#Also a little K sketch in the corner lol

[kkolg]

More Cinnamon Scent AU sketches god damn they are so fucking cute I physically cannot keep myself from doodling them🧎‍♀️ AU originally by @ayloverlove now owned by @noridoorman

[astral-skyes]

to forget, you need to understand

a/n- this one is pretty long and dialogue heavy but I need to flesh out annabeth and piper’s dynamic. Also I need help. Cuz I don’t wanna use friends to lovers two times so what trope should I use for Pipabeth help

chapter 3

masterlist

Piper

Piper was guilty as heck. Her being the daughter of the goddess of love should’ve made her good at breakups. But she messed it up. Not wanting to use charmspeak on Jason, she winged it and didn’t even get to tell him the most important part. Piper checked her phone again, before getting out of bed and making breakfast.

She had sent a few texts to Jason apologising but she hadn’t gotten a word back. She had also sent a few texts to Leo, he hadn’t answered too.

Sitting down with the fried egg she made, she texted the only person that could make her feel better right now.

‘Hey Annabeth! Wanna meet up? Grab coffee maybe?’

A few minutes passed by and Piper’s phone buzzed.

‘Hey Piper! Yeah, I’m up for it. Where should we meet though. I’m checking out a new school in LA btw’

‘Good! I live there lol. I have a really nice coffee shop I like thats close too. The address is *********.’

‘K, that’s gonna take me like 30 mins to get there. I’ll leave now. See u there?’

‘Yea! I’ll be there’

Piper smiled. She needed someone to talk to about the breakup, and who better than Annabeth? She was one of Piper’s best friends and a person that Piper had gone through a lot with. Putting that aside, she put on a pair of baggy jeans, a white shirt and a dark green jumper she had decorated with lots of different patches.

She left the house and in her excitement, didn’t notice a text from Leo: ‘Hey Beauty Queen. Dw, everything’s ok, Jason’s w me and he’s safe. Calm down lol’

~~time skip~~

Piper arrived at the cafe and Annabeth was already sitting at a table in the corner. The blonde waved to Piper.

“Hey Piper! I haven’t seen you in a little while”

“Same! How has life been?”

“Eh, it’s kinda boring. Ever since the Giant War I’ve just been at camp and school. It’s dull” Annabeth said dejectedly, swirling her coffee.

“Damn. I mean I had a wild day yesterday”

“What happened?”

“For one, I broke up with Jason”

“What? Why? What did he do?” Piper noticed Annabeth said that last sentence as if she was going to make Jason pay for what he ‘did’.

“He didn’t do anything, don’t worry. It’s me. I’ve had a hard time trying to say this, and I didn’t even tell him yesterday but I don’t think I like guys at all”

“Oh. Well congratulations. One for figuring it out and two for being brave enough to tell someone”

“Thanks. Only you and Leo know. I know I need to tell Jason but I’m scared.”

“Hey” At this Annabeth took Piper’s hands in hers. Piper blushed. “You have done harder things than coming out to your best friend. He cares for you, that will never change.”

“Yeah, thanks” Piper said, still blushing.

“I’ve finished my coffee, wanna pay and leave”To Piper’s relief, Annabeth changed the topic.

“Yeah sure. I’ll pay.” Piper said and took out her card.

“Nu-uh. I’m paying.” Annabeth took her card out too and pushed Piper’s away.

“No.” said Piper simply. She called over a waiter who took her card and scanned it.

“I will get you back” Annabeth joked and stood up. Piper stood up after her and they left.

“Anything else new in your life? Maybe something positive?” Annabeth chuckled.

“Yeah actually” Piper said. “I’ve been learning how to draw.”

“Really? Can you show me some drawings?” Annabeth said inquisitively.

“Oh… sure.” Piper took out a small book filled with sketches of houses and people and furniture.

“Whoah!” Annabeth exclaimed, startling Piper. “These are amazing. The only sketches I can do are ones for blueprints and stuff.” Annabeth then started looking through all the sketches. “I can’t believe how lifelike these look, these are amazing!” The blonde lifted her head up to find it was inches away from Piper’s. She pulled away quickly and turned red. “Sorry…”

“It’s fine” Piper felt herself blush too. “I didn’t think they were that good though”

“They’re amazing. Hey, do you mind sketching me?” The blonde had a hint of shyness in her voice.

“Sure! You’re just gonna have to sit relatively still for a few minutes” Piper said excitedly, opening up her notebook to a blank page.

Piper took out a pencil from her bag and began sketching.

After around 3 minutes, Piper sat up and put her pencil away. “Okay, I’m done! What do you think?” Piper showed Annabeth her sketch.

“It’s amazing! I look better here than I do in real life” Annabeth said, smiling.

“Come on, you look amazing in real life too.” Piper answered and Annabeth blushed, then her eyes widened. “Thanks. Wait, do you wanna get ice cream?”

“Yes”

“Alright, what flavour?”

“Choc chip”

“Same! Alright, I’ll go get it” Annabeth stood up and went towards the ice cream van. She bought the ice cream and returned.

“Wanna start going back?” Annabeth asked and handed one cone to Piper.

“Sure” Piper stood up and both walked back to the coffee shop.

“Okay, well this was so fun. We should do this again.” Piper said.

“Yeah, I’m probably going to move here for school. The one I visited was really good.”

“That’s amazing! Well then we should definitely see each other again” Piper said excitedly

“Yeah. Sun’s going down so we should go.”

