#i go back and forth on that though

[loyalhorror]

oh right. the poly mod

[milfvael]

I’m going to be honest I do respect publicly saying your horrible horrible headcanons about a beloved/controversial character you wrote for a company that fired you. Every time an ex DA dev crashes out about a character they wrote I consider it a workers rights issue

[technically-human]

It's me again! Not sure if someone commented about this yet but, I find it cute how stones little hair piece(?) wagged like a dog's tail ↓

It also kinda ties into the fact that he was ordered(?) to lie down. I dunno, thought it was funny but cute.

And the second thing was, I don't know if it's just me, but I get so excited when I see you talk more in the tags. I honestly don't understand it myself but I happy stim when you add more lore or just rant in the tags, it's kinda like your passion makes mine ignite as well. Don't wanna come off as weird. I'm really bad at explaining 😭 I just get excited I guess? *Looks around anxiously*

Hehe glad you noticed! No one else had mentioned it yet for this comic. I included something similar on part two (I think) of the Hanahaki AU. The hair thingy is supposed to move back and forth when he's deep in thought!

And also, yes, he was ordered to lie down, which is why he didn't question it except in his own thoughts lol.

Thank you!! I love rambling in the tags. I always have too much too say but I don't want to put my thought process all over the post, you know? So I leave them there for anyone who wants to see them! I'm very happy you enjoy them :D

[saltpepperbeard]

is this anything

[emmavakarian-theirin]

lucanis: i can be a little silly. as a treat.

davrin: flinch and you're dead.

[ficandkaboodle]

Y’think another reason why they’re taking a break is because Tobias is like “Oh shit oh fuck I used up the best colors what the fuck is this next fucker going to wear without looking like a dickwad” and the people who do the costuming are waiting in the wings for this guy to make up his mind on whether or not he can make goldenrod yellow work for two or four years?

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Something Extraordinary

historical platonic-romcom

an aromantic woman tired of feeling unworthy when the people closest to her leave her behind for romance, and a gay man in unrequited love who is planning on giving up and marrying a woman in misery and drunkenness

she kidnaps him the day before the marriage to stop him ruining his life, suggesting that they get platonically married instead - and on the ridiculous journey to scotland to elope, they have to convince each other if it’s what is best for them, and what they want out of life/love/and friendship

[jesuis-assez]

↠ Tim & Lucy ↳ 2x01 - Impact

[chiropteracupola]

Make me a boat of elm and I’ll row myself to sea / Soon I’d miss the anchor that never let me leave / Thinking on my darling, lonesome at the helm / Oh, make me a boat of elm, a boat of elm...

my half of an art trade with the amazing @emilybeemartin — here's Colm, from her trilogy Creatures of Light! ...from longstanding tradition, we know full well that I will always be found drawing the most melancholic boatsguy you have on hand.

[hopelessfandomfreak]

hear me out: hadestown au with elphaba and glinda as orpheus and eurydice, and agatha and rio as persephone and hades

[jewelthenerd]

Absolutely NOBODY asked for this but Papaya trio sketches because for some reason out of ALL the characters in Ninjago my brain could’ve picked to latch on to, it chose the three who have never canonically met

I’m sorry but I love them dearly

I also apologize for not allowing any character that I draw to NOT have at least one inhuman trait, as you can see Morro got the worst of it here

[wandering-lane]

This fic changed my brain chemistry, so I decided to make Macaque's drawing from chapter six of Peach-Flavored Kisses by @introverted-monkey-noises. I hope I captured the silliness haha!!

[amygdalae]

lmaooo we spent a full hour in his car when he dropped me off just making out and biting each other and getting handsy and I kept almost going inside but then one of us wld go back in for another kiss etc. until eventually he was just like "yeah you should go before I turn into an animal" LOL get tortured

[egophiliac]

I was wanting to try doing an art piece in the style of the signature spell poster art pieces you create. But I’m not really the best at coming up with a composition for such a thing.

Do you have a process for how you come up with the compositions for them?

oh, awesome! it is an INCREDIBLY enjoyable style to work in; I hope you have fun with it! :D

I'm not great at putting my thought/art process into words, so my apologies if this doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'll try! my first step is always to do a LOT of thumbnails to figure out both the idea and how I want to show it; not trying to do a real sketch or anything, just little doodles to figure out what exactly I'm trying to portray. (I also call these "garbage passes" because they're not meant to be any good, they're just there to throw things out. aha. ha. ...anyway.) I think it's important during that first stage to really focus on the idea and the layout and not to get too bogged down in the actual drawing yet!

I tend to save my final thumbnails, so I'll use 'em as examples (I posted the ones up through episode 5 here if you're interested!) (and, uhhh, spoilers through episode 5 also in this post, hopefully that won't be an issue!)

the main thing I try to think about in composition is balance -- not necessarily in terms of symmetry, but in where each element is placed and how much space it's taking up. remember, empty space is still space! it's also really important to think about the parts that don't have anything in them, as much as the parts that do!

personally, I like to divide things up roughly by both halves and by thirds -- there's a lot more in-depth info out there on why the "rule of thirds" in particular works well visually, but in short, our brains tend to focus on things that are placed closer to imaginary division lines, instead of in the exact center of an image. so even when I'm doing something that is very centered and symmetrical, I try to keep that in mind and generally aim around those for landmarks like faces/eyes (or...where they would be, anyway) and other focal points.

it's not a formula of "the character's face should be in this division of this grid" or anything, more like "our minds like to focus on these areas, let's think about how to use that", if that makes sense! and of course rules are made to be broken, art is lawless anarchy, and so on. but it can be a good starting place for deciding where you want to put things!

(blue - thirds, red - half)

and against the finished versions, because they do usually end up changing a lot (including the empty space of the border):

(...these actually lined up a lot better than I thought they would. :') it makes me look like I do things way more intentionally than I do.)

other stuff I just try to keep in mind is that our eyes like following arcs and paths, which can be a good way to guide the eye:

and frame and control the focus:

honestly, composition is one of those things I feel like I struggle with a lot, so I'm not sure how much of this is helpful or actually makes sense outside of my head. but hopefully it helps a little! it's all just stuff to think about while drawing and not anything hard-and-fast, so don't, like, stress out about making sure things are lining up exactly on the thirds or anything. again, it's more "our brains think these are the dopest parts of the rectangle" than anything else! take advantage of the cool parts of the rectangle!

NOW GO HAVE FUN DRAWING seriously though, it is always super cool that other people like this idea and style enough to want to do it themselves and for other/their own characters! thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

[mayasdeluca]

MAYA AND CARINA STATION 19: 7x04 'Trouble Man'

[sincapjelly]

Do you think baby Cole ever became so sick and Lilly panicked, thought it was her fault and cried beside the sleeping baby?..

She herself grew up as a sickly child, her father would be so worried that she might just die one day because her immune system was so weak. Seeing Cole get sick like that as a few months old baby, she knows why it's happening and she is blaming herself, thinking she passed her curse on him. History is going to repeat, that's what she thinks despite knowing Cole is growing up under better conditions. And Lilly wasn't sick when she gave birth to Cole and passed shortly after, like her mother did.

None of these stop her from crying beside the baby though. She knows she survived her fragile baby days because of her powers healing her, and he has her powers now, yet she is worrying deeply for Cole's health. She wouldn't handle losing her baby because she passed him her terrible immune system.