not even microtransactions anymore its just straight up full size purchases. like anything over a dollar thats a whole purchase. stop letting them get away with calling them micro. theres nothing micro about 20 dollars

another one i'm probably never gonna finish

trying so hard........ sweating profusely

Hello everyone, here is a comic. I drew this the way I draw all of my comics: with one person (me) and with a punchline planned from the start. Any other way to draw a comic would be very silly and would require me to tag people like @buggachat and @ladybeug if they were somehow in any way involved in the comic making process. Which they weren't. I drew this solo and by myself.

Day 2 in the Middle School Time Loop: you remember that last time, everyone ignored you at recess because they were talking about a TV show that you hadn’t watched. This time, you lie and say you’ve seen it. They ask you who your favorite character is, and you don’t know any of the characters, and so you’re tongue-tied. They think you’re weirder than ever, or maybe a liar, which is worse (and true).

Day 3 in the Middle School Time Loop: you tell your parents that you feel ill. They let you stay home while they’re at work. You spend the whole day watching past episodes of the TV Show.

Day 4 in the Middle School Time Loop: Recess again. The same person asks you who your favorite character is. This time, you're ready. You eagerly tell them, and supplement your reasons for liking them with solid evidence from all 4 seasons of the show. But! Tough luck: you’re now too invested. The atmosphere turns uncomfortable. They go back to ignoring you like they did on the Day 1 that you didn’t know was Day 1.

Day 5 in the Middle School Time Loop:

Shawn and Gus are drift compatible but under no circumstances should they ever be allowed to pilot a jaeger

Shawn: Shawn Spencer, Psychic Ranger, and this is my copilot, Jaeger McFlavour.

Jaeger McFlavour: The british spelling.

“Shawn, you can’t bring the pineapple into the Jaeger.”

“Gus, are you jealous of the pineapple?”

“No. I hate it when the sticky pulp gets everywhere after you forget about it and it gets exploded.”

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If I had a quarter for every time Pearl initially had a hostile relationship with someone only to go through a character arc where her relationship with them improves and becomes friendly and ends with her picking them up like a bride, I’d have two quarters. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

Bothering the beast

Roses are red

Storm clouds are grey

Poetry is great.

lemme try…

Roses are red,

Some tulips are black,

The roses have bloomed,

The ground is muddy,

THIS IS SO ICONIC ALSHDJSKFKDJG

I have never seen a single episode of ATLA, but I can fill in all of these blanks.

on worldbuilding, and what people think is going on

there is one facet of fantasy worldbuilding that is, to me, the most interesting and essential but i don't see it come up in worldbuilding guides or writing prompts or anything, and that is the question of:

what do the inhabitants of your world believe about how the world works, and how are they wrong? a lot of fantasy media will set up their cosmology, gods, magic systems, planar systems, concepts of the afterlife, &c., and proceed as though the inhabitants of the world know and understand them.

from someone whose entire academic career is focused on studying human culture in various regions and time periods, with a focus on belief systems (religion, occultism, mythology, folklore): that sort of worldbuilding is unrealistic and missing out on so much fun.

people are always seeking new understanding about how the world works, and they are mostly wrong. how many models of the solar system were proposed before we reached our current one? look at the long, turbulent history of medicine and our various bizarre models for understanding the human body and how to fix it. so many religions and occult/magical traditions arise from people disagreeing with or adapting various models of the world based on new ideas, methods, technologies. many of them are wrong, but all of them are interesting and reflect a lot about the culture, beliefs, values, and fears of the people creating/practising them.

there is so much more to the story of what people believe about the world than just what is true.

to be clear: i think it's fine and important for the author to have a coherent explanation for where magic comes from or who the gods are, so they can maintain consistency in their story. but they should also be asking what people in the world (especially different people, in different regions/nations and different times) think is happening when they do magic, or say a prayer, or practise medicine, or grieve their dead. it is a rich vein for conflict between individuals and nations alike when two models of the world disagree. it is fascinating how different magic systems might develop according to different underlying beliefs.

personally, i think it is the most fun to spawn many diverse models of the world, but give none of them the 'right' answer.

(bonus points if you also have a thriving academic system in the world with its own theory, research, and discourse between factions! as an academic, it is very fun to imagine fictional academic debate over the topics i'm worldbuilding. sometimes i will be working out details for some underlying mechanic of the world and start imagining the papers being written by scholars researching it)

Heya guys. Sorry for posting this for the billionth time. But maybe if you guys would like to give my posts about patreon a boost it would mean the world to me. I know I post this a lot and I don't take any help I receive for granted. I've only been able to make two new drawings since February. Bc every day I have been working almost 9 hours. I'm sick nearly every other week, my lymph nodes are swollen n I've been feeling incredibly depressed. I am from the global south, in the philippines, government help is near nonexistent. I am the sole caretaker of three disabled people. My mom can not do any housework, she is a full time wheelchair user, she needs care 24/7, insulin, adult diapers and kidneys that are under threat of failing if we don't watch her health, my dad has a chronic heart condition and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. Both my parents are diabetic, and I am the only person in my family who can work. I currently have three jobs, one in publishing, but I have a morality clause which means the publishing house can take back every single penny I make if I or the author fail to meet certain expectations. Anyway.. I have been working nonstop, my scoliosis is untreated and extremely painful, n for the past few four days I have been rationing a single can of spam and a few potatoes. Would mean the world to me if you guys could pick up a print, or subscribe to my patreon, or reblog any of my old art or send me a tip on ko-fi or anywhere else. Sorry and thank you again. I remake these a lot, but I sincerely don't take any of the help I receive for granted. Thank you again.

