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Attempt 2 of its me!

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I’m unhappy with my profile pic self portrait so I traced my face over and over in hopes it may help (I’m not particularly looking for actual advice on how to get good, this is just smthn I find as useful practice)… and I can’t stop laughing at it. Most of these are selfies so they’re a little cringe too. Very bottom is my fav, my roomie says I look most like top center-right, and the one right below that one. I think I look most like middle-in-height far-left

Idk if anyone but me will find this hilarious though. But that’s ok, I’m posting for myself 😌

Things I’ve learned: the shape of my nose (mildly irrelevant to my style though), my eye shape is dependent on angles and how much I’m smiling and where I’m looking, I don’t smile in selfies and that’s a little weird of me. The edge of my lip crease seems pronounced and idk if that’s a me thing or a staring at a face thing.

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It’s been a while since I’ve drawn anything… here’s a self portrait. I’m a man. I just like bows and flowers and have medium length hair. I have no clue if this really looks anything like me. I just needed a new profile pic.

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I should prolly start going back to fanart, but I had a .. dream.. that I’d like to share. I’d call it scary but I’m probably not a good enough writer for that.

Sally Daniels was going on a weekend trip, two towns over because they had an actual mall. One with enough stores for her to find what she wanted, and to get some nice boots for her boyfriend.

She was driving back Sunday evening, just as the sky starter to darken, but something… happened. She pulled over to see what is wrong, but she saw a woman. Having been a woman who was told to “get the fuck out of the car” by her ex on a road like this (actually how she met her boyfriend - he saved her), she decided it was best to stay wait for the woman to approach and rolled down her window.

“Who are you? Are you okay?” Sally asked.

“I am you” The person replied. She did look like Sally.

“What do you mean”

“I am you.”

This was getting kind of creepy, logically Sally could say that this person was probably just in need of some mental help, nothing seemed wrong with her, but after hearing one too many ghost stories, though she felt a little stupid, she decided to slowly open her glove department.

“You’re sad and you hate yourself don’t you?”

It felt like that statement lasted for eternity. The statement knew her, it shook her to her very core. It really shouldn’t’ve. A stranger telling Sally she was depressed shouldn’t mean much; she already knew it. But something about the reflection in the eyes.. that was her, she was -…

What happened next was an adrenaline-filled haze for Sally. She stepped on it, leaving the woman behind, and ended up in the town between the mall’s and her own. It was only an hour further, but she didn’t want to keep driving home. Shaking, feeling unable to breath, she parked next to the general store. As she tried to step out of the car, she collapsed. A middle aged lady, seeing the girl, ran over.

“Sweetheart, are you ok” the lady asked.

“No, I-“ Sally started to explain the encounter she had on the road, but she could barely hear herself.

The lady interrupted halfway through “Oh you poor baby, that must’ve been rough, let’s go over to my place, and I can fix you some warm cocoa, and some blankets and we can discuss further.”

The lady drove Sally’s car over— her place was still in town— and the lady turned out to be a psychic. The kind that collects crystals and charms and wears dangly earrings. While there were ghost stories anywhere, the way the thing tried to reach out to Sally seemed less like the local ones, and more like a hallucination of part of her soul reaching out to herself. Nothing to fear. Which was quite comforting to hear.

After talking for a bit, Sally realized she probably should let Jack know what’s going on. “Oh, do you have a phone so I can call my boyfriend? He’s probably worried about me.” The psychic lady obviously gave a go-for-it.

He picked up. “Hey Jack, it’s me, Sally, I’m calling from [town] and I met a nice lady with to stay the night here-“

“Where the fuck is your phone?” Jacks voice gave.

“What do you mean? Anyhow I had this experience on the road, it was really scary-“

He was yelling now, “You fucking bastard the fuck did you do, I’ve been trying to call-you son of a bitch you aren’t allowed in my goddamn house, how could you-“

“Ja-“ the phone hung up.

The psychic looked concerned, “Does your boyfriend normally treat you like that, are you ok sweetheart?”

Seeing the psychic’s concern, Sally started crying, “He-he has his moments where he’s just completely delusional and paranoid, but he’s a good person. I mean it.. I’m worried though, he didn’t want me to come back. What if when he sees me something bad happens?”

“Oh baby” the psychic said, “why don’t I drive behind you home, and we go talk to him together? That way if he’s still delusional, we can face him together. Are you sure he doesn’t hurt you or anything though?”

