#black capris 2022

[black-capris]

Hello loves, here’s a portrait of miss Jinkx Monsoon, one of, if not my favorite queen EVER who appeared on Drag Race, the looks, the talent, and her snatch game ?? 😭 I’m so glad this season aired, the queens are all so talented, and I love the genuinely nice atmosphere and interaction between them ❤️ ❤️ (I wanted to do a serie of portrait with all of them, but GOD it took AGES to finish just this one zegze I’m so slow ) Anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy this illustration, and the rest of the show ❤️

[seniouesbabes]

Lily Maymac 🌸🍒💋🌸 Quick dip before we go 😢 I don't wanna leaveeeee 😖 wearing new @alo

[smuppetshowmovie]

date: May 19, 2022 caption: figuring out outfits for each of the kid dolls project: The Smuppet Show

from left to right:

Roxy: I went through several outfit versions before finding the final combo; this early option was a sheer mesh shirt with pink and white swirls paired with white pants with red top-stitching (this did not make the final cut)

Rose: more on this power suit in the next post!

Dave: not entirely unlike Pee Wee Herman; I like to think maybe Alpha Dave hung out with Paul Reubens at Hollywood parties or something

Dirk: I knew I wanted to give him a new outfit, but hadn't figured out the details yet so he's still in the classic orange hat shirt and jeans

Jane: her top is from a Billie Jean King "Inspiring Women" Tennis Barbie, the khaki capri pants were something I already had

Jade: she's wearing a vintage Ken t-shirt that turns into a fashionable off-the-shoulder top when she wears it; I paired it with a cheerleader skirt, lime green mesh tights, and a pair of Ken's knee-high black boots. I think this outfit looks incredibly cool and I may need to recreate it for myself one day; I'd just need to find an excuse to wear it! Jade's glasses are from the same Billie Jean King set as Jane's top.

John: his outfit was the last one I figured out. This swirly patterned top and yellow sweatpants look was not even close to making the final cut.

Jake: This ended up being pretty close to his final outfit. Both pairs of brown pants and both green jackets were ones I had lying around already, Green and brown have apparently been popular colors for Ken doll clothes for a while.

[sunnfish]

[Image Description: A digital illustration of Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano. He is drawn in the outfit from his official 2023 birthday art, consisting of a lightly patterned, black sleeveless hoodie and blue, capri length pants, holding a lime green wind chime that emanates a lime green light. His hair is worn loose and he is barefoot. He is posed sitting with his legs bent towards his chest, his arms outstretched between them, with slight armpit and leg hair visible. He is smiling lightly and looking at the viewer. The color palette consists of lime greens, oranges, reds, and yellows. One version has the text “Tashiro Gonzaburo” “2023 07 08” “Happy Birthday” written across it, while the other is textless. The artist’s username “@sunnfish” is written in the bottom right corner, and the signature “sunnfish 2023” is overlayed under the arm. /End Description]\

HI EVERYBODY despite my busy-ness today i carved time through blood sweat and tears to draw this. Happy birthday king you have every right to look like this

Link to my drawing of his 2022 birthday outfit :)

Also a clean image of the full body under the cut ^_^

[ID: The same as the images above, but showing the full body as opposed to parts of the back and top of the head being slightly cut off. His hoodie slides up a bit to show a bit of his waist. /End ID]

[rudhira]

Lil something I’ve been messing around with!

This started when I saw bunhead’s Claire Dress being used as a default for mandarinjacketcapri. I liked the idea but wanted the original Maxis colours, so I restored parts of the original mesh, made some recolours, and put io’s edited heels on it.

And, since the pants from that outfit were no longer being used, I separated them, recoloured them, added shoes by io, and turned those into a default replacement for afbottomkasa. Black pants are texture referenced to AL files, though.

Aaaaand since the one time I didn’t convert pants for elders as well I regretted it forever, I converted them for CF-EF. They are texture referenced to the adult file (well, except black) and pinned to Nightlife. Additionally, teen files conflict with my teen files from here, so you can’t have both. If you get the file called afbottom_kasa_rudhira_ADDONS, all of these are bundled with the adult default.

Download all!

Update 2022/09/22: Someone wanted just the dresses as custom, so... here they are!

Download custom dresses!

Update 2022/09/27: Someone else wanted the capris as custom, and I’ve posted them here.

[denimbex1986]

ANDREW SCOTT IS REDIRECTING THE CONVERSATION.