“Yeah. I’ll text you”

“Not if I do it first!” Annabeth laughed and waved to Piper as she left.

Piper waved back and started moving back to her house.

~~another time skip~~

At her house, Piper was bored again. Annabeth had taken her mind off of her breakup. She sat on her balcony and checked her phone. She’d missed the text from Leo earlier so she answered: ���Hey Leo, thanks for telling me. How is Jason taking the breakup? I handled it so badly I can’t’

‘Girl it’s not as bad as u think. He’s fine, he told me everything. U should talk to him tho.’

‘Bro ik. I wanna give him a bit of time alone from me.’

‘Sure, we’re alone in the countryside on Festus’

‘Ooohhh so romantic!’

‘Why does everyone say that?? I’m not in love with him’

‘Or are you??’

‘I’m not!’

‘Sure…’ with this, Piper was left on read. Annabeth was all Piper could think about after. She would soon live here and Piper saw a real future where they were really close friends, or maybe more.

[babybluebex]

laszlo kreizler nsfw alphabet

so yeah this... Happened. the zemo version is coming soon, stay tuned! (probably tomorrow morning bc a bitch is tired lmao)

(gif credit to @lindir)

A = Aftercare.

Laszlo is such an aftercare king. He’s checking on you in every way he can think of: asking you if you feel alright, maybe massaging your hips if he had you in a weird position, offering you dinner or wine, maybe even a hot bath, if you’d like (and the bath would have special perfumed oils he had sent from Paris because Laszlo is SUCH a self care whore, he’s got soaps and perfumes out the wazoo).

B = Body Part.

His favorite part of yours are your breasts. No questions, hands down. He likes using your breasts as a pillow at night— just settling himself between your legs and resting his head on your tits is a dream he indulges in frequently. He also really loves seeing you in the new French-style of dresses that have a lower neckline, and, if you wear one of those dresses to dinner without telling him beforehand, he’s as good as gone. He’s staring the whole time and can only manage simple sentences.

C = Cum.

I think Laszlo likes to cum inside you, but he also wouldn’t mind cumming on your tits. If you’re on your knees, sucking him off, he’ll pull himself out of your mouth and almost rip your blouse in his haste to set your tits free before his orgasm rips through him. He only chooses to cum inside you if he can’t cum on your tits (for example, if you’re having slow, kissy sex and he can’t bear to leave your wet heat).

D = Dirty Secret.

Laszlo. Loves. To. Be. Degraded. From a psychological standpoint, he understands that his desire to be brought down and ridiculed is born from some sort of childhood trauma that DEFINITELY involves his father, but he just can’t help himself from getting so ridiculously turned on when you call him a dog for humping your leg while you try to sleep. Bonus points if you use his title while you do it: “Just like a little bitch in heat, aren’t you, Doctor Kreizler? You’re so aroused, you can hardly handle yourself. Are you too dumb to touch your own cock? Do you need me to do it? Oh, Doctor, what a dumb little thing you are.”

E = Experience.

Even Daniel himself has said that Laszlo has like NO experience. Laszlo got ZERO bitches (which I find hard to believe but ok whatever you say, writers of The Alienist), so, the first time y’all have sex, he’s more likely than not losing his virginity (let’s not get into the debate of “virginity is a social construct” because a.) IT IS and b.) Laszlo would lecture for hours about this). HOWEVER, these things come naturally to him. He is just Good In Bed. He figures it out very quickly, so, while you make fun of him for going a little stupid when he’s aroused, he makes up for it by bruising your cervix and apologizing later.

F = Favourite Positions.

Laszlo loves that soft, slow, kissy sex, so he’s into whatever position makes it possible for him to be inside you and to kiss you at the same time. Missionary is a go to, but sometimes he’ll have you sit on his desk and kiss your neck as he hikes your skirts up and fucks you all slow and nice.

G = Goofy.

Hardly ever? Laszlo is pretty serious most of the time, and the only time we ever see him Not Serious in the show is when he’s wasted after John’s bachelor party in season 2. So, maybe y’all went to dinner at Delmonico’s, then a ball for members of high society, and he had a little too much champagne and schnapps. He’s not like giggling and all, but his cheeks are red and he’s smiling more than usual, and calling you sweet names “Oh, mein Kätzchen” and “Meine kleine Prinzessin”. That’s Laszlo’s version of goofy.

H = Hair.

OK, my train of thought here is: LOOK AT THIS MAN’S BEARD. HIS BEARD IS NICE AS SHIT. If he treats his facial hair that good— regular trims, the beard oils we all know he uses, even if it isn't strictly canon— then his downstairs hair is nice too. Definitely soft, if maybe a little wiry sometimes (but tbh whose isn’t), and it’s a nice little cropping at the base of his cock. He also has a thin happy trail up his soft tummy, and a good amount on his chest (as we see in the show lol that much is canon).

I = Intimacy.

Laszlo is ALL ABOUT intimacy. You’ll know he’s in a ~mood~ because you’ll ask what’s being served at Delmonico’s that night, and Laszlo is like “I thought we might stay in tonight. John gave me his grandmother’s recipe for chicken soup”. He’ll light candles and pour you wine and play nice music on his gramophone, and he’ll romance you throughout dinner with little hand touches and sly smiles, until he’s kneeling in front of you and slowly kissing up your leg.

J = Jack-Off.

