#“...oh- neat.”

[your-average-art-dealer]

FINALLY I FOUND SOMETHING TO DESCRIBE IT

Okay so I've struggled to define myself for like a while now cause I felt like what my gender or what I presented as changed based on the situation or people right?

so I'm looking through the tag of a character I like and I see custom Icons made of them with it being the "genderflux" flag and I'm like "oh what's genderflux?" so I look it up and-

BAM

I was hit with the most relatable piece of text I've ever read in my entire life and I ONLY READ IT BECAUSE OF A CUSTOM PRIDE ICON OF A CHARACTER ON TUMBLR

I'm going insane

...

for anyone who wants to know, the character was Oz from Monster Prom

[akanemnon]

Yeah, that checks out.

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[noodles-and-tea]

Cuddly!!

[pronouns-d-ace]

OKOKOKOK I'll post more silly doodles here because I feel like it's been AGEESS since I've done that on tumblr dot com !!!

[starfruitssmoothie]

this meme with guns n roses (OG under the cut)

[starlingfawn]

through starless sky to blackest ground

[composeregg]

edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here

And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:

No, this was not an ISAT reference!

Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT

(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)

If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that

[itsmeimcathy]

faust (1858) by charles gounod | le fantôme de l'opèra (1910) by gaston leroux | wuthering heights (1939) by william wyler | la belle et la bête (1947) by jean cocteau | labyrinth (1986) by jim henson | van helsing (2004) by stephen sommers | the phantom of the opera (2004) by joel schumacher | crimson peak (2014) by guillermo del toro | consumed (2014) by david cronenberg | nosferatu (2024) by robert eggers

[wh1msycat]

Polybeasts my fav ship ever ♡

[zondearts]

another practice painting based on a wip I'm procrastinating on

[0vergrowngraveyard]

whatever. go my hologram tails

[montereybayaquarium]

🦀 Happy Crab Day, Tumblr! 🦀

may it be ✨ crabulous ✨

[turtletoria]

one downside to digital mediums of art is that you cant see the tear stains (they just slide down the screen)

[kedicatt]

shh, he's having his dinner... don't bother him right now

[tossawary]

Admittedly, I don't tend to read much fanfic in fandoms I write for, because I don't want to get my canon and fanon mixed, so my selection is limited, but I've never seen anyone mention the fact that Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu (Shen Jiu) had a big sister.

One of the children in their "group", presumably numbered between "1" and "6", was a girl, and when he remembers her, Shen Jiu directly associates this lost person with safety and comfort. He thinks of her as the equivalent to Qiu Haitang before Qiu Haitang: someone who provided a place to "hide" from the rest of the world. It's not just that there happened to be an older girl in their group, but this was a girl whom Shen Jiu apparently liked and trusted.

Here's the relevant quote from Part 4 of the Qijiu Extras in SVSSS Volume 4 (the one where Yue Qingyuan finds Shen Qingqiu fighting with Liu Qingge in the brothel):

"All those years, whenever one of his beatings from Qiu Jianluo was over, or whenever he had a premonition of another beating, he had crawled to Qiu Haitang’s room and remained there, quivering. As Qiu Jianluo was unwilling to let his sister see the side of him that was perverse and lunatic, that had been the only place where Shen Jiu could hide.

And even longer ago, there had been some girl in their group, their big sis. But after she reached a certain age, that big sis had been sold to a withered old man to be his second wife. Afterward, they’d left that city, so they’d never seen her again.

Liking women wasn’t the least bit shameful, but treating women like saviors, cowering within their embrace and seeking courage from them… even without anyone saying it, Shen Qingqiu knew that was horrendously shameful. So even if it meant his death, he would never tell anyone, least of all Yue Qingyuan."

So, on the very short list of people that the original Shen Qingqiu actually liked even a little bit, there's: 1) Yue Qi before he became Yue Qingyuan, 2) Qiu Haitang, 3) Ning Yingying, 4) "the tender young lady carrying the pipa" who "had long since thrown on her thin robes and dashed out in terror" when Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu were fighting, maybe, and 5) this unnamed big sister who was sold off and never seen again.

I've seen plenty of fics and fic ideas where Shen Yuan transmigrates in as a twin to Shen Jiu or a biologically unrelated sibling to SJ and YQ by being a part of their group, but not as this barely canon big sister character. He could give both Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu so, so many more Jiejie issues, I'm sure.

[rad-roche]

oh a fun stylization thing i never thought to mention because it's so miniscule, but it might be an interesting bit of trivia!

whenever i draw mouths, especially in close up, i like to cheat angles a little bit and show a gumline at the back, even if you wouldn't see it normally. i think it adds character, and i don't like teeth looking a big flat slab, but also i think doing too much makes them creepy. problem: that's a very organic thing, and nick is a robot. doing that makes him look creepy

solution

inhuman gumline! his teeth are square and uniform. just the right side of subtle and unsettling to me

i've been doing this for months now. it's easiest to see in that one valencock pic i did

square!