The actor, who plays the enduring queer-with-a-questionmark antihero Tom Ripley in the new Netflix series Ripley, has been doing just that in interviews as of late, and you can hardly blame him; he’s just coming off a promotional run for All of Us Strangers, a romantic fantasy film that has the real-life gay actor playing an adult gay man reliving his youth, including coming out. Scott — beloved as the “Hot Priest” from six-time Emmy winner Fleabag (Prime Video) and nominated in 2020 for an Outstanding Guest Actor turn in Netflix’s Black Mirror — got an avalanche of accolades for the film and, unsurprisingly, questions from reporters keen to link Scott and the character he plays. Interviews hint the Dublin-bred performer, who started acting as a kid and then matriculated through theater, may be weary with forays into identity politics, at least in relation to acting. He’s advised we retire “openly gay” as a descriptor and has likened the sometimes meandering “representation” discourse to a dead end. “It can be a cul-de-sac, certainly,” he told The Guardian. “I think transformation is as important as representation.”

He transforms in Ripley. This adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novels is a stylized, eight-episode noir thriller, with Scott as the titular, elusive con man. It’s true that people had a lot to say about The Talented Mr. Ripley’s queer-coded subtext almost as soon as Highsmith published it in 1955, with critics and essayists noting the homoeroticism oozing from Tom’s obsession with Dickie Greenleaf. Novelist Edmund White read Tom’s penchant for forgery as a metaphor for “passing,” as gays and lesbians of the era did to survive. Of course, cultural commentary and musings about identity have only intensified since, and that discourse nowadays can influence who gets cast and what gets made in the first place. Ripley is rendered in black and white, but black-and-white connections to Tom’s ambiguous sexual orientation, to his behavior or to Scott’s own interior life are, to this actor, the least interesting part of the story.

“I wanted to work very, very hard,” Scott tells emmy from Palm Springs, where he’s gone for a rest after sprinting through awards season. “And that involves just trying to imagine what it’s like to be this character, not play what people’s perception of what the character is. Tom has a very large brain. And watching the brain at work is what makes him such a fascinating character. Anything else, to me, is superfluous. I’m not sure he thinks about himself too much in that way.”

Scott was seduced by the writing. "The scripts were just so brilliantly economic and gripping," he says. "I thought it was a great opportunity to spend that amount of time with such a fascinating character." Steve Zaillian, who wrote, produced and directed Ripley, won an Oscar for his Schindler's List screenplay and received three Emmy nominations for HBO's The Night Of, which he cocreated, cowrote and directed, in part.

Set in the early 1960s, Ripley begins in New York and traverses a handful of Italian locales including the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Rome and Venice. Production ran from the summer of 2021 through the spring of 2022, including some of the pandemic’s most intense days, which forced cast and crew to adhere to stringent protocols. Yet the timing also meant that the citizens and tourists who ordinarily clog streets had vanished, allowing Ripley unobstructed views of Italy’s scenic vistas. As a result, Ripley has a strikingly stark feel that, combined with its blanched palette, conveys a chilly, quiet sparseness that affords full focus on Scott.

“Andrew’s transformation from a disreputable petty crook on the Lower East Side streets of New York to a sophisticated expatriate thriving in Italy is extraordinary,” Zaillian says. “Everything about him gradually changes — the way he looks and carries himself, how he behaves and speaks, how he thinks. It is a finely measured performance.”

Ripley follows Highsmith’s text almost to the letter. In the first episode, we meet Tom in the slums of New York City’s Lower East Side, where he ekes out a living by forging collection notices, stealing checks and committing petty grifts. You know the rest: Tom has a chance encounter with the wealthy father of a casual acquaintance, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn, Genius: Einstein, Emma). Pretending to be an Ivy League grad and closer friend than he is, Tom is hired by Dickie’s dad to go to Italy and bring home Dickie, a trustafarian flitting about Europe with his girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Dakota Fanning, The First Lady, The Alienist). Armed with a first-class ticket on an ocean liner and enough cash for six weeks, Tom finally tastes the affluence he’s always wanted, resented and believed he deserved but was never able to touch. He finds Dickie and develops an unhealthy obsession with him that eventually culminates in murder and identity theft.

