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𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕪 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕! ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕃𝕃𝕐 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕.

what a waste... 🌊

𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕀 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤.

I won't lie, as tempting as this button could be, I don't think I'd be able to press it.

𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕪𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤?

Uh- um, I just- It slipped in suddenly.

*𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙* 𝕐𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤, 𝕤𝕚𝕤. 𝔹𝕦𝕥 𝕀 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕕 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕥𝕥𝕠𝕟 𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕤.

Y-yeah. I would.

Ehehe... Kiyo-kun~

𝕀 𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕖!

So realistic!

Drew JJK Character: Junpei Yoshino!

yes, i drew him

i added mahito (iykyk)

also added him as perry the platypus<3

yayyayayayayayyaya akame-made

“i think the background was too detailed” - akame ♡

I'm not sure if Mahito outside of your dreams, but I can sure punch his so called little brother. 𝕀'𝕝𝕝 𝕤𝕒𝕪. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖.

Well, I was lucky that one time. Lucky that my technique shields me from soul attacks.

𝕐𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕊𝕋𝕀𝕃𝕃 𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕟?

What can I say? I'm a better field-test cursed scientist than a theoretical scientist.

Junpei every time he comes across someone extremely powerful:

Such beauty...

𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕕...

Veil 👰

Power Outage #84 Hey I’m Just Super Saiyan~

Inspired by something Lanipator said in his and KaiserNeko’s DBZA Commentaries (Specifically ‘Dragonball Z Abridged Creator Commentary | Episode 30’ at 12:02 -12:04 on YouTube) 

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Power Outage #85 Hey I'm Just Super Saiyan~ (Anime Version)

Inspired by something Lanipator said in his and KaiserNeko's DBZA Commentaries (Specifically 'Dragonball Z Abridged Creator Commentary I Episode 30' at 12:02 - 12:04 on YouTube)

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indigogrim replied to your post: Stuff like this is pretty livejournal ...

The more you practice performing and sharing your art with people the easier it gets.

Thiiiiissss is what I'm talkinbout tho? One would assume 10+ years of trying would be enough to tell if such a thing is gonna work out or not D: I'm reeeaally reaching right now trying to decide if it ever got any easier during that decade of effort and fffffnnnnghmaybe? BUT worth it? That I am even less sure about. Cos when I draw something and I finish I'm good. It's like welp, got a thing out of my head, done, satisfied. Might show a friend or two if they're online at the time. Its a little easier with fanart because fangirling and FEEEELS. But meeeehhh? WHY should I continue to push for it, is what I want to ask. I never got much reason other than because people wanna see? And that's not motivational enough?... sorry...? The inspiration to others thing is but again only sometimes because that's not whyyyyy I do this, so when I struggle to share and can't, then I just feel ashamed and as I said, I'm done with that. 

adrhaze replied to your post: 

You can always become a secret artist with a pseudonym and just keep yourself in the shadows while letting your work speak for you. The masked artist! Or maybe an agent? It works for banksy and a lot of writers.

I have totally considered a pseudonym! At least for writing, if I ever actually finished anything fff. For visual art I don't think Banksy is a good example, being mysterious brings EXTRA attention... (besides doesn't he have an entire crew helping him out...?) Musically I sure love Daft Punk's thing but man how much harder would it be to start doing something like that nowadays? Anonymity is kind of impossible. I'm already probably as secret as I could even be :C

Thing is though, I love musical theater best. Like I LIVE for Cirque du Soleil shows (only time something has ever made me cry just because it was so beautiful), and I did a lot of that stuff when I was a kid. But you really have to put yourself out there for it. Collaborating with a bunch of people to create something thats so many kinds of art all at the same time that no single person could pull off is just the greatest feeling. SO its easier when its a group thing too, a cast and crew can be a really supportive kind of artist family. I made costumes and props and magic tricks, I danced at festivals, I played in band etc. Stopped doing all that stuff publicly when I was 15ish for mostly angsty teenager reasons, though one year I did audition for a musical and that was the last damn time I sang outside of the shower or alone in the car and let me tell you I was ASTRONOMICALLY outside of my comfort zone there, woosh. (but I admit I wasn't satisfied doing ONLY crew cos I gotta daaaaance) After that I would say... a lot of things happened that made life a little bit tougher and I had to lean on my art for emotional support. I don't feel like sharing stupid life story stuff but I mean, maybe some people can at least relate to the idea that you might need oh I dunno, a stable life (one where you don't use up all your energy just trying to survive, for whatever reason. I mean this very broadly cos everyone has struggles) before you can do extra stuff like art. And art is usually in the category of extra stuff. When I had enough spoons left in the day to draw I still wouldn't have enough to deal with the kind of ridiculousness artists online tend to have to deal with. I hope I make sense.

Things are better for me now though which is a big reason this nonsense is on my mind actually.

Well, time to see what this game has to offer.

Well, this is one way of getting the key.

