#so ... there

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

Can we talk about how, among all the radiants, mistborn and otherwise stubborn folk in the cosmere, the only reccuring character who isn't invested who refuses to die as much as - if not somehow more than Cephandrius - is poignantly named "Dieno"

[clockybroad]

close-up of the boy post touch ups! leg stubble for added gay

look at this little dude I got!!!!!!!

[audhooman]

I love fictional dads with pink daughters

[artist-issues]

it's no wonder we get upset when someone critiques our art. It's no wonder everyone wants to be able to say "there's no such thing as good or bad, it's whatever you want."

because in art school the first thing they teach you is "learn how to really observe what you see. Now re-create it on paper." That's still-life drawing. Thats color theory. How can I learn what something IS so that I can more effectively COMMUNICATE that?

When someone comes along at tells you "what's wrong with the hands?" Or "oh cool drawing, what is it?" They're sort of indirectly pointing out the fact that you were either wrong about the thing you were observing—you didn't see it clearly—or you're bad at explaining it.

Nobody likes to be told they're wrong. Nobody likes to be told they sound stupid.

But like get over it. The point of communication is to benefit both parties. Therefore the point of art is to benefit your audience. If only you understand it, it's useless.

So if they don’t understand what you’re saying with your art, swallow your pride, don’t get precious about it, and make 100% sure that you were right about what you were saying, and you couldn’t have said it any more clearly or compellingly—before you get offended and run into the arms of “art is whatever you want it to be.”

[bagelfyre]

Deep in the heart of the human lands, past the walls no Fae have crossed in centuries, tucked away in the royal gardens of one kingdom, lies a statue.

A relic from many generations ago, it has survived remarkably well. They— the studious groundskeepers and few nobles who come upon it— say that little is known about the curious monument with no known names or titles. Most suspect it to be a statement to the near-immortal race the humans had fought and won their freedom from in the War. Some even boasting that they knew it to be stolen from the Fae before the Wall went up. A trophy with a message carved into the stone should those cursed creatures ever set sight upon it again.

But it was none of those things.

A secret commission by Queen Andromache shortly after returning home from victory, the task went largely unnoticed during the extensive reconstruction period in the kingdom. Only she knew what her intent behind the memorial had been and only one other could ever understand— was the only one who ever had.

When choosing what words, if any, should be engraved, many titles came to mind: warrior, ally, queen in her own right, ambassador, friend, love. They all fit, but none encompassed her unresolved feelings or the person at the root of them.

So these words spilled forth as a silent-yet-defiant declaration to the world (to her) and a reassurance to herself as the years passed.

Maybe she wasn’t blessed or cursed with immortality, but this… this memory will remain.

@morweekofficial

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

Happy 33rd birthday to my favorite little blue guy!! 🎂🎂🎂

I really wanted to draw his three closest friends just lovin' on him for his special day 🥰💙💛🩷���️

[certifiedwerewolf]

Hey. College dropouts. Hey. Are you listening? It's actually fine and not shameful if you had to drop out of college. For ANY reason. Do you hear me? Whatever your reason for dropping out. Never let anyone make you think you should be ashamed of that. If they do, push them out a window.

[swan2swan]

Uploading a Jurassic World gif every day until I forget.

[iiiiiiits-m]

Woah? Old art of Jed and Octy??? Plus an inked version of Jed??? Crazy…. (I might color it soon…..)

[neutron-stars-collision]

I stg only this fandom could make such a big deal out of a tik tok link in an ig story that shows 0.05 sec of a woman that we all know Luke took to an event with him.

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

OTP: Lite Sneeze // Macha Richter & Vinnie Gallo Ah yes, the ol' hitchiking routine still works

[weaponizedmoth]

from Nov. 2024.

[sincerely-sofie]

A quick draft of an experimental piece about trauma and opening up, scripted out of 99.9% aesthetic Pinterest quotes, with as many attributions as I could find under the cut:

[zarvasace]

Agony and Lost, dark Hyrule and dark Wild :) my long descriptions and a bit more art beneath the cut.

Masterpost

Agony

Hyrule is a survivor and a healer. He's ruthless when he has to be but above all, he perseveres and he fixes things when he can. Agony is a Hyrule who gave up, gave in, and now hurts others out of selfishness. He's one of those fey that gleefully leads people to their doom just because he can. Nothing he eats will ever satiate him, and he doesn't often care to try. When he does, it's something meaty and raw and bloody, like the flesh of monsters or unfortunate travelers, and that can calm him down for a while.