It's the unsettling crime story where the bad guy not only wins but makes us complicit in his devious deeds. "What I think Patricia Highsmith does brilliantly," Scott says, "is make us root for somebody, even though they're doing something that we probably wouldn't do ourselves. He is constantly surviving. I can empathize with him, what that feels like, where he's just not being looked at. It's easy to say that someone is a monster because that moves us away from having to look at ourselves. Human beings do monstrous things to protect themselves. That's why that story has stuck around for so long."

Transforming into Tom Ripley took a toll. Even for a performer as versatile and energetic as Scott, who won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for playing Moriarty on Sherlock in 2012 and stunned audiences in 2023 by playing all eight parts in the Chekhov-inspired Vanya on the West End. Ripley demanded more than is typical. "What's unusual about this particular bit of television is how much time you spend with one character," he says. "A lot of the time in television, we can spend time with a hospital crew or a family or a police department, but it's unusual, I think, to spend so much time with one character over eight hours," He's in almost every frame. "I had to have an awful lot of stamina."

You really see that stamina in Ripley's fifth episode, a contained, tightly wound thriller unto itself. Scott is terrifying as he feigns innocence to Freddie Miles (Eliot Sumner), a friend of Dickie's suspects foul play. We know Freddie is doomed the moment he enters Tom's elegant Rome apartment, but it's at the end of Freddie's visit that we see Scott's endurance tested as he lugs a heavy body and makes split-second decisions to elude attention, exuding a demented, friendly calm all the while. Scott - with minimal dialogue - slithers past whatever moral walls we believe separate us from monsters.

"You have to, through his face, be able to understand what he's feeling - sometimes in absolute silence," Scott says. "You have to e able to radiate a thought, which is quite difficult when you don't have language to support you. (The audience) is not thinking, 'I hope that inspector catches him.' No. You think, 'Oh my God, hurry up! Someone's coming!' That's extraordinary considering what he's just done. That feeling of, 'What would you do?' That's what the scripts have achieved."

Ripley's hushed tension is complemented by a cinematic approach that producers don't want to call "Hitchcockian" but that whispers influences like La Dolce Vita and Nightmare Alley. Hard lines, curves, shadows, stairways and vacant passageways tease sensual danger, while meticulously curated costumes and objets d'art (including the ashtray that extinguishes poor Freddie) bathe viewers in a fully fleshed-out world of savage beauty.

"The world that Steve wanted to represent was very lonely," says production designer David Gropman, who previously worked with Zaillian on Searching for Bobby Fischer and A Civil Action. Zaillian was exacting and precise about the tone he wanted "cat and mouse," Gropman calls it. That specificity helped him execute Zaillian's vision, but having a clear brief didn't make the realization easier.

Gropman's team included three researchers, five art directors and two supervising art directors, all spread over different countries. They spent months sojourning the Italian coast to select the perfect hotels, banks, post offices and train stations. The team built facsimiles of the main train stations in Naples and Rome, as well as the Lower East Side tenement apartment where we first meet Tom. Every single object we see serves a purpose; in episode five, Tom is in a record shop purchasing a copy of "Il cielo in una stanza" by the Italian singer Mina, who vanished from the public eye in 1978 and has not been seen since - though she continues to release music. A subtle allusion to Tom's ghosting act? Perhaps. Either way, the prop is one of countless Easter eggs that nod to the time, place and sense of dark romance associated with the era.

"He cares about every detail," says Gropman, a two-time Oscar nominee. "We, by Steve's decree, weren't allowed to shoot on streets where there wasn't cobblestone. There were over 200 locations. It's the hardest thing I've ever done."

Others agree that Ripley was a difficult and intense, albeit rewarding, shoot. Flynn recalls struggling with the isolation and anxiety caused by quarantining and distancing after travel, which made seeing his wife and three children in London complicated. Scott and Fanning spent a lot of time with just each other in barren towns. They were lonely, but as number one on the call sheet and a producer, Scott took ownership and worked to take care of his team. "I was finding it really hard," Flynn admits. "He was trying to sneak me care packages. It was really sweet. He was generous and available to everybody, even though he's carrying this huge thing, which I thought was commendable." Fanning called Scott one of the loveliest people she's ever met - warm, funny and full of life. "He's the opposite of his character."

Marge is deeply suspicious of Tom from the jump, but like Tom, she has minimal dialogue. Her intuitive awareness manifests in a furrowed brow, a pursed lip and a clipped smile deployed as a mask. "There's not a lot of people in the story that are fooled by Ripley," Fanning says. "Marge knows something is off but can't quite put her finger on it. There's a lot of acting without words." She loved playing in that box, and with Scott especially. "We just dove in and went through it all together. It was such a challenge, but he couldn't have been a better person to take on this role. He's a grifter who's making you emotional."

