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cuteniaarts · 6 days

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Fanny, my sweet, beautiful girl

17.11.2012 – 14.04.2019

#my art #artists on tumblr #I cannot accept that it has been 5 years already #I know covid messed with everyone’s sense of time but it simultaneously feels so much longer and so much shorter than that #exactly five years ago I was holding onto my mom for dear life and sobbing as we watched lilo and stitch together #not the best movie to watch when you’ve just lost your first ever pet you know #and then I cried myself to sleep at the next morning we never mentioned her again #I know it’s because it was way too painful for everyone involved. but I do wish I was allowed to process that grief properly #instead of bottling it up and pretending everything was okay until I was reminded of her #feeling like my heart was being shattered over and over again every single time #well anyway. enough of that. I’ve allowed myself a nice long cry today and got most of it out of my system #and once I was feeling okay I decided to draw her #and I can count the number of times I’ve drawn animals on one hand so.. I’m not too sure about the result #but it felt like to commemorate her in some way.#so yeah. here she is. my dear girl. the best dog in existence. she was always so affectionate and kind #which I didn’t always appreciate bc of how young I was. when you’re a kid it feels like pets will live forever #never barked. never bit anyone. her only crime was chewing on my mlp and lps toys that I left out on the floor #but I’m grateful she did that. it taught me not to leave my toys lying around and to clean up after myself #she really was taken from me way too soon. ideally she could still be alive right now. but I’ve been down the road of guilt and regret #there was nothing I could do. I was a child. I can only hope that she knew she was loved right until the very end #even if I didn’t know how to show it properly. and great. now I’m tearing up again #I suppose it’s unavoidable. April 12th will always be a melancholy day. and maybe that’s not such a bad thing #it’s good to have a day when I can freely remember her and cry if I need to. it’s healthy. it’s better than crying every day #she never liked it much when I cried. always tried to comfort me. that’s the kind of dog she was. I miss her so much #when I move apartments and get a dog of my own I’m getting a spaniel. just like she was #well. maybe a different colour so I don’t end up sobbing every time I look at it. but spaniels really are the perfect breed #I mean. cavaliers especially were bred for love and warmth. that’s just what I need. it will be nice to have someone waiting for me at home #and while I don’t necessarily believe in the afterlife… I do hope that Fanny’s watching over me #spiritually comforting me when I feel all alone in the world. it’s a nice thought for sure #and hopefully she won’t mind me getting another spaniel too much. it will be done in her honour after all. to make up for my past mistakes

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cuteniaarts · 16 days

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Behold, my latest and most enamouring new obsession:

Malina, Lady of the Chief of the Northern Water Tribe. As if Red Lotus child OCs weren’t niche enough

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #lok malina #still feel like that’s too vague of a tag but I can’t come up with anything better for now #and yeah. she has completely stolen by heart and I don’t know how to feel about that #don’t think I ever was this attracted to my own art before #to be fair the design isn’t mine. it’s very heavily based on something nina drew back in 2021 #because I did not have the energy or creativity to come up with my own thing #but the art is all mine and I genuinely adore it. super proud of myself which is a rare occurrence #anyways. kat and I spent three days digging this niche lower and lower and now have a he #*hell of a lot of lore about this basically nonexistent character #for lore about a lady from the North Pole a lot of it is rather hot… to the point my cheeks are burning non stop #I would say I’d let her do anything she wants to me but in my very specific aroace-adjacent case it’s more like #I’d let her tell me to do anything she wants to her #if that makes any sense and I have not completely lost my goddamn mind yet #okay. enough yapping. back to the art itself #lazy background because I suck at those and am not currently attempting to learn them. I’ll probably do that over the summer #about time anyway. my characters have been placed against an off-white background for far. far too long #this is the first piece in just over a year that isn’t tagged with sotrl. which is kinda weird tbh #I’ve been drawing my OCs almost exclusively for nearly 5 years so it is genuinely surprise I’m branching out #*surprising #less branching out and more diving from one hole into another but y’know #anyway. in my personal and very correct opinion she turned out absolutely gorgeous #her servants are way too lucky and unalaq is way too much of an idiot. no offence to vaatu but he could never beat out this #and I also have Kat’s personal and very correct opinion to back up my own. two against the void. once again we’re winning #I wanna draw her a lot more bc she has completely possessed my brain. I just wish character interactions were easier to draw 😭#I’ll figure it out. just need to fight my visualisation issues for a proper idea. brb #okay I’m almost at the tag limit so. in summary:#she 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

