I like fantasy, scifi, comics, and history. It is possible I have an unholy love for stories about space people having space adventures in spaceships traveling through space. I post on AO3 as clarityhiding. Ask me stuff! themandylion writes | themandylion arts (infrequently)
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Thereâs an episode of Sesame Street (on Netflix! you can watch it easily!) where Elmo attends a toy-swap, where you offer up old toys you donât play with anymore and receive someone elseâs toys that are new to you. Cute!
But Elmo, after cheerfully surrendering his old toys, sees that the children who swapped toys with him are playing with his toys âwrongâ! Theyâre imagining entirely different make believe scenarios! Theyâre pretending the football is a dinosaur egg instead of a rocket ship! Aaahhhhh!!!! And this is so distressing to poor Elmo that he does the unthinkable: He does swapsies-backsies and takes all his toys back!
This being Sesame Street, he learns that you canât control how other people play pretend, but you can join in if you want to! And if you donât want to, thatâs ok, you can just play pretend your own way by yourself or with someone else who wants to play that way too. You can still be friends with people who play pretend differently than you (and arenât being mean/harmful/etc, do not bad-faith-read this đ¤¨).
i am a SUCKER for characters who start out as copies of other characters but eventually become their own people, their own identities, completely different from who they once reflected
dear everyone on tumblr who needs to host images elsewhere (e.g. to embed on ao3 etc), please give squidge a go!! it's free, it's nonprofit and it's geared towards fandom so nsfw images won't get deleted!! and please stop using imgur if you can because they blocked the uk rather than acquiesce to the fucking internet safety laws, which I can't really hold against em but it does mean all imgur pictures just show up as big purple boxes now
Not only is Squidge still around, it's expanded and grown! It is still run by the same guy, though now it's a nonprofit with a board and everything, and while they maintain all the old squidge sites as static archives, they have a new multifandom archive using the AO3 code at squidgeworld.org. They also host podfics and fanart.
For those younguns in the crowd, back in the day erotic fanworks--especially slash--was not welcome very many places. Walter was willing to host it, and has been a haven for NSFW fanworks since 1994. The various archives and so on hosted at squidge.org were never very large, compared to lots of other archives, but they were a necessary part of the fannish ecosystem, and I'm really glad that there is now a structure in place to keep the whole system running beyond just "Walter's a great guy willing to donate lots of time and money." Walter is a great guy! but like. it's good to have other people to help out and keep things going in the long run.
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Feel free to reblog for other people to vote. DO NOT SEND HATE TO ANYONE FOR WHAT THEY VOTED. This is merely for fun and to see what people genuinely think.
Many people in the comments are saying âtraumaâ, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. Itâs called Childhood Amnesia, and itâs a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to âtrickâ your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It canât be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is âstored in the bodyâ, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories wonât generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because Iâve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they canât remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
Hoi there - I'm Claire, and I make the webcomic PHANTOMARINE!
When a seafaring, swordfighting princess falls victim to a successful assassination, she comes face-to-face with the devious, many-faced death god who supposedly cursed her archipelagic world. After proving her mettle, Phaedra is sent on a quest to resurrect herself - but unbeknownst to her, she may be resurrecting far more than that.
Good to read if you like:
Flamboyant Disney Villains
Spooky Scary Skeletons
Technicolor Bisexual Lighting
Toxic Yuri
Cipher Puzzles
Mysterious Ancient Conspiracies
Necromancy and/or Liches
Water and Boats
Dogs, Dinosaurs, and/or Dragons
Eyeliner
Flawed heroes and Villains That Have A Point
The Name Jeff
Not-Annoying Child Characters
Updates Mondays every week!
www.phantomarine.com
We also have a Discord HERE! (it is a silly place)
And I have a Patreon HERE!
And you can read a scrolling version on Webtoon HERE!
We have a dedicated Phantomarine community HERE on Tumblr as well!
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Tim sits across from Jason Todd in a shady 24 hour diner. Both are still bloody from their fight.
âYou should tell Bruce youâre alive.â Tim winces. It hurts to speak. Heâs pretty sure his jaw is fractured.
âWhy?â
âBecause he loves you?â He hadnât intended for it to come out as a question.
âLoved.â Jason scowls. He grabs a napkin and wets it with his glass of water and then gently swipes it along his bruised knuckles. âHe loved the kid I was. Iâm not that kid now. He canât love Red Hood. Better to leave him with the memory of me as Robin than what I am now.â
âYouâre still Jason.â
âI just told you Iâm not.â
âYouâre not the boy you were, maybe. I canât imagine any part of your innocence survived what youâve been through.â
Tim takes out a small bottle of disinfectant and rolls it across the table. Jason catches it and applies it to his cuts, hissing softly at the sting.
âBut youâre Jason. Youâre his son.â
Jasonâs eyes flash up briefly and then back to his work. âHe has a new son.â
Tim sags minutely, shaking his head. âYou said it yourself. Iâm just the replacement.â
The waitress approaches and refills their coffee mugs. They sip it in silence, letting the minutes rolls by. Tim rubs his sore shoulder.
âSorry about that.â
âNo, youâre not.â
Jason smirks. âNo.â He fiddles with the sugar packets, forming them into a structure of some sort. âHey, Tim?â
âYeah?â
âDonât tell.â
Tim studies Jason. He sees a lot of things: anger, resentment, betrayal, desperation, fear.
Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead
Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement
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I've been making short guides during my downtime for fun đł
I never really have the opportunity to discuss the organization & communication part of doing commissions, so I hope this is â§illuminating⧠for folks
If you want this to be a regular thing lemme know & I'll post some bi-weekly tips via Patreon
Plain text version below:
Let's talk about: Commissions!
You have details & references. What now?
Put those fellas into folders!
Instead of downloading massive amounts of files, try saving relevant files only: concept sheets, full-body art, front & side profile, etc. I also copy + paste character info inside a text document for easy access!
Time to draw? Not so fast!
Brainstorm several ideas & send your client a few drafts first!
Letting folks review options is better than painting without feedback. This will save time later on, avoiding a need for major revisions.
They know their characters best & their input is valuable!
(Painting is self-explanatory lol so let's continue talking about communication!)
What to do while works are in progress:
Don't be shy, smash that reply & reach out.
I send previews after completing 70% of painting, or after two weeks have passed. This gives folks one last chance for input, and reassure that their piece is in progress.
Remember to communicate extra charges for additions and add a revision clause to your TOS.
[Bonus] Recommended settings for exporting:
JPG HD > For the client! Full-size & uncompressed.
JPG LOW RES > For Twitter! 72 DPI & compressed to 120 kilobytes or less.
PNG > For Tumblr! Same as twitter settings, except I never have to worry about compression.
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