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hmmm. thinking about how veilguard seems to subscribe more to the more traditional "video game as personal power fulfillment fantasy of heroism" than any other dragon age game, except perhaps origins, though origins does it more artfully.
#da2 certainly is not a power fulfillment fantasy#and inquisition seems like it could be on the surface#but under that surface is the horror of how power corrupts#and rots you from the inside and steals everything from you even yourself#maybe thats not true for a trevelyan#but inquisition at least has the opportunity to be played as either#depending on how the world treats your character as someone they are comfortable with having power#or not#which is a commentary in itself#origins idk#it has never stuck with me the way the other 2 games did so someone else will have to do that analysis#but veilguard is sooooooo hero fantasy fulfillment in comparison#you win in the end#nothing bad ever really happens to you at all#you tell everyone what to do and they listen and love you for it#no one blames you for anything ever#you are always right#you save the day!#compare that to leandra telling hawke their baby brother/sisters gruesome death is their fault#like JHERGJKHERGKJHREG#anyway its not necessarily a bad thing#but its a very... traditional#video game narrative path#that i dont think most of us were expecting or interested in#from a franchise who has deconstructed such things in the past#veilguard critical#mine
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Me showing my f/os to my followers again for the millionth time
#self insert talk#jane journals#silly#self insert#self ship#self shipping#self insert x canon#oc x canon#fictoromantic#just throwing a bunch of tags here cause im funny#also JUST WATCHED THE NEWEST WALLACE AND GROMIT#ive honestly been going thru a little mini-fixation on it#me and ruby watched ALL of the existing wallace and gromit shorts before this one and godddd i love them!!!#theyre so fucking charming!!#makes sense that the same studio produced arthur christmas hehe#i still love arthur very much btw!!!#my friend said i should draw arthur in the traditional aardman style a while back and i still gotta!!!#idc if its february 😤😤😤
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Papercraft Tohru - and Yuki, and Kyo! And some little fruit details, because, after all... Fruits Basket! 🍎
I got pretty emotional making this one! Fruits Basket had a huge, profound effect on me in my teens, and I often curled up with it for comfort and a sense of companionship during hard times. Now as an adult, it's been a while since I've read the whole series through, but I pick up random volumes fairly often and skim through them to get that familiar rush of warmth. It's still such a lovely series!
#fruits basket#tohru honda#yuki sohma#kyo sohma#papercraft#papercutting#paper art#traditional art#my art#it was interesting to grow with the series#as a teen the first half resonated with me most#and while I enjoyed the second half I didn't love it quite the same way#as a young adult rereading the series I enjoyed the first half but didn't feel that same resonance#whereas when I hit the second half THERE was the jolt of Oh! It's me!!#as a full-on adult human I always get nostalgic and happy when rereading old volumes#but while I can remember identifying with the characters with my ENTIRE VIBRATING SOUL the feeling is less intense nowadays#then the sequel came out and I figured Heck yeah time to check in on the old faves. Nostalgia time#half a chapter in and BAM! sitting on the floor full-on crying!!!#they made it! these characters I loved and grew with made it!!#they reached adulthood and created families and found their happinesses and loved and loved and loved!!!#and so have I!!!!!!#the takeaway is that fruits basket is VERY powerful and I will be in its gentle grip forever apparently
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They hate each other
#keeping the tradition going and drawing lu slop when im sick#its my medicine#they're bros ig don't worry#i just always hc them being kind of opposites of each other#but still very alike#wilimia art#linked universe#linkeduniverse#lu warriors#lu twilight
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Ceremony.