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cuteniaarts · 1 month

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Honestly, one of the main reasons I’m still dead set on finishing AIDIB is because once the AU progresses, we’ll eventually get to see badass bloodbender Suiren

Bonus, Live Kuvira Reaction:

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original character #under the oak’s shade #sotrl suiren #technically the tag should be utos suiren but that’s make the tagging system difficult #so it’s staying under sotrl #and yeah yeah I know bloodbending isn’t quite so literal but I don’t have the skill to draw her using it on someone #it’s probably more bending the water inside a person and not actually their blood but shh. don’t ruin my fun #design notes time:#I’ve had this particular version of suiren in my head for maybe a year and a half now?#I wanted to really show the difference her happier upbringing in this AU made #she normally has no reason to have fur on her clothes bc she’s a swampbender. but I think she’d be inspired by ikiaq #somewhat of a parallel to midori wearing red bc of zhi. and her hair is braided bc it’s not such a sensitive spot anymore #haya did manage to turn it into a trigger but since it didn’t compound over 16 years it’s much easier for her to recover from it #I like to think zhi does it for her :) kat never gave me info about Zhi’s braiding abilities so I can do what I want #and it’s tied off with red ribbons bc red lotus rep. and also a bit of zhi’s influence #of course. a huge reason why I chose braids in particular is because young p’li has them in my design #and I’m very evil. apparently. but also I like how Suiren and midori both parallel both p’li and lien-hua #each of them has traits of both. but that’s something I’ve screamed about plenty of times already. so I will refrain #and yes she is wearing black fingerless gloves bc I think she should be allowed to act like the edgy 17 year old she is in this AU #essentially. Suiren in this au is a much healthier and happier version of herself #the trauma of losing her parents and those 6 months with haya still weigh on her. she still has very bad days #but she has adults who care about her and help her through it. here her child self isn’t dead by her own hand #she’s alive and often shines through because suiren got to remain a child for much much longer #she did lose her innocence. she did grow up quickly in some ways. but living with zhi and ikiaq and healing from all that #gave her her childhood back. she’s still a bit too overprotective over midori. still rather jumpy in her sleep #but her smiles and laughter aren’t fake. she lets people touch her hair. she acts much more her age #she’s happy with her life. and eventually. she becomes strong enough to bring their whole family back together again. she’s amazing

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cuteniaarts · 2 months

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First posted piece of 2024 featuring Ghazan’s older sister Haya, take 2!!

#a.k.a the og version was bothering me so I completely redrew her eyes and added more shadows to make her facial features more pronounced #gonna just copy over my og tags bc I can’t be bothered to come up with new ones #my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original character #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl haya #god... like on one hand yes. she's an awful person. she abused her brother's kids for 16 years #left lasting mental and emotional scars on them to the point that even years after they last see her they're still recovering #even after all the bruises have healed her voice is still in their heads. fear of her still dictates so many of their actions #someone like her doesn't deserve any amount of sympathy. nor after everything she's done #but on the other... the person who did all that is haya in her 30s and 40s. here she's just 14 #she just had her whole world shattered in a matter of weeks. she's left with nothing and no one but an empty house and her 5yo brother #she has no one to turn to. no shoulder to cry on. apart from losing her parents she had to quit school and stop hanging out with her friend #sh ehad to abandon any hobbies she might have had. I imagine she was quite like suiren and midori used to be. curious and intelligent #and very keen on trying new things. she had to leave all that behind to work day and night while earning only barely enough to scrape by on #just enough for them to survive. to keep the house. to be clothed and fed. there was no room for treats or luxuries of any kind #how many dresses did she cut up to use as material for ghazan's clothes? how many nights did she go hungry just so he could eat?#and she can't even cry about it. not while he's around anyway because she's supposed to be strong for him.#I imagine she often cried after putting ghazan to bed. just out of sheer helplessness. from how exhausted she was #she cried herself to sleep every night and pulled herself back together every morning #tied her hair back with her mother's kerchief and went straight to work anywhere that would hire her. working until she could barely stand #all for him. I'm not excusing her actions in any way but I understand why she was overcome with resentment after he left her #running away without as much as a goodbye. after everything she had done for him. spitting in her face would have hurt less #so when he resurfaced over a decade later to dump his bastard children on her it didn't take long for all that resentment to find an outlet #and the rest is history... fuck. thinking about her teenage and ya self always makes me cry. she was so much like suiren it's heartbreaking #well. the only reason suiren is like this now is bc of her. but yk what they say. the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself #anyway. I'm really glad I took the time to redraw this. I'm so much happier with it now. she actually looks like a young girl now #this really hits different considering that I straight up killed her in my latest au... granted she was in her 40s there. but still

