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call me lions. they/them. late 30s werewolf. i draw things? sometimes writing also. (let me know if your ask is private? feel free to say hi ♥) | inspiration blog

whenever i take my dog to the pet food store he presents himself as this well-groomed, very respectable and sad little man:

and invariably the nice people who work there are like “would he like a treat?” and i have to warn them that the second they put food anywhere near him he will literally unhinge his jaw and invert until he is made entirely of teeth like some fluffy crocodilian abomination who can and will fit entire hands?? in his horrible anomaly of a mouth????

gonna try to pick up the creatures again in the next few days here, folks, since many are still owed. some of the asks might contain some sad stuff, but all will be tagged as creature accompaniment for filter purposes

Anonymous asked:

i am suicidal again for the first time in 15 years but post 6+ years in therapy so im just like huh

i'm sorry it's taken me this long to get a creature to you, anon. i'm hopeful you've held out, and i sympathize... this is a difficult mental place to be. sometimes even when we do all the things we're supposed to, and put in the work, our minds still betray us. not only that, but we live in a frightening world where we frequently have very little say in what becomes of us, or anyone else, for that matter. i struggle with depression, too. (it's a thief, isn't it.) i have no great wisdom to offer, so i'm giving you a creature that i would very much like to exist: a cheetah and a maned wolf combined. partly because i think both animals are beautiful and kind of silly, but also because they're a little weird, for what they are, and that weirdness... is a part of what makes life worthwhile. for me, at least. i hope you've got support and love around you. hang on.

i am. begging. people who have not played the original TLOU (either the og, or the first remaster, not the latest one) to play the game.

or, if you cannot play the game, i am begging, i am begging you to watch a cinematic playthrough, so you can see this story in its original, less cuddly, more frightening, ambiguous form.

everything you love about the show is there, but is executed with about 1000x more punch & heart.

i appreciate that some people might enjoy the second game also but to be a crystalline clear hater for a moment: i am only talking about the first game. play the first game. the second one will work for you if you like druckm's audience-directed, misery-is-always-deep tlhbou storytelling style, but i personally despise it and prefer to pretend it never happened. cheers.

Anonymous asked:

the untitled neighbors au we need more of your thoughts on it! i adore it so much thank you

this includes a bunch of unfinished stuff that may not make the final cut, buuut i would like to start posting this story in may since it's set in summer 2021. whether or not my terrible brain cooperates is the deciding factor there, though i'm slowly chipping away at it...

but yeah! thank you for your interest!!! it is... a 'set in vancouver mundane everyone is middle-aged and gay' au. dean is having a rough time in covid quarantine, cas moves into the apartment above him, they bond immediately. bg characters include jody/donna, bobby/rufus, sam/eileen, garth, charlie, and a few other bit players. not much happens! it'll be fun i swear!

Gentle Beasts Both is done, and i just wanted to collect the chapter sketches in one place and say a major thank you to everyone who has read or commented or interacted with me about this fic in any way. it means so much to me to hear from each one of you, even if i messed up on the replying end. i’m so glad you were willing to take a chance on reading. thank you <3 

ALSO:

huge thanks again to the amazing sometrashland for these absolute gems, gorgeous drawings both and i’m still crying over them  ♥ ♥ ♥

and if you like suffering please listen to this spectacular playlist, made by the fabulous commanderruthernerd, thank you so much for this perfection!!

Anonymous asked:

Hey I want to ask your answer from here

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/stonelions/711278768124313600

What's Neil interpretation about Ellie you were referring about?

Thank you

i don't see anything specific about Ellie in the linked post, but sure, yeah. i think show Ellie is a wholly different character, basically, one i personally find way less interesting. the creators have repeatedly stated, offscreen and on via other characters as mouthpieces, that hbo Ellie has a violent core. this is nothing like her in-game counterpart, who suffers from terrible survivor’s guilt and is horrified by Joel’s violence (which the show also shies away from to make him more palatable), and i feel like after a point, Druckm was intentionally pushing things further from the original to take full, nuance-free ownership of it, with the intention of aligning the narrative better [??? somehow] with his beloved solo outing TLOU2, [which i wrote criticism of here. spoiler: i think it’s a miserable, self-important slog] the events of which will comprise s2+.

anyway, given what we saw in HBO TLOU, it seems likely to me the now uncredited Bruce Straley had a far larger role shaping the narrative of TLOU than Druckm cares to admit, and i simply do not vibe with Druckm+Cmaz's storytelling: constant efforts to overtly manipulate the audience, rather than focusing on their characters. (i had the same issue with TLOU2. nothing inherently wrong with it, but for me personally i find it annoying when a story keeps grabbing at me, the viewer/reader, like hey check this out. look, look at it LOOK. it's like, i'm already looking. tell me a damn story.)