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stormofdefiance · 10 months ago

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An incredibly lazy wee doodle of barn swallows since I'm struggling to sleep and going back to my teenage ritual of drawing birds far too late into the night. Where I live, it will soon be time for the swallows to leave and make their bi-annual 8000 mile migration all the way to South Africa. Summer goes with them, and already my late North European nights seem to be turning dark so soon. A couple of months ago the night would just be a muted blue until dawn would crack with a skylark's song at 3am, and from now it will just be a couple of months until the black sets in before the afternoon ends.

It genuinely makes me want to cry thinking about these matchbox sized little beings throwing themselves into that endless blue all in pursuit of airborne insects, those small bodies making their way over the widening, waterless Sahara, that 40 day excursion that, by mid-October, will be over. How long a journey that seems, how short for a being smaller than my hand.

I'll miss them as much as I'll miss the sun until my late-March birthday comes along again and the spring sky is briefly interrupted by their sudden return, their tumbling bodies celebrating the world waking up again, back - somehow, dare I project a sense of sentiment, remembering - to the very same nests they'd left behind just months ago.

#my art #my witterings #im very sentimental and sleep deprived and i keep wanting to sob about birds lol #but its that grateful desperate glimmery feeling of just.#i guess awe that i share this planet and this movement of seasons and rhyme of life with all these beautiful things #i wonder if birds feel something like a brewing wanderlust as the time comes #i wonder if they feel that same tug i do in my heart everytime summer comes along #that sense of impending flight that need to go into the night and wake up somewhere new #somewhere achingly familiar #the way the pressure and the smell of the air changes #swallows are passerines too so they likely evolved from australia however many million of years ago #what drives birds to make those journeys #what must it feel like to follow the wind currents and the stars and the magnetic pull of the earth #sigh sigh sigh #i know it isnt all romance but sighhh if i cant romantacise these wee flittery dinosaurs what can i romantacise #imagine everything those swallows have seen #over vineyards over endless fields over desert #the atlas mountains #the congo rainforest #skirting the cape #just so impossible to imagine the bredth of that experience #all in such a wee bird #aw for it to come back to its own wee rooftop eave #and i get the chance to see them? every year? listen to their joyful little twittery song and witness the young finding their wings in june #thank you thank you thank you

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stormofdefiance · 10 months ago

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Feixiao eating week old hotpot against Jiaoqiu's recommendation because "it's fine, it's got chili in it".

Feixiao refusing to let Jiaoqiu help her with her food poisoning because "it's fine, it's just a workout for my gut".

#Jiaoqiu #feixiao #HSR #JDDJKDNDNDNDNDNDKDKDKDJDJDJDJDJDJJDJD FEIXIAO THE EMBODIMENT OF MY MOTHER #IM SCREAAAAAMINGNFJFNNFNDNDJDJ

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stormofdefiance · 10 months ago

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🤔 this boy ain’t right………

#okay I swear I have a lot of thoughts beyond get this man strapped #or hee hee spooky scary cannibalism #like I think his meditations on life and death #is really interesting especially with these lines here - like this is a character so utterly devestated and crushed by grief #and yet he talks here about how life was valued and seen differently in the past - again a man immersed in a lot of traditional beliefs #that he often ascribes to and takes on himself #and yet AND YET #we know how fucked up he is by it all while also having absolutely no qualms about consumption #circling that trauma baybeeeeee #god I really hope he is eating Borisin I will SCREAM #Jiaoqiu #HSR

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stormofdefiance · 10 months ago

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This man needs the strap im sorry I’ve never seen someone so in need of a good strapping. It would HEAL him

#need him swinging from the ceiling Korekiyo execution style #how can a healer be healed the game asks in a desperate pleading tone #the strap #that’s IT #I still can’t believe how misled by his burst animation I was #listen I am like. I basically assign every character as a switch bc I think arbitrarily shoving people into one set box is Silly but #in this case………#Jiaoqiu #HSR

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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im losing my mind gepard is stuck in the casino holy fuck hes in a gambling loop. hes so fucking bad at it he keeps losing but he wont leave the table please aventurine please fucking kill him

#gepard #Aventurine #CEI IM FUCKING HOWLING SHSJSJSJSJKSMD #SERVAL OUTSIDE THE DOOR PLEADING THATS ENOUGH #GEPARD DETERMINED TO HOLD ONTO HIS LANDAU PRIDE AND PAY OFF ALL OF BELEBOGS DEBTS #Aventurine starting to feel sorry for this guy after the 500th bet but eh fuck it let’s kill Jim #ONLY FOR HIM TO RISE AGAIN #AND PROUDLY LOSE IT ALL NDNDNDNDJDJDJ

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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Anatomy practice featuring Jiaoqiu. As soon as he talked about enjoying the 'numbing and stinging' sensations of certain medicines I knew he was THAT kind of freak.

#jiaoqiu #hsr #honkai star rail #my art #i feel like hed enjoy subspace a lot #take a break from the self loathing for a minute #let someone else have complete control so he doesnt have to think or worry or have the opportunity to fuck up #he'd absolutely get gagged though 2.5 seconds in though because there's no way he's keeping his mouth shut #cant believe how gaslit i was by his burst LMAO i was so ready to simp for him #but HE'S the ultimate simp holy rip

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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Scottish Coquelic be like:

one two three... six fannies for me!

#coquelic #path to nowhere #im going to be iskc this isnt even funny but i cant stop laughingat my own stupiud jokernfeifeofefopefe #why can i viscerally hear her singing this #anauwdeuf oim gonna throw up

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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A Lovely Man :)

#idate #wadanohara #wadanohara and the great blue sea #watgbs #my art #idate thank u for everything #drawing you is always so much funnnn uaghhh i love exaggerated expressions etc #You will always be a Core foundational character 2 me thank u for being your horrible stinky truly ghastly self

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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Cigarette at 3 A.M

#Eleven #ptn #path to nowhere #eleven ptn #my art #my wife my beautiful overworked wife #im sure she probably wouldnt smoke given she has to look after her voice #but she has the Vibe y'know lmao #aaahhh this one was also really fun to paint #i tried playing more with shapes and being a bit looser in the stylisation #i need to draw more path characters holy christ I love so many characters from that game #the art is just gorgeous as well

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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I love Feixiao's huge fluffy hair so much aaaaaahhhhh

#Feixiao #hsr #honkai star rail #my art #i cant wait to see more of her hhhh #her design just keeps kicking and punching me in the ribs #she's so handsome uaaaghhhhhhh #anyway this was a lot of fun to paint #i tried a few new things and I really like how parts of it turned oot yayyy #pls pls 2.5 cant come soon enough.#be kind to me feixiao im pulling your retainer as well #i beg of u

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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I love your takes on Aventurine and look forward to your Aventurine C-PTSD meta!

Awww oh my gosh - thank you so much 😭 Aventurine means so much to me so it also means a lot that you enjoy my interpretation / witterings on him aaah. I do still want to do a full write up on his C-PTSD soon - I really need to just carve out time to sit through 2.1 again to fully solidify and evidence my thoughts. Thank you though, Anon, you’ve certainly fired up my energy for it again 🫶

#nice things #my witterings #I have a couple of other wee essays I’d like to write up as well #like Topaz’s pig symbolism and Aventurine’s peacock #-cracks fingers- I just need to get my articulating brain in gear again haha

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stormofdefiance · 11 months ago

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