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[elliebell77]

sorry i havent been posting i think im burnt out rn

[ink-the-artist]

hi! hope you’re having a good day/night. wondering if you had any tip for achieving phosphorescence/fluorescence with colored pencils? i’ve been getting back into drawing after a long art block and wanted to draw some glow in the dark toys but i’ve been struggling to give a good actual green glow on a dark background. thought i’d ask since you’re incredible with colored pencil!

oh prismacolor neon colored pencils are perfect for this, they only have 3 colors (orange, yellow, and pink) but i think this is the closest thing to what ur describing that ive used in my own art

some of these are more subdued than others, i blend the neon color and a regular color (the neon pencils also have harder lead so are good for blending with) it creates this really nice underglow that i cant achieve with the regular colors. the more subtle ones have less of the neon color blended in and the brighter ones have more. the neon colors are really bright and vibrant it surprised me the first time i used one. my scanner does not pick up neon colors tho (idk if all scanners are like that) so I have to photograph the art instead whenever i use neon colors

im sure other brands have neon colors u can do this with (and other mediums too) this is just what i do

[nabaath-areng]

It's kinda funny looking back on old screenshots and edits I made 3-5 years ago because in a way they have changed a LOT yet at the same time also not all although the fact that my old computer could barely handle having FFXIV installed is kinda evident in hindsight lol

[theloveinc]

There's a lot of validity in the idea that older Bakugo is a traumatized pro-hero with major PTSD... but you know what's kinda fucked up to think about? The fact that Bakugo is also a 22-year-old pro-hero with major PTSD even before that, too.

It's almost easy to imagine that things are actually better when he's older (the therapy finally a routine, the trauma long set and on the path to being healed)... and that it's his whole 20s that are spent as a pool of disaster trying to recover from the war(s).

He looks back and barely even remembers being twenty, much less twenty-five or twenty-seven. Barely remembers how little he slept, not at the hands of trying to balance hero work and getting a degree at the same time, but just out of the pure insomnia that came from trying to move on and every nightmare attached.

Hardly ever showering, never shaving (not that he ever grew much of a beard, but the facial hair was definitely there. There's pictures of him on the news with an awkward, grown out haircut and patches on facial hair that make him look positively... immature), barely even eating more than a few protein bars or an energy jelly drink-a day. It's a blur, and his friends are hardly there to pick him up out of it because they're all going through it, too. Somewhat.

It's definitely weird if you meet him during this period. He's not all there, at least, not all of the time. He doesn't really register your interactions, the friendship you extend to him (a younger, or ever older, version of him would've shown you that deep seeded ferocity in response, tried to bite the hand that fed him, even if it were love... but 20s Bakugo... doesn't seem to notice). Even though only one of his eyes is clouded over, the good one never seems to brighten up.

There's definitely moments when the old him shines through: when he's with Deku, when he's in the midst of battle, when he finds out that Todoroki still does a shitty job at chopping scallions. But it's a long time before he's even close to the same, able to step out from underneath the fog of simply surviving and into the sunshine of recovering.

But I think sticking through it with him is worth it.

(It's a weird moment, a happy moment, the first time you realize that Bakugo has changed. That the pouring rain outside hasn't bothered him since he showed up at your apartment. He forgot his umbrella, he's been quite careless ever since the war—wet and shaggy hair frizzed up, cheeks red from cold—but he doesn't seem to mind, with his bare feet up on your coffee table, his eyes gazing out the window. You hand his tea, and instead of gulping it down in one go, letting it burn in his throat, he winces at the heat.

"Tastes like shit," he says, and you laugh because it always does. Just this time, he noticed.)

[p1nkc4lyps0]

i aint one for drinking but im missing dsmp like a motherfucker

[maximum-rex]

Hello I am violently back with Stardust Rhapsody content thoughts after a brief repose, spoilers for. Literally the entire thing if you're not done with it yet.

Specifically I would like to talk about the dynamic between Pyke and Rex and the difference in how they perceived themselves in relation to the other. Some of this is influenced by the fact that some of the backstory seemed to develop during the play itself while some seemed premeditated, and I would like to state for the record I am not on the discord and don't have access to the behind the scenes to a lot of this. I just podcast listen A Lot for the moment so feel free to chip in but these are MY thoughts on the matter atm. And i'll also say this is more about In Universe characterisation than player character/NPC motivations.

