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honestly most of those have panache, though. they have character. they look like they were downloaded, sure, but at least they've got some interesting architectural stuff going on. strange swooping ceilings to draw the eye and the soul toward the heavens, that sort of thing.
that LCBC thing looks like a discount JC Penny.
maybe it's because i was raised catholic but churches shouldn't look like furniture stores
#architecture#idk I don't much like brutalism most of the time – including here – but most of these have some interesting shapes going on#they're at least trying to do something#trying to stand out#trying to be just that tiniest bit transcendent#this is a place of worship after all. it should draw the eye. make you wonder what mysteries might be found therein#is that really so much to ask?#to be fair for a lot of these it does look like the answer to that question is '1990s spy surveillance'#or possibly 'this building has been abandoned since 1973'#but still.
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Old man consequences in FNAF ultimate custom night
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf ultimate custom night#fnaf ucn#golden freddy#william afton#springtrap#old man consequences#My man is just trying to fish#and people from super hell keeps poppin out#I ACTUALLY like the idea that old man consequences is the manifestation of consequences itself#like he isn’t a stand in for anyone or made by anyone#he’s just a silly guy#William will NEVER make it out of super hell ❤️
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emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀
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#ml#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#my art#emma dupain cheng#emma agreste#(i think that may the more popular tag for her lol. she is a dupain cheng in my heart though)#plagg#she is thirteen almost fourteen here btw. because i love circularity#emma dupain cheng to me is like. what if emilie or adrien grew up in a stable home with no trauma. that’s emma#and she is theater kid✨#and adrien and marinette are soooo so so supportive and love going to her shows and are so proud of her#/marinette has to be held back from trying to manipulate the school play casting process to secure emma the lead every year#but then emma sets her sights on bigger things(broadway west end)#and adrien pumps the breaks big time#and he’s so torn between supporting her interests and wanting so badly to keep her from like. being a child actor. having a job. b#being pulled from school#and emma gets upset bc he is standing in the way of her dreams#and they fight about it:(#and then emma discovers plagg and convinces him to help her sneak out and go to her callback that she secretly auditioned for#(and forged all the parent signatures for lol)#and. well. plagg CAN be bribed#and also she just reminds him so much of baby adrien🤧 he is a softie#and she runs away to her callback. and adrien and marinette wake up the next morning and see on the news that there is a new chat noir.#anyway. not that i’ve thought about it or anything
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We're going on an ass kicking adventure.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#Yes indeed this is a reference to the classic 'Kirby's fucking pissed' meme. It felt fitting given the circumstances.#Wei Wuxian is nothing but a villain now. His name is but a booeyman and scapegoat for everything that goes wrong.#It is a cruel and unusual punishment to be Irrepairable to others. That no matter what you do - you are othered and unsalvageable.#While this situation deals with necromancy & war & politics...boy does it ever mirror how modern drama campaigns go.#I wonder if MXTX did that on purpose? Considering how SVSSS talks about the relationships between authors and their fans/work -#Its stands to reason that WWX story is indeed a parallel for how the public prefers black and white & sensationalist views of people.#People are heroes or villains and trying to think about the nuance is too much work.#And it does not matter what the truth or lies are. The rumour exists and so it must hold truth.#It feels like someone dropped a poorly researched callout post on WWX on twitter that went viral.#80% of the people don't even know who he is but are still leaving him death threats.#“Guys I know we all used to really love WWX's content but I heard he unethically sourced his bones for his last art installation...”#Okay actually he might indeed do unethical bone sourcing. I need to think longer on what the hyper-specific hobby drama might be.#And a huge shout out to LWJ who is right in the vicinity watching this happen in horror. *That* is a specially kind of torment too.
