#study from screencap

[rrr-mmmm]

iwtv // my love will be here. by shortparis

[exhaustedalien]

If you're cold etc etc

[hrokkall]

I'm talking to a machine

[talulla-artblog]

Very quick sketch of the mom/child duo cuz i have some orbs to grind

[secretmellowblog]

I feel weird about Arcane S2 because ….. It'd be rad if Arcane was super leftist or w/e, but I never expected it to be. And I was happy with that! I always expected Arcane to continue having its “X-men level” of political takes— “both sides are at fault and we need to come together and have compassion." I don't need a leftist moral political justification to enjoy a fun fantasy story.

But season 2 really did surprise me? by swerving off and being like “actually the political oppression storyline Does Not Matter, never mattered, and won’t even get a resolution— not even a conservative or centrist resolution?” XD

They don't even resolve the political storyline with the classic X-men “both sides are suffering, why cant we get along" type of ending; instead they just abandon it completely. By the last four episodes the show is all about fighting random Evil Outsiders and Magic Robots from the League of Legends Cinematic Universe to advertise upcoming League skins and spin-offs, while the plot about the warring political factions gets completely dropped without any resolution beyond Vague Implications.

I guess my take is that, unlike a lot of people, I was never expecting Arcane to be any more politically radical than an x-men movie— and I still enjoyed it a lot!

But I was expecting it to care about the storyline it had set up? And I was genuinely surprised by how little it did.

In hindsight it now feels odd how much time they spent emphasizing the characters experiencing police brutality and political divides and riots and violence at border crossings and class disparity and being crippled by pollution, because now we know none of this was ever going anywhere? XD

My surprise was not that all that politically loaded imagery was building up to a centrist message about how there are good people on both sides and we need to reach across the aisle. Because that’s always how I thought it would end, and that’s Fine for a fun fantasy show? But I was surprised to realize that none of the imagery was ever intended to be building up to anything, not even a general centrist message about reaching across the aisle. It was using political imagery in a hollow way, without intent, for Shock Value, for the Aesthetic.

the actual story is just a generic comic book fight between humans who want people to live vs robots who want to kill everything; everything else is just there to dress that up.

[mitwodlemi]

Cold Harbor? I hardly know her!!

[svengalia]

spocktober 25: control

[alinadraws02]

Nanase Haruka fanart 🐬

[heartsofhounds]

Lil change of pace today- Here’s some Spiderpunk studies I did a couple months back! So so so fun to paint

[xmoonlitxdreamx]

danke schoen.........

[novelconcepts]

Had this screencap living on my phone for art purposes, and I just lost like twenty minutes staring at their hands. These are some of the gayest hands in human history. An entire Pride month could be dedicated to these hands. Put this shot in the MoMA, dude.

[mac-ann-cheese]

@reroscherries

Honestly, when I saw the first request on your wishlist, I immediately thought, "Christmas market". And then boom. This happened.

Also, I checked out your AU, and it's strikingly amazing. And your art is just awesome!!!

I hope you like my gift!!!!!!!!

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Plus, I have never really tried drawing Prumano, sooo big thanks for making me finally do that!!

And also a big thanks for hosting this Secret Santa @mada-jpeg and @maribeilschmidt (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

Merry Christmas to you all!!

[acetechne]

World Watercolour Month: 9. Vegetation

for some reason my first thought with this prompt was a little screencap redraw of that scene in The Man Trap where Rand and Sulu have to calm their suspiciously hand-shaped plant after an Incident. Out of context it looks like Rand is weirded out by Sulu's petting but she's an equally invested plant parent haha.

[thankstothe]

Our friend Greg...

[horsemotifs]

Frank Randall, Outlander 1x01

[dreamedfyre-a]

To celebrate King Viserys' recovery, a feast was held on the first day of 127 AC. The princess and the queen were both commanded to attend, with all their children. In a show of amity, each woman wore the other’s color and many declarations of love were made, to the king’s great pleasure. 

[...] Still later, the fool reports, Aegon the Elder took offense when Jacaerys asked his wife, Helaena, for a dance. Angry words were exchanged, and the two princes might have come to blows if not for the intervention of the Kingsguard. Whether King Viserys was ever informed of these incidents we do not know, but Princess Rhaenyra and her sons returned to their own seat on Dragonstone the next morning.