#i put the rose in my room

[limoncats]

my mum grew this yellow rose

...Mary?

[alcordraws]

A conversation with Rose; or, Steven does a lot of projecting

[good-beans]

My @milgramcf Zine came in last week and I just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work the mods and creators put into it!! I've never been a part of anything like this before -- it was such a fun and coordinated project, and the final book came out stunning 🤩 It's exciting to participate in a charity project, and I love my little items haha!

[astrophysician]

HERE IT IS

this is my definitely completely necessary, i promise, sonic style study!! i spent nine and a half hours on this canvas! aaa! i will master this style if it's the last thing i do!!!

more about my process under the cut!

the purpose of this study was to really get the proportions down as i figure out how sonic characters fit into my style. for this specific study i was mainly looking at the model sheets for the sonic team racing animation. i like the cartoony/sharp style combined with the more modern designs. eye and especially muzzle shapes played an important part in my progress with this.

my process began with looking at the sheets for sonic and shadow specifically-- sonic, because he's the blueprint for the style, and shadow because he's a lot like sonic and also i lov ehim. you can see i took lots of notes and "measurements" at first (on the left) and heavily referenced the poses from the model sheets. i made an effort to avoid relying on tracing at this stage. (and later on, i colored using my best judgement-- no color picking! gotta train your eye for color too!)

there's still so many intricacies that i'm trying to get an eye for, but after this i feel a lot more confident in portraying this style in a way that satisfies me. there's just so much to balance!!

after i felt comfortable with my more scientific approach, i tried getting more expressive, experimenting with different expressions and poses that i thought fit the characters (and injecting some of my headcanons obviously). this was to practice conveying each character's personality and as well as drawing them in ways that weren't completely static, like so much of my art has been lately (character designing kinda leans into that...)

i would have drawn more but i ran out of space and got tired lol. perhaps i'll do a part two, because i want to draw more characters interacting than who i usually gravitate towards. amy and knuckles were a dip into that. (side note, i was kinda shocked at how much easier knuckles was to draw with the right references, and how difficult amy is despite looking similar to sonic and shadow, who i have a lot more experience with. it's her hair...)

anyway, i'm very proud to have completed this, and i feel like it helped me improve so much! i highly recommend style studies if you have the patience for it. you can get the same effect by just drawing the characters a lot, but it feels good to sit down and really dedicate some time and space to it. for me anyway :)

[dragon-spaghetti]

Hands you quick Amy doodles

[aezyrraeshh]

PATHFINDER: WRATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS [5/?] ➣ NOT-A-DATE WITH DAERAN

Daeran looks a little - the merest trifle - more serious than usual. «Commander, we need to talk. Under strictest confidence. I am going to invite you to a not-a-date. Yes, you heard me correctly - not-a-date. If, by some chance, you imagine you see wine, cushions, and treats laid out before you - you should know that it is merely and optical illusion.»

[birdinabowl]

Morally grey characters are always so much more fun to explore character wise to me just because it gives them good depth most the time. Like yes this person did good things but they also did some pretty messed up things and it’s fun to explore the characters motivations behind why the did the good/bad things. I definitely don’t think there’s to many of them because there’s just so many possibilities to do with them

[thedreadvampy]

so me and Sam FINALLY watched the last season of Capaldi's Who

and tell me how, after literally over a decade and for perhaps the first time in his fucking career, Steven Moffat wrote a not just tolerable but really actually good two-parter and fully stuck the landing. like the editing and pacing were still a bit off but the storyline was original, fun, interesting and emotionally invested, and most importantly, rather than ending on a damp fart or the most furious autofellatio in history, the final part didn't fumble it and ended in a way that felt emotionally satisfying and like it made sense for the characters. like the last time he successfully wrapped up a multiparter in a way that didn't feel cheap and hollowly disappointing to me was literally The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and a) that was in 2005 and b) tbh The Doctor Dances is about a tenth as compelling and memorable as The Empty Child.

so after 12 years of either hackery or great ideas that fall apart in the second act, Steven Moffat writes what I would genuinely consider to be a memorable Good Doctor Who serial. it ends with bittersweet pathos, a solid closer for all the main characters, and sends Moffat's showrunning career out on a genuine high despite failing ratings and budget cuts (and the fact Doctor Who hasn't been consistently good since about 2009). good job Steve. with grudging respect I admit you pulled it out of the bag on this one.

wait what's this there's one more episode left? and it stars Mark Gatiss? and you literally spend the whole episode inexplicably just shitting all over the legacy of Doctor Who by inventing a version of the First Doctor that bears literally no resemblance to the character that William Hartnell actually played, just so you can spend the whole episode saying misogynistic things to run yourself off to how much more Totally Feminist your version was than the version you made up in your head of what Doctor Who was like in the 60s? and it added literally nothing to the season except to take all the wind out of the sails of the actually good finale you already wrote?

even when he writes a good episode this fucker still finds ways to disappoint me.

[rose-tinted-kalopsia]

CATHY WHEN I CATCH YOU CATHY!!! /melts into a puddle

@seaofgoldensand

[guinevereslancelot]

my roses have buds, the blueberries have green fruits 😌 it really is june 💙

[riddlerosehearts]

does everyone else love when merchandise of belle puts little red roses on her yellow ballgown like this?? am i the only one who finds it kind of tacky?? :(

[thethingything]

local man buys tinted glasses because they're meant to help with migraines, only to find out he can see way more comfortably through them

[regenderate]

the problem with me being like "i should talk about my actual doctor who brain rot more on here" is that like. well for example i have managed to unironically and genuinely convince myself that rose tyler and yasmin khan could and would be in deep gay love. and like μεν i'm right δε i feel like this will be controversial among both rose stans and yaz stans. δε i'm right though.

[temporalteardrop]

entering my ancient greek priestess era (hotboxing my room with incense)

[swordwife]

ERIK SHRINE ERIK SHRINE 

the picture of my cat is there for crop lol

[cruelsister-moved2]

love discovering the neighbourhood pets, family on one side have bunnies n jack russels (brave combination I have to say) n the couple on the other side have a gorgeous silky haired lurcher looking dog. but im scared to talk to them now bc she came out w the dog when I was gardening in my pj's in the morning and I think I looked insane-_-