#and it. idk. it just compels me

[majimaisms]

Thank you for the brushes! I’m actually still learning to draw and to get faces as well as I’d like them to be (and the question I’d like to ask to everyone is do you have some suggestion to learn, which to be fair is understandably nearly always I don’t know lol) but I saved them just in case. The suit is always cool and an interesting Majima to explore, I’d love to see him and Kiryu if you’ll want to do them

Also not a question but I’ll love to read your fics, not to rush anything but I see you a lot as a writer as well and I’m really interested to see your writing outside analysis in the future, I’ll gladly wait for them 🫡

you're v welcome!! i know it's the most boring and common advice out there but the best way to improve really is refs + lots of practice. also drawing the same thing over and over again has helped me but maybe it's just because i tend to get fixated on things. but even if you get really good at drawing one specific face, you will learn things about drawing faces in general in the process. i find that something that helps me outside of that though is to be constantly thinking about this stuff even during the day? i don't know if you're trying to go for realism or your art is more stylized, but either way i think paying attention to faces, different features, how they look from different angles, as well as general anatomy and even how lighting and perspective work, all helps. and it's easier to think about those things when you already have ongoing art projects, especially if you're stuck. a huge part of drawing is a mental process, the technical skills *follow* that in my experience. like, just *thinking* about it does tangibly improve my art, because it helps me notice things and learn just while existing in the world

and thank you so much for saying that!! i really want to get a couple fics done soon, and that means a lot <3

[dewwshi]

this post touched me

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[rosieyart]

um. i don’t think tumblr is much of a video posting place, but i’m going to leave this here bc it has drained me of three months of working 🥲👍

[gravedigg]

I saw this and knew what I needed to do

[ochablooms]

guess who my favorite character is...

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[pouletpourri]

thought of something

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Honestly there's no one I'd rather be on a forced saving-the-world road trip with than the origins gang. Sorry kotor companions sorry bg3 companions but no one does it like the origins gang. They are a family they are insane they are not to be fucked with they never would have been friends if they were given a choice in the matter. The perfect road trip squad.

They consist of the best dog in thedas, the worlds most royal himbo, a demi-god shapeshifting witch, a bisexual assassin nun, a bisexual assassin orphan, a powerful spell-slinging grandma living on borrowed time (who is bffs with a spirit), a giant spy man who doesn't know how to function by himself, the worlds grossest dwarf, and a giant statue that has a life goal to kill all birds.

[soupmanspeaks]

Yk if Steelwool could make an easy Hundred thousand Mikemillion dollars if they put him in Secrets of the Mimic trust

[french--hoe]

My favorite magical space wizard ✨

[nutsack90]

just a normal girl

[karrasyne]

my deer arthur

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

I don’t understand the stephanie brown haters. What are you complaining about the narrative hates her too.

[thebramblewood]

The Vatores, mid-'60s, pose for their decennial portrait while wishing you a groovy holiday season.

Everyone should force their favorite siblings into these poses by @somneasims!

[mumblesplash]

actually now that i think about it malevolent might have one of if not my favorite execution ever of the ‘two characters have to share one body’ premise. like in theory i’m a huge fan of that trope but in practice very few stories do it in a way i find interesting

[orangeno]

kankri and 2 karkats

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co