Since the very first moment Rex is mentioned, Pyke makes it clear he is Not A Fan. But more than that, he makes it clear he thinks of Rex as some.soet of cheap imitation, a liar, and a joke. He constantly refers to him as a Jackass and, by name itself, a poseur. The amount of sheer disdain present in Pyke towards Rex from the very first instant is fascinating to me.

When we get the rendition of Pyke's backstory with Rex and the Pathway, he talks about the fact that Rex in the beginning was better than him. Consistently. A natural winner and competitor, raw talent from the get-go. Pyke only got an edge after Khan saw and nurtured something in Pyke,the very same thing that lead to him later leaving to pursue the path of the Sun Soul Monk. It was this that allowed Pyke to start winning. But, as Mace says consistently which conflicts with this rendition of events is that Pyke continued to lose sometimes. Pyke said that after that he never lost, but Mace says that Rex was a continued competitor. It became a much steeper fight and Pyke won a lot, but Rex continued to be his greatest opponent and contender to take his spot. Sometimes he did take his spot!

Now before I get to a conclusion on this let us look at how Rex acts towards Pyke.

From the first interaction we see between them, Rex treats Pyke, in my own opinion, very well! He approaches at speed and the first thing he does,besides his incredibly cool kick flip manoeuvre, is to give Pyke a lit cigarette. A gift. One that Pyke couldn't obtain himself without that help, as evidenced by his attempt to light one just before this and failing miserably. Despite the fact he immediately sped off and offered what seemed like joking or hollow encouragement for them to catch him, he still offered Pyke that cig.

And more than that, he took legitimate precautions on the assumption that they would catch up. Not a passing fancy or a faint suspicion, he was ready and waiting for them when they arrived at the temple. He took Pyke, and by extension the Rhapsody crew, seriously. Which is more than can be said of Pyke, at least in the surface level. He prepared traps, and a greeting, and when they do finally catch up to him, he says he expected them at least ten minutes sooner based on when they arrived in the temple. He had what appears to be an absolute faith that they not only would reach the temple, hence the trap, but also continue to pursue him at speed.

And when they begin to talk, Rex is by my account polite. Genial. I don't think he's genuinely that friendly without any hidden motive or precaution, but he is courteous. He greets Pyke politely and addresses him directly, speaking to him familiarly. During the fight itself, more than once, Rex gives the entire crew the chance to back off and leave. Before the fight, he sat there and warded them off without any damage for a good few minutes. He didn't jump into it willy nilly with the outright intention of hurting them. Which isn't exactly to say the crew did but it is to say he didn't seem gung ho about it either.

In the episode Highway Star, Pyke is as per usual antagonistic towards Rex. Alright, fair. Fine. But Rex, while being a shite, kinda..... Isn't. He could've said some rather cutting or outright hurtful things about Pyke not racing or about him overtaking Pyke's ranking on the Pathway, but he didn't. Not a word about it all things considered. He went about his business as usual, from what we see when Laboosh and Chuckles go and sabotage him. He didn't go out of his way to fuck with Pyke and the crew while they were at the Pathway. He went out shopping for himself at a space strip mall, minding his business for all we see.

Now obviously let's circle around to the Main Thing Here, episodes 13 and 14. The big finishers. The gamechangers.

I obvs can't say for certain of Khan asked Rex to help the crew out or if Rex went of his own volition, but my feeling is a bit of both tbh. He showed up when they were in some Shit to help. Obvs I will forever giggle about Andy's "I Saturn Eats His Son Rex" but given im focussing on in universe and not meta, it's disregarded for the sake of this.

Now the main catch point here that prompted all of this thought in the first place is that when Rex points a gun at Pyke, Pyke's first instinct is to assume that Rex is going to kill him. He genuinely believes with everything in him that Rex, after all that, all the blood and sweat and tears of the fight before and everything before that (including a very nice cigarette left in payment for one freely given), would turn and shoot him with zero hesitation. And accepts that.

Rex, on the other hand, was trying to defend him. He was trying, even after every shitass comment and snide remark and the race sabotage, to save Pyke's life. He was watching and prepared to shoot somebody he knew Pyke cared about in order to save his life. He gave Rett his speeder for that same purpose, something we can reasonably assume is precious to him given that he's had it, or some version of it, about as long as Pyke has had the Sparrow. Something that very clearly would have saved his life, and whatever was salvageable of Khan's life as well since it's unclear what level of dead he was. He could've got out and chose to try and save Pyke instead

And when they make outside, Rex hands over the penultimate piece; the papers he stole from the boss. The very thing that got him into this entire mess in the first place. The reason that he and his mentor figure are going to die on a frigid rock displaced in space.

