Hey Guys guess who decided to do a bunch of fancy over-the-top redesigns for no reason. I had wayyyy too much fun with these
I even made a speedpaint for the Mane 6 base-edits so here’s that(I tried to record unicorn-twi, starlight, and sunset but the program crashed at some point while I was drawing oops)
Sure, relationships typically start with a honeymoon phase that then grows into something deeper but a bit more mellow if things work out, but it’s depressing as fuck that this has turned into a really, really common script for straight relationships that says it’s totally normal and inevitable for dudes to just become more and more emotionally checked out of the relationship, and leave it to their girlfriend/wife to perform if she wants to get even a crumb of affection from him. I’m so fucking tired of seeing women constantly being taught that decades of emotional neglect is just our lot in life.
what “getting out of the honeymoon phase” should mean: you aren’t joined at the hip anymore and can spend time apart, but you still greatly enjoy eachother’s company and deliberately make time to be together. you’re not just a unit, you’re a matched set (like, you’re susan and bob rather than susanandbob). you start to see eachother’s flaws and don’t put eachother on a pedestal but instead love eachother as human beings, flaws and all.
what it should NOT mean: you barely talk anymore. you feel like two completely different people, tied together by a frayed thread. you’re annoyed by eachother’s flaws and don’t like to be around eachother
similarly: “relationships are hard, they take a lot of work” means that cooperation on a daily basis in both the practical and emotional realms takes conscious effort. you can’t coast on those honeymoon feelings forever, and you aren’t psychic, so you have to pay attention and communicate so you can honor each other’s wants and needs.
it should not mean that you’re fighting every two days or walking on eggshells to avoid the anger of an unreasonable partner or breaking your back trying to get the slightest sign of affection or respect from someone who’s checked out and doesn’t care about you.
honest to god, I used to think it was normal to hate your partner and be scared of talking to them and need to change yourself to keep your only friend. I thought all relationships made you cry almost daily, I thought it was fighting and arguing and feeling like your partner didn’t care about you, but also wouldn’t let you leave them.
Turns out, real and healthy relationships are you and your partner being a kick ass team and best friends, who help each other through tough times and can also survive on your own.
Aries: You need to learn to accept things as they are. The glory days may have been golden, but we’re still here. There are still good times to be had. You just need to focus on the now. Focus on what could be.
Taurus: You will find recovery again. You will get better. This darkness has to end at some point, right? The sadness will fade like it always does. There will be better tomorrows, we just have to get through the bad today’s.
Gemini: You’re more than the sum of your past. More than people who made you. More than the people who gave you those scars. You have every right to be angry and hurt. But you also have every right to grow beyond this.
Cancer: The hard memories will pass. The bad times will pass. Things will recover again. Things will level back to normal again. We will find calm. You just have to breath through this. You can survive anything 5 minutes at a time
Leo: Where’s your back bone? Where’s your fire? I need to see that fight in your eyes so I know we can survive this. I need you right now so please. Don’t give up. You are a true warrior my dear.
Virgo: Stop circling backwards. Stop opening up doors to your past every time you get lonely. Stop going back to something that never brought you any good to begin with. Stop returning to the scene of your greatest crime.
Libra: You’re not a dead body stop acting like it. Stop laying there and just letting shit happen around you. Stop just accepting the way things are. You’ve become complacent. Don’t let them take the one thing you always had. Don’t let them take your will.
Scorpio: lay down your weapons. No ones trying to hurt you. Maybe lower your walls a little and let someone else slip in. We just want to take care of you. We just want to make sure you’re good. We’re not the enemy here love. Never were.
Sagittarius: be careful, sometimes reputations are well deserved. Sometimes someone warning of bruises is just trying to avoid you getting hurt. Be careful who you listen to and trust, not everyone is as they seem.
Capricorn: let go of your pride and stubbornness for once. Stop hiding behind excuses and step up. I know it’s scary. I know it’s hard. I know the darkness is swallowing you whole. But it’s time to step up. Time to stand.
Aquarius: You can’t grab on to something new if you keep clinging to your past babe. You keep looking behind you as if there’s some secret to life back there. I promise you you’ve learned every lesson. I’m sorry they aren’t here to still teach you. But you will pull through. Eyes forward
Pisces: are the ghosts to much for you to? It’s okay to admit. You’ve got a lot of skeletons in your closet. A lot of friends and family in graveyards ya know? It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to miss them. We’ll sit in the darkness till you’re okay to come home
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.
kill men. kill them all right now. they bring nothing of meaning to the world
considered providing context for this by saying the MC is a robot/cyborg who apparently doesnt feel sexual attraction and has to fake this to gain Livia’s trust but none of that matters because the MC is still written to be very straight, and able to find some women more attractive than others. the fact that im supposed to believe this is okay because shes a 1000 year old loli and the dude has no sex drive, is insulting. and also theres no reason to write loli characters unless youre a pervert and a pedophile! this isnt a “smart moral conundrum” its simple sick perversion. absolutely bananas