Grifter, con man, crook, thief - Tom Ripley might deserve a lot of labels, but one Scott is reluctant to apply is "sociopath" or, for that matter, any other badge that files him in some neat category. "It was important not to diagnose the character with lazy assumptions," he says. Of course, Scott understands all the thinking about Tom's queerness; he's even thought about Highsmith's own complex relationship with her lesbianism in relation to her writing. But he says thinking too much about Tom's orientation, and any notion that it could be more pronounced in this modern take, distracts from the real power of the narrative. "Homophobia can exist sometimes through silence or people's speculating about other people's sexuality," he says. "And there's a lot of speculating about Tom. Sometimes the speculation itself is the (more) insidious thing."

As he told The Guardian, transformation can be as important as representation. And anyway, Tom's sexuality isn't what makes him alluring. It's his ambiguities. All we need to know about Tom Ripley is on the page.

"I wanted to ask questions about him without necessarily answering every single one of them clearly. He has to make stuff up on the spot for survival. He's an absolute brilliant, talented genius," Scott says. "Who is Tom Ripley? The point is we never really know."

[blueplumbbob]

Lorimer: Decades of Style - 2020s

HRH Princess Eugenia of Ettinger (born May 28, 1997), only child of Prince James, Duke of Ettinger and Alondra, Duchess of Ettinger, is known worldwide for her activism, intellect, and impeccable fashion sense. She may only be sixteenth in line for the throne, but Princess Eugenia carries out her duties with a queenly sense of dignity and grace. After graduating from university in the United States with an engineering degree in December 2020, Eugenia was offered a job at an unnamed engineering firm in Iverny. Despite the demands of her career, Eugenia still dedicates her spare time to charity work and social justice. The princess has expressed her passions for racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, education and literacy, and correcting income inequality. Her progressive viewpoints and activism make Princess Eugenia very popular amongst the youth and young adults of Iverny.

October 2020- Princess Eugenia waits outside after class at university, wearing a classic vintage-inspired outfit with loafers.

May 2021- In one of her first engagements after the lockdown period, Princess Eugenia is given a tour of the renovated Chanterry City Public Library as the new patron of the Royal Library Society. She wore a cream and orange sweater dress with a matching mask.

November 2021- Eugenia wears the Princess Tatiana Bandeau Tiara with a daring side-parted hairstyle and a chic black evening gown for the Swedish State Dinner at Clemons Palace.

April 2022- The princess stuns in a beautiful lavender dress and matching fascinator for the Royal Family's annual Easter service at Herriot Cathedral in Gaucelin.

July 2022- Eugenia poses in a bespoke blue-and-yellow ombré gown on the red carpet for the Annual Worldwide Women in Science Benefit in Los Angeles, California in the US.

March 2023- Princess Eugenia is photographed leaving a Los Angeles nightclub with friends in a black distressed denim skirt and a green asymmetrical crop-top.

August 2023- The princess is photographed in an effortlessly casual crop top and capris as she goes on a grocery run in her mother's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia in the US.

February 2024- Eugenia speaks at a conference on the importance of fine arts education in secondary schools, wearing a tailored teal blazer and black trousers.

[jordanianroyals]

Royal Fashion → Reception, Buckingham Palace (18 September 2022)

Alessandra Rich “Hollywood” Crystal Embellished Dress ($1675)

Shay “Illusion Y” Lariat Necklace in Black Gold & Blue Sapphire ($15300)

Manolo Blahnik “Capri” Satin Jewel Buckle Clutch in Black ($1695)

Manolo Blahnik “Hangisi” 105mm Satin Jewel Buckle Pumps in Black ($1125)

[magpiefngrl]

returning the "how was your reading year" question right back! :D do you have any new favorites? also - how did you find the magpie ballads? what is your professional opinion as a magpie fangirl?😁

Hello!

In short, my reading year was good but not amazing. I think same as you? (I've also rambled here about the year's books in more detail.)

So, number one, similar to you: nothing truly blew me away. OK, Pawn was amazing, but I expected it to be good so I wasn't taken by surprise. Also, I'd read most of it previously and finished it by early Jan last year so it doesn't quite feel like a 2022 book, you know? The only time I felt thrilled this year was when I read The Queen of Attolia, and then The King, and Roanhorse's Black Sun. These are prob my fave new reads.