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cuteniaarts · 4 months

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What if Suiren and Midori inherited their paternal grandmother’s curlier hair?

#or maybe someone just needed an excuse to draw these two in their underwear. who’s to say??#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original characters #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl suiren #sotrl midori #last art piece of the year :) feeling kinda emotional over it #idk what my obsession with hair as a storytelling device is but here we are #it seems like such a small change but it really carries a lot of weight #for starters curlier hair is harder to care for. which means Suiren’s issues with brushing will be even more pronounced #but also.. Haya inherited Afarin’s hair #both of them already share some resemblance with Haya in certain regards. this would just make it worse #Midori wears it at a similar length to Haya. Suiren’s is much longer but it might just serve to remind Haya of her mom #and of Suiren still decides to cut it as part of her recovery.. then the resemblance will show even more #basically fun times all around #anyway. I love their designs as they are but also they both look so pretty with curlier hair #and yes i did just need an excuse to draw them in their underwear #because why not? they’re both legal adults and also attractive as fuck #I am well within my right thank you very much #also yeah I decided that I was gonna draw Midori with tattoos because it’s a crime I’ve only done it once so far #my new year’s resolution is to draw Midori in ways that would make any girl question her sexuality #because she’s just as gorgeous and incredible as her sister and I need to show it more often #Midori with tattoos like her dad>>>>>>>>>#genuinely. I always talk about how Kuvira is one lucky fucker for getting to be with Suiren but let’s be real. so is Opal #imagine having a girlfriend who looks like THAT. the dream. really #I’d be okay with having a gf who looks like either of them tbh. who wouldn’t #and maybe I decided to draw them in their underwear as a reaction to SOMEONE leaving me all hot and bothered yesterday. just a thought #(I’m kidding Kat I love you. this isn’t meant to pressure you I’m just messing around. promise <3)

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cuteniaarts · 5 months

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I’ve been in a Mermaid AU kind of mood lately :)

#my art #artists on tumblr #nia’s mermaid au #original character #sotrl suiren #it’s still a bit messy but I don’t have the spoons to refine it any more than I already have #part of developing a healthier relationship with my art is knowing when to call it quits because it’s as good as it’s gonna get #let’s hope tumblr doesn’t need me for Suiren’s half exposed tit lmao #but anyway #I once drew Midori in this AU looking happy and relaxed at sunset #so of course I had to draw Suiren in the exact opposite way. angry and suspicion at dawn #at least I hope it comes across as dawn #over the summer I’ve stayed up till 6 a.m plenty of times so I know what dawn looks like. argue with a wall #I really should indulge in this AU more often #it scratches my current hyperfixation as well as my childhood one #and it’s fun #and I get to call both ghazan and kuvira monsterfuckers so…. win win #also what’s this?#nia drawing backgrounds for once?#impossible. unheard of #okay gonna stop talking before I somehow escalate to self deprecation again #I’ve done enough of that over the past god knows how long. I’m trying to actively catch myself out on it now #and nip it in the bud #so I can work on healing and improving my mental health and also becoming more tolerable to be around #there’s no use for moping around in how miserable I am all the time #okay fuck I’m doing it again #enough. tag rant over I’m going to go do my literature homework #bye