[ID: Shot and reverse-shot of T’Pring and Spock as children, looking at each other as they are about to be bonded. Behind each of them is an adult whose face is cut off by the frame. The image is split in half horizontally by a black band with the words: "Less than a marriage, more than a betrothal". /end ID]
Idk, I’ve been thinking many thoughts about T’Pring lately so uhh yeah arranged marriage angst time. :)))

[ID: Short comic showing the children talking right after the ceremony. Spock: Do you believe our bonding to be logical? T’Pring: What you or I believe is irrelevant. There is no logic in expressing it. Spock, off-screen: Of course. /end ID]
Bonus- their ceremony outfits because I actually kinda like them:

[ID: Coloured sketches of the children’s outfits. T’Pring is wearing loose purple pants and a flowy sleeveless lilac top with gold accents, as well as a long see-through cape. Spock is wearing a matching purple robe with a lilac belt and gold accents, as well as a short see-through cape with a hood piece. /end ID]
#ARRANGED MARRIAGE ANGST ARRANGED MARRIAGE ANGST!!#what can i say im having t’pring thoughts#not saying spock liked the arranged marriage or anything#but the way i see it he saw it as affirming since it’s such a ‘traditional vulcan’ thing —which is its own can of worms#anyway i think t’pring would’ve seen it as logical and not complain since she is very much a student of surak#but maybe as an adult she’d look back on her childhood and realise ‘wait i never wanted this shit’#star trek#art#t’pring#spock#s’chn t’gai spock#comic#arranged marriage
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*In the voice of someone who's only media experience is jjba*: Wow, getting a lot of jjba vibes from tf2
Amidst the chaos and disappointments that encompassed my last two months, I had a fun connection about two of my favorite brain rot comics - you got an immortal(ish) with a harsh backstory who spirals into obsessive hatred that ends in the stealing of their obsession's bodies and subsequently haunt those family lines and those adjacent to them for generations - and I liken the Zeppelis, who shares the Joestar's generational curse by Dio/immortal creatures in general, to the Conaghers who I also see as helpers to the Mann line Its a really cool angle to look at Engie in, who since I was 14 was my least favorite character lol, this really elevated him for me
And so if the Manns are like the Joestars, that means like, Olivia Man is the equivalent of Joseph lol which is very funny to me
#tf2#team fortress 2#tf2 engie#dell conagher#tf2 administrator#tf2 olivia mann#radigan conagher#do yall use their full names in tags?? Or just the titles#Dells is like... on equal usage of both to me so i wasnt sure lol#jjba#i guess#yknow i rambled on about this in other tags but its also noteworthy that Olivia - as a Mann descendent - also gets to break free#of the cycle of violence - I mean shell probably end that Mann tradition of overpowering and killing your own family lol#I think also- whether intentionally or not- that you could say something about the fact that shes the first GIRL born to a Mann#unless that theory about the administrator also being a Mann ever gets some more hints or a confirmation - I Think that one is a#very interesting one!! and that it also could add to Olivia being kind of like... a redemption? Of Helen? If that makes sense#Like I think it could add more emotional weight for both that Olivia gets to live out being free where Helen couldnt let go of being a Mann#Analyzing that specifically through a feminist lens/reading would be fascinating but im not very articulate lol just grasping at substance#would love to hear others thoughts on that tho - if anyone read this far lol#might just makes these tags its own posts damn
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Some 'pinions
#my art#artwork#crow does art#digital art#headcanons#ouaw#once upon a witchlight#grimmorning#frostbek#coalecroux#kremy lecroux#gideon coal#gricko grimgrin#morning frost#torbek#ouaw kremy#ouaw gideon#ouaw gricko#ouaw frost#ouaw torbek#i also think torbek and gricko like to giggle and elbow each other about how hot their shared partner is lol#yapping to each other in goblin(?) about how they bagged THE morning frost#torbek and frost are like boyfriend and girlfriend to me its very funny. does this make sense. theyre still a queer couple but#theyre also boyfriend and girlfriend#frost is the kind of nonbinary where they typically wear pretty normal/traditional clothing#until he has to go to a fancy formal event#when suddenly he pulls out the most GORGEOUS floor-length off-the-shoulder side-slit green velvet dress youve ever seen#and he looks absolutely stunning in it#and then kremy's over here treating gender like a competition and hes winning it
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How would’ve Sabine reacted if the peacock curse claimed Tom instead? Would she have gone down a similar path of vengeance?
yea probably
#I tried to put her into a traditional chinese mourning outfit the sangfu#but references are hard to find#apparently a lot of it has to do with the quality of the clothes and them being white most of all? so I leaned on that#because otherwise its a very plain outfit#my art#nooroo#butterfly miraculous#trauermantel#sabine dupain cheng
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hunted sketches 😸





dont tell the others, but hunted is definitely my favorite.. 🤭
also,

#hehe#art#traditional art#fanart#orcatnip#slay the princess#stp#stp voices#voice of the hunted#stp den#wolves do muzzle holds!#and its very cute
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assorted lcb art
