#♠ in character.

[kittygamer2888]

*finally coughs up an art dump about One Piece and may contain spoilers to the series--*

WAIT, N O-

NO NO NO NO NO NO N O-

L-look I just...

I...

U h . . .

Guys I swear I just wanted to learn how to draw humans good, so Luffy was all I got😭

I felt motivated to redraw images from the anime as well as doodle some of the characters for fun--

Though...

.....I guess I had a lot to draw, h-huh..?

[Nervous laughter-

PROCEEDS TO RUN A WA Y-]

[ask-comte-de-saint-germain]

if you lived in modern times would you pick up video games as a hobby?

what would you play :3c

Video games?

He looks confused for a moment. Sebastian steps over to le Comte and whispers in his ear.

Oh! I see. How delightful.

Yes, I think I might play a few.

Sebastian clears his throat.

If I may, I believe M. le Comte would be quite fond of 'cozy' games. Say, Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon. Perhaps Stardew Valley?

[purelyhornyred]

what if thwy were both girls... and they kiss... 😵

[cardedsoul]

A moment of silence.

Finally. It's almost NEVER fuckin' quiet in the hotel anymore ; between Angel Dust's noisy-ass and Charlie's overall enthusiasm , Husk was exhausted. A clawed hand rubs against his face and a groan leaves the bartender. He needed a break. Maybe a drink , actually. . .

His plumed tail sways smoothly behind himself , wrapping around a nearby bottle while skilled claws take a few others and a mixer. ‘ Graveyard ’ was a new drink he'd been introduced to through a friend after she'd come to get some downtime , and he had been pleasantly thrilled to find it was the only thing to actually get him properly drunk anymore. Apparently it was extremely volatile on mortals — which was fair ; the mix itself sounded like it would kill.

What Husk fails to recall , however , is that a ‘ moment of silence ’ was just that. A fleeting moment. While he's mildly distracted with his mixing , he doesn't quite notice the @r-adio demon returning from one of those ' outings ' of his.

❝ Now if it could just stay this fuckin' quiet th' rest'f the day , I might be able t' get somethin' done later. ❞

After his drink ( or three ) , of course.

[louebel]

man i love jinbe

[chxrry-kisses]

Your alarm rang out, piercing your ears. Groaning, you turned off your alarm and stayed in bed for a few minutes before getting up. Rubbing the sand from your eyes, you yawned. You were so not ready to go to school.

Dragging yourself out, you went to the bathroom. Staring at yourself in the mirror while brushing your teeth, you remembered that you promised your old friend that you'd walk to school with them today.

After finishing up, you looked through your closet for something to wear. Satisfied with your choices, you decided to grab a muffin and have it on the way to school for breakfast.

You locked the door behind you and headed out, shivering against the slight cold, morning air. Just as you stepped onto the sidewalk, a familiar figure stepped into your line of sight.

It's your childhood best friend, August.

AUGUST the childhood best friend

AFFECTION: 88% ENVY: 5% LUST: 10% LOVE: 92%

You greeted them with a wave, watching their eyes light up once they spotted you. Adjusting their bag, August said, "Hey! It's so nice to walk with you again, it's been so long!"

"Yeah, it has," You replied.

"We're only going to the bus stop, though -- school's way too far away," they chuckled.

You two walked to the bus stop, talking about the past few weeks and schoolwork.

"-- and lately I've been thinking about trying out for track and field -- oh, we're here." August went ahead and sat down at the bench, legs shifting uncomfortably against the cold. Taking out their phone and their earbuds, they suddenly perked up and offered you one.

"That reminds me! I found this really cool song, wanna listen?"

You silently took the earbud and sat down next to your friend, fitting it snugly inside your ear. Moments later, a song began to loudly play in your ear. You slightly flinched from the unexpected volume, August letting out a quiet "Sorry!" before turning down the sound.

❥ you spent seventeen minutes listening to music with August, at the bus stop and inside the bus.