Honestly, he hardly does it. Of course, I’m sure he did it A LOT before he met you, but now he doesn’t need to pleasure himself anymore. He’s got you to do that. The only exception is if he has to travel for work and you can’t go with him. Even then, he’ll hold off until he absolutely can’t stand it, and then he’ll like read a letter you sent him or look at a sketch that John did of you while he whacks off; sometimes, he’ll just hold your letter to his face, and the faint trace of your perfume is enough to do the job.

K = Kink.

He likes impact play a lot (and perhaps a little roleplay wrapped up in it). On the rare occasion that his fucking is anything but soft and lovely, he’s gonna be hitting your ass and the backs of your thighs as you cling to him while he rails you stupid. Laszlo would try to hit your cheek, but he feels too bad when you wince at the pain of it. Spanking your tits is good to him too. His favorite though (and here’s where the roleplay comes in), is caning your ass. He’ll bend you over the desk in his home office and pull your skirts up past your hips, and he’ll make you count the amount of times his thick wooden cane connects with your soft asscheeks. The roleplay is, more often than not, you were his assistant who did something wrong and needed to be punished. If you miss one or forget to thank him accordingly “Thank you, sir”, he’ll focus the next hit on your thighs.

L = Location.

Either the bed or his desk. Laszlo is a little older (I don’t think we ever get an explicit age? But if we say he’s the same age as Daniel, then he’s 40 to 42-ish) so he can’t do it against a wall or anywhere too crazy (not to mention his right arm can hardly support much weight, so if he needs to hold you up, it’s probably not gonna happen). The bed is a special time for you two because of his arm; he’ll hold himself up with his left arm and rest his hand on your hip or wherever to give himself at least a little leverage. But the desk is usually easier because you can sit, or you can bend over and he can grab your hip.

M = Motivation.

He loves you and wants to worship you. It’s truly as simple as that. He loves you and thinks that you’re the most beautiful creature he’s ever seen, and he wants to show his reverence for you by making love to you.

N = No.

He can’t get into the role of “daddy”, nor can he call you “mommy”. Childhood trauma aside, he will be goddamned if Sigmund fucking Freud is correct about his bullshit Oedipus complex or whatever, so he just eliminates that whole thing entirely.

O = Oral.

He’s very good at it. He’s just… His lips are soft and his beard is good, and he’s not afraid to get a little messy with it. He’ll eat you out until he absolutely has to come up for air, and he’ll have a little bit of your wetness clinging to his mustache, but then he’s right back in it. His medical degree is also put to good use here because he remembers his female anatomy and he’s locked onto your clit the entire time. The first time you ever squirted, it was because Laszlo was nipping at your clit and sucking your wet little hole and pressing his thick fingers into you, and it was A Lot To Process, but you squirted and Laszlo came in his pants instantly because he’s like “I didn’t think women could actually do that… I thought that was a thing that penny novels made up”

P = Pace.

Again, he’s a little older, so he doesn’t fuck like some wild boy. He takes his time with you, touching you and caressing you and kissing you, and his pace is the same way. He’s slow and gentle, but has the capacity to go faster and harder if you ask for it.

Q = Quickie.

Hates them. Never. Never ever ever. If he can’t properly romance you and take his time with you, then what’s the point??

R = Risk.

Surprisingly, Laszlo is a little schemer, and he loves running a risk. He’s already looked down upon by other society members, so what’s the harm in squeezing your ass at a party? PERHAPS it’s inappropriate to get caught in a dark corner with your hand down his trousers and him kissing your neck, but it’s easy to blame it on the alcohol.

S = Stamina.

Once more, he is firmly middle aged, so he can do one round— maybe two, if he’s feeling particularly frisky. Usually, though, one is more than enough for both of you.

T = Toy.

HAVE YALL SEEN SEX TOYS FROM THE 1890S?? SHITS ARE SCARY. Laszlo does not like toys, but he understands their need for existing, so he may not like them but he tolerates them. That being said, he likes to watch you use them. LIke, he’ll sit in a chair by the bed and request you “put on a good show”, and he’ll watch you fall apart, and he’ll only come and touch you if you beg and plead for him to.

U = Unfair.

Mhm, so, in Laszlo’s mind, sex and pleasure are not just a give and take, it’s a two way street. They can (and often need to) coexist. He doesn’t like to initiate something if you won’t be able to reciprocate, so he’s not too into teasing or things. At the aforementioned parties, he’ll only goose your ass if he knows you’re 100% down for it.

V = Volume.

He’s fairly quiet. His mouth is usually really close to your ear, and you’re the only one who gets to hear his pretty little noises. The loudest he’ll be is when he’s come home after traveling and it’s felt like ages since he’s made love to you, he’s gonna come inside you, and his little gasp and moan are louder than usual.

W = Wild Card.

He is down to be tied up. He doesn’t like to tie you up, but if he’s the one being restrained, he’s all over it. It’s nothing too intense, just using a ribbon for your hair to tie his left hand to the headboard, not super tight but enough to make his fingers a little tingly, but he loves it. He loves the switch of the dynamic, how he’s fully at your mercy and you can use him however you please; usually, you just suck him off and ride him, but the endless possibilities get him hard as soon as you pull out the ribbon.

X = X-Ray.

Laszlo has Big Dick Energy, so he has to have a big dick. The best example of this sort of energy is in the very first episode after he goes and interviews Wolf, and comes to speak to Teddy, and Teddy is like “you interviewed the suspect? On whose authority??” and laszlo is like “Mine” like OH HIS DICK IS BIG I KNOW IT. He’s got an above average length and girth, but we know our man likes to eat, so some of his weight goes to his dick, so it’s like,,, He’s got a fat cock, sorry, I don’t make the rules

Y = Yearning.