“N-no, he just, gets like this.”

They talked for a while longer, the psychic wanted to make sure Sally would be safe; she was such a sweet girl. But eventually they slept and it was time to drive Sally back home.

No problems occurred on the road, and once they got to Jack’s house, where Sally was currently living, it was almost afternoon. Sally knocked out the door, and no one responded, so she took out her key, but she couldn’t get in. Goddamnit, did Jack really lock her out in whatever sort of craze he was in? With the psychic behind her, she decided to go around and try the back door, one of those sliding patio doors that are windows, though the curtain was drawn. That still didn’t work, so she knocked again.

“Jack?”

Footsteps approached.

“Jack, can you let me in?”

“I told you you weren’t allowed in.” Jack replied.

The psychic gave Sally a glance, but Sally needed to get Jack to open up, “Jack, I know you’re having a mood, but it’s me, your girlfriend-“

Sally seemed hysterical at not being recognized by her boyfriend, but given the night she had the psychic thought this was fair. She kneeled and was clawing at the glass where the curtain left maybe an inch and she could see the bottom of Jack’s boots.

“You’re not my girlfriend.” Jack said through the door.

“Jack, what do you mean? It’s me, Sally, we’ve been dating for so long, we moved in together-“

“No. You aren’t Sally. You’re that-that thing! What the fuck did you do to her?”

The psychic decided to step in, “Young man, how dare you treat your sweet girlfriend this way? What are you even talking about? Paranoia doesn’t excuse this sort of behavior!”

After a pause, Sally spoke gently, “I don’t know what you mean, babe, I know I said I had a scary encounter but it was just a hallucination, Jack, baby-“

“You shot Sally.”

At this point Sally was sobbing, which the psychic pitied her for, her boyfriend was being so cruel. “I didn’t; I didn’t! I shot the thing, that monster that came up to me! I’m Sally!”

Oh she shot the thing. That was a normal response to see someone claiming to be you on the roa- in a car.

“You goddamn liar! I know you killed her to try to reach me!” Jack said and then took a pause, so the only sound was the scratching. “You aren’t allowed in, but I’m going to open the door.” He sounded more reasonable now.

“O-okay” Sally said, getting herself up, and ready.

Jack slid open the door, and as he did, shot a bullet straight through Sally’s heart before she could even move. What hit the ground was definitely not Sally, though. Long inhuman limbs, too-pale skin, the teeth-

Jack looked tired. “This is my fault; should’ve never dated her”. Oh goodness he was crying. The psychic lady felt like her head was fuzzy. What a weird Halloween prop on the floor, she was sure it wasn’t time for Halloween though. Where was she? She should probably head home. Jack didn’t spare her a second glance, it wasn’t needed, as he walked outside to set up the fire pit further into the property.

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I am proposing a motion to start calling post-top-surgery drains the “titty menstrual cups”.

Reasons: They look like a menstural cup (when you poke them into themselves so they succ they are the correct shape), the material feels pretty similar, and bleeding from my [lack of] tits for about a week is basically a period for my chest.

If menstruation makes you dysphoric, this concept may not be for you.

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Kumquat comes from Cantonese kamkwat meaning “golden” -“orange” according to https://www.etymonline.com/word/kumquat#etymonline_v_1957. Golden is a color and I’m not fighting anyone. People who speak other languages and/or are etymology nerds could prolly find more.

On this journey to find a contradiction, I learned that pineapple (pin-apel) originally meant pinecones (switching in the 1660s). And apple in Middle English meant fruit more generally (up to 17c, which actually in the middle of Early Modern English). Which raises the question of who the frick was calling pinecones a fruit. But I can see the leap from pineapple meaning pinecone to meaning a fruit that looks like a pinecone.

My sources are again etymonline and additionally the Middle English Compendium, if y’all want to look up words too.

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It’s been a moment since I posted anything.. anyhow my mind was screaming SHIGARAKI BUTTERFLY this morning, but I didn’t have much time and need to get to class so here’s a sketch. Making the wings look broken was p fun.

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I turned 20 recently, and my mom just looked at me and went: *gasp* I just realized that you are no longer able to have a teen pregnancy.

I think the best part is that she sounded mildly disappointed. I’m also going to use this when anyone asks me my age for the next about a year.

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We didn’t get enough of Dabi’s hot outfit before it turned into the on-fire-and-burning-alive sort of hot.