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cuteniaarts · 5 months

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Little Water Lily

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original character #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl suiren #look at my daughter. LOOK AT HER #just suddenly felt like painting my precious child looking happy for once #and am very very happy with the result #look at her. look at her little face #how could anyone hate her. how could anyone have hurt her #AIDIB really hits different when you realise the girl going through all that looks like this #I have trouble drawing kids sometimes but I feel like here she really does look like a young kid #with round cheeks and big beautiful brown eyes and an adorable upturned nose #istg I’ve captioned like 3 posts with ‘baby girl. baby’ already but it just always applies #as I’m coming up with these tags I’m slowly becoming incoherent. just… look at her #I’ve said it like 10 times already but I truly need everyone to see her #my darling innocent little sweet summer child.. I’m so sorry for what I put you through #look at those eyes. she has no idea what’s coming #I wish she could have remained this untainted forever #okay I’m making myself cry nia calm down #stop focusing on that and start focusing on how she really lives up to the nickname in this piece #a precious little water lily indeed

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cuteniaarts · 6 months

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In another world, fate was just a little bit kinder

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original characters #sotrl midori #sotrl haya #seeds of the red lotus #look I was feeling extremely emotional recently. and thought about how different life would be for my OCs if Haya was good #and I'm a sucker for AUs like that. it's spiritually healing. so of course I had to draw something for it #I originally wanted to draw a companion piece for suiren too but then thought it was just rehashing the idea #and I draw Suiren a lot already anyways so decided to just take the excuse to draw adorable little Midori and run with it #I have quite a few thoughts about an AU like this too. it starts out like sotrl does. haya gives them the cold shoulder and is kinda mean #but then the news of the rl's imprisonment reach gaoling. haya is shellshocked at first. distances herself and sends the girls to their room #pretends she can't hear the crying. but really she wants to cry too because as estranged as they are. ghazan is still her little brother #she indulges late that night after she think the girls are asleep. deep buried trauma from losing her parents resurfaces #but then she hears footsteps behind her. Midori is awake. haya wants to be angry at first but finds she has no energy to #they talk a little. the warm glow of candlelight catches midori's eyes and their grey shade turns gold. she looks so much like him #haya realises Midori is even younger than ghazan was when they lost their parents. suiren is half the age haya herself was #no one cared for her and ghazan back then. she won't let history repeat itself #so she reaches for midori. heart skipping a beat when she lights up slightly. and takes her into her arms #holds her close as midori hugs her back. if she closes her eyes it almost feels like she’s 14 again. holding her brother #she swears then that she’ll be as good of a guardian to these girls as she can so they don’t end up like their parents did. like haya did #it’s a long road to unlearn her bitterness but she tries her best. it’s easier with midori who soaks in affection like a sponge #Midori’s happiness is infectious. with suiren it’s much more difficult bc the prejudice Haya holds against the swamp are still there #as is the hatred for their mother. it isn’t until the townspeople start calling Suiren a swamp rat does haya snap #she no longer cares about getting alienated from the community that barely welcomed her anyway. she will defend her niece from them all #it’s the first time she calls suiren her niece. they talk too and Haya apologises for favouring Midori and starts working on fixing it #their life together isn’t perfect. the townspeople side eye them. they can’t afford bending teachers. Haya still has to bite her tongue #but it’s so much better than what could have been had Haya let her pain consume her and started to take it out on the girls. they’re happy #I have so much more to say and theorise about when it comes to this au but alas. tag limits are a thing. so I’m leaving this here

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cuteniaarts · 7 months

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@katkastrofa HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I know that the past.. god knows how long, we’ve been busy mutually brainrotting about Kuviren, but when I was deciding what to draw for you, the fungus decided to give some love to the adorable and unfairly underappreciated Green Opal))

Main train of thought was – I’ve designed what Suiren would look like post-SotRL, so how about Midori? And then I decided to try Opal too bc I really should practise drawing her more often (I think she goes through a phase where she has an immense aversion to wearing green as it reminds her too much of her mom and Zaofu, so she opts for something more airbender-esque. I think she might be the only person in existence to pull off orange this well). And once I realised I wanted to draw Opal, it only made sense to draw them together

Anyways.. design notes time!

