#((more tba??))

[mye-chi]

okay listen sometimes as an artist you wanna do warm-ups for aphtober. and sometimes that means crudely drawing that stupid shitpost that popped up in your head (based off this image)

[tetrangel]

ptarmigan

[ryo-hirakawa]

comms being unhinged 6h spa edition:

"toyota would not do a bull in a china shop – that would be lamborghini"

saying robert kubica still hasn't shaken the f1 driver habit of "whinging on the radio"

"understeer is when you can see the crash coming, oversteer is when you can't"

"tyres have the memory of an elephant"

being so used to praising james calado they forgot it was gio driving

them realising ferrari actually split their strats now after roasting the shit outta them for the imola stinker

[louierecs]

— ୨୧₊˚ fic rec masterlist

The Walking Dead;

Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Glenn Rhee, Abraham Ford, Negan Smith, Shane Walsh, Carl Grimes

Call Of Duty;

Johnathan Price, Simon 'Ghost' Riley, John 'Soap' MacTavish, Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick, Alex Keller, Alejandro Vargas, Rodolfo Parra, Phillip Graves, Keegan P. Russ, Makarov

Criminal Minds;

Aaron Hotchner, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid, Luke Alvez

911;

Bobby Nash, Evan 'Buck' Buckley, Eddie Diaz

Outer banks;

Rafe Cameron, JJ Maybank, John B, Pope Heyward

Sons of Anarchy;

Jackson 'Jax' Teller, Filip 'Chibs' Telford, Juan Carlos 'Juice' Ortiz, Alexander 'Tig' Trager, Happy Lowman, Opie Winston

Triple Frontier;

Santiago 'Pope' Garcia, Francisco 'Catfish' Morales, Will Miller, Ben Miller

The Bear;

Carmen Berzatto, Michael Berzatto, Richie Jerimovich, Luca

Marvel;

Tony Stark, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Peter Parker, Deadpool, Wolverine, Frank Castle

Marauders;

Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, James Potter, poly!marauders

Harry Potter, golden era;

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, and Cedric Diggory

Slytherin Boys;

Tom Riddle, Mattheo Riddle, Theodore Nott, Lorenzo Berkshire, Regulus Black

Youtube;

Harry Lewis, Tobi Brown, Simon Minter, Niko Omilana, Sharky, Aj Shabeel, ChrisMD, Willne, Calfreezy, TheBurntChip, George Clarkey

Other Characters One;

Javier Pena, Steve Murphy, Joel Miller, Marcus Acacius, Benny Cross, Agent Whiskey, Eggsy Unwin, Jim Hopper, Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw, Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Arthur Morgan, Joel Miller (game version)

Other Characters Two;

Carl Gallagher, Lip Gallagher, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, John Winchester, Oscar 'Spooky' Diaz, Cesar Diaz, Nick Amaro, Sonny Carisi, Joshua 'Scud' Fromeyer, Griff, Sam Rossi, Nate Archibald, Diego Hargreeves

More Recs of my top characters;

Daryl Dixon, Simon Riley, Aaron Hotchner, Spencer Reid, Rafe Cameron and more Rafe, Carmen Berzatto, Frank Castle, Logan Howlett, Wade Wilson

⋆˚࿔ layout credit to @ruewrote 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

[icecreampizzer]

Presenting a compilation of all of my IEYTD OCs so far! They have their own plot going on but idk if I have the energy to talk about that here and now. I already made a post about Black Mamba so they get to have one (1) pic only. Here's some introductory blurbs I wrote for them under the cut!

Mina Magpantay is an aspiring detective with unshakeable determination, even if the situation gets rough. She enjoys solving mysteries and playing in escape rooms. She's also socially adept and enjoys bonding with people. After the Peacemaker fiasco, she has vowed to keep her eyes open for any slip-up Zoraxis tries to make again. Unfortunately, her curiosity ended up getting her involved with a very dangerous operative, after an agent tried to protect her.

Franz Marshall is a very serious agent whose first priority is the safety of everyone involved. Her time in the field changed her worldview a hundred times over, and her disdain for the Agency is almost as intense as her disdain for Zoraxis. It only got more intense after Dr. Prism left, as she was all for her Robot Agent project. She wanted to return to the field after her handling agent got extremely injured, and she vowed to finish their mission. Whatever it takes.

"Dr. Schaden Freude" is a graduate student who's starting their supervillain career early by applying as a part-time assistant in Zoraxis. They're clever, observant, and strangely friendly. They're starting to be more aware of how Zor treats their subordinates, though, and they have...some notes. But it's not like they have the power to argue with them anyhow. As an assistant they ended up being given the task of handling Mamba, despite their lack of experience in being a support agent.

Operative Black Mamba is the fruit of Zoraxis's obsession with the one and only Agent Phoenix, with the express purpose of creating a perfect rival to the Agency's greatest weapon. The problem is that this clone had the gall to build a personality of her own, fueled by her own confusing emotions and motivations, to the point that she's becoming more of a liability than an asset. They still keep her around though...but maybe she's one slip-up away from being discarded completely.