Constantly. Neverending. He’s at work and he’ll catch a glimpse of a pastel drawing that you commissioned from John for Laszlo’s birthday that sits in a frame on his desk, and his heart starts to hurt from missing you. When he comes home, he’ll embrace you and kiss you like he hasn’t seen you in years, and he’ll want to hear all about your day. You have your doctor so whipped for you, and it’s a different kind of whipped than being pussy whipped. He’s, like, feelings whipped.

Z = ZZZ.

He’s a sleepy little baby after you guys finish. His eyes will be a little heavy and sticky as he’s cleaning up and caring for you (and you definitely coo at him “Oh, Las, you’re so sleepy!”) but when you’re both back in bed, our little man is circling his arm around your waist and nuzzling his cheek into your shoulder. He’s so soft and affectionate, and he’s out like a light when you kiss his forehead and tell him you love him.

[cozywitcharts]

self ship day 2 (confessions)

(imagine this in the sponge bob narrator voice) 2 weeks later...

I was wondering around the castle with Horror who was showing me around for the tenth time this week, it was nice though, every time we found a new part of the castle that we missed last time, plus I was memorizing land points so I didn’t get lost as much. Horror stopped confused for a minute then screeched like a child, which wasn’t shocking, he was like the child of the castle which was refreshing. I tilted my head looking at him then he looked at me his hand scratching at the hole in his skull. “I forgot to show you the greenhouse! Its the prettiest part of the castle! C’mon Raven!” He started dragging me in the opposite direction we had been going and took a bunch of random turns so I didn’t get a chance to find landmarks. But I had a feeling I wouldn’t need them. We finally came to a glass door that was pure black so you couldn't see through it. Horror opened the door and inside it like a jungle. I looked around amazed. It was hot though so I had to take off my hoodie, luckily Cross had gotten me a breast binder so I could feel more comfortable. I put my hair in a small bmessy bun and looked around. Horror had gone chasing after a butterfly so I was on my own. I crouched down pulling my pencil from the pocket of my hoodie and my sketchbook from it as well (its a small sketchbook) and started drawing the scenes from what I could see. I felt a hand on my shoulder and jumped up grabbing my knife and aiming it at the person who touched me. It was Cross. “S-sorry Cross....” I put the knife away and looked at him. I was honestly only wearing the binder and he noticed. “So its not to tight or anything? I wanted to make sure it fit fine.” He asked slipping his finger under the strap and pulling it a little bit. “Nope! It fits perfect! I really appreciate it Cross, you’v been so sweet.” I closed my sketchbook and held it.

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*NM’s P.O.V.*

I watched Cross and Raven talking. They had gotten really close. Raven had befriended everyone honestly, it didn’t take them long either. Honestly I had fallen for the stupid human myself. I think it was when they stood up to me that first time. They showed bravery standing up to me even when they were terrified. They watched me basically kill their family and still stood up to me when I gendered them... I was... fascinated to say the least.  I felt a tugging on my sleeve and looked down to see the human themselves, Cross had walked away. “Hey Nightmare... uhm... can we like... talk???” they looked down putting their hand on their arm. I raised a bone brow but nodded. They smiled dragging me over to the small pond in the corner and pulling out their sketchbook then handing me a paper. “I-I know its kinda messy but I drew you, lots of you... that isn’t the only page I just really like drawing you and...”

I stopped listening examining the sketches of me, they were really detailed, and lots of movement, they were pretty decent. Not as good as Ink obviously but still.  “N-Nightmare?” They waved their hand in front of my face. I grabbed it. “Raven, I may or may not have feelings for you. So if you would be interested in dating me...” I stopped.

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*Raven’s P.O.V.*

I blushed a little bit as Nightmare grabbed my hand and looked me in the eyes. “Raven, I may or may not have feelings for you. So if you would be interested in dating me...” He looked down blushing a little bit. My face heated up a bunch and I couldn’t find the words I wanted. The crush I thought would forever be fictional was right here, and wanted to date me! Me! I must have done something right! I couldn’t manage any words so just nodded vigorously taking a deep breath. “I uh, Im really clingy though, and annoying, and I make dumb jokes that aren’t even funny, I don’t know when to stop messing around, and I don’t ever really sleep so uh theres that.... and I also expect you or Cross to train me so I can go with you on missions. I already know general fighting moves but since here there are powers if I can access anything even as a human I want to fight! And you can’t stop-” I felt his hand cover my mouth as he rolled his eye-light. “I’ll train you and when I’m busy Cross will. I doubt you can access magic but we can always ask Sci. I don’t care if you hug or cuddle me as long as you don’t do it out of lust. And I don’t care how annoying your jokes are I can try to laugh. And that sums it up. Are you done?” He removed his hand from my mouth and I gave a slight smile nodding. I stood up. “I uh, have to go find Horror I promised to teach him how to cook french toast...” I started to walk away. “Don’t burn my kitchen down.” I heard him call after me.

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DAY 2 ALL DONE! I kinda like this one idk its decent lol uh 

@freshwerewolf-pizzaroll @selfshipperapproved

and uh I hope you like it, sorry I’m a crappy writer heh.... UwU

K bye

[klanced]

Whenever you talk about Kevin it feels like you’re cocking a gun like. Here he is. Kevin. You do have no choice

that’s exactly the mood and attitude for the night/week/month/year so jot that down!

anyway i keep promising kevin content and then. not delivering. but it’s because i’m writing Lore and that takes way too much time 2 research and develop lol. so have some misc headcanons

Once they reunite and Keith isn’t on like, Duke On Sight mode anymore, he notices that Kevin keeps glancing at him out of the corner of his eye. And eventually he turns to his brother and is like, “Do you need something?”