If Suiren’s main post-SotRL thing is allowing herself to be softer and more relaxed – lighter shades of blue, less practical and more airy dresses, etc. – then Midori is a bit of the opposite. She’s gained a lot of self confidence and I wanted her new design to reflect that. Which is to say-

SHE GETS TATTOOS LIKE HER DAD. Not like, all over, but on her forearms to start off with. She spent so long disconnected from her bending and heritage that it only felt right to honour it this way, they call them ‘lavabending mastery tattoos’ as an inside joke. And, well, when I was doodling designs for what I have dubbed the ‘Dead Mom Club’, it came to be that Midori’s paternal grandmother had those tattoos too, so I guess it’s now a family thing :)

When she needs to hide the tattoos, she has armbands that go over them. Red, the same shade her auntie wears))

Gets more muscular as she trains in her bending and eventually forgoes the open shirt she always wore overtop everything else. Opal gets to unabashedly stare, Midori gets to feels the sun on her skin, it’s a win-win situation, really.

Changes from a tank top to something similar but a bit more practical, too

Same pants though, they’re comfy

Hair no longer loose and not getting in her face as much. The brushing it over her forehead and tying off at the back is inspired by her auntie, it’s not visible but it’s tied off into a ponytail as reference to Suiren, and the fact it’s technically a half-up-half-down style counts as a nod to her mom. What, did you think she only took after her dad?

Overall though she’s still a bit of an awkward bean who gets easily flustered by her girlfriend’s affections. Though apparently, looking at Suiren’s reactions to being called pretty, that runs in the family ;)

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl midori #original character #opal beifong #green opal #oc x canon #I actually loved drawing this #it gave me a bit of a headache but it was worth it #and yeah it’s a little rough in places but I’ve decided I don’t wanna do line art as much anymore #lineart made my drawings look more stiff cause I’m really heavyhanded #cleaned up sketches >>>>>>>>> lineart #okay but really #I need to draw these two more often #they’re so so so cute I love them #fun fact Midori’s visible hand is actually my hand #I couldn’t find a ref so I took a pic of and traced mine #and I have tiny hands lmao hers are definitely not that dainty #also is it just be or do they kinda have a similar vibe to when I drew biyu and zada two years ago #like it’s a similar pose and colour scheme #like my mom says – everything new is just something old that was thoroughly forgotten #eh. not that I mind. zada is better than haya anyway. I bet she wouldn’t have treated my girls like that. biyu would kill her if she tried #I’d call it a new au idea but I already have so many in my hands #*on. I’m not rewriting that #considering sotrl isn’t even written past chapter 5 and hasn’t been updated in 3 years #(the irony that I make aus and post-sotrl art and headcanons and stuff instead of the actual thing.. yeah. not about that right now okay)#but it’s in the back of my mind always. what can I say I’m a sucker for aus where my girls are raised by anyone but Haya #also I’m technically posting this on the 28th but shhhh time is an illusion

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cuteniaarts · 7 months

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Baby girl. Baby

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original character #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl suiren #she’s so Shaped I love her #my actual child #‘that girl is a horrid spoiled rotten brat. a good for nothing bastard swamp freak’ meanwhile that girl looks like this #a tiny sad cinnamon roll #this isn’t a WIP or anything just felt like sketching her #(actually it’s from about a month ago but shh)

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cuteniaarts · 8 months

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Okay google play Dead Mom from Beetlejuice the musical

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original characters #I’m slowly working on getting past my burnout and felt like I got enough rest #at least enough to draw something more or less simple #to keep my hand from forgetting how to hold a stylus #and wow. original characters that aren’t suiren or midori. a shocker #their names are nuying and afarin btw #and I have. So Many thoughts about them #watch me shower myself in praise lmao. *chidi anagonye voice* shut up I’m confident now #I really like how different their demeanours turned out #this is supposed to be like. six to eight months before afarin’s death #so she’s really living her best life #has a loving husband and two wonderful children and spends her days working outside in the warm sun #showing off her muscles and tattoos to anyone who chooses to look #oh yeah those are tattoos on her forearms like the ones ghazan has it’s hard to tell in black and white #between her and her husband (who I can’t decide on a name for rip) they make enough for a comfortable life. a good life #before the sickness came. that is.#meanwhile the swamp tribes are full on being ravaged by it #nuying’s high risk so she’s almost completely isolated safe for her toddler daughter #even for someone living in a polluted swamp her health is worse off than most #she had a hard pregnancy. a hard birth. miscarriages before and after #but she cares little for herself. her daughter is always at the forefront of her mind #she’s already lost her husband. she can’t lose her only child too #she doesn’t know if she’d rather someone less likely to get sick watch over her. or have her close by so she could ensure she was safe #not that anyone would bother to look after her little flower anyway. not with everyone calling her a curse #I could go on about the tragedy of nuying for so so long but sadly tag limits are a thing #I might colour this later idk we’ll see. also might draw them again but with liu this time and label it dead mom club or smth #oh also yes nuying is ming-hua’s mom and afarin is ghazan’s mom if it wasn’t obvious