ENVY: -1%

You two stepped off, one after the other. The school doors cast a faint shadow on the ground, the sky grey and overcast with impending rain.

"I forgot to bring an umbrella..." August groaned, eyebrows furrowing. They sighed and turned to you, a smile already back on their face. "Well, I'm gonna go walk to class, I can't afford to be late again."

You gave them a hug and said your goodbyes, watching your friend's figure become smaller and smaller until they're past the school's doors.

You tried to entertain yourself by checking your social media apps, but you barely have any notifications. You turned it off, bored out of your mind.

❥ you should find something to do.

-> Walk around campus?

-> Go inside?

-> Go to class?

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[avcnturine]

does aventurine's personality reflect more of his innate traits or the environment he's been exposed to? how have these factors played a role in shaping his character?

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this is a tough question to answer i think because we don't really get much sense of what is aventurine's " innate personality ". we don't know what he was like as an infant or toddler to try and make an argument ; the earliest we see him, he's already likely around age 7 or 8, which is more than enough time for beliefs and behavior to be shaped by his surroundings.

i think one of the things we do see is that a lot of his worldview is shaped by the tenets he was taught growing up :

—　aventurine himself tells us that before his parents ( mother, specifically, since his father died before he was born ) passed, they taught him that " friends are the weapons of the avgin people " — an " us vs. them " worldview that condones and encourages the necessary leveraging of people in the out-group to ensure one's own survival.

even though, frankly, i think his flashback scenes give us too much of a watered-down view of the avgins ( in a very black and white ' jrpg ' kind of way to make the player feel sympathetic for aventurine ), i don't think aventurine is lying about where he picked up this worldview thanks to other texts giving us hints that the avgins do appear to value deception, cleverness, and theft. their prayer to gaiathra triclops makes this apparent, as well as the avgins' worship of gaiathra triclops herself being as, among others, a deity of trickery.

it's clear that despite how far behind him aventurine has left his former life on sigonia, and the various other environments that've impacted him since ( his enslavement, the ipc, becoming a stoneheart ), he still roots a lot of his core beliefs in that early formative culture taught by his family and his tribe. but that doesn't mean all of his present personality is shaped by it.

—　the other thing i do want to talk about in terms of how aventurine shapes himself is the self-fashioning he does ; and in particular, the way he fashions himself after identities and events that should be heavily traumatic. did you ever notice that so much of aventurine's current persona comes directly from his former slavemaster that he himself brutally killed in order to end his own imprisonment?

from his character teaser, we see that said former master wore a thumb, middle finger, and pinky ring, and a wristwatch, on his left hand.

aventurine wears middle finger and pinky rings, and a ( fancier ) wristwatch on his right hand in an almost perfect mirror.

indifferent male: sorry, but that won't do. don't forget your place, slave. you're not qualified to be at the table. indifferent male: you're just a chip, a life thrown away in someone else's hands. either you come back with more chips for your master, or... you never come back. indifferent male: it's all or nothing. don't embarrass me, my lucky hound.

using gambling metaphors and terminology, referring to people or knowledge as chips to be leveraged, and even his signature motto also all were part of his former master's vernacular. i don't think it's a coincidence that this language was used identically by the first individual who shaped and defined his sense of self-worth outside of the tiny pond that was sigonia.

for the first time, aventurine saw what he was worth in the scope of the whole ocean — and we see this continue to bind him mentally even after he's physically free ( he continues to seek the remaining thirty tanbas of his purchase cost from jade, to the point that he set up an entire enterprise to deceive the ipc in order to get in front of her to ask for just that ), and long past that as well, as i'd argue that he still struggles to wash out the sense of that stain.

taking up his former master's outward flaunting of wealth was a conscious decision — it was a way for aventurine not only to demonstrate that he could match and surpass the person who'd been above him, but also for him to compartmentalize and exert control over a situation in which he had none and was subject to others' whims. the only other option is to continue living in the shadow of that time. but possessing those trademarks of his master allows him to do just the opposite: he reclaims a situation in which he had no agency and turns it into something that belongs to him. i would argue this is a form of ptsd.

taking up his former master's way of talking was less conscious, and instead more an indication of just how deeply the man's treatment of him, as well as the culture and mindset of his slave holdings ( since he does mention being a prolific slave buyer who pimps out his possessions to rake in money rather than using the slaves himself, so i'm assuming he had numerous at any time ), embedded a certain view of self, view of others, and view of the world in aventurine subconsciously. this is more indication of how deep of a psychic impact that period of time had on him.

[heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon]

Like, literally all of them? Go fuck yourself?

"Less representation than Gravity Falls..."

So...

I guess all of the crippled queer kids are just going to have to be okay with Tyrone (strangely appropriative and fetishistic name for the disfigured clone of your 13 y/o white boy character) happily exclaiming something like how he's apparently "Better Off Dead!" when he gets a soda poured on him and destroyed, huh? Oh Wait! I forgot.. That was Paper-Jam Dipper!

Nope. I think crippled queer kids would much rather appreciate Toby and Minty being there just fine. After all, I think that it must be the first time we've ever seen any visible wheelchair users in a Queer Coded Disney Show since Kim Possible. Let alone this queer coded and let alone twice. And they're two separate characters existing at the same time and their presence doesn't even revolve around teaching anyone anything! They're just ALLOWED to EXIST!

Didn't see anything like this in Grabbity Balls though, did see a stereotypical man-ish little girl with a big, deep man-ish voice be implied to have "something wrong with her" by an adult authority figure character who's voiced by the same straight, white, openly anti-black Canadian man that you all have been heralding as the ultimate alley for your fictional LGBTQ+ Cartoon Characters' rights, for some reason.

At least the Star Crew tried to give us this:

Which in my opinion was a bit more forwarded and impactful than some dude bro frat boy "love guru" type character just wearing a bunch of symbols and ornaments around his neck, even if they both didn't get through the censors ... You all know this is way more explicit than that.

Speaking of in your face and explicit Queer Coding:

Golly gee... I wonder why such cute and beefy but shy Little Leather Monster Complete with his own Harness and what appears to be a Gimp Mask just had to be regulated to the back?! So funny how Daron Nefcy literally said Disabled Rights, Trans Rights, and Leather/Kinkster Rights while Alex Hirsch only said Eugenics, "Trans Rights" (if you can pass to him, if he can pronounce your name, and you don't say "bae" ) and of course, let's not forget Cops at Pride, despite how little they could apparently both get away with... :)

... But of course, the last and most important Queer Reading to me in Star vs. :

The whole idea of being forced to be with someone you don't love to the point where you have to take a Secret Lover and elope with them and preserve your own sanity because you're a"Bad Girl" who likes a lot of dirty, kinky things to the point where your own voice actress is herself an open kinkster who likes dirty kinky things and that shows through her fun performance, as well as the canonical writings of this kinky character.

And we're not even getting into all of the WAM and Food Fetish stuff in Star vs. The Forces of Evil but it's there, and it's 'glorious'

And after the show is over ,like the actual Queen of Darkness you are, you gotta go sue your old washed up has-been rock star ex boyfriend for misusing the forces of what he says is kink to abuse you ... Because kink is great actually and he's just evil.

Anyway, Esmé Bianco is amazing.

Don't even get me started on Meteora and the blatant disrespect. Especially after Jessica Walter's passing.

I'm writing this post because I'm just ... So fucking sick of people shitting all over the wonderful representation that Star vs. was able to even achieve in favor of praising Alex Hirsch, every time... When in reality, Star vs. The Forces of Evil has overall better representation and overt, and, as some have even said, both in out the show, literally abject Queerness in it than Hirsch will ever have in whichever eye y'all tried to put the eye-patch on your sexy twink Bill Ciphers only to have Hirsch shit on all that and immediately "fix it" by redesigning it as some disfigured ablest caricature before literally switching over to yet another anti-black one.

Dana broke up with Hirsch for a reason: He's a jerk!