Kevin, who is used to being Sneaky and Undetected, jumps and blurts out the truth, to his consternation: “You look like Mom.”

Keith’s mood immediately sours, Kevin apologetically shuffles out of the room, and everyone else just gets Really into eating their goo.

Hunk: Did everyone try the goo? I thought the goo was lovely.

A couple of weeks later, Kevin gets a concussion while on a mission and while he’s out of it he bats at Keith until his brother takes his helmet off, slurs out, “You have her weirdass pizza chin,” and is summarily sick on Keith’s shoes.

Kevin has the space equivalent to the Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. accounts and he lords it over everyone’s heads. Pidge can’t even hack his account for some reason which pisses her off to no end.

It’s because he enlisted Matt’s aid and Matt, who is an older brother himself, was like Hell Yeah Let’s Bother Some Kids.

Sometimes Keith will wake up with a sticky note on his face that says ‘On a playdate with Koli-poo, don’t die while I’m gone’ and he’ll smile and very carefully put it with all the other notes he’s collected in the drawer that he and Kevin pretend he doesn’t have.

Keith: (looking at his collection of physical reminders his brother leaves him to prove that they found each other) :’) 

Keith:

Keith: His handwriting is still ass though.

The team meets Kevin when he’s still Purble and alien looking and stuff, but he’s just as comfortable in his ‘human’ form since that’s the shape he grew up in. So maybe two weeks into his stay with the team he relaxes and shifts human and he scares the Shit out of Lance when the teenager walks into the kitchen and apparently sees Two Keiths.

Lance: Oh god, dude, I’m so sorry-

Kevin: Nah dude, it’s fine. Honestly, it was kind of funny. I’ve never seen goo be weaponized before.

Lance: Oh man, Kev, bro, you gotta talk to Hunk and Pidge about the time the Castle tried to kill them lmaoooo

Kevin constantly pulls the Age Card, but he does it for like… everything.

Kevin: Sorry guys, eldest goes first :( (gleefully takes the last alien candy)

Kevin: Huh? Me? Take out the trash? I’m almost thirty, I can’t take out the trash. What if I break my hip out there?

Keith: You literally just turned twenty-eight.

Kevin: Shhh. I’m writing my will. Keep quiet if you want to stay in it.

Kevin: Please respect your elders >:( I’m talking about me. I’m the elder. And I’m wise, too. Wise and old, so shut the fuck up and listen.

Kevin: Wow… you wild kiddos. You buckaroos. You kids, with your ‘rap’ and your ‘kpop’ and your ‘k-rap.’ It’s all too much for an old man like me. Poor, little little old me. I’m gonna go take a nap now. Because I’m old. And decrepit. 

I’m going to try and flesh out Kevin’s appearance a little more lol. I’ll be retconning some stuff, just ‘cause. In This House, We Improve.

Kevin naturally looks fairly human, which is a blessing since he had a hard time controlling his shapeshifting ability when he was young. Come to think of it, he was probably home-schooled until he was at least eight, just to be safe.

His natural skin is a light blue like Acxa’s (Krolia is Purble and Uunayai was a light teal or smth). His scleroses are tinged yellow because that seems to be a defining trait among the Galra, but they’re also slight yellow because Uunayai is blue as hell. He can sort of pass them off as normal, but people on the street tend to stare, so when he was growing up he was That Guy who constantly wore shades all the time lol.

Kevin has brown-red eyes that are slightly clouded, so you can’t see his pupils (which are oval and more narrow than a regular human’s) that well. Some people mistake him for blind but nah, that’s just Aliens, Babey.

He doesn’t have Krolia’s facial markings because I hc that, as a chameleon like species, Uunayai (and Ezor’s people) tend to be fairly evenly distributed in color (so either one solid color or multiple colors, but clearly defined) to make the shifting process easier.

Kevin does however have Krolia’s markings along the rest of his body (arms, back, etc) that are a dark blue.

His ears aren’t the exaggerated butterfly wings of a normal Galra, but they are slightly pointer than a normal human’s and extend from his head. He also has the slightest hint of fang, woof woof ;3c hgjgdskghkjdsg

Kevin is ridiculously tall (by human standards) at 6′5″ or so. He constantly roasts Keith for being so short, at a measly 5′7″.

Keith, once he gets the training, is actually stronger then Kevin though Kevin refuses to acknowledge it. He’s a lanky boyyyyy

Remember that Earth shop from the Space Mall episode? Kevin goes there all the time. He bought the most sus couch he’s ever seen. He loves that couch.

Kevin ran away from home during the Voltron-equivalent of around 2006 and his lingo reflects that.

Kevin: C’mon guys, let’s bounce. This place seems pretty sketch.

Kevin: Pfft. Whatever, man.

Kevin: Ha! We pwned those suckaaaaaaas.

Lance: (to Pidge) Do you want to tell him or should I.

[wolfenwingsshop]

Sooo, I posted this on Twitter but, here we go, double-posting back here too.