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Magic hair is very entertaining for a toddler. Troll parenting hack 🤪
#trying to make baby Ivy stand out more from her older version#now she has double poms lol#dreamworks trolls#trolls#trolls art#trolls fanart#my art#trolls au#trolls branch#trolls ivy#broppy parent au#broppy fankid#broppy kid
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#I cannot look at him straight in the eye for too long#you're both standing in line to checkout at a supermarket on a busy wednesday evening#and you just asked him to please hold your spot while you dash out to grab a bag of frozen broccoli you forgot#and he's just mildly spooked about it#but yes he will keep your position reserved or die trying#I can't get over how expressive you managed to make him look#the style has a very animated feel to it#the big bat ears are especially wonderful#thank you! you've been capturing him so beautifully ;-;#this and the last one have such different approaches in terms of style but they both feel so distinctly in character#gift art#awkwardosthe3rd#Machete#own characters#deer in the headlights#just a vaguely distressed little lad
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IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)
(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#tapis rouge#i know these are not my best but by god i needed to draw ~daddo venue~#he is a treat! can't wait for him to yell at us for screwing up a shoot or whatever the last-minute disaster will be#i am SO HAPPY it turned out to be about movies after all! ...i mean sort of anyway#i'll take what i can get (and i do enjoy twst trying to be all cute about snow whAHEM i mean beautiful queen) (i see you there twst)#(also to be fair it actually wasn't poisoned in historial-revisionism-twstland so i think we can trust this apple. a+ acting eric)#anyway we are still. very solidly in the 'stand around and talk about the wallpaper for three hours' part of the event.#but HEY we got to meet eric! i was not really expecting it to be him so i am VERY pleased#also god help me i did think the shopping montage as portrayed by a rhythmic where they literally SKIP down the street was hilarious#there's a lot of Choices that were made in this event and that was a good one
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Idiot to Idiot communication
#there's a part 2 to this in my brain but idk if I'll draw it and this can stand alone fine too#danny phantom#my art#van life au#agit technically#i like when older danny grows his hair out but i could kinda see him avoiding it as a way of avoiding that evil alt future#like hes uncomfortable with how it likens back to it#but maybe having van around and seeing that alt future version try to be a better person in their 2nd chance could#ya know relieve any of that anxiety#so i wanted to illustrate them having a conversation about it#but i got stuck on thia funny beginning part#who knows if I'll get around to the serious part
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Identity shenanigans are a hallmark of all superhero fanfictions and i will never get tired of writing them.
This is from chapter 19 of my fic Better Halves (and other such falsehoods) which is like 100k (so far) of Tim and Danny being idiots like this please go read it it's a labor of love.
just the painted bit below the cut :) if you want it

#my art#art#better halves (and other such falsehoods)#danny phantom#dp x dc#tim drake#dead tired ship#KNEE DEEP IN THE PASSENGER SEAT AND YOURE EATING ME OUT IS IT CASUAL NOW#i will never be normal about them#if you noticed the quality drop in the last three panels no you didn't#I kept getting to tim's face. the *-*. you know. and I kept laughing so hard that i would not finish#but on account of the chapter being posted today I packed my ass up to a cafe#bought a large ice coffee#and worked for four hours straight to finish it#and here it stands before you#i'm posting this about 15 minutes before the chapter goes live so if you try and get the newest chapter before midnight mst im sorry#it will not be there#the three of you that will see this in that time frame#anyways#aster spreekt
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hes trying to help her modify her knitting pattern
#gravity falls#stanford pines#mabel pines#everyone sleeps on her being a crafter and as a crafter myself i will not let this stand#srsly knowing just a lil bit ab knitting she's a knitting prodigy#tho she tends to apply her designs to her sweaters in an odd way which is very mabel to me#ig she just doesn't like colourwork so she whips out a plain sweater in a day at a superhuman pace#she's probs the best in the world at continental knitting to do it that fast#and then she sews/embroiders on the design later with felt or smth#i wish we saw her knitting more in canon its very dear to me#she could reteach fiddleford how to knit 🥺#side note even cheap yarn can add up when making a sweater#and idk if mabel would have been able to bring like fifty sweaters worth of yarn from california#what im trying to say is stan must love her VERY much
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#sir crocodile#dracule mihawk#buggy the clown#cross guild#my art#one piece#crochawk#dump of dumb stuff#i was looking at the old patrick bateman mihawk and ended up drawing axe wielding mihawk again#idk why#im just anxiety coping drawing#i wasnt going to post this but i forgot i scheduled it... omg#anyway im trying to be more free with drawing now and not caring so much#more like how i drew 2-3 yrs ago#if its weird and ugly then its weird and ugly#i also want to draw blackbeard but hes so hard to draw this way. still trying to figure it out#also please imagine crocodile standing with axehawk. i desperately wanted to draw crocodile with him but didnt#theyre axe murdering couple in crime#i took the last ones outfit from the shining#i try to draw lineart directly without a rough sketch stage. its sort of meditative#i'm gonna axe you one last time...