I'm also a completionist! I get a lot of satisfaction when I complete a series. There are some that I've abandoned (like the Simon Snow books. I've lost interest in that story) but there are still loads I want to finish. It's my 2023 goal to see a few of them to the end. However, I was good this year and read the entirety of The Queen's Thief and the entirety (bar one) of the Wimsey novels. I'm proud I started and finished both series in the same year.

I did a whole lot of rereads this year, most of them historical or fantasy romance. Some I enjoyed a lot more on a reread, like Joanna Chambers' Enlightenment series and Welch's Salt Magic, Skin Magic. Surprisingly (or maybe not so much), I enjoyed my CaPri reread less. Except for Ancel. I adore Ancel :)

As for the Magpie Ballads: when I began Elegy, I was excited because I could tell I was going to love the writing. The author's got a good command of their craft, and as the first chapter of a debut author's book, the beginning was pretty impressive. This was me in the first 10-20 pages:

Ultimately I was let down by some aspects of the story. My strongest impression by the time I finished Elegy was that it read like a fanfic. I don't mean in a derogatory (or praiseworthy) way but that the backstory seemed to be the important, juicy part and we were reading a... well, a fanfic of what might have come after. It's like there was a canon I wasn't aware of. You know how in some fics one of the characters will say something like "oh yeah? How about that time at the rooftop? Do you expect me to forgive you?" and if you don't know the canon, you're like "WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ROOFTOP?" I got this feeling throughout Elegy. The love between Savonn and Red is portrayed as this all-encompassing, epic love but we don't see any of it in Book 1, we're only told it's epic.

(more under the cut bc it got long)

This was rectified in the second novel. The flashbacks were useful in giving us an idea of what their brief relationship was like, and I think some flashbacks ought to have been included in Book 1. The second book helped in making me see why they love each other and making me root for a happy ending.

The other thing that I wasn't keen about: there was a little too much intrigue, a few too many devious and clever and manipulative characters, and not enough characters with, let's say, heart. The plot moved from one scheme to another without something emotional in-between to anchor the story. Whats more, I could tell the authorial intention was to see the devious characters as masters of intrigue but I couldn't see it. It didn't work for me.

You were right that Savonn felt like a Lymond cut-out. Eugenides is very much his own character. I couldn't quite get who Savonn was. He disguised himself constantly on page, and it's like those disguises also hid him from me.

In my professional opinion (lol) here's what I think: this is a good, solid story that needed an extra 300 pages. It needed room to breathe, character relationships to unfold in front of our eyes (friendships, siblings, soldier/captain, lovers etc) so we can witness their bonds and affection or their animosity. We love to see a character at its lowest, but Savonn's lowest point, imo, happened when he was sent to kill that general, fell in love, and had to leave his lover behind. And this is the backstory! I think this could've been Book 1 of a trilogy.

I sound overly critical but I enjoyed the books overall. The prose is good, descriptions and dialogue and suchlike are great, and the world building is confident. As a debut work, this is impressive. I just wish there was more emphasis on the relationships between characters, and less emphasis on cleverness and schemes and plot twists.

Well. I had a lot of thoughts! What did you think? I know you liked the books.

[bloodydeanwinchester]

i was tagged by @angelsdean 💕💕

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to get to know better.

name: jenna

star sign: libra (im actually a triple libra and i have to say that almost every time i read something that is supposed to be a libra personality trait i'm like yea actually that's me)

height: 5'6 

time: 7:39 am

birthday: oct 20

favourite bands/artists: the lumineers, hozier, lord huron, florence + the machine, lana del rey, rainbow kitten surprise, shakey graves

last movie: god i watch SO much tv and so few movies that i cannot for the life of me remember. i just checked my netflix history and i haven't watched a movie there since last october so i guess it was probably die hard which i watched with my family at christmas

last show: besides my supernatural rewatch, The Bear

when did i create this blog: i think it was like april 2012? honestly i never really used it all that much until like march 2022 when i joined spnblr

what i post: mostly spn...more destiel, castiel, and dean than anything else. i recently started making gifs/edits so a lot of my original posts lately have been those. i also will occasionally post about other shows that i'm watching too

last thing i googled: i just woke up so i haven't googled anything yet today but i just checked my history and it was “castiel cabernet" yesterday lol

other blogs: this is it 🙃

do i get asks: i've gotten like just a couple from anons. every once in a while i will get one from a mutual<3