[muppetjackrackham]

black sails has made me so insane that i started plotting out a 1980s band au with every major captain as the frontman of their own band and every band name is a reference to black sails or treasure island

[grimowled]

is your portrayal based on the pilot or current canon version of Stolas? Any differences between your portrayal and canon?

YES HELLO welcome to my ted talk-- okay okay I've already gotten into some of the canon divergence here, but I can give you a brief rundown of the main stuff, and while I'm at it, shamelessly plug my hc page ;>

it is certainly more pilot based than current canon, though we do follow most canon events with our own spin. (however I am willing, eager and able to write canon compliant stolas upon request! just follow your ask or starter or message me with 'give me the sad prince!')

ON STOLAS, THE DARK PRINCE, AS SUMMONED BY GRIMM

apex predator: my default portrayal of stolas emphasises the shrewd, callous, manipulative and obsessive side of the demon prince, similar to the pilot, as well as the darker side of his infernal duties and insight into his powers and knowledge as an ars goetia.

old soul: stolas is pretty ancient, though he's younger than the sins and the og fallen angels, being in the hellborn generation. he's around 5000 years old. in my view hell years work differently from earth years, so it is entirely possible to go with the canon narrative that he is around 37 hell years old.

motivation: yes - he does become terribly infatuated, as he does with blitzø. but he is an ancient demon and this is hell, so it won't be pretty; stolas can manifest his courtship in very skewed, toxic, manipulative and obsessive ways. all of that whilst acting like he is mostly the perfect gentleman.

he is driven and haunted by the typical hunger that comes with the existential dissatisfaction of infernal creatures (banished from the fulfilling light of the creator), and the ennui that usually follows with old age and immortality.

whilst perfectly embedded in the goetia aristocracy way of life, he does wrestle with the desire to break rules and be scandalous. what more can he get away with?

soul collection: more detail here, but the short of it is that stolas does have souls under contract, and he is extremely possessive of them.

a lil' rehash of the juicy stuff below ;)

gender and sexuality: in canon it is confirmed that stolas is gay ; my stolas identifies as a pansexual cis-male.

he does have a cloaca but can also conjure a phallus for breeding or just preference (i mean just try to impregnate someone efficiently via cloacal kiss--)

he is a power bottom-leaning switch.

[marcescenx-arc]

They hate to see a Pretty King winning.

[antisocialxconstruct]

oof as much as I'd love to start drama by asking what IFs you have beef with..... I have to go with the less targeted question of 'what are some IF tropes you think are overdone'. personally if I have to see the same four ROs recycled into another game one more time I'll scream

LOL probably a safer question for me to answer too...

ROs are a big sticking point for me as well. Seeing the same archetypes over and over, feeling like someone came up with ROs first and is now desperately trying to finesse a story that can justify all of them being date-able*, someone having an actually interesting and compelling story to tell but bending themself into pretzels to fit in six romance arcs that may not even serve the plot just because that's an expected convention... Also in general I never lose interest in a new project faster than when I see artbreeder RO portraits. Not even because it's """AI art""" but because it's always the same empty eyed model-perfect 20something in different colors.

(*NOT the same as a story primarily designed to be a dating sim. I generally think that's fine as a genre, and some of these people would have an easier time if they were willing to admit that's what they were writing and not some sweeping grand narrative.)

My other biggest issue with a lot of amateur IF is like... excessive and overly ambitious customization? I think a lot of authors don't know where the line is on what they can just allow the reader to imagine without there being a variable for it, as well as what they should frankly just... be willing to decide for the reader when it best serves the story. As far as MC customization, I think this really stems from a lot of people in the community getting their first introduction to IF through CoG and then drawing the conclusion that if some character customization is good, more customization must be better! But if it's not going to come up in-text and be directly relevant to the plot or how the MC is characterized*... it doesn't need to be canonized.

(*by which I mean, like... making your character a specific religion, or disabled, or something like that. Things that actually impact how they engage with the world.)

Branching off of that, I think maybe my most potentially controversial take is... not every IF needs to have a customizable MC at all. It's entirely possible to write a story with a set, static protagonist, and still allow the player to make decisions that allow them to shape that character and the broader plot in a way that still feels personal and like they're an active participant. VNs tend to go this way, or else they have a faceless MC who still tends to have a more set personality, and I think sometimes I read IF demos and I really get the feeling they wish they could be writing someone specific, and they're getting hamstrung by the idea that they need to sand off enough defining features to let the MC be anyone.

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Monster High body refs

(2 / 2) More to be added!

*Higher quality references are available in the Google Drive

*All images are uploaded scaled down and compressed due to Tumblr's image size restrictions

[coiledqueen]

Still sprawled out in her Seviper's coils, Lucy adjusts her Masquerain facemask and groans. What did you do now...?

The Pike Queen's senses are tingling, and she can just tell. Somewhere, somehow, Noland's definitely rushed ahead and hurt himself. Again.