So, I'm going to challenge myself this week. I suuuuck at drawing X. It's not that he's hard to draw! No. He's quite simple. It's me. The problem is me. It's always been me. I start to doodle and then once it becomes obvious it's X, I choke. I never finish. T_T 

I blame most of this on my upbringing, because I was a fat kid (and now fat adult) I was taught I do not deserve to exist. I firmly believed for a very long time (and still do,) that I am more beneficial to people dead than alive. Why does this mean anything about X? This: I still have a horribly huge crush on that damned blue robot, & because of being told MY ENTIRE LIFE because I am a fatass I shouldn't even think about being involved romantically with ANYTHING. well. There y'go. There's also that my family found out eventually and teased me.

Like, my little sister, love her, but she's skinny as hell and retired professional cosplayer- she'd ether be in my corner or attacking me with our 'friends' growing up. My mom just rolls her eyes if I start gushing about X. (Yet she has gotten into BTS, the K-Pop group, and I am supportive.)

There's also the fact that I got pretty publicly attacked on Tumblr fairly early on because I noticed during the MVCI development, yeah. They fixed Chun Li's face? They also gave X an OBVIOUS pubic bulge and my X fangirl ass ate it up. So, I'm used to being shamed for this.

So... my husband totally ships humans/humanoids with furries. I ship humans/humanoids with anything that isn't the same species, robots, reploids, seamonsters, idgaf it's an awesome trope. (Hello Avatar and The Shape of Water, freakin’ A I still haven’t seen The Shape of Water but GODDAMNIT I WILL ASAP) Because of this we both ship the idea of a certain blue reploid with my OC. Yknow, my icon right there. It's an old-as-hell art I did eooons ago (20+ years) when I was roleplaying, managed to hook up with the X in said RP, things happened and my OC got pregnant. The X in that RP was the adopted brother of my dear friend, NovaStrike. Nova and her wife currently live with me, we drove down to NC to save them from being kicked out by Nova’s abusive as fuck parents at the start of the new year.

Anyhow, back then, Nova found out X and my OC had hooked up in that way and was IMMEDIATELY screaming ROLL FOR PREGNANCY!!!! long story short, the dice favored X being a dad. Annnd his RPer was totally ok with it. That's where my icon comes from. They had a little wolf-eared girl with brown hair and green eyes that we named Kasumi, as I was a big DOA fan, as well, and thought it was a cute name.

I bring this up cause even now, there is no mention of X anywhere on the original image. It's on my DA, but I don't even think I mentioned that there either. It's just my poor OC, beside herself that she got knocked up.. lol, also part of the wtf is how does that happen, but yah. I think back then we just figured "SCIENCE!!" and left it at that. Anyhow... I need to stop being so scared. I'm going to try to not be and get used to doodle my boy and not choke. -_- this is gonna be beyond hard.... but there's also the continuation of my memories of WAS, too. 

Those stories... my memories.. I refuse to let those die. That stupid RP club stopped me from committing suicide. If I didn't have a literal X hovering over me during some pretty emotional times in my life, I probably wouldn't be here. So, since X has saved my life in more ways than one, I will try, damnit. I will do my best. For today, a sketch of the next WAS memory comic. Our X had an apple tree and greenhouse. His special spot, and only people REALLY FREAKING IMPORTANT got to go there with him. Our Dr. Cain, Zero.. our Roll.. people like that.

Then I got attacked by another member- he literally tried to rape my character, cause I didn't want to date him. I got a few friends to come in and make him stop, but they told our X, despite my begging them not to. So here was 16 year old me, whom already, in case nobody was aware, I am an incest survivor, so I already had bad experiences in being taken advantage of.. this is a character I have a huge crush on and he found our someone else on the team tried to rape me????? Omfg. Now, I had to go to that tree. I was playing a cat-and-mouse game avoiding our X for a day before he finally cornered me and made me come to the tree with him to talk about what had happened.

I wanted to die, y'all. This started a nearly 2-week long stint. Once our X found out that? I had to deal with him checking in with me DAILY for nearly 2 weeks. It got to the point where I went to school teachers to ask for advise on what to talk about with "X", no joke. I didn't know anything about the person role-playing as X, and when they were on, they were strictly IC as X. There was no talking to his player... I was talking to the character, about some pretty heavy stuff, weather I liked it or not. There was even one convo I remember.. Our X had found out my schedule pretty fast- and was in the habit of IMing me (this was on AOL back in like, 96, 97) as soon as I got online after school. He would often ask what I had for my after school snack. I responded once, eh, cheese filled ravioli.. something. "X" again, completely and utterly IC, responds with "That's sounds good! Just a sub tank for me today, I'm afraid..." Again, I never spoke to his player. His player stayed IC no matter what. This of course made me go "#^@%#%##!!!!!!" mentally but I digress..

I think the biggest lesson "X" taught me during all of that, was it's ok to ask for help. I'm not going to be able to handle everything on my own, and the biggest one, during that especially, was it's NOT ok for people to take advantage of me. You take into consideration I was only 16-17 at that time, and in an abusive household and living with my abusers, and having my childhood hero telling me this? This is why he's so freaking important to me. This challenge will be hard, but I will see it through. I owe him that much, in the very least.

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Welcome to solid modeling for beginners! Each week I’ll post some new and exciting things so you can try your hand at solid modeling. It’s easier than it looks to get started and once you do, you’ll be able to create amazing things that you can 3D print, plans to build something really cool, or maybe you just want to create some art! You can do anything you want with solid modeling, that’s the beauty of it! Let’s get started.

So this week is more show and tell. Before we can start solid modeling you need to learn to see objects as simple shapes. Now, personally I think the best way to explain this is to show you how to do this firsthand. So today I will be using solidworks to recreate this cat toy, shown below!