If you think that Daron didn't do a "queer enough" narrative with Star vs. despite it being so by it's nature since day one, despite that being already being promised by it's very nature in it's influence being Sailor Moon and Scott Pilgrim, and if you read the Book of Spells even and still say shit like: "I don't see how Star vs. is QUEER????"

Then like, I'm sorry you can't look a little deeper to find that queerness already everywhere in the narrative all around you and if you actually think that Alex Hirsch ever did Representation TM better than Daron Nefcy, all I can say is that I'm sorry you're like a misogynist with shit taste in men and I'm so glad Dana Terrace is free from her shitty boyfriends shadow now at least.

Saying something even more petty about this because I'm gay: A giant, "Size Shifting", People Eating, Purple Pussy Monster who spends his time in mostly just booty shorts, his Chocolate Fountain Jumping Wife who orgasms when she eats candy and left her arranged marriage so that could have more orgasms, and their Giantess, Purple Pussy Monster of a daughter who sucks the souls out of people and spent most of her life as the Milfier than her own Mom, Terrifying Headmistress of a reform school, where she sucked the life of her own students in a Bathory-uqse fashion, before blowing up her cyborg simp, with his own heart, then probably being able to use the severed arm of her Lizard Cyborg Ex Boyfriend as a make-shift dildo to get a final wank in before ultimately experiencing a growth spurt, losing her mind, and killing everyone ... Will always be more Queer in their very nature, than a floating stale dorito in a top hat and two "gay" cops that are designed to be classicist, racist stereotypes for the sake of the unspoken running "joke" that they could even get along, ever were...

And again... If you're an adult and 'Star Vs.' still isn't enough for you... Then maybe you should STOP looking to cartoons and Disney for your ideal representation and make your own...

I'm done.

[fdragon-art]

Day 26 (30 Days | Homestuck - Day 12) - Favourite Matesprit Pairing (JohnDave)

"Sometimes, you simply enjoy listening to your boyfriend talk about what's on his mind as he lays his head on your lap. His hair is fluffy through your fingers, though you never expected to actually like running your hands through someone's hair.

"...you have no idea what he's rambling on about this time."

=Thoughts=

Drawing past midnight is not the best thing for future productivity, but it has a surprisingly positive effect on art...at least, while I'm not tired.

Two-figure drawing used to be a weaker point of mine, but at some point, I seemed to have figured out how to make interactions seem at least tangible and not two overlapping shapes. A lot of it comes from working with the sketch until the proportions feel right, then start drawing from there. Somehow, I didn't really need to mess with it much (though Dave's left leg looks a little weird; I've never quite figured out how to make that pose work naturally)

While the side angle's one I've practiced plenty, the "slightly angled down" face is one I've done less so. The angle itself I feel mostly confident with, but the position and angling of the ears is...a challenge. I think I'm getting better at it, but it was probably the biggest challenge (aside from Dave's hair, but it's become fun to draw~)

The speech bubble is in no way made for readability. I just aimed for the appearance of rambling.

[kittygamer2888]

...a lot happened in this story I'm making with my OCs--

[prismit]

(has practically 0 experience with real programming) i'm going to make a better emoji panel for windows 10

[reel-to-real-emporium]

OOC: A new verse has been officially added called For Fates' Sake! Why? Because I'm being self-indulgent and it sounds like fun, plus its a good way to do some interactions and also for you [yes you, whoever is reading this.] to have more opportunities to build depth for your muses. That being said, I am just going to copy and paste the verse info here and if you want a tarot reading for either you or your muse or whatever else then all you have to do is send this prompt as an ask:

For Fates' Sake - [Insert muse & question/worry/etc here.]

It can be a full-thread interaction if you want or something that is just a one-off that you have done and read. I am open to whatever.

| For Fates' Sake | - Verse Info

Moxie's love of tarot and the occult tend to proceed her. She's well versed in cards and reading them- For Fates' Sake being the perfect example of that. You'll have your questions answered and your fates divined. Just don't get mad at her if you don't like the answers you might get.