Agony is probably the cruelest of these Darks, though he doesn't care for complicated schemes to cause emotional or mental anguish. (And he's not very smart, so he doesn't bother trying to be.) He's more likely to go for a knife than cutting words. He doesn't mind following orders, especially if it's Depth giving them, though he'll wander off and do something else if he doesn't find the orders interesting enough. He doesn't really plan ahead.

Agony fights like a cornered animal, with an old sword or broken glass or his nails and sharp teeth if he needs to. He has spells like Hyrule, though Agony's are generally weaker. He likes using Thunder. He's technically the group's healer, with Life, but unlike Hyrule's, Agony's healing causes even more pain. He gets some use out of Shield and Jump, but can't quite flame up his sword the way Hyrule can. He can't turn into a fairy—he's more undead than he is fey. He has a unique spell he calls Corruption: it lets him spread some of his inherent darkness out by touch. For a being of light, it is painful and dangerous. For a being of darkness, it is refreshing and rejuvenating. 

As for his design: Agony has Hyrule's shape (if emaciated), but is colored much much darker, to evoke the plain black silhouette of the Dark Link enemy in The Adventure of Link. In contrast to Hyrule's warm browns and greens and golds, Agony is cool-toned and so dark you can't see his features clearly. His eyes are toxic green, as if he's absorbed some of the sickness of his world. His hands and feet are bony and lighter, both for some design contrast and to emphasize the bony structure. His hands are not healer's hands, with the long fingers and claws. Even his ears are sharp, and where many of the Darks have fangs, Agony has a full mouth of sharpened teeth.

Agony is what Hyrule would be if Hyrule stopped trying so hard to be good and ran in the other direction. Agony is one of those who will torment and murder his Light without a second thought, if he could. 

Lost

Lost is dark Wild. 

What has he lost, you ask? Well, unfortunately, the answer is “everything.” He’s smart, but he lost any hope. He lost his memories. He lost any friends or attachments or love he might have had. He never knows where he is, and sometimes forgets what he’s doing while he does it. He has no warmth left. (Of course, he never actually had a lot of those things in the first place. But he is born from Wild's hopelessness and despair, so he knows that part of him once had light and love. A deeper part of Lost might know exactly what he's doing.) 

Lost is completely and totally an agent of the Calamity and Ganon. He's in more intimate contact with the forces of monsters and corruption than anyone else, and occasionally goes over Depth’s head to do things the darkness specifically asks him to do (if he can remember.) He takes orders without argument. The others find him very annoying to talk to, because while he's fairly quiet, he cycles through the same few topics over and over. He has to constantly be reminded where to go and what to do. Mirage is, surprisingly, the least annoyed by Lost and thus most likely to get Lost babysitting duty. 

Due to his corruption, Lost has an unusual ability: he can, to an extent, control Malice. That means he can plant orders in monsters’ heads and monitor their progress, usually via those black-and-orange Malice eyes stuck on one of them. For that reason, the group can't leave him behind, much as they'd like to sometimes. He's integral to every plan they make because of the monster thing. Nobody ever asks him what he wants to do or what he cares about, because he'll forget about it anyway. If necessary, they just lie and tell him that he agreed earlier. He trusts the others a little too much, judging by how badly they treat him. 

As for his design: Lost is dull and bleached of color. He has lost his zest for life and his blue eyes, replaced by those of Malice. His scars pulse with silvery Malice, and it's unclear whether it actively hurts him or not, but chances are good. He wears a necklace of teeth, but has forgotten whether they're shark teeth (implying a Zora) or just monster teeth. His tunic and cloak are the same as Wild’s, but he's forgotten what they mean. That in itself is Wild’s worst nightmare—wearing the Champion’s Tunic not because he's proud of it or because he wants to remember the others, but because it's simply a convenient piece of cloth. 

Lost is a dulled, downtrodden, resentful Wild. He doesn't care about Wild at all. His purpose is survival, and he will fight for it, as best he can. 

This isn't the best art but I had fun with them :)

[iliiuan]

Egwene is cracking me up. She's not willing to rebraid her hair and pretend to be a good village girl woman for Nynaeve, but she's also not wanting to have a confrontation about it in front of everyone (especially Moiraine), so she's just hiding in the hood of her cloak like a weirdo. LMAO