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you're in the habit of denying yourself things.
if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.
but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?
what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.
and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.
you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.
so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.
it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.
sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.
oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.
#warm up#this isn't good#writeblr#this is complicated by the fact i can't stand up too long or i fuckken pass out and <3 hit my damn head <3#but i did take a deep breath and buy myself the stupid rice cooker#and!!! a very cheap sushi kit!!! i have been wanting to try making sushi for literally YEARS#the kit was only like 15 dollars!!!! and i haven't purchased it bc?!!??!?!?!?!!?#..... i didn't get the mixer tho that felt. like a lot. like too much.#on my list is a kitchenaid. one day when i get a check and i have paid off my student debt#and medical debt#i will put that first little bit of cash#into a kitchenaid 5qt stand mixer (with attachments)#i really do just go into their refurbished section and stare lustily at each option#but yeah i feel guilty about the rice cooker even tho i know for a fact this damn thing is gonna be a lifesaver#oh shit also fuck i forgot to mention . poached eggs
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i don't want to be left out, so i come here too sometimes.
#lockwood and co#lockwood & co#anthony lockwood#lucy carlyle#locklyle#the empty grave#ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCENES#we just learn so much about lockwood from such a brief scene and it really sticks with me#it's actually very nice how open he is about his feelings and like. his depression and stuff. despite not trying to say it out loud.#although poor Lucy thought she was going on a date and then got hit with that heavy ass philosophical monologue from her crush#lockwood goes. 'no there's no point in life so i'll just keep on fighting till it ends' and lucy's just left standing there in SHOCK#gagged even#ah this took me SO long but i was really really enjoying rendering this piece#ahh i envisioned a really green palette#though the cemetary doesn't look *entirely* how i pictured it i'm happy w/ this result.
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mizu sketches :)
#they’re like#the stealth champion of all the kendo competitions out there#and taigen is furious about it#has been trying to get mizu to join the kendo club for Forever#has resorted to just tagging along to mizu’s comps and yelling angrily and supportively from the stands#he’s generously not participating himself to let them win of course#one day they’ll have the showdown of the decade and then it’ll all be over#just wait#blue eyed samurai#fanart#blue eye samurai
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Lines drawn, teeth bared.
[Ko-fi members can check out the behind-the-scenes thumbnails for this comic!]
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#wei wuxian#(Ko-fi members also got to see this comic early! And more posts and goodies are coming soon!)#Woof woof bark bark!!! Was this scene damn good. A lovely reminder that underneath that calm face are teeth that will bite.#I love the absolute astonishment and *fear* that the attacking cultivators have too.#No one wants to take on Hanguang Jun. Even if they out number him - no they don't.#It's a 'oh shit - if he's saying 'back off or die' he means it.'#This is a LWJ who's had over a decade of regretting not taking a stronger stand at WWX's side.#And the contrast to the flashback are excellent! This isn't the same morally conflicted young adult anymore!#This is a guy who has handed his leash over to another and faces the world saying 'if you make him drop that leash - I will bite.'#I'm being so purposeful with that wording too.#The real character growth is going from trying to collar and restrain WWX to allowing himself to be reigned in by the other.#It is about trust and respect - This is a man who understands what loyalty really is.#(and yeah LWJ would bark for WWX if asked. Was there any doubt of this? No. I still wanted to say it).
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What is Optimus' relationship with his thirteen children?
It's complicated.
#optimus loves them all dearly#he really does#but every time he looks at these primes#he's reminded of everything he lost#especially when they offer him their wisdom and try to comfort him in his times of need#he's meant to be their father#not their ward#he can never really figure out where he stands when it comes to them#transformers#maccadam#digital art#transformers one#transformers one baby primes au#alternate universe#transformers one optimus#megatronus prime#solus prime#nexus prime
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