#hope you like it ash ^^

[cepheusgalaxy]

[ID. A boy with red hair and teary violet eyes carrying a massive sphere over his shoulders as he kneels down. His haircut is a mullet, whose tips are black, and he has many tattoos, a few silver piercings and wears a basic tank top and black pants. The sphere displays many bright green stars, including the Taurus constellation, with the star Atlas being highlighted in it. /end ID.]

"Endure"

fanart for @oros-ash3s 's atlas :) || his and @/ohagi-writes' story The Chrysalis is so so so so cool, you can check it out at @chrysalis-thestateofchange !!!

OKAY SO MY THOUGHTS AB IT GOING UNDER THE CUT BECAUSE I WENT BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR MAKING THIS clears throat

first of all atlas is so COOL. There is this one quote on his character intro (lift your knees atlas/the heavens are a burden but in the starlit ink of constellations/you have written/endure) that made something to my brain and. well i had to do this.

searching for a reference of "atlas" the greek myth was quite easy, tbh. pinterest was filled with them. so i just picked one i liked and went to work! in the og composition, actually, the "world"/"sky" he lifts is entirely inside the canvas but i ended up cutting a bit of it out to frame atlas a bit better. it was absolute HELL to figure out his hair but once i did i wouldn't stop staring at ittt. its so pretty. he is so pretty.

speaking of which, i took extra care when drawing his face. ash describes atlas as having the build of a soldier (oops, might have slacked off on that but alas i still like it) which contrasts with his pretty, delicate face. he even has lashes ^^ i also colored his eyes with a glint of both marine blue and magenta, to make the violet color pop out a bit more. that's i trick i picked when drawing my own violet-eyed pretty boy, petrichor, lmao.

finding a reference for atlas zielínski himself was also quite satisfying :) ash has a bunch of super duper incredibly cool art of him so i had a pretty solid base for it. i also went into atlas's pinterest board and took a while taking some inspo for what clothes i was gonna draw him in, although i did end up with this basic thing he has been drawn once in one of ash's drawings (the one with a guitar, if i recall well). having a reference for the tattoos was also VERY helpful im not used to drawing them lmao. And!!! you see his lil necklace. i stole it from the pinterest board to give him some decor :)

i also spent an embarassing amount of time trying to decide a gradient and a color and a level of darkness for this background. i went with green at first, because eden's color seems to be green, to imply how it's eden's influence that weights on him something something but Then i thought it was a bit too colorful so i put an overlay purple over it to correct the colors, and it was looking good until i finished coloring, in when i decided to adjust it, and it only went downhill from there.

i also had fun making his pose!!! i tried a new method for making the anatomy look a little better, and i'm glad of how it turned out. his face was also trying to resist looking cool for a while and i had to lasso tool my way into adjusting it quite a few times lmaoo. i flipped the canvas like almost solely to fix his face on this piece. it was Essential that it looked good.

AND

THE STARS

it was quite a big brain move of me, if i do say so myself. in the myth, atlas holds quite literally the sky, although it's often, like in the rendition i picked as a reference, represented as being the globe of Earth. so i thought, well, why not sprinkle some stars on it? his weight is the sky, after all. and then i remembered that time ash mentioned atlas's favorite constellation was the one that gave him his name, so i decided to google it and try to draw, but then i realized i was recalling it wrong and it wasn't a constellation, but a single star. Atlas belongs to the Taurus constellation in fact, and is also known as tauri-27. it was pretty nice to draw it if im being honest :) i had, of course, to highlight the tauri-27, although it ended up a bit subtle, but i don't mind. i also didn't linger on the color a lot, because the whole background was already green so i just leaned a bit towards jade/cyan/teal to make them pop.

also im pretty proud of how the shadows came out it was really really handy to have a reference!

art taglist || @for-the-love-of-angst @seastarblue

[acochleola]

a man watched over by an angel

[seaglassmelody]

So I've said it before but I'm gonna say it again

I love that Veilguard doesn't tell you which choice is more morally preferable. I love that all of the companion quests, the city choice, choosing Davrin or Harding on Tearstone, even your choice at the end with Solas - they're all given equal weight within the story.

Veilguard isn't about being a good or bad person- it's about how the world and the people in it are shaped by your choices. It's up to your personal principles and preferences to decide what is "right" and what makes the best story.

That's like a whole other level of roleplaying to me. The world will always remember you as a hero because you're the one who stops the blighted gods and Solas. But what kind of hero? What kind of tales will they tell about you? What will the world look like after you've saved it?

It's not good or bad. But you can tell stories of loss, stories of hope, stories of rebuilding the past or creating a new future. And that's really cool to me.

[chimsartblog]

hi it’s me again. i forgot to add this to my other ask because it is So funny to me that your ashswag is some kind of deity god thing and my squiddo is some kind of eldritch god herobrine thing. like they are swapped…. and my ashswag is just. sad trauma guy. i pathetic-wet-cat-ified him.

