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I can’t believe that Keith’s first reaction to being attacked by a mysterious force from space

Is to STAB LIGHTNING

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not to be absolutely fucking lovesick on this fine day but here’s a list of quotes that fit keith and lance:

“If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.” ― Ritu Ghatourey

“I’ll take care of you.” “It’s rotten work.” “Not to me. Not if it’s you.” — Euripides (trans. Anne Carson)

“Even when I look away I am still looking.” — Richard Siken

“The world told me I was too much or not enough. But you made me feel just right.” — Marie Jo Schwarz

“I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of love, wasn’t it?” — Junot Díaz

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” — Jane Austen

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.” — Emery Allen

“I burned so long and so quiet, you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.” — Annelyse Gelman

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I’m constantly cosplaying as Umbridge because I look like a toad.

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They're on a different planet, but they're both looking at their world.

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Mermaid done with crappy $2 watercolours

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Things that represent Nico di Angelo. 

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What is a Hufflepuff?

This question comes up a lot, because in the books, Hufflepuff was probably the least defined house. Gryffindor and Slytherin were the main two houses that the book focused on, and Ravenclaw was clearly defined as the house for the smart and wise. But what is a Hufflepuff?

Let’s start out by stating what we are NOT. Us Hufflepuffs are not a “lot o’ duffers”. We are not weak, we are not lame, and we are certainly not a bunch of leftovers.

No, we value kindness and loyalty. We are caring. We are moved to tears not because we are weak, but because we are strong enough to feel. We do not barrel into danger, but we stand up when we need to. We are willing to stand up on a table and shout “What if we want to fight?” if there is someone in need of support. We protect ourselves and our friends.

We’re also the type who tries to do what is right and fair. We may sometimes deliberately inconvenience ourselves to ensure that everyone is on equal footing, and try to give everyone a chance. If we win a task simply because our opponent gave us details about what the task entails, we will seek to repay them. We also believe in fair play. We only want a reward if we truly, honestly deserve it. If we win a Quidditch match only because of an dementor attack affecting the other team, we want a rematch.

We are Hufflepuffs. We are just and loyal, and we are unafraid of toil.

That’s who we are.

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Professional commission work: 400-550 bucks Tumblr commission work: 70 bucks

some of you: OMG UR COMMISSIONS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE WTF it’s almost like you value your time >:( not cool dude

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You know, I find Krolia and Keith quite interesting. I always figured that Keith’s mother would be a cool character, but the more I learn about her and the more I rewatch the episode, I learn just how deep and complex she is. 

What do we know about Krolia? Well, not much besides three things: 1) she’s a Blade of Marmora agent, 2) she’s Keith’s mother, and 3) she left Keith when he was younger. They’re all sort of a given and paint a different picture depending on how you look at her, whether you wish to like her because she’s a badass like our firecracker son or hate her because she abandoned him, but the one thing we learned for sure is that she regrets leaving Keith because Krolia is compromised.

During the battle, Keith is captured and Krolia held at gun point. Like most other Blade of Marmora missions, this is when the Blades act on their “mission before all else” motto. If Krolia was a good agent, she would’ve left Keith to die, she would’ve destroyed the weapon like she originally meant to. She would’ve risked everything for the cause.

But she didn’t. 

Instead she tries to barter. 

I’m sorry, but when the fuck have we ever seen a Blade of Marmora agent try to barter with the enemy? When have we seen them try to save their fellow Blades, aside from Keith with Regris, or Kolivan with Keith: both, of which, were lessons designed to help Keith learn the “mission before all else” motto. Keith, for all intents and purposes, is dead in the water right now. He is captured, executioner poised behind him, and weaponless. It would take a single tick, and he’s dead. 

Krolia, on the other hand, has a luxury. She has a weapon, two of them, and the skills that she could possibly fight her way out of this alive. Keith, however, would be lost. And what does she choose to do instead? If it was just a regular Blade, they’d try to escape or finish the mission. It’s what they do, it’s the oath they took. But Krolia is, as Keith mentions later, compromised.

And Keith reacts accordingly. 

He’s never seen a Blade do this. He doesn’t understand. 

Just hours before he was sent on this mission, Kolivan warned him about letting his feelings get in the way, about being too emotional, and compromising the mission. And Keith won’t do that. The only time we’ve seen this happen with him is the episode before where it was Shiro’s life on the line, arguably Keith’s only remaining family. He put Shrio before the mission, and it nearly cost him everything. Keith is determined not to screw up this time.

