#Simon rambles

[simonelliot6713]

GUYS WTF

AM I TWEAKING THIS IS INSANE I HAVE TO GO BERATE MY PARENTS INTO LETTING ME GO BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THE NEWS FIRST

[punch-aholic]

I love your art style, I was wondering what your inspirations were/your process for getting your art style to where it is now

Oh my gosh what an amazing question!! Thank you so much, I really appreciate this :) I'd love to talk about my style and how I've kind of honed in my style over the years. This will be a bit of a long one so I'll put in a cut!

I've been drawing DC art for a long, long time. Since I was really young back when I was playing Lego Batman lol. Before I was doing digital art I was really focused on designing my own versions of characters. I sort of learned how to draw one thing at a time. I learned how to draw hair, then eyes, then noses etc.

I wasn't very good lol. I think these are from like 2016? I took a lot of inspiration from DC Comics actually! I always describe my style as almost-realistic though, because I actually grew up as a life-drawing artist. I can't stress enough how important it is to take the time to really study the human body if you want to draw people. I went to college for Life Drawing and Anatomy studies and it really helped me figure out posing, how certain parts of the body move and stuff like that

I use myself as a reference a lot too. You're your own model! It leads to some pretty funny pics too haha (I ended up changing the pose a bit, but you get the vibe)

These are older and my handwriting is unintelligible but you get the picture. Learning how to translate emotions and character into a pose is really helpful and then of course figuring out how to draw clothes is helpful too. Before I was doing Superheroes I did a lot of fantasy art which helped me kind of perfect armor, cloth and those textures.

When I moved to digital drawing it really helped me learn how to render, which was kind of the final piece of the puzzle. Shading is so fucking difficult and I'm not perfect at it by any means (these drawings are two or three years old now and they still have a lot of issues). I mean, to show you how much my style has changed, this is the same character in 2016, 2020 and 2023

SO yeah! I get a lot of inspiration from older Disney, I really liked She-Ra's art style, and mimicked that a lot when it came out, and now I've kind of grown it into something all my own to the point where I can do full character scenes with my own designs. Anatomy, color theory and character design are big passions of mine and I try to show that in every drawing I do on here.

Thank you for asking by the way, I hope this is what you were looking for! Sorry for rambling lol

[simonskizm]

That moment when it's monthly sacrifice time and it's making you talk like a knight accepting that this may be his last day so he's rallying the others with a fatal stab wound, and he's holding it with a gauntleted hand, blood seeping between his fingers as he raises his sword and let's out a fierce cry as his speech echoes across the vast field:

"This is a war we will win, men! We stand brave against the opposing army, we are a united front against the evil that plagues our lands! They seek to destroy us, but when we bleed we only grow stronger. When we bleed, we are one!"

Then proceed to curl up in bed with hot tea and cry when cramps just barely get worse. Yeah, not having fun right now.

[cowpoke-morgan]

idk if this has been said before, but Ivypaw/pool's relationship with Hawkfrost is really gross

like he's preying on her nativity (yes, i know that's the whole point of the dark forest) but!! he really comes off as a groomer. like he's trying to befriend her and tell her all these sweet things to her

I used to see Ivyfrost as some cute ship when I first read the books, but as an adult, their whole dynamic gives me the ick

I can 100% guarantee this isn't a hot take

[simonelliot6713]

i do think forced diversity is a thing but not because there's no reason behind the diversity. For me forced diversity is like making a cishet or able bodied/minded character (I'm white so I'm not specifically talking about PoC because I don't want to speak for a group of people I'm not a part of) and just slapping a disability or a different gender/sexuality on top, not incorporating it into their story at all. Disabled and queer people face a lot of stigma and discrimination often so it actually opens up a way to further develop a character by showing how they deal with that injustice but if its just added at the last minute just for the representation then it just feels off

Another way of "forcing diversity" is by adding a character who's whole personality is being gay/disabled/etc. Or a character who is simply used to show off other characters empathy or compassion or other good traits by just treating the queer/disabled/whatever character with basic human decency

-a queer disabled kid

people talking about “forced diversity” like characters being PoC or LGBT or disabled “for no reason” like

are people in real life PoC or LGBT or disabled for a reason

do these critics run up to people on the street like WHY ARE YOU BLACK

[simonelliot6713]

ascension

[cowpoke-morgan]

Spoilers for A Vision of Shadows

Everytime Finleap and Twigbranch interact im like "so they're so cute, I love them." and then Finleap says some shit like "You don't love me because you won't have my babies." and I'm so mad that THATS THEIR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. BABIES??? AND GASLIGHTING???