It just happened to be the most complex looking shape I could find, but when we get started you’ll see that in reality, it’s just a few really basic shapes that you combine to get this design. Now I’m going to break these steps down as a demonstration, but there is an even simpler way to do it by combining all the steps. Basically we are going the long way so you can understand how to start looking at things you want to solid model, but it isn’t the fastest or easiest way. It’s just the best way to get you thinking about solid modeling.

With that said, I had someone in my class cheat (Hey K, you big cheater lol!) and she tried to hand draw the outer shape and revolve it around an axis. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry I’ll explain. However, we’re going to do it the way I showed my class. First if we stare at this shape long enough the first thing that jumps out at me is that it’s really just a cone with the top cut off, like outlined below.

So that’s the shape we will use to create our model with! Now I’m going to demo this in solidworks, it’s my prefered solid modeling software, but you can use sketchup to do the same. I’m going to activate a free 30 day trial in about 2 weeks so you’ll be able to follow along more closely at home using that and I’ll make sure to show you how you can do this in sketchup as well. However, for these first few classes, I really want you to think about HOW shapes make up the object. By understanding that, we can create almost anything and you’ll make it look easy!

After taking three rough measurements of my cat toy, I drew this same basic shape (seen above) on the front plane in solidworks by going to the sketch menu in solidworks and clicking sketch and selecting the front plane. Next I used the line tool and drew the basic shape, then I used the smart dimension tool to dimension the shape. The measurements were 1/2 the base, 1/2 the top, and the height. Now I’m only drawing half of this because we are going to revolve the shape about the center axis, again if you are confused, we will see it in just a moment. Below is the shape I drew with the measurements I found.

Our basic shape of the cat toy, or at least half of it. Because our toy is circular, we only need half. You’ll see why in the next step!

Now keep this in mind, I’m going to freehand a lot of this. However, getting the rough measurements for the shape means it will look more like the cat toy when I’m done than if I just freehanded all of it. By freehand I mean guessing the measurements of the rest of the changes we will be making to the model. This is just a demo so the measurements in this example don’t matter. If I were making something to 3D print, or a blueprint for something I was going to build, then I would definitely want measurements, keep that in mind because when you model something the scale can be way off if you do not use measurements for the things you make, which I will be showing in the next class.

Now we have our basic shape and it looks like 1/2 a cat toy… if we squint hard enough. Next, I’m going to use the revolved boss/base command in the features menu in the features menu. Below you can see what that looks like. The axis of revolution is labeled as line 1. Line 1 is the blue highlighted line and was the left straight line in the drawing I made above. With that line as our axis of revolution we now create a circular shape that is the correct width at the base and top as the cat toy. This is why I only used half the base width and height.

Front view of our revolved boss/base function. Notice the width for the base and top are now 2x what I set, this is why I only used half the width in the first step

Here is a better shot showing what was done. We now have a circular shape at the base and the top. Basically a cone with the top cut off, just like our cat toy!

When we click okay we create a solid object with the correct basic shape and size as the cat toy we are modeling. The next image is probably not needed, but it shows the full shape that we’ve just created. I’ve colored it blue to make it easier to see against the white background. Normally solidworks uses a grey color when we create a part.

Our newly created shape. If you have access to solidworks or some other program and are following along at home, congratulations you created your first solid model!

So we’re done… right? Not yet, we still need to cut out the shapes for the little balls on the inside. To do that we are going to create a sketch on the front plane. This is where the freehanding came in. I know the basic shape we want, obviously there is a ball on the inside track, so that needs to be circular. We have 3 tracks so we need 3 circles inside this shape. The first image shows the close up of the first circle, the second shows the three of them. I guessed at the distance from the center and the size of the circles and really I just based it on what I felt looked correct. Just remember, I could have taken the measurements directly from the cat toy and done this far more accurately.

Close up showing the first circle I drew

All three circles drawn on the front plane.

Because this is centered at the origin in solidworks, I could have drawn these circles anywhere, but I chose the front plane because you may not always be drawing a part that is symmetrical so it’s not a habit I want to reenforce. Notice I drew the center line to orient everything from. It may be hard to tell from the image, but that is a dashed line, you can create lines that are ignored by solidworks (for the most part) by clicking on the line and in the line properties menu checking the for construction option. I also set the distance between the base and top as centered between the lines, if I were to change the base or top width, solidworks would automatically update where this line is drawn because of that, we’ll get into more detail about that another time.

Once you click the line (highlighted blue) the line properties menu will appear and you can select for construction.

Okay we have the cutouts for the balls, now we could do something similar to the revolved boss/base called revolved cut. Instead of creating a solid body, a revolved cut will cut out the shape you select from the solid body. However, this would only give us circles internally and we wouldn’t be able to get to them like you can with the cat toy. So we have one last step before we can do that, we need to create the opening for the cats to reach in. To do that I’m going to continue in this sketch and use the rectangle tool.

You have a lot of relations you can add to a line or shape you draw. A relation is how the objects relates to another object. For example those circles I drew, I want to add a rectangular cut out and attach it to those circles. To do that I’ll draw the shape and add a relation to the corner of the rectangle that says it is coincident to the circle. That just means that no matter what happens those corners are going to touch the circle. I decide to place the rectangle 0.5 inches away from the center of the circle. Because the end points of the rectangle are coincident, the height of the rectangle is fixed and is a function of that distance.