The dualities of peoples interpretations of ash swag...... but rheyre always friends so ^-^ YAY YAY !

[phoebastria-albatrus]

revenant for @titsliker! ty lish for hosting the art exchange :-)

[seecarrun]

“It’s getting late,” Misty whispered into the RotomPhone, snuggled under her blankets and her head resting on her pillow. “Do you need to get to sleep?”

On the other end of the phone, Ash groaned. “No,” he answered confidently, but his voice had taken on that husky tone it always did when he was tired, and the sound of it filled her belly with butterfree just like always. “I’m okay, I can talk a little bit longer.”

“Ash…” she started cautiously, which was immediately confirmed with the tell-tale sound of him yawning. “Ash, come on, if you’re hiking over a mountain tomorrow, you need your rest.”

“I’m good, I’m good, I promise,” he insisted. “I’m not gonna have service for a while once I leave town, so we need to talk as much as we can tonight. I’ll just sleep in a little later in the morning.”

Misty, perhaps selfishly, smiled in relief. She wasn’t ready to hang up yet either. “Fine, but if I hear that you passed out from exhaustion and fell off a cliff or something, I’ll let everyone know it’s your own fault.”

“Deal.” He yawned again, and Misty rolled her eyes. “Tell me about how training Clauncher is going. Does it regret letting you catch it instead of me yet?”

“As if,” she scoffed. “But training has been going really well. Clauncher is getting stronger and growing so much.” She paused and cleared her throat. “It, uh, does miss Corphish, though. A lot.”

She bit her lip, wondering if Ash would pick up on her subtle implication, feeling herself blush. After a moment, Ash cleared his own throat and whispered back, to Misty’s delight, “Corphish misses Clauncher a lot too.”

Warmth pooled in her stomach, tingling up through her chest and down into her fingertips. She wrapped her blanket tighter around herself, closing her eyes and imagining the voice in her ear as coming straight from Ash’s lips and not from her phone’s speaker. “When do you think we can have them hang out again?” she asked softly.

Ash sighed. “I’m not sure. Hopefully soon, though.”

He yawned again, and Misty smiled sadly. “That’s three, Ash. Time for bed.”

“Nooo,” he whined pathetically. “That wasn’t a yawn, I was just stretching.”

“You know the rules, Ketchum. Three yawns and you’re out.”

She could practically hear him pouting on the other end of the phone, but after finding herself biting back a yawn as well, she had to admit their time together was at an end. Ash grunted and made some huffing sound, probably flipping around on the hard, Pokemon Center mattress, and then sighed heavily. “Fine. Can I say goodnight at least?”

“I’m not stopping you,” she snorted, and Ash laughed a raspy and deep, devastating chuckle that sent electricity up her spine.

“No, I want to say goodnight to you, to your face. Let’s do video just real quick.”

“Ash, no,” she groaned, frowning. “I’m in bed, I look awful.”

He chuckled again, and Misty added embarrassing blush to her mental list of all the reasons not to video chat with Ash at that moment. “Mist, come on. Do you forget we traveled together for three years? I’m sure I’ve seen you look much worse.”

“Shut up,” she snapped with a pout, but knew she would give in. It was Ash, after all. She’d give him the entire world if she could. “Fine. But you better not wake Pikachu. It’s not his fault you want to go mountain climbing without getting any sleep like an idiot.”

The video call tone rang into her ears, and not bothering to even check her reflection because she knew there was nothing she could do to help herself, she clicked the button and Ash’s beautiful, sleepy face filled her screen.

“Hi, Misty,” he said simply, smiling softly.

Her heart beat loudly in her chest at the sight of him. She couldn’t believe he couldn’t hear it. “Hi, Ash.”

He just looked at her for a long moment, studying her, maybe checking to see if she was right about how terrible she looked. But if that was the case, he kept uncharacteristically quiet about it, and just smiled instead, his face softening at whatever it was he saw on his screen. “I’ll call you when I’m back in civilization,” he promised.

She smiled. Her eyes were getting heavy. “You better. No falling off any cliffs.”

“I can’t promise anything,” he laughed, his eyes crinkling. “But I’ll make an effort just for you.”

He yawned again. “That’s four now, Ash,” she told him, holding up four fingers. “You’re over your limit. Go. To. Sleep.”

“Yeah, yeah,” he drawled. “Always bossing me around.”

“Only because we both know you’d be lost without me.”

He shot her a little impish smirk, followed by a long blink and finally, a gentle smile of surrender. “Fine,” he sighed, his brown eyes meeting hers through the screen. “Goodnight, Misty.”

“Goodnight, Ash.” He gave her one last sweet smile before the screen went black, and she was left looking at her lovesick expression in the reflection.

She sighed, closing her eyes and letting the phone thunk softly against her forehead.

“I love you,” she whispered.

Maybe someday she’d be brave enough to say it before they hung up.