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cuteniaarts · 8 months

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Ladies and gentlemen,

✨HER✨

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cuteniaarts · 9 months

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Rough concept of 14-year-old Haya, which I’d call a quick sketch if I hadn’t spent almost two hours on it

Alternatively: Photos taken moments before disaster (read as: a few months before her parents died)

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl #original character #sotrl haya #I’m actually really proud of this because I struggle a lot with making clothes look more or less original #I’ll clean this up a bit after I wake up #including evening out some parts because I’ve only flipped my canvas twice and she’s still a bit crooked #I would do it now while my creative juices are flowing but it’s nearly 6 a.m #so yeah #anyway #enjoy this gorgeous girl before she became the Absolute Worst #I genuinely love my designs for her though why does she have to suck so much :(#as I was drawing her originally she just had the dress which ended up looking too western #so I changed the collar and then decided to give her the… overcoat? kaftan? idk that thing held together by a bow #and I think it suits her really well #can’t wait to colour it #though my colour schemes could use some work. I have trouble finding a good balance between shades

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cuteniaarts · 9 months

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Young Haya WIP ft. backstory rambles in the tags

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original character #seeds of the red lotus #sotrl haya #she’s actually really fun to draw #both young and at her age in sotrl/utos #which is very ironic considering who she is as a person #well. who she will become as a person #she hasn’t yet. not at this point #knowing what she did makes it very hard to feel anything but hatred for her #but once upon a time she was a fourteen year old girl left with nothing but an empty house and a little brother on her hands #with no idea where to go from here #she dropped out of school so she could look after and provide for her brother #not like she could afford it on her own anyway #people who knew their parents talk a lot but say nothing at all. they offer condolences but no help #she works until her previously tender hands are now numb and rough with callouses #picking up any odd job she can get just to scrape together enough money to pay for the house and for food #her brother is barely five. she wants to let him mess around and play and have fun but can’t keep an eye on him if she does #he doesn’t see her as authority. she’s his big sister who’d ruffle his hair and buy him snacks on the way home from school #she’s not his mother but she tries desperately to fill that role. he doesn’t listen. she gets harsher #she hates herself for it but doesn’t know of another way. she just wants to keep him safe #the townspeople talk. they say the disease came from the swamp. their house is on the very edge. she’s wary of the far end of the backyard #her brother isn’t. the big trees lining the border of the swamp make for a superb playground. she knows. it was once her playground too #‘don’t go there’ she says. he doesn’t listen. he keeps going. one day he brings back the most sickly looking girl she’d ever seen #she has no compassion in her heart for the girl. only worry and graphic images in her mind of her brother wasting away from the disease #she can tell him to stop talking to the girl all she wants. it’s been four years and he’s grown immune to her attempts at parenting #that’s when she starts to yell. how else is she supposed to make him hear her? if he doesn’t listen he’ll get sick too. she can’t lose him #she doesn’t have anyone else

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cuteniaarts · 10 months

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Someone to protect / Someone failed to save

(Alternatively: The “P’Li saw her late sister in her niece” to “Midori is Lien-Hua’s reincarnation” pipeline)

