#EVERYTHING you’ve looked for!

[clarabowmp3]

Corey’s eyes are like a jungle he smiles it’s like the radioooo 😍😍😍

[mitskiluvr]

sorry i’m a megumi apologist because i, too, would lay on the floor crying and throwing up if i was just forced to watch my own hands tear apart my sister and the man who raised me

[hollygl125]

William Petersen in TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), dir. William Friedkin BEFORE + AFTER

[plushieclan]

Moon 10 disaster— part 2

Heed the warnings of Starclan

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[valewritessss]

I salute the percabeth soldiers reading botl for the first time. You might wanna sit and remain seated for this one

[my-chemical-rot]

Florida!!! by Florence + the Machine and Taylor Swift, Daytona Sand by Orville Peck, Spanish Moss by Against Me!, White Crosses by Against Me! //Pictures: map, surfers, post card, fountain of youth; plus my own photography // The Truman Show (1998) // Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm // Wikipedia

[asmolbirb]

For the WIP ask game, i am contractually obligated to ask about the one where they fuck in the crevasse 💕

ajdkakdlalfls it’s such a funny WIP name that it’s been hyped up a ton and now I’m terrified I’m gonna disappoint people whenever I actually finish and post the fic =w=

it’s a Temeraire fic, Tharkay/Laurence, set during a scene in the last book where Laurence and Tharkay are camped out on what is described as an ice ledge within a yawning ice crevasse accessible only through a small gap in the Alps, all while Laurence is recovering from a Serious Injury TM. it’s an incredibly funny premise but it’s also a little heartbreaking. and because im incapable of being normal about things, I looked at that and went “okay, now add sexual tension to the equation”

it’s also the first story I’ve written in like 3 years, so im experiencing a lot of growing pains. like I have to write every paragraph 4-5 times before I get anything salvageable. but I am having fun with it, and that’s what really matters, I think

here’s another unedited excerpt that i’m pretty happy with! uhhh spoiler warning for references to injuries that these two morons sustain later in the series:

Laurence did not know how long he’d sat like that, taking inventory of the myriad sounds comprising the silence of the crevasse, when a new sound filtered into his awareness: a methodical susurration, hushed and unfamiliar.

It was easy enough to divine the source, once Laurence had mustered the energy to search for it. He had only to turn aside to find Tharkay rubbing his hands together, ostensibly seeking respite from the aches of his own injuries. A sympathetic twinge flashed through Laurence, not just in his bullet wound but deeper still, through the lashmarks on his back, his once-wrenched leg. He knew well the phantom aches that accompanied a sudden turn of the weather or a sharp drop in temperature. He imagined Tharkay’s hands ached fiercely, shot through with cold as they must be, and imagined, too, how little relief his stiff motions might be yielding him.

He recalled another Tharkay, hunched miserably in a sickbed half the world away–a Tharkay whose fingers, still bruised and splinted, had been unable to apply the healing salve he’d been prescribed, and for whom Laurence had carried out that task so imperative to his recovery. Driven by the memory, Laurence shifted to sit on his heels so that he might face Tharkay more fully, reaching out even as he said, “Here, allow me–” Before the words had half left his mouth, he had caught Tharkay’s hands in his and begun sweeping his thumbs across the skin in familiar motions.

[simcardiac-arrested]

can we talk about no way back. hi . Hello ! i want to talk about this (-1 HP) drawing (-1 HP) that you've made (-1 HP)(-1 HP)(-1 HP)

Hi. um. what if the cracks started showing

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I don’t understand how politicians can live in a country and just. Be so removed from important issues. Be so removed from what people want.

[weremerricat]

something something well you keep coming back alive don’t you something something i just want you to be safe something something we tried to kill you it didn’t let us something something you were always its favorite something something i was worried you would do something stupid something something well you have to stay alive to do that so it’s a win for me something something natalie, natalie is in so much pain she tried to kill herself something something you realize there’s no it right it was just us something something is there a difference just translates to lottie wanting to keep nat safe and alive which also translates nat was always lottie’s favorite

[ween-kitchens]

you ever see someone complain about something in a game that makes you think they just don’t like the game itself because why are you complaining about that. that's universally loved and your complaint is that it 'could do more'. where is your whimsy

[shannonsketches]

I know some people really don’t like that the movies tie into the manga and vice versa but I really do because it’s not necessarily Required Viewing but it does add to the experience of the manga and I think it’s a fun and clever way to have done both works simultaneously while maintaining a consistent “canon”

Like my friend watched Broly last night so I watched it with them and I realized only then that Vegeta’s guilt in the Granolah arc is, while perfectly understandable on its own in the context of the manga, a potentially direct result of what Paragus said to him about being responsible for the actions of his father.

[frecklystars]

I might actually open my inbox for the first time in [undetermined specific amount of months] there’s over 500 unread asks in there ;-; I’m rly touched so many people have been reaching out to me even when I haven’t been here

[supernova-co]

hELLO UNCLE NIC WHEN DID YOU GET A TUMBLR I am so glad my dads dead suddenly please don’t ask about the gay shit I’m gonna be posting-

@explodingsoda

oh hey kid… you uh- your dad’s what?? …. not important, I’ve got the largest living tits in the family now

also I got a tumblr- three minutes ago- so yeah

and listen- I’ll ignore your gay shit, you ignore mine, deal?

[elliesbelle]

you CALL ME UP AGAIN just to BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE

[brother-emperors]

Very strange and random question, but would you mind directing me to your character design of Hermes? I'd also love to know if you have any tips on creating good character designs. If not, no worries!

Thank you for sharing your amazing art! The style is so good, and I always enjoy reading your comic strips. ❤️

I’ve drawn Hermes properly like, once before I think? in this comic! there’s another illustration of the same kind of scene with him, but I’m not a big fan of it and I’m thinking of redoing it sometime this year

ANYWAY character design advice! the Team Fortress 2 school of design will never steer you wrong (recognizable silhouettes), and one teacher I had personally liked the ‘opposites’ rule of character design, where you want some kind of noticeable ‘opposite’ of a character if you’re mostly doing pairs in a scene (so tall > short, that kind of thing). I personally adhere to whatever I think suits the narrative best/in a fun way. like, Crassus and Pompey are set up specifically for the story I have in mind

Pomepy is supposed to (eventually, it takes him a minute) be bulky enough that he could fold Crassus in half like laundry if he felt like it, and Crassus is supposed to look tall and thin, but he’s more lean muscle and could probably break your jaw if he hit you, and the subtextual narrative is about exploring all the ways they DON’T touch each other in the acts of violence that their bodies would be suited for, which is in total defiance of what comes before them, and also after (Antony and Octavian have a similar visual pairing, and it’s all physical violence there, baby)

in other news, I have a hard time figuring out a consistent character design until I figure out the story I want to tell lmao

there’s more about figuring out repeat draw ability vs complexity, balancing out overall design shape with accessories, clothes conveying personality and intent (character design work is a whole specialty tbh), but I tend to be a little more laid back about it because I’m more interested in prying open the story and then designing characters as the story comes together. like, sometimes I’ll shove a century of art history discourse into something, other times it’s Actor Hot, Show Rearranged The Circuits In My Brain, etc. but at the end of the day, I want it to work with the story, so I do these things side by side.

if you want more solid advice than this nebulous mess of thoughts, interviews with costume designers for movies or shows you enjoy is always always always a fantastic place to go to if you really want to understand how clothing and form convey intent and narrative to an audience: I keep a lot of that kind of theory in the back of my mind when I start seriously figuring out what I want a character to do, and by extension, how to look. interviews with animators and comic artists are good places to learn abt character design too!