following: 376. it used to be a LOT higher because i had just been following blogs based on whatever hyperfixation i was obsessed with for like 10 years but i recently purged

average hours of sleep: 7-8 usually 

instruments: none </3 i always wanted to learn one but never committed to it

what im wearing: grey tank top and black capri sleep pants...i just woke up lol

dream job: i've always wanted to be a published writer. also always wanted to be a librarian too but somehow ended up an accountant 🫤

dream trip: i really want to do like a big europe trip and go to edinburgh, paris, amsterdam, lisbon, london. also i would like to do a us trip maybe camping somewhere forresty. i live in southern california so pretty much everything here is either desserty or beachy and i would like to spend some time with some trees

nationality: american, unfortunately

favourite songs: this is always changing but currently its let me drown by orville peck, king by f+tm, what do it mean by lord huron, sunlight by hozier, the chain by fleetwood mac

last book i’ve read: if we're not counting fanfic then it was verity by colleen hoover (the only non fanfic book i've read all year lol) if we are counting fanfic then it was silver linings by foolondahill17

Currently reading: fenario by ftmsteverogers

top 3 fictional universes i’d like to live in: um this is hard. but i guess i'd say the raven cycle, spn, or the atlas six

ok like victoria i'm not gonna tag 20 ppl because that's just a lot and i have no idea who's already done this or doesn't want to do it so feel free not to<3

@sluttystiel @faithdeans @cruelsummercas @goatiel @dylfnatural @millicentmarva @sleepycas @blue-eyed-cutiepatootie @deanandkastiel @hermywolf

[black-capris]

Hello ! Hope you’re all doing well, after the green alien, here’s her blue girlfriend from the sea 💙 🌊 I really REALLY liked working on Lapis, even if this illustration was honestly really challenging, the character is so cool omg I hope you’ll like it as well ❤️🌟

[seniouesbabes]

Lily Maymac 🌸💋🍒🌸 Bathing @alo

[altairtalisman]

I posted 387 times in 2022

330 posts created (85%)

57 posts reblogged (15%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@just-jammin

@weirdbutdecentart

@redlover411

@djts-arts

@toasty-owl-arts

I tagged 387 of my posts in 2022

#constellation conversation - 143 posts

#miitopia - 74 posts

#altair draws - 64 posts

#sixtended verse - 60 posts

#six oc - 59 posts

#cosmic fusion - 51 posts

#blazing remnants - 46 posts

#pokemon - 21 posts

#not my art - 21 posts

#7kpp - 16 posts

Longest Tag: 131 characters

#spica’s original design was a plain méi jiān dāo but i changed it to a disassembled version to make it look grander for a celestial

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

For the 2000th post, I decided to draw the progression of my DragonFable OC (Kai Crusath)'s friendship with Tomix across the Tomix saga

The Chaosweaver armour is the hardest to draw due to all of the intricacies, followed by the base armour...

11 notes - Posted November 25, 2022

#4

OC Pride Fest 2022: 12 PM

At 12 pm, three couples encounter each other and decided to take a group picture together because why not?

Couple 1: @lexartsstuff’s William and @vanessaseymour’s Marion

Couple 2: @redlover411’s Holbein and @ellielovesdrawing’s George

Couple 3: Geo and Vyren

11 notes - Posted June 20, 2022

#3

"My eyes may look evil, but my heart's anything but that!"

The first party member Geo meets, Vyren Asphodel is always ready to lend a hand and can't just leave someone be... provided they don't run away from him first.

Vyren's bio is under the cut.

Name: Vyren Asphodel (pronounced Vee-ruhn)

Age: 25

Height: 180 cm

Birthday: 5 July (Cancer)

Personality (Miitopia): Kind

Job (Miitopia): Thief

Pronouns: He/Him

Likes: Goblin Ham, Sword Sashimi, Roast Lizard Tail, Sandwich, his friends

Dislikes: Snurp Radish, Penguin Treat, Bone Biscuit, Mouse Treat, Iceberg Salad, judgmental people, squirrels

Hobbies: Exercising, playing card games, stargazing with Geo, visiting the local markets

Clothes: Wears a fully zipped greyish-blue long-sleeved top that's partially covered by a pink bandana and a pair of greyish-blue capris is worn over a pair of dark greyish-blue tights.