I wonder how tastes tea mixed with blood

Time to dive into the cute town of Wellington Wells and see what it has to offer..also..DRUGS!

Seriously, nobody installed any protection system on this damn mech after Shadow Moses?

“• He [Mac] wants to see himself as him [Dennis].’-Charlie Day • ‘He [Mac] wants to see himself inside of him [Dennis].’-Rob McElhenney • ‘I’m [Charlie] caught in the middle of their love affair.’-Charlie Day • ‘Alone I [Charlie] don’t fill the void for him [Dennis].’-Charlie Day • ‘You [Charlie] fill a void, just not that void.’-Rob McElhenney”

— Mac and Dennis Break Up commentary (via blastedintheass)

some things i’ve learned from iasip commentaries

denim chicken is supposed to be chicken that’s boiled with blueberries so it turns blue like denim

the whole thing with mac being the sheriff of paddy’s and giving ocular patdowns was improvised

we’re not the only ones who make jokes about glenn & juilliard 

danny devito wears crocs all the time irl

rcg like to point out everytime mac almost breaks

apparently they’ve gotten complaints that their show is too hard to fall asleep to

charlie wears his own shirts on the show and rob steals his from wardrobe 

in hundred dollar baby, charlie legit pulls a car and kaitlin actually punches a hole in the wall

i would love to read a more detailed verdict of iasip! highlighting both its flaws and its perks

i was reading some interview with glenn howerton where he compared the show’s structure to entourage and essentially said that every character in entourage was an unabashed pile-of-shit human being and yet these despicable characters kept landing hot girls and making money and getting away with their petty schemes, and he said that always sunny was in a way a response to that - a show full of terrible, terrible people who constantly and consistently face consequences for their bullshit and never come out on top.

and that’s a remarkably difficult place to write from, it really is - like, who wants to see a bunch of unequivocally immoral and nasty characters failing to learn or develop from week to week? i mean, it sounds unwatchable when i describe it that way. there are no redemption arcs, there’s no voice of reason to counteract the bad guy (like, say, kyle broflovski vs. cartman on south park), and it’s not even some bad-guy-descends-into-deeper-evil narrative like breaking bad (which, obviously, can be very compelling to watch). these are bad people, and they do bad things, and they never learn.

but that ultimately allows the show to throw the “good people and death eaters” attitude under a microscope and, over the course of the series, provide understanding of the characters’ behaviour through a process of empathy and background reveal that never feels forced upon the viewer. all of these characters are substance abusers, all of them come from broken homes, all of them were abused by their parents, three of the four were sexually abused as children, one has severe and untreated borderline personality disorder, one’s been closeted for forty years due to catholic guilt - and so even if you can’t root for them, even if their weekly schemes are morally objectionable in every way, it’s like, you get it. you start to see the roots. on the rare occasions when a character’s better nature does win out, it’s all the more powerful. and when you start to understand that these characters are there for each other - that no matter what, week after week, they come back to paddy’s and confide in each other and stick together and protect each other - it turns the gang into this cohort of really multi-faceted anti-villains, holding each other back but also holding each other up, in a way.

a lot has been made of how the show seems to have two wildly divergent fanbases - the reddit dudebros on the one hand, who are mostly just here for the edgy humour and the genuinely, inexcusably offensive shit - and, more puzzlingly, politically conscientious teenage lesbians on tumblr.com in a post-yfip age where always sunny should be persona non grata. (tv show non grata?)

i’m gonna pose a theory re: that last cohort.

there is not a lot of social support for young people who abuse substances, or young people who come from broken homes, or young people who were sexually abused as children, or young people who are in the closet, or young people who are mentally ill. you’re not supposed to talk about experiencing any of these things. you’re not supposed to exhibit any inconvenient, unattractive symptoms of any of these things. and the few cultural mirrors that you do have are often so aestheticized and glossy and shiny as to be unrecognizable. 

always sunny, on the other hand, is a generally light-hearted comedy about people who come from all of the above circumstances, and who exhibit ugly, messy symptoms of those circumstances, and who continually fuck up, and yet they manage to stay afloat. they manage to love and care for one another. they manage to grow and heal in slow and small and significant ways. 

there are no “issues” episodes - a la glee, where a Topical Issue would be introduced and explored and wrapped up and abandoned completely after a single fifteen-minute subplot. the issues are interwoven with the characters themselves. dee grew up with a disability, and with a mother who persistently told her she was ugly and worthless, and that affects everything she does. charlie grew up without a father and began abusing substances to cope at a young age, and that affects everything he does. mac’s parents never loved him and his religion never accepted him, and that affects everything he does. dennis was raped as a child and he lives with an untreated mental illness, and that affects everything he does. 

and the show doesn’t flinch away from portraying the really unattractive, problematic residual effects of the characters’ trauma, but it also doesn’t reduce the characters to their trauma, and it doesn’t imply that they’re worthless or beyond hope. when you look at it in that light, the huge fanbase of queer and mentally ill and traumatized teenagers makes a lot more sense.