A few things worth mentioning. First all the lines are black with the exception of the ends of the rectangle. That means that they are fully defined and I cannot move them because they only have one solution based on the measurements I set. The only blue lines are not fixed because I did not set a width for my rectangle (notice there is no measurement there). I don’t need to create one as long as the rectangle extends past the part because I’m using it to cut into the part (the blue solid object we created first). I follow this process for all three of the circles. Setting the same distance from the center and the coincident relations means that they will all be uniform.

Now we are almost ready to make our cut, but first to make things simpler for solidworks, we are going to remove the overlapping parts to create a single outline of the shape we want to remove. This step isn’t needed, but I wanted to do it anyway so I wouldn’t have to select the areas I wanted solidworks to cut (I’ll show you what I mean next). So to remove those lines I’m going to use the trim entities tool. It’s a scissors shaped icon and will remove the line up to the next line. To use it you click next to the line and drag it over the line you want to cut (like scissors) anywhere the tool touches is trimmed to the next intersection so you have a single shape to cut out as you can see below.

If you look at the bottom circle, you can see the line I used to cut with as I was cutting. Anywhere the line touches gets cut back to the next intersection of lines, so I could trim the overlap and end with the circle and rectangle shape combined as shown above.

Now we are ready to cut out the material and we will see that our cat toy model looks very, well cat toy like. This time while I’m still in the sketch, I click over to the features menu (top left of the shot above) and I can select revolved cut. Just like the revolved boss/base it needs an axis of revolution so I use the line I created for construction that marked the center of the object. By revolving the cut 360 degrees, we see something like this (prior to accepting it).

The revolved cut prior to accepting it. This shows the area that is being cut into and the result will make our shape much more cat toy looking. You can now see clearly why we needed to add the extra rectangular shape. This gives the opening to the cat toy, but it’s not the same diameter as the balls meaning they wont fall out.

So we made our cut! This isn’t very easy to see in the program so I changed the color of it to orange, you’ll see why as we continue.

Now we have something much more cat toy like. We’re not quite done with it, but we’re close!

Okay so we have our shape and it looks very close to the toy, but there are still some issues. First it’s hard to tell from the photo, but there is a hole cut through the entire center, so we’re going to want to copy that! To do this I can create a sketch on the bottom face of the part. Again, if you’re using solidworks and following along (even though this is just a demo) you can do this by rotating the part and selecting the bottom face, then clicking the sketch option located in the sketch tab of the top menu.

All were doing is drawing a circle that we can cut out the inside bit. Again, I freehanded this, so I just made it the same diameter as the top. Below I’ve rotated the shape so you can see the bottom and the sides to help you orient yourself.

Our circle that we will cut out of the part

This time instead of using the revolved cut, we are using the extruded cut located in the features menu. Unfortunately, if we just do an extruded cut it will cut a cylinder shape in our part. This would ruin our part as we can see below!

This would eliminate most of our part!! We can’t do that!

Thankfully we have a way around this. Instead we’ll use a drafted cut. I set it to 17 degrees, but really I just changed it until it would no longer cut into the outside faces.

The drafted cut option (highlighted) makes the cut smaller (by the selected degrees) so now it’s more cone shaped just like our part.

Once we’re happy with the cut, we complete it and we get something that looks like this as seen from the bottom!

The result of our drafted extruded cut

So were done… right? Well sort of, I am mostly happy with how it looks, but we still have all those rounded edges and things and ours looks more squared. So to do that we can add a fillet (pronounced fill it, said together). Click on the fillet tool (circled in red below) and I selected the top corner (highlighted in blue) for all but the bottom, the bottom I selected the bottom side of the face to make it match up with our cat toy. Then I adjust the radius of the fillet until I like the way it looks. In this case it was a 0.9in radius, the smaller the radius, the smaller the curved edge, the larger the radius the larger the curved edge.

The program shows me a rough shape of how the fillet will look before I accept it (fillet tool circled in red). 

So after all that, I use the fillet tool for a few more corners and end up with a very rounded cat toy that looks very much like the real thing.

You can also see why I picked the color scheme I did. We’ll go over how to do that in later posts, but this was just a (somewhat) quick demo to show you that if you can break the complex shape down into the simpler shapes that make it up, you can create very cool looking parts with minimal effort. This whole process I could do in a matter of minutes and it really looks like it should be harder than that. That’s the power of taking a moment to think about what shapes make up your part instead of trying to copy the shape directly.

Just for fun, below is a rough render of what we just created over the original cat toy image. If you didn’t notice, it’s also the main image for this post. It looks pretty good to me! We’ll go over how I rendered this as well, but for now just know it can be done.

The fillets might have been a touch too big, but for doing most of this freehand, it looks pretty darn close to the original!

So my lovely readers, if you’re here for the long-haul (and I hope you are!) your goal for this week is to look around your home for something that has a complex shape and try to see if you can find the simple shapes that make it up, just like I showed today. Getting in the routine of doing this early will help you a LOT when we get into the actual solid modeling. Learning the tools is only half of what you need to know. We’re going over the first half and what I think is the most important half, the how to think about your part in a way that makes it easy to model!

This was a long post, maybe in the future I’ll break it up a bit, but really we made a complex looking cat toy in just a few simple steps.

With that, welcome to week 1!

Day 299: Solid Modeling - Week 1 # PhDlife #PhDchat #academicchatter Welcome to solid modeling for beginners! Each week I'll post some new and exciting things so you can try your hand at solid modeling.