A pair of dark bluish-black zipper boots are worn, along with a dark greyish-blue belt with a silver metal buckle and a pink pouch attached to it. A greyish-blue bandana covers the scalp, with the hair tied up with a pink hairband and a pair of light grey goggles with pink lens is worn around the head.

Sexuality: Gay

Description: Tall, pale, and muscular with surprisingly broad shoulders, Vyren is capable of athletic feats with his signature being backflips. His dark grey ‘just below the shoulders’ hair is tied into a low ponytail, with his fringe gelled into two prongs a few centimetres away from his face. Vyren’s remembered for his unnaturally pale pink eyes and sharp narrow eyes, which gives off the impression that he’s a slightly deranged villain.

He wields dual daggers and a total of six throwing knives, and also keeps another six more throwing knives on his person as spares. At night, he wears his night vision goggles so that he can see in the dark. Thanks to Gladea’s upgrades, he’s able to see clearer and farther in the dark.

Background: Vyren grew up as the oldest child to the royal family in a kingdom located in the Powdered Peaks. When he was born, the first thing everyone noticed was his unnaturally pale pink eyes. This resulted in everyone assuming that he was cursed, thus everyone around his age shunned him.

Initially, his family tolerated him as he was the only heir they had. Even so, they distanced themselves away from him and were only observed to interact with him during social events. Overtime, Vyren wasn’t brought to social events after discovering that his hair remained a dark grey and his eyes resembled evil. His family then started to tell him that he didn’t deserve love for he was different from everyone else and that he was just a burden, something which Vyren took to heart.

When he was six, his younger sister was born. After discovering that she was born without any odd traits such as pink eyes, grey hair and villain-like eyes, they realised that instead of making Vyren their heir, they could make their daughter their heir. However, to do so, they needed to get rid of Vyren first.

As they discussed ways to assassinate him, Vyren’s father pointed out that family tradition requires heirs to participate in a parents-child camping trip when they turn 12. Given that there were only a few more years before Vyren turned 12, they decided to wait until he was old enough to participate in the camping trip before carrying out their plans.

For the next six years, his family did their best to isolate the two siblings from each other such that his sister didn’t know of Vyren’s existence. Vyren himself didn’t attempt to communicate with his sister as he doesn’t want an innocent person to be stained with the knowledge of being related to ‘a loveless child’.

On the first night of the camping trip, his parents left him alone in an ice cave during a heavy blizzard without food, water, gold, and clothes. To ensure that his fate was doomed, they sealed the cave by exploding the entrance. Vyren knew that his family was trying to kill him, but didn’t protest as he thought that it would eventually benefit his family in the long run.

Shortly after the blizzard ended, a dragon dug away the rocks that blocked the entrance as that was their cave. Seeing that Vyren was naked and about to die from thirst, they took pity on him and flew him to the nearest town after he insisted to not bring him back to the kingdom. Once he arrived, everyone immediately shunned him due to his ragged appearance.

As no one was willing to help him, Vyren has no choice but to resort to stealing from the residents in order to survive. He was soon caught after a few months, and was promptly banned from returning to that town. Since then, Vyren has visited numerous towns, stealing what he needed to get by and to prevent from being banned, he learnt how to figuratively blend in with the shadows in order to successfully steal from others. At one point, he had to learn how to fend off his targets as some of them were perfectly willing to kill him if it meant protecting their possessions.

Shortly before the game, he visited Greenhorne Town in order to steal what he needed before setting off for Greenhorne Kingdom to steal a small sum of wealth from the castle's treasury. While travelling along Easin Hills, he heard the divine power calling out to him and asking him to help Geo who was nearby. Realising that he would finally be able to be useful to someone, he quickly went to find Geo with the divine power guiding him to his exact location.

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#2

Did some sketches at work because I was trying to avoid work for once bored, and decided to test out the glow effect on sketches with IbisPaint X using whatever I've learnt from IG... which isn't a lot because I forgot the post...

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My #1 post of 2022

For the 1800th post, I've decided to draw the moment before Donna calls Angie and starts the final fight.

If it were me, I will definitely haul my ass out of House Beneviento despite Donna being my favourite.

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How to Achieve Insouciance (A Quiet One While He’s Awake)

Wub-Fur presents one of our occasional forays into the (relatively) softer side of contemporary experimental indie rock/psych/folk/pop/etc. Fifteen finely-crafted mood pieces perfect for fair-to-partly-cloudy mornings, hazy afternoons, foggy evenings, and beautiful nights. Featuring Anadol, Spiritualized, Guerilla Toss, Baston, Fontaines D.C., The Garbage & the Flowers, and 9 more bands from around the world who’ve mastered the art of casually not caring.