[Tarot readings are genuine but also for fun. Done by mun and told through Moxie, can be for other muses or even for other muns. I don't care if they've never interacted or if you have other muses you want read, just go for it. Just keep in mind the readings will be written as Moxie, so have fun with that. If you want, you may request an actual really nice PDF of your reading. Yes I am serious, I made the damn things for something else they may as well get used for something somewhere instead of just collecting dust.]

-

For Fates' Sake is a small tent set up as an extension of Reel-to-Real. Reserved mostly as an in-between. When the store itself gets pulled somewhere but whatever is needed or exchanged is a bit out of Reel-to-Real's league. Answers are tricky things and sometimes Moxie comes across those who are better off not stepping foot in Reel-to-Real at all.

The tent is odd and composed of many different fabrics, the inside containing exactly what you'd expect from something that appears to be a wandering fortune telling. Well, save for Moxie who seems to appear in her normal punk-rock-thrift-threads; the vibe is enough. She's not about to go cross any cultural lines beyond that.

Take a seat opposite Mox on the other side of the table and ask your questions, state your worries, do whatever it is you need. She'll try to help however she can or maybe give you a small trinket for luck.

[cardedsoul]

KISSING BOOTH ! ⸻ currently accepting

@wiltingwoes dealt their hand: Kissing both except it’s Betty dragging her tongue over Husk like a dog HFHFBCVV

Oh, what was Betty up t- eeeEEEEEE

WHAT THE FUCK ?!?!?!?

[skater-brain]

✨︎ I feel like I wasted a lot of time this year just... avoiding reaching out to people or doing memes or starting spontaneous interactions, because I keep telling myself that it wouldn’t fit with the “plot”-ish stuff happening in the threads I’m already doing and I should just wait until some nebulous point in the future where I feel like Beat has progressed “enough” to be open to lower-stakes interactions.

✨︎ So New Year’s resolution is to stop worrying about if my blog’s “plot” makes any kind of linear sense and just reach out more for the heck of it. I’d rather have 400 simultaneous threads that don’t quite work chronologically but give me as many opportunities as I want to write my character in new situations, than arbitrarily restrict myself to a handful of heavy plotted threads steering his character development.

[chxrry-kisses]

❥ you decided to pay attention. for once.

You opened up your notebook, clicking the tip of your pen. Kayden clicked their's twice. You clicked your's three times. Kayden clicked their's four more times.

This went on for a solid minute before the teacher yelled at the "students who are making that noise -- STOP IT."

ENVY: -10% AFFECTION: +1%

Smiling to yourself, you finally began to write something down. Looking up at the board, you realized that you were learning about some subject you thought the teacher already taught a few weeks ago. A review, maybe?

Still, you forced yourself to continue listening as you took half-assed notes. Kayden seemed to forget your existence after a few minutes, fully concentrated on taking as many notes as possible.

You're bored. Like really bored. You wished that class would just end already, or better yet, school simply cease to exist.

❥ let me tell you something, then. in a few days, there'll be a group of performers coming to town soon. they're nothing special, but they're entertaining enough. you could go there, if you'd like.

The bell finally rang. You were one of the first people out the door, not wanting to stay in that room for another second.

You rubbed your temples. You really didn't wanna do this. You should've just stayed home and skipped school or something.

You're pretty sure you left your notebook back in class. Damn.

Other students just walked past you, sometimes stopping to chat with some friends.

You should really get to your next class before the bell rings. Don't wanna ruin your perfect attendance record, do you?

You groaned, pushing past everyone else as your mind went on autopilot.

❥ you made it through today's classes, learning very little. it is now lunch time.

You walked down the stairs. You could hear at least a two hundred people's voice from below. Letting out a sigh, you could already feel a headache setting in.

❥ you should find a way to spend lunch.

-> Sit down somewhere?

-> Eat outside?

-> Skip lunch?

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[vixennss]

trying to get out of this art block i've been stuck in for Months. here's ace!