This started with me wanting to draw a snow leopard but by the time I got to the leopard, I no longer wanted to draw the leopard so I did a lazy job. Like, it’s larger than they actually are. Snow leopards are one of my favorites bc of their fluffy tail. In creating this I was thinking about how Shoto has been drawn with snow leopards and tigers (in the popularity polls etc) so I looked up if anyone ever created a hybrid; did you know snow leopards are closer related to tigers than other leopards? Anyhow, snow leopards are the only panthera (their genus) that hasn’t been hybrid-ed with another panthera successfully. Which, like, makes sense given they’re very endangered and the line between most panthera mating and murder is very thin. Zoos can barely breed snow leopards with *each other* in the attempts not to let them become extinct. Creating hybrids is also vaguely unethical from what I can tell — zoos breed animals so they don’t go extinct, ppl breed animals with other animals for their entertainment, and it can lead to health complications in the offspring… oh, but sometimes Inter-species breeding happens in the wild and that’s fine; in the distant past, snow leopards and tigers did produce offspring with each other, kinda like how we interbred with other homos (yep, this is a sentence. Homo is our genus and I’m pluralizing it with an “s”) …this has become a tangent.

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Another bnha rant!

I sometimes see ppl say that the reason there’s so much fanfiction for stories like bnha is because they’re just ok but have a lot of potential that’s being wasted so fan-creators step in. This is definitely the case for some fandoms, but for BNHA, I just don’t see it. Everyone has their opinions on how it could be better for them as a story, but I think everything is really well executed. This may just be because I like a lot of the stylistic devices used and the character arcs/development. For example, I’ve seen opinions on the first few chs. in regards to Deku receiving OfA. ‘Wouldn’t it be a better message if he could make it on his own despite everything?’ I disagree, that’s a very typical moral of the story. I think it’s more interesting to show that to succeed, help is needed. Also the way that each Todoroki child reacts to Endeavor’s abuse differently. Or the use of humor to purposefully tone down the seriousness of an action, making us readers react to something like Bakugo being chained up to the podium during the sports festival the same way all the bystanders did. Plus, there’s so many little details everywhere….. I can go on so many rants.

Anyways, I think BNHA is a masterpiece. The reason people want to create so much fanworks for it is because it has a lot of potential that would be impossible to tap into while still maintaining the pacing of the story. There are just too many characters, all of which are so well-written, to fit every detail into the plot. Horikoshi actually does a pretty impressive job in regards to how you can see character development in the background, in changes overtime with body language, who a character is standing next to… all of it. But that still doesn’t tell the whole story. So it’s really fun to make up stories based on these little points we can see, and there’s so many for us to grasp. Additionally. We are at the point in the manga where characters keep getting hurt with no comfort yet, so a lot of people like to read/write their characters being ok or having a life that wouldn’t bring them this much pain. Also, the characters are just cool, so people will want to see how they’d work in different AUs etc.

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I have so many BNHA theories that I’ve yet to discuss… generally I don’t share these bc they’ve prolly already been said and also I don’t really interact with others past posting art and liking things so I’m nervous to try something new… but it’s almost 4am and 4am is the chaos hour so I must. Here are three that are on my mind. (All Might’s Muscular form, Todoroki isn’t a conspiracy theorist, does Izuku actually have green hair??)

All Might’s muscular form: Ok, so I’ve def seen ppl joke it’s his secret quirk that he didn’t know about, but he’s definitely quirkless before… plus, the form is a newer thing/ since the organ-yeeting fight, Teen Might is shown to constantly be muscular. So Small Might must be his real physical form. He explained it like sucking his gut in, and that worked to subdue me for a while, bc, you know, suspension of disbelief and it has comedic effect, but at this point in the manga, I can say that everything this seems purposeful and narrators are unreliable. So how does he transform?? It’s none of the past user’s quirks. I have reached the conclusion that void reality bending was in effect in outside-the-void. Firsty, and least obviously: he emits smoke when deflating, which is kinda similar to the smoke in void covering Izuku, and Vestige Might, this is a stretch. Secondly, and most obviously: the void let’s ppl return to their past forms. Izuku turns into his kid-self in the void and then back to teen-self. So does Tenko/Tomura. It’s also connected to emotions- it would make sense for All Might to gain his heroic form when trying to be heroic in void logic. I can’t explain why the void logic would effect reality, or the time limit; this one comes with the stipulation that if the time limit was consistent before he passed on the quirk and only started decreasing then, then it still would make sense, it just wouldn’t if it was decreasing before he passed OFA.