[duusheen]

The Hero

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

▒▒▒▒▒phobia (noun): the fear of ▒▒▒▒

[cobaltfluff]

belated welcome party for the newest blorbos in my head

[frowardthinker]

[banditblvd]

Hey guys sorry I'm posting more of my warriors pd art :-( sorryy.. I'll do better in the future,,,:((

[bananafishdepression]

Yuma Uchida be voicing every single gay depressed/angry character and serves every single time, I remember his voice as Ash Lynx's and when I try to watch another BL and I hear his voice I get flashbacks but I try my best and now he voices Hisashi in Twilight out of Focus (which is the only reason I read it and watched the episode) and the resemblence is crazyyy 😭😭😭 they didnt need to look exactly like Ash and Eiji but I'm thankful they did 'cause now we can be delulu and say they got their happy ending in another life

[hakusins]

♡ - Chase (Grim) (R21+) ♡ - For @fraternum-momentum (hope you enjoy it mel ♡) Warnings: mentions of torture, mild torture, obsessive behavior, degrading speech, and more!

How long has this been going on? Perhaps hours, maybe even days at this point - but who are you to keep track of it? After all, it can even be a year and you wouldn’t know any better. 

All you are aware of at the moment, was the hard tile floor underneath you as the larger man forces you to the ground by the heel of his boot. Heavy and flat, he presses down onto your stomach as he leans over you. His shadow completely engulfing your body, and in the dim red light of his ‘enclosure’, Grim would gaze upon you with eyes that seemed to glow a poisonous green color. 

“Got you again, puppy.” 

Lowering himself down, he would purposefully apply further pressure on your stomach as he lowers himself down, getting closer until his face was far closer with yours. He’ll even dig his heel further into your gut to wrench out that beautiful little whine and wheeze from you, just the way he likes it. 

“I’m starting to think you actually want to get caught, puppy. Am I right? Why else are you making it so pathetically easy for me to catch you?” He would ask, when he knows full well why you’re so easy to get caught. Your ankle would thrum with pain to remind you.

“I’m starting to get bored you know, with how sloppy you’ve gotten. You don’t mind me spicing things up, do you?” 

Re-adjusting himself above you, Grim would take off his boot from your stomach, finally easing your discomfort in some way. But now, he had decided to straddle your middle, his weight now placed fully on your torso. Your head still spinning from the pain and exhaustion, you don’t even get to fully register what exactly is happening until his large calloused hands had wrapped themselves around your neck, both thumbs bent to apply pressure to your trachea. “Don’t worry puppy, I’m not gonna actually kill you - just wanna see the face you make as you fight for breath.” It was crash, it was insane - he was utterly and horribly mad! Grim knew this - no he was fully aware, no reasonable adult man with a sane mind would do it. It was so fortunate that he was insane right? 

He was insane, right? Therefore, this should be expected. This should be okay. 

In your last bit of breath, you try to beg him - to appeal to him in some way. It was short and soft, but you ask if he can let you go.

Grim would pause, his green eyes widen in surprise as this was the first time you’ve actually spoken tonight during your Playdate. There was a beat of silence as he would watch you with an unreadable gaze, an unknown emotion swirling in his eyes. You’d half expect him to go insane like he did last time, that led to your throbbing ankle now. 

“Hm? What’s that, baby?” He asks, as if he fully didn’t hear you - maybe it was a challenge, maybe he was truly unsure if he heard the right words. Regardless, despite the fact that he is still pressing his thumbs down onto your neck like that, you repeat your plea to him. Only to be met with a smug, sadistic smile - his maddening red smeared make up only serving to make it look far more twisted and torn than it was. 

“Oh baby, - PFT-! You don’t mean that, oh of course not. You wanna play with me right?” Did it matter if you’re shaking your head? One hand finally left your neck, relieving some of the pressure, but now your face has been yanked close to Grim’s, where your cheek were rubbing together, his red lipstick smearing itself onto your face as he breathes right against you. His eyes - his eyes did not blink once as he stares right into your own. “Of course you don’t mean that, baby. Why would you want to leave me? Is it cause you’ve gotten bored? Have I been too mean to you? I’ll let you win some games, alright?” 

He would finally pause to finally reposition his face, tip of his nose pressing against your own as he gazes his eyes downwards to you, “No more of this nonsense about ‘going home’, okay? Your new home is right here.”

[actuallytalldumbass]

RAAAAHH! ANOTHER ONE! bit different technique/ look wise than my usual stuff cause i used a halftone filter and shit but i gotta admit this looks pretty good! works well with the theme

not alex having to deal with SCORPIA once again. you can see how resigned he already is 😔 justice for mt boy! he needs a real not-mission-tainted vacation!

based on this amazing amazing art by @agressive_poetry on IG (↓)

[red-might-be-dead]

@bizlybebo ‘s 700 dtiys!! ehehee!!!

[faunandfloraas]

Happy Birthday @acebytaemin ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