#limbus company#hong lu lcb#don quixote lcb#sinclair lcb#outis lcb#demian lcb#sancho lcb#traditional stuff#digital stuff#sketch#colored sketch#those are technically also wips.... no promises though...#trivia time: i started that don quixote piece while i was going through canto iv if i recall right#it was mostly drawing from her character poster and experimenting with colors...#i guess its all vague enough that even though canto vii is out now it can still sort of work?#that vague shape atop her head was me attempting a horse shape and a crown and a jester hat simultaneously lmao#again thanks to the character poster for this#dunno if i'll ever get around to actually finishing it tbh. i haven't a very good track record lol. we'll see#oh yeah this was also when i began stylizing her eyelashes like that.. the kinda curled shapes?#which gradually settled into how i often draw her now#the somewhat exaggerated curved shapes... her whiskers as moot calls them#all that happened before canto vii so imagine my pleasant surprise when they revealed dulcenia lol#rambling... i love rambling<33#i need to draw more snakes
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it mcgucket monday (da WHOLE family here‼️)
#ive had the post canon fiddauthor brainworms recently if u couldnt tell#post canon fiddauthor is literally so epic they get to lay on their super cozy comfy rich people bed in mcguckets mansion#and it cures all their chronic pain they almost definitely have and its awesome and they get to be gay together and ouughhg😢😢💞💞💞#im normal about them smiles#traditional sketches at the bottom are from like a month or two ago lol i kept forgetting to post them so theyre going here#also stepdad ford real#i dont think ford would be very good at being a dad but i think hed try his best#ok yap session over#gravity falls#fiddauthor#fiddleauthor#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddleford#mcgucket monday#old man mcgucket#stanford pines#ford pines#stanford filbrick pines#grunkle ford#tate mcgucket#tater mcgucket#trans ford pines#trans fiddleford
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sketchy studies of thee tequila scene to celebrate filling up this sketchbook :3 (click on the photo for better definition)
#blurry photos of traditional art#sorry i couldn’t get a not blurry photo#these are very rough as well i’m for sure going to draw a refined version of this scene#iasip fanart#iasip#its always sunny in philadelphia#it’s always sunny#mac mcdonald#dennis reynolds#s1e1#macden#tequila#iasip art
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theres not enough mono with teefs so have this. also theyre BOTH biters, c'mon guys!!
#little nightmares#little nightmares 2#little nightmares fanart#ln mono#ln six#mono little nightmares#mono ln#six ln#for context in the stick comic- yes mono just shoved it in his bag. thats what six sees.#i have done too much traditional art becus i need so much time off computers since its my work <3#so trying to like get the hang of doodling digital again without being on mspaint#i mean but just you watch. ill start designing the mono and solangelo charm i wanna make and ill be fine#doodling for fun? not allowed#ANYWAYS THEY BOTH BITE#low and alone are so funny becus theyre very gentle with eachother and then theres six and mono who cant stand 5 seconds without biting#affectionately ofc#theyd die for eachother but they also canonically have tried to kill eachother
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I want this guy to start enacting french rural courtship tradition. Like putting a whole tree by someone's window in the night.
The tradition is mostly known as "l'arbre de mai" [may tree] but the trees can also just be called "Mais". You may know the german "Maibaum", but it's also a tradition in France, with variants depending on where you live. Basically, in the night of the first of may, young men will bring decorated trees (usually birch in germany and beech in france, but some trees can have additional meaning) to the window of unmarried girls from their village. This is done anonymously and the girls can try to figure out who did that. It's also linked to marriage.
In some region, instead of a small tree, all the young men bring a large tree to the village center and use the branches to make bouquet to leave on the window sill of girls.
There are many variants.
#one piece#one piece fanart#red leg zeff#black leg sanji#sanji#zeff#monkey d. luffy#roronoa zoro#french sanji#zosan#sanzo#i have seen posts about Zoro being japanese subtle in his flirting#and i wanted Sanji to be french flirting back with something equally subtle. or not so subtle. its a whole tree.#so behold. rural and probably very local tradition. tried my best to research and was surprised its more widespread than i thought#read an article saying that leaving appletree branches means you think your target is a drunkard. interesting.#LBArt#fanart
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Messed up lining Ford’s face so I went a different direction
#doctorsiren#gravity falls#the book of bill#billford#bill cipher#stanford pines#traditional art#my art#tw blood#I got red paint from my pen on my wall when doing this oops#dw I wiped it off before it dried HAHA#very sad tho bc my yellow Copic ciao is basically dead now#makes sense tho bc I’ve had these markers for like 4 years#BUT ITS THE PERFECT YELLOW WAHHH#this is in a class sketchbook HAHHAH
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Edit: for context, this is a re-imagining of chapter 50 Annatar being like "Look. Maedhros. I know it might feel like it's only you making an effort to atm, but you aren't the only one trying to change round here, y'know?"
I didn't come up with this, but as I was reading through the comments on Chapter 50 of The Harrowing, I saw one that absolutely needed to be brought to life with appropriate visuals~ (took me like five days before I had any spare time, but it's here now >:D)
@chthonion
:D
#the harrowing#annatar#celegorm#feanorians#lotr#hehe#btw#i don't know the original commentor's tumblr username#but if you're on here and you want me to put it in lemme know~#:D:D:D#I am totally gonna do more from this chapter#and like. that arc in general#cause it is Amazin~#its taking a bit to get used to using krita again tho#using photoshop for a year spoiled me~#*wipes away mock tear~#it was way easier to just do quick sketches on~#I've been doing a ton more traditional stuff though#which is very fun ngl#so like. pros and cons#:D:D
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