Todoroki isn’t a conspiracy theorist: A lot of ppl do crack headcannons of Shoto being a conspiracy theorist for assuming Izuku was All Might’s love child. I honestly enjoy this headcannon, but even outside of it, I see ppl dismissing the scene as a joke due to the absurdity, which it’s supposed to be seen as. But it was a completely logical assumption on Todoroki’s side. He was watching Midoriya early on and the way he talked about All Might and the way they consistently interacted, and shared similar quirks. He saw the pressure Midoriya put on himself because of All Might. What Shoto really was asking Midoriya when he asked if he was All Might’s love child was if Midoriya was in the same situation as him (a child forced to carry their parent’s legacy). The fact that he saw himself and Endeavor in Izuku and All Might is… I’m not sure. Anyhow, I find this accusation to be pretty dark, not just the joke it’s presented as.

Does Midoriya actually have green hair??: lighthearted after the last one lol. he’s consistently described as plain with freckles. Curly green hair is not plain at all. Black hair is. Anyhow, lots of shows have characters with black hair have their hair colored blue for contrast or smthn. Additionally, it’s only the highlights, so it could just be a trick of the light. Does anyone remember horikoshi actually confirming his hair to be green? My final piece of evidence is that horikoshi colors izuku’s hair inconsistently. Sometimes it’s highlights are green, others cyan/turquoise, I’ve even seen green and yellow. Clearly, he wasn’t quirkless but his quirk slowly changes color over time. Of course, in the anime it’s green; but they’ve already gotten Touya’s hair wrong once, and again— maybe it’s just for contrast or smthn but is meant to be read as black…. I don’t really believe this one but also it’s funny so should be cannon

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I was getting mildly sentimental of how I drew using only a blue pen, red pen, and highlighter during class in HS, so I tried the technique again, one with mermaids bc mermay, and then I decided to do toga too bc I felt like the colors would work… this took me like maybe 15 minutes total. Also note that doing this will fuck up your highlighter tip, but is a pretty fun way to color; obvi you can’t get a good purple, but blue, green, neon yellow, orange, red is enough for drawing most things.

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Mermay!!! In HS my notebooks were always filled with mermaid doodles, bc they’re pretty easy to draw in regards to not having very strict anatomy requirements. It’s been a while since I’ve done coloring like this so I didn’t do as good as a job as I wanted but eh.

Additionally, I tend not to give gender to any of my characters unless I have a thought out lore, which is kinda rare. Are the chest scales aesthetic? Tit coverings? Top surgery scars? Who knows!

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I drew this very quickly so it’s bad, but I needed to express: they’re in capture the flag jail. Also, Geten ate grass as a child I take no criticism.

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In the most recent chapter (386) Dabi really gave me JD from Heathers vibes so I needed to draw this. Not really a spoiler but it won’t make as much sense why I think this is funny unless you read 386.

If you can’t tell, the dialog is just part “Dead Girl Walking Reprise” from Heathers. I know it’s sung between a couple(?) but this is not a ship, obviously. Also I gave Dabi his pre-dance look bc dark hair and long jacket really gives JD vibes. Hopefully their character arcs won’t end the same bc I like Dabi alive. Additionally, Veronica’s next line in the song also really fits. If I could animate and had the time I’d totally want to do an Animatic. Has anyone done one w/ Dabi as JD? Looked it up: there are a few. AFO!Shigaraki singing to “Meant to be Yours” to OFA would be a bop too.

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Something about the drama of the Twitter blue check mark made me think of the Dr Seuss The Sneetches book, and I find the comparison hilarious

For context, the story goes having a star on your belly made you cool, but then a guy with a machine made it so you could pay him and add a star to your belly. So all the starless sneetches bought the star, but then since they weren’t exclusive anymore, all the star sneetches wanted to get rid of their star to be cool and starless, and the guy with a machine would do that for money. This happened a few times until no one knew who was original what and they all became friends and learned a lesson about the pointlessness of the stars and being scammed out of money.

Also I haven’t read the book since I was like 7 so the story could be totally off :)

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Haven’t drawn bnha in a while so here’s Dabi from memory.. its very ooc bc he looks happy lol.