story about a lake i did recently. text formatting is based on the CBC’s closed captioning style guide.
whoa this got reblogged a bit while i was gone
generally i agree with the sentiment of “if you don’t like the canon version of a character then you just don’t like the character” but when i take bland soulless unwilling to take any risks perfectly made up hair blow dried and styled airbrushed smooth character designs and make them less conventionally attractive and more weird and offputting in both personality and looks that’s not me being a hater that’s me doing them a favor
imo there is nothing more unnatractive than perfection at the expense of any kind of personality or difference from the norm. like that’s honestly more grotesque than any intentional body horror to me.
honestly like whatever wild decisions someone makes with character design? that’s always inspired. that’s always out of love. fandom is best when everyone draws each character in whatever weird way they wanna. it’s the opposite of not liking the canon version of the character. it’s putting the characters character into the design more.
once i start actually putting the ideas i have into motion your heads will explode and you fuycking gay pieces of shits wil die
i need to start appearing in people’s nightmares
if i like you i would comfort you to make it less scary. if i dislike you i would start chasing you around to make it more scary. if i like you and am feeling evil i would also start chasing you around to make it more scary
obsessed with saying “both. love wins” when asked to make a decision between two things…it is not functional and nothing is solved but u know what? love won. what else matters truly
thank you to every single fucking person on this god forsaken site that has ever posted your own art or writing. You really put a vulnerable, important part of yourself out in the open on the hellscape that is the internet and if that isnt an act of bravery and a labor of love I dont know what one is
Me on first day as the job interviewer: what are your greatest weaknesses. What are you weaknesses. What will make you break. Am i scaring you. What would you say is your greatest weakness. Aaaa! Anyway. Have you ever been attacked? What would you consider your greatest weakness.
me with a gigantic red blinking light on my chest: oh you know i think i can get tunnel visioned on a project sometimes
if i ever become religious again, i will solely be interpreting the nature of God by consulting media produced by terminally online and clearly mentally unwell people. think Gene Ray’s Time Cube, Terry Davis’s TempleOS, and Bob Hickman’s… entire online presence
Bob Hickman in particular is fascinating to me for a lot of reasons. first off, his mantra has wormed its way into my brain and i find myself thinking it at the most random times: “God Entered My Body Like A Body My Same Size” tickles something deep in the reptilian corners of my neocortex. also it helps that he spreads this message by making literally tens of thousands of different accounts across different websites, cold calling random phone numbers, and driving this car around Indianapolis:
what really gets me about his delivery of the mantra is how rote it seems to him. he rattles it off at the beginning of every single one of his video posts, but it always seems like he’s a bit distracted and just getting through it for the ten thousandth time so he can say what he wants to. he says it the same way we said the pledge of allegiance in middle school (USAmerican moment), like someone or something is forcing him to.
what intrigues me most, though, is the way he talks about receiving the Holy Spirit. in sharp contrast to the official party line that God is good and being blessed is a positive thing, Bob seems to treat God entering him as a great burden, like some alien consciousness is forcing itself inside. God Entered My Body Like A Body My Same Size, so now it’s twice as cramped. God as a parasite; a freeloader; a body snatcher. this is the kind of heresy and blasphemy i can get behind
he also puts out a LOT of books. i can’t tell if he keeps republishing the same book with slightly different titles and covers across different websites, but i keep finding new ones. most seem to be listed on Amazon Singapore for some reason and almost none are in stock anywhere, which is a damn shame because the covers alone are some of the best outside art i’ve seen in years:
these two front-and-back pairings in particular are really resonating with me:
i sincerely want some of these framed
You would think that the biggest risk of trying out something new is that you won’t like it, but it’s when it’s so good it raises your standards where the real problems start
“out of provolone? How am I supposed to eat a sandwich without provolone?” - girl who put provolone on her sandwich for the first time this week
Okay, so a thing about Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is that, for elves and other beings of comparable metaphysical stature, the “distance” between an act of will and its tangible result is shorter than it is for mortals. The universe is just more inclined to play along with how they want it to work, which is why they’re not lying when they claim not to know what magic is even though the products of their craftsmanship are by any reasonable standard supernatural – they just make stuff, and it works the way it does because that’s how they intended it to.
This has a number of fun worldbuilding implications, like inventors having tangible authority over things crafted using their techniques, regardless of who does the actual crafting, because they literally willed the principles which allow those techniques to work into being, or the fact that when powerful beings die, sometimes stuff that depends on techniques they invented stops working. However, there’s a bigger implication that that’s generally gone unaddressed:
Elves can’t do science.
Like, it’s straight up impossible. A Tolkien elf cannot construct and carry out a meaningful experiment of any sort – it’ll always works the way they expect it to, but only for that particular elf. Confirmation bias is an insurmountable barrier.
I want to read a story about the elf who figures this out and it bothers them terribly.







