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i really love a lot of the themes in white collar. like im sure they werent thinking 'hey lets write a story with themes around disability and some adults needing caretakers focusing on mental health and addiction especially how adults with mental disabilities or histories of trauma are at higher risk of addiction and relapse and normalize supporting those individuals and their road to recovery. throughout that journey giving the person unconditional love while they make mistakes and not faulting them as a person or discarding them as a strong and intellectual person' BUT THEY DID AND THEY DID IT WELL. they never even jab at neal in ways shows that try to explore these themes do. they never dismiss neals trauma by calling them daddy issues or mommy issues they say more explicitly that neal had a unstable home environment and needs help relearning base instincts taught to him. THEY DONT BLAME AND HUMILIATE HIM FOR WHAT HIS PARENTS WERE LIKE THEY NEVER DISMISS IT. they never make neal seem incapable for his lack of impulse control they say it like it is- hes someone who is trying to do the right thing and needs help being shown what that looks like at times. ive never really seen a show where a relationship with one adult taking care of another adult and being responsible for them is normalized. the team never treats their dinamic as strange or embarrassing for either of them. thats neal and thats peter. peter is responsible for neal and helps him in a lot of ways. its normal. that's great.

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i know a lot of us already hc neal as being younger than he says he is and i wanted to see if i could narrow down how old he is in the show. obviously his actor matt bomer IS 32 at the start of the show and the show uses matts birthday as neals as well. counter argument neal would lie about this especially when he first runs away(ex driving a rental car, booking hotels, getting people to trust him and as a teen people really do not trust us to use the copier machine at school L i cant imagine how hard it would be to get people to trust him with their money) and also its a fictional story which means i get to interperate in whatever way is most meaningful to me so if you dont like my theories ur welcome to make ur own! its fun to overthink your favorite shows its one of my top hobbies

anyways my actual work for this hc starts with this one episode where theyr chasing this kid and peter says 'hes not even 20? seems like were looking at the next neal caffrey' and we know that peter knows nothing about neals life before his 18th birthday(when neal ran away and presumably started his life of crime) by this logic we know that peter started his three year chase of neal when neal was 18-20. then neal gets sent to 4 years in supermax SO in season 1 he is 24-27.

furthermore when we look at the first season- in most of the shots he looks like late 20 early 30 but in the first scene we see him in when he is breaking out he looks much younger because he is trying to look as different as possible and even with his knack for artistry theres only so far you can get in terms of subtle cosmetics in prison. in most of season one he does look his age but in those first few scenes hes on the run he lowkey looks like an undergrad. Im really not sure if the writers team meant to do this when they wrote this scene, but the combination of the messier hair, oversized clothes, and surprisingly open expressions make the character feel a lot younger. last idea i have is that while not explicitly- i always got the idea that peter and james are implied to be similar ages in season 4 with the way Neal compared the two.

basically, there is plenty of evidence that he is 32 in season one but also plenty that implies hes not! my guess is that he is a bit younger but i really enjoy his character no matter how old he is or says he is. in conclusion i love this show please share your own headcanons and theories with me id love to hear them:)

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JELLIE AND GRIAN ARE SO CUTEEEE

I LOVE THEM

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Woah, what were some of the request? I can figure out Jellie protecting Grian and their cuddle session

there are some miscellaneous sketches in there but the other request was whether or not dragon grian has a saddle and if so how that started

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THATS HIS GIRL!! Oh Jellie and Grian are so cute

I can just imagine scar cuddling Jellie being like: aww, our girl is so cute

Grian: what?

Scar holding up Jellie to Grian: our girl :D

Your lineart has improved so much aswell!!

thats their girl!!!!

also thank you ive been messing with line art brushes and found one that suits my style much more! i appreciate the note social media has been making me feel bad at art recently 😔

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Here are some of the requests for the flowers on savage seas au :3 thanks for all the fun ideas everyone I really liked them!!

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ehe ✶

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i think that they are fucking stupid

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If you say you’ve never bought clothes influenced by a fictional character youre lying

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Lil brush experiments:3

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Commission for @angeart of a scene in Help Me To Breathe~ Thank you for commissioning me <3

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dolly varden bear fish

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this thang is full of meat!!!! :P

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a totem pole of hopeful idiots

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repo jest super

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spring time cleaning!

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Day 3: Tango!!

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Day 2: Grian!