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original characters #sotrl midori #laf lien-hua #I missed when we decided that yeah this is canon but you know what I’m here for it #it’s about the tragic sibling pairs and history repeating itself and missed second chances #it’s about the irony of fate and the cycle of violence #it’s about Kat and Nia completely losing it with the self indulgence let’s be real here #anyway lore rant time:#the way reincarnation works in the avatar world is vague #like.. the avatar is the only confirmed person who can be reborn #but raava tells wan that they’ll be together in all his lifetimes like reincarnation is normal #and there’s that scrapped concept of momo being gyatso’s reincarnation so… safe to say it happens to everyone #and here are some of my headcanons about it:#normal humans can’t contact their past lives like avatars. you can get glimpses or strange dreams but that’s it #most people never find out what their past lives were like. usually only the most spiritual can connect with the universe or w/e #and get a fuller picture #but if you happen to spend a lot of time around places or people that you knew in your past life #like. say. if your past life’s older sister was now your surrogate auntie #then you’re more likely to get flashbacks #children are more susceptible to it but it happens to adults too #especially if you visit the place or get to know the person again after a long time. like. for example. sixteen years #and if your auntie actively sees her sister in you to the point of sometimes mixing up your names #the glimpses confuse Midori. a woman with golden eyes and a covered forehead who she feels so loved and cared by #a girl who looks scarily like her auntie but younger. more innocent. with no tattoo #a dark damp cold cell somewhere underground that fills her with nothing but dread and fear #she puts it together after a while and wishes she never did. she keeps it a secret. if she tells then no one will ever see her as her again #they will only see auntie’s unfortunate little sister who none of them knew… I’d talk more but there’s a tag limit so I’ll leave it here :/

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cuteniaarts · 10 months

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Suiren gets a wardrobe update, Kuvira gets a kick from teasing the hell out of her

(the dress ends up on the floor within five minutes)

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #seeds of the red lotus #original character #sotrl suiren #kuvira #kuviren #happy pride month #…she says. on June 30th #look I’m a procrastinator at heart I can’t do anything about it #anyway #last year I drew Green Opal being all adorable for Pride month. this year I decided to go for the opposite #kuviren and their (mostly) UST #Suiren acts annoyed but really she’s into it #Suiren: ffs ‘Vira how insatiable can you get??#*proceeds to untie the sash holding her dress together*#and I mean… can we really blame Kuvira here?#like I may be biased bc Renny was pretty much specifically designed to appeal to me #(ain’t my fault my bi ass just has massive crushes on both of her parents)#but still. hot damn #I feel like Kuvira is the type of person who’d get her gf a lot of clothes JUST for the pleasure of getting her out of them #and Suiren has a long forgotten childhood love for pretty dresses #so it’s a win win situation for both of them #god… the levels of brainrot I have about these two is insane #talk to me about them please I’m losing my mind

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cuteniaarts · 10 months

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Last time I drew Midori in this AU, she was stiff and uncomfortable bc that’s how she feels like among other people, so this time I wanted to draw her more at peace with herself, alone, for a moment not ashamed of her heritage

Honestly, I just realised how long it’s been since I drew a sunset, so I wanted to rectify that, while also playing around with pretty colours, even if it isn’t completely reflective of how nature actually works

The motto of this piece of “No thoughts, just vibes”

(click for better quality)

#I have not evolved in my sunset drawing skills since the queer sisters piece I drew 2 and a half years ago lmao #my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #original character #nia’s mermaid au #sotrl midori #I am actually so mad #I’ve got night mode automatically set to turn on at 1:30 #which makes all the colours on my screen warmer #and I started colouring/shading this way past that time #and I almost posted it 20 minutes ago when I realised that it was on #and once I turned it off everything looked so pale #I’ve fallen for this trap like a bajillion times honestly #I managed to fix out by playing around with overlay layers #but honestly I liked the way it looked in night mode more :/#but I like the colours on this one too!!#really I didn’t use references for his light hits water or clothes or hair #just me. the brush pen. my imagination. and vibes #I should do this more often #stop trying to make it accurate and perfect #just mess around and have fun lmao #how did it take me six years of serious nearly daily drawing to start realising that #now if someone can make me realise that about writing too so I can have fun with it that’s be great #*that’d #anyway #shoutout if you notice the hair tie on Midori’s wrist from when she let her hair down #))#it’s 4.m I’m going to bed now byeeeeeeee

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