And then, he finds out, it’s not him who’s compromising the mission with emotions this time. It’s Krolia, who he knows to be a long-lived Blade member. 

Not that this makes sense to Keith at the moment, because he hasn’t come to the realization as the rest of us, that this is Krolia person is Keith’s MOTHER. It’s his mom, the same mom who left him when he was a child, who abandoned him and is the reason he has these walls up, why he’s so untrusting. Can you imagine how Keith grew up, knowing his mother left him, thinking his mother didn’t want him? 

And suddenly, here she is, acknowledging that she left him, but she won’t do it again. That’s how we know that leaving him in the first place, she regrets it. She’s regretted it probably all this time. And now that she has this chance to be with him, she won’t let him die. She’ll throw away the mission and the Blades just to keep him safe.

It doesn’t make sense you know? For Keith, it just doesn’t.

And of course, she has a plan. She plans to save their asses and get them both out alive. It’s something Voltron would come up with, but something the Blades wouldn’t. It’s something Keith did in Season 4 when he first saved Regris. But since then, Keith has learned time and time again how the Blades work. Keith is committed to the mission.

This Krolia?

She’s not.

And this part really, really got to me. Because it mirrors this scene from the pilot episode, where Keith launches a hoverbike full of people off the edge of the cliff and tells them to “shut up and trust me.” It’s so telling that they’re related, that she’s his mother, and that he’s her son. 

It’s one of the final nails in the coffin of truth for the viewers.

Because remember this?

It kind of goes to show you the difference between them. Because these two scenes are parallels of each other, mirrors to show the similarities of these two: mother and son. But it reaches farther than that.

Keith is constantly accused of always going too far in his mission: leaping off a cliff edge, taking a sword to a king’s throat, getting angry and exploding at his teammates. It’s just how he is. It just goes to show that he’s sometimes go too far for the mission. 

Krolia, on the other end, won’t go far enough. She risks everything just in hopes of getting her son and her out alive, not for the mission. She nearly gets them killed because of her antics, and in the end, the weapon they were trying to destroy is now free on that base, and there’s no telling what will happen with it in the future. 

Keith knows this. He might have died, but they failed the mission. In his mind, the whole mission was a failure.

But not to Krolia, they escaped and now she has her son.

Everything else from here on out is up to you to decide. You can be upset that she abandoned Keith when he was younger, arguably when he was a child because he doesn’t remember her. He never made the connection, he always thought she left, like this isn’t a game. This isn’t someone who left when he was 8 and shit, this is someone who left before her child got to know her.

But she regrets it. Like she said, she won’t leave him again.

And this is going to be so hard for Keith to come to terms with. Because, for the first time in his life, he’s worth compromising a mission for, and for the Blades of Marmora, that’s the most dangerous thing to be… which is interesting if we consider why she left him in the first place.

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Keith wearing Lance's Jacket kills me

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Facial expressions! 

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How to help your artists - The circle of influence.

So over the past 10-15 years, as I’ve been trying to branch out, grow a following and sell commissions, there’s one phrase I’ve heard more than any other.

“I’d love to support you, but I have no money.”

And you know, I get that. I understand. I don’t have any either. But here’s the secret. The most powerful and useful thing you can do to support an artist? It doesn’t cost a penny. Reblog their posts, signal boost their commissions, advertise their patreon./ If you have commissioned them, or do support their patreon? Write a review, tell your friends, share their links. Keep circulating the tapes.

Every post is an artist laying themselves bare before you. You have the power to make them into somebody. You can make them into a big name, you can help bring them an income. All you have to do is share.

Here’s a handy infographic.

If artists get only likes, they never get any exposure. They find no followers, they make no money, and feel worthless.

But with reblogs, who knows how far they could reach? New people could see their work and follow them, and maybe one person will spot that commissions post or patreon promo, and maybe offer to help support them. And it didn’t even cost those followers a penny to reblog the post.

So please, anyone out there. If you enjoy an artist’s work and can’t afford to give any monetary support, you can give them something more powerful. A voice.

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@voltronweeks KlanceWeek 2 : Failed Mission + Leader : Black Paladin Lance rescuing Keith, “I though you died” kisses and purple lights, can I dream ?

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hades pluto hades

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just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

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Wanted to challenge myself by working with a limited colour palette, so all colours were chosen from the same shade of orange!