Cover Photo: Actress Tina Aumont in a still from Pierre Clémenti’s 1969 short film Positano. Apologies to them.

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Running Time: 59 minutes, 59 seconds

Tracklist

Ablamın Gözleri (2:52) — Anadol | Berlin, Germany

The Mainline Song (5:51) — Spiritualized | London, UK

Recall the Words (4:06) — Erasers | Perth, Australia

Capri (4:05) — Baston | Rennes, France

Beautiful Youth (4:02) — Caroline No | London, UK

Long Long Long (2:41) — George Is Lord | Los Angeles, CA

Black Spring (3:39) — Seatbelts | Liverpool, UK

Colour Orbit (2:37) — Rubber Oh | Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

The Couple Across the Way (3:55) — Fontaines D.C. | Dublin, Ireland

On the Radio (5:16) — The Garbage & the Flowers | Australia

The Extra Sees the Film (4:35) — Kiwi jr. | Toronto, Canada

I Got Spirit (3:03) — Guerilla Toss | New York, NY

Gumdrop Fantasy (4:52) — Neil Zaza | Cleveland, OH

All Roads Lead to Los Angeles [ft. Jaleel Shaw] (4:39) — High Pulp | Seattle, WA

A Satisfied Mind (3:48) — The Mañana People | Bonn, Germany

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ALEXIS REN at the LuisaViaRoma for Unicef event on July 30th 2022 in Capri wearing UNKNOWN

I’m confident I’ve never made a post about Alexis Ren, but since she was at this event I’ve decided to break my streak.

Alexis was showing a lot of skin for this event, in my opinion. However, since the event was in Capri, it feels slightly more appropriate. I just feel like Capri could have more relaxed vibes.

I’m not sure why, but this outfit feels almost nautical to me, and I’m kinda loving it. I think the black and white striped strings are what’s giving me that vibe, as well as the bodice being shaped similarly to a bikini. I just can’t get over how cool the striped strings look. I think they really make the outfit. I love the way they line the skirt and just cross cross everywhere.

I thought Alexis’ hair and makeup look great. I love the tucked back hairstyle, it’s simple but just seems to be everywhere recently. I also love the really natural makeup. The glossy lips also look so great. I thought this sexy dress from Alexis looked great, and I hope to continue to see her at events.

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I posted 1,572 times in 2022

624 posts created (40%)

948 posts reblogged (60%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dreydel-fatale

@nobodysuspectsthebutterfly

@agentem <--- I like to reblog myself. I am my own best friend.

@theavengers

@jemgirl86

I tagged 928 of my posts in 2022

Only 41% of my posts had no tags

#dracula daily - 125 posts

#youtube - 77 posts

#spoilers - 64 posts

#marvel - 52 posts

#house of the dragon - 45 posts

#wong - 42 posts (EFF YEAH WONG)

#benedict wong - 39 posts

#she hulk - 39 posts

#hotd - 37 posts

#doctor strange in the multiverse of madness - 35 posts

Longest Tag: 109 characters

#i went over to a friend's house and we didn't have internet but we did play carmen sandiego which is the same

(I stand by it)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Eat the Rich, don't let the rich eat you

tumblr: why would dracula eat two sailors in one night? that's wasteful?

me: it's almost like he's not a good dude.

English major me: indeed you might consider his status as an aristocrat and think of him as someone who, i don't know, literally lives by feeding on the common man.

766 notes - Posted July 30, 2022

#4

The moral of Dracula is to just be honest with your loved ones. Tell your children when you are sick. They know anyway and if you spend more time with them, then a vampire won’t drink them like a Capri Sun.

1,008 notes - Posted August 25, 2022

#3

These two posts were right on top of each other. @mari—lace @daisytrails

She Hulk writers were like, “hey, here’s an idea. you know who else has trouble integrating his two personas and wants to fuck...?”

1,411 notes - Posted October 9, 2022

#2

Letitia Wright and Divine Love Konadu-Sun at the London premiere of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (photo from here, spoilers in the article)

2,135 notes - Posted November 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Question for the experts: Are Mina and Jonathan just too busy fucking to write in their journals?

3,087 notes - Posted September 6, 2022

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Basically my 2023 looks sad without Dracula Daily.