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I was not wanting to repost this again. But some life updates. It happened again. Part of my room rotted away, and I didn't notice. Cleaned out and ate about 7 of my textbooks and four of my beloved manga.

Would appreciate if any of you guys could check out any of my socials, or buy a print or send a tip. Nothing will go to book replacements, everything will go to an exterminator and plywood to patch up the new hole. Sorry this is a bit brief. I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry for this and thank you again.

our house w/c is technically just a cottage and made only w wood has a termite infestation, a portion of my room now has a hole, during summer. But most of the second level of our house, the floors are rotted and have like these spots that are sinking. Maybe any of my mutuals here will have a follower w disposable income. Anything helps genuinely. My #1 fear is homelessness so am a bit neurotic rn, barely able to work with my anxiety, as I have been homeless for almost 10 years, nearly half of my life, and my constant source of anxiety and depression. ! My iPad is my main source of income, as all my drawings are made partially on procreate, and my iPad storage was totally full, and I needed to buy a new device to safely put my files in, so spent some cash there. Anyone who would like to help, anything does. Thank you so much, guys.

Hello guys, apologies again for reblogging this. Our family cat passed away suddenly 2 days ago at the er vet, and I had to pay 200 usd out of pocket. Overall. Just an upsetting way to start the month, as termites have eaten some of my shirts, books, pillow cases and bedsheets. Currently battling a tooth abscess and in some pain, and the electricity bill is about to to drop, and trying to stay sane through all this. Have missed work for over three days now. Would appreciate if anyone could help me out of this muck, by picking up a print, subscribing to my patreon, or sending a tip. It's my birthday next week, any help will absolutely turn things around. Thank you so much.

Hey guys. Inprnt offering free shipping everywhere..maybe you guys can pick up a couple of prints from my store. My situation has improved only a little, but still in a vulnerable position . Would mean the world to me if you guys check out my store!

aesthetics lack any fundamental political stance; any aesthetic-based subculture can harbor both leftwing and rightwing sentiments. from punk to cottagecore, fashion and music and art are just aesthetics, and will be enjoyed by anyone of any belief, regardless of how progressive you think the community should be

I don't agree with the wording on music and art being just aesthetics as both of those are very often quite political. There can for example be an anti-war song and a song about glorifying violence against marginalised people in the same musical genre associated with a subculture. Same can be said about visual art.

Otherwise I really agree, I was just trying to expand on your point.

sure but then like. republicans LOVE fortunate son and rage against the machine and all these explicit leftwing art pieces, in the same way a ton of leftwing trans women love warhammer 40k — art is political but also the way people enjoy and engage with art doesnt necessarily engage with the politics of the creator

ngl sometimes the sentiment of "don't ever say anything that might suggest someone may be trans ever" on tumblr being as pervasive as it is feels less like a "i'm trying to be respectful of how you identify/not trying to pry into something you may not be comfortable with" thing and more adjacent to the "trans-as-social-contagion" line that transphobes have.

i didn't feel like i was able to id as anything but cis woman until one of my transfem nb lesbian friends took the time to ask me how i felt about my relationship to gender after watching me post quite a bit in the vent channels on a discord server we were both on. she told me that a lot of the feelings i was having about my relationship to gender and sexuality were things she had also felt before when figuring her own relationship to it out (albeit her journey was different because she also has to navigate transmisogyny), that i shouldn't be afraid to explore the possibility of being nonbinary and even just using "lesbian" as a means to describe my relationship to gender if that felt right, and that i wouldn't be stepping on anyone's toes in doing so.

and that conversation was like a sigh of relief to me after having held my breath for years and being afraid of putting an actual name to how i felt about myself. tbh, if she hadn't reached out, i'd probably still be here telling myself that i'm a cis woman despite how much the concept made me want to crawl out of my skin and made me feel like i was having to smother a part of myself in the process. and i do not think that this is a completely unique experience.

while there's always a line that can be crossed when it comes to just about any personal topic and ultimately that gender identity is journey of self-discovery, the idea that even mildly and compassionately suggesting that someone might benefit from exploring options with their gender identity during a heart-to-heart is somehow inherently disrespectful, or god forbid, predatory (especially when it comes to transfems) is something a lot of people need to unpack.