[simonelliot6713]

i ate paint and now I'm rainbow inside and out

Why are you lgbtq+? wrong answers only GO

[simonelliot6713]

Guess who finally watched in the heightsssss

i swear it should be illegal to be this good at writing, this is a movie abt a community of immigrants in NYC, I'm probably the whitest white that ever could white and I still relate to it, Miranda is a genius

[cowpoke-morgan]

yeah ivy x hawk has been considered problematic/proship for a looooong time. one of the scariest parts of the whole situation was how she first met him - in a field full of flowers. he knew exactly what he was doing the whole time and specifically sought out ivypaw because he knew he could take advantage of her

oh 1000% especially since she was consumed by jealousy of her sister. he knew what to say to get her to follow him blindly. he knew she would follow him to ends of the earth, hanging off every empty promise.

like I mentioned in my post regarding these two, I used to think they were "omg so cute! Hawkfrost and Ivypaw/pool are so cute together!!" as an adult, whose been groomed like that, they're just really toxic and gross together

pls note, I am an old fan getting back into the books, I read them up until Last Hope bc it hadn't come out yet thank God for audible

[simonskizm]

Something something burning a King Olaf effigy something something changing a myth because the og myth was trashed...

[simonskizm]

Just rewatched Willy's Wonderland.

I love this stupid ass movie hahaha- I could rant about this but you do not wanna see me at my lowest here ekeke

[rememberwren]

Thinking about how when you’re drunk—and I mean really drunk—you get it in your head to catcall men. They could use a little harassment. When you reach that point, your friends immediately know it’s time to cut you off, acting like the Secret Service as they usher you out of the bar and towards the Uber. But they couldn’t anticipate the group of men standing outside the bar swapping laughs and smoking.

Of course you pick the scariest one of the lot and:

“Hey!” you shout, half giggling. “Hey—you, in the mask!”

The man turns. You can’t see his mouth with the surgical mask in place but you can tell his eyebrows are raised. He’s fucking huge, towering over his counterparts (who are nothing to sniff at), thick and strong. His head cocks in silent question.

“Can I get your number?” you shout, licking your friend’s hand when she slaps it over your mouth. All your friends rush to brush the guy off, but he’s already ashing his cigarette under his boot, slipping his hands into his pocket, and crossing the street quietly.

He stays a healthy distance away, aware of how it looks: a man his size approaching a group of young, inebriated women. You think he’s come to harass you in return, or maybe just to mock you—either way you are stunned silent, mouth agape, eyes wide. He’s so much taller up this close.

“Got a pen?” he asks.

He only approaches then, shoulders hunched to make himself appear smaller and innocuous. He takes your hand in his own and writes his phone number on your forearm.

When you wake up hungover the next morning, his number is there on your arm along with a reminder that you hadn’t been able to see in the dim lighting of the parking lot: XXX-XXXX—S. Drink water.

[starsofang]

Simon didn’t like to hold you. He liked to be held.

At first, you didn’t understand why he’d turn his back to you in bed without saying anything. You thought you’d done something to him, or maybe he was in a bad mood. You couldn’t be any more wrong.

Simon Riley, an absolute brute of a soldier, was silently asking for you to be the big spoon. You nearly didn’t believe it when he finally brought it to your attention.

He was too embarrassed to ask you, so he’d resort to flipping on to his side and wait. And wait. Until he realized you didn’t catch the memo, even after many hopeless attempts.

In his mind, he thought being the big spoon would somehow convince you he wasn’t manly enough, as if his title in the service or his pure stature wasn’t proof enough of his masculinity.

To him, being held was a blanket of security. Where he’d always have to watch his back out on the field, both literally and metaphorically, he didn’t have to keep an eye out at all times with you. It was a chance for him to find solace in a person, and when he explained this to you, he was surprised to find you so willing.

And oh, when it happened, Simon nearly kicked himself for holding back on verbalizing it for so long.

The warmth of your arms when they wrapped around him from behind, your face buried between his shoulder blades, legs tangled in his, he thought that this was what inner peace felt like.

He was silly to think you’d ever be the one to judge him for what most deemed ‘unmasculine’. In all of his broad glory, he felt safe the moment you held him, like a child does when they feel a mother’s embrace except it was from someone he loved dearest to his heart.

And you? You found that being the big spoon was rather enjoyable when the man you’re holding was so damn comfortable to snuggle up to. It was a win-win for you both.

You just wished he wasn’t an idiot that left you wondering all those hopeless nights until the truth came out.

[simonelliot6713]

hell yeah

[ink-n-shadow]

currently having the softest thoughts about dad!simon :’))

like the way he’s stripping off his Henley t-shirt at the hospital right after you give birth because he “read somethin’ about how bein’ skin to skin is better fer ‘em,” not wasting any time in letting your newborn child rest on his tattooed chest while you take a small break.

or how he would gently push you back into bed when the baby starts crying in the middle of the night (especially in those first couple of days), answering your mumbled annoyance with a smeared kiss to your forehead and pulling the comforter up higher around your body. “haven’t ‘ad good sleep in nine months, lovie—i’ll take care of the bug, ‘lright? tha’s it, go back to bed sweetheart.” takes care of the baby while he watches footy and rugby, one arm cradling the swaddled up little one against his chest as the other nurses half a beer (the other half having been poured into soap’s cup of whiskey, “fer added flavor”).

the boys actually enjoy having to transition from nights out to the bar to nights crowded in yours and simon’s basement. they all take turns cradling your newborn gently, snapping at each other when they get a bit too rowdy and more than happy to give you a break from the baby whenever you needed it.