[noctudreams]

if i make a horror blog , its gonna be a side blog to this one just cause. i know some peeps have a hard time with some of that content. which is completely understandable. horror like that isn't for everyone. while the more thriller like muses would be here (Bendy being an example) , the more graphic ones (such as DBD muses and American Mcgee muses) will be put on a sideblog. <3

[amitsuma]

oh my god the quality jump is wild

[witchtchr]

a list of dumb reasons Rita killed someone canonically:

not watching the movie credits

being overly demanding while watching movies

watching movies at 2x speed (especially brutal death)

adding rice to ramen

starting ramen with meat

not going to ramen shops at all

taking photos for social media instead of eating ramen

not being handsome

pachinko

each case was caused by her trying to find a boyfriend between the assassins for the kindergarten.

[treemaidengeek]

Have a teaser for my @lbfad-minibang piece...

"Did you see the Moon Supreme's wrist and neck?" Ronghao murmured to Lord Yunzhong, after the fires were extinguished. "There were marks there, and I suspect many more hidden by his robes." He paused, thoughtful. "They looked exactly like the marks your whip burned into Xiao Lanhua's skin."

🌸🌸🌸

Qingcang tasted blood.

His eyelids were crusted with cement. His limbs pulsed with banked fire. And his mouth was full of copper.

"Wooden Head, please, come back–"

That voice…

Did he even occupy a body anymore? He let his head tip to one side, experimenting. The flare of dizziness confirmed that yes, he did.

Open your eyes, he told himself. You are the powerful Moon Supreme and you will open your eyes right now because you need to see her.

When his mutinous muscles finally responded, he could only squint against the brilliance of twilight.

His precious Xiao Lanhua was right there holding him, brow drawn, skin pale from strain. The corners of his lips rose. He was - he was smiling. On his own. What a miracle this little flower was.

Her fingers lifted to brush his cheek. The smell of blood jolted through him. He grabbed her hand and stared at the slash across her wrist.

"It's fine," she reassured, trying to pull away. "You had to drink a little so I could revive you, that's all. I'm fine."

"It's not fine," he growled. "Don't wound yourself. Not for me, not for anyone."

Her gaze fell. "You were dying. My blood healed you."

He… hadn't known she could do that. As if he hadn't already received ample proof of her divine nature. But…

"Why?" he asked.

Her shoulders rose and fell. "I don't know. I always could."

"Not that. I mean–" He grimaced and shifted against the rough stone at his back. "Why did you save me? Why not go back to Shuiyuntian with your Lord Changheng?"

Her lips parted soundlessly, peach blossom eyes softening. Her slender wrist wilted in his grasp.

Suddenly it didn't matter. Despite everything, she had turned away from the perfect opportunity to return to her former home, pardoned and beloved.

She had chosen him instead.

He drew her into his arms. She'd chosen him. Something fluttered in his stomach. His ribs felt too tight for his pounding heart.

His lips met hers for the simple joy of touching her.

He felt the lightning charge on the nape of his neck a bare instant before the veils of aurora parted around the wrath of heaven.

It was only Lord Yunzhong, this time. But Lord Yunzhong was enough.

Qingcang tried to swing Xiao Lanhua around behind him. For a dizzy heartbeat he was weightless. Then rough gravel dug into his cheek. The river roared in his ears.

"You ungrateful wretch," an imperious voice snapped. "Step aside, or I'll finish what your master started and uproot you completely."

"No." His foolish little orchid's voice was devastatingly firm.

The air crackled. She cried out. His arm burned with her pain.

"Last chance," Lord Yunzhong warned. "I am willing to overlook this for my brother's sake. But his infatuation will only protect you so far."

Qingcang reached deep into himself, to his core carved empty and filled with azure flame. There was so much there now, so many feelings jumbling together. There was hardly space or fuel for his hellfire anymore. With a roar of effort he filled his palm and flung the fire forward.

Lord Yunzhong hissed. Good. Good that he could still count on this when it mattered most.

Lightning stilettoed across his shoulders and chest. He and Xiao Lanhua screamed together – who had Lord Yunzhong actually attacked? –

Voices clamored from the treeline. Shangque and Jieli. Yunzhong laughed. Qingcang felt abruptly queasy.

The laugh dissolved into curses as Shangque assumed his true form. Qingcang couldn't really see – his eyes had glued themselves shut again, somehow – but the reptile smell and rush of air displaced by a suddenly massive body were impossible to miss.

His lieutenant's roar shook the ground beneath him.

Another burst of lightning. Xiao Lanhua crying in protest. The subtler rush of air filling a space no longer occupied.

He needed to stay awake, to figure out what was happening and help his precious orchid. She had sounded indignant and frightened. But now Jieli was yelling something after Shangque, and two sets of hands were touching him but neither of them was Xiao Lanhua, and he was too fucking tired to fight anymore…

[the-mighty-het-speaks]

JH 2004