It was all about Pyke. From the very beginning, to the very end, it was about Pyke and his safety.

The entire time, Pyke saw Rex as someone he disliked. Someone aggravating, a thorn in his side, a threat.

While Rex ricked everything, and in the end gave everything, for Pyke. He loved him, in some way, in some capacity. He saw a danger to Pyke and put himself in a very dangerous position to try and lessen or eliminate that threat from The Boss and who he worked for. He was ready and willing to possibly kill someone Pyke cared about, Laboosh, to save his life.

I. Man I just-

Idk does anybody else just *gestures vaguely at all of it*

[jrueships]

Desmond trade how we feeling 😭

jaren couldn't even say anything .. he's too heartbroken to even post a heart, can't even piece the pieces back together, they're so shattered.

WHAT THE FUCK

they got his freckles.......

UM. anyway.

i'm heartbroken. i am.

every group needs that kinda straightman go about my business but i tolerate yours kinda vibe, & des was that.. with like a cool butch lesbian spin. he's like that one business major amongst all the other party Harty type business majors who actually does finance and doesn't make it part of his personality or anything. He does the grizzlies' taxes. he tells gg not to fall for online shopping scams (jaren already has for gg, little does he know). he's just kinda cool with everyone and it can kind of make self conscious people almost wanna compete with others/themselves bcs they're like... does he just. Tolerate me? Bcs hes just tolerable of everyone? Or does he tolerate me bcs he actually likes me and is strong enough to stay still in the storms type shit like. & it was very interesting to watch ppl like jaren and ja who pride themselves as being viewed as cool, aloof, someone ppl wanna look up to & emulate ... immediately become giggling messes for a guy whose expression is lowkey just '._.' With his giant buff af trex arms. Ja giving him the most improved trophy and des just being like 'wow. This guy, jesus, lol.' THEY WANT THAT NONVERBAL MAN SO DAMN BAD!!!!! LIKE THEY LOVE THEIR NORMAL GUY SO MUCH!!!! just that one guy in the chat who always reads the chat messages and rarely adds anything at all, especially when there's drama, he just kinda reads.. keeps up to date... but if u say hi and don't get a reply for 2 mins.. he will be ur first hi back. like he's just secure. He's sturdy. I MEAN LOOK AT HIM?? ( HIM him. Not the.. not the bleacher creachure... that is... that should be a crime. ) Des is SOLID. he's a foundation you lean on after exhausting yourself, and these grizzlies are EXHAUSTED. ja's flying dunks, Jaren's furry panther persona jungle leaping dreams, like. UGH. THEY TOOK AWAY NOEL. THEY TOOK AWAY THE CHILL BRO. idc idc how many picks idc THEY TOOK AWAY CHILL BRO!!!

THEY TOOK AWAY CHIPMUNK !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pastelevie]

spin the wheel :3

[thedrotter]

In the terms of cookie run kingdom you're kinda like the pure vanilla to my shadow milk cookie

i dont play crk but my friend explained to me the lore and those 2 sounded so much like yuu and shunkun so i had to(ФωФ)

(+process pics in read more!!!)

never drawing cookie run kingdom clothing ever again I fought for dear life even though ive drawn genshin clothing before /j

[frobby]

im so sure rin okumura would LOVE it at furin

[bmpmp3]

now im learning. phoneme editing for english is fun as FUCK in sv2

[evienyx]

Allow me to present to you: Dead Moon Spirit AU.

"Ninety-five years after the Air Nomad Genocide, the war ends. There is no winner, nor loser. There are simply those who are still alive, and those who are not. 

Ninety-five years after the Air Nomad Genocide, Admiral Zhao of the Fire Nation kills the Moon Spirit, and the Ocean roars. The sun hides away, and the only light is that of the seas, so very blue, and so very angry.

Ninety-seven years after the Air Nomad Genocide, Crown Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation is burned and banished, sent beyond the protected walls of Caldera, told he can only return if he kills the Ocean Spirit and brings the world back into balance.

No one has seen the stars since the night the moon died. 

Ninety-nine years after the Air Nomad Genocide, in a South Pole ruled by darkness and cold, a beam of light shoots into the sky."

If I'm being totally honest with you, though, most of this story is me both testing out a different style, as well as pushing my Zuko-and-Yue-Bestie agenda.

I'm steadily working through it. It's a different writing style from my usual, and will probably only be a few parts, but I love it with all my heart.

I don't know quite when it'll be done, but I'm working through it steadily, in between writing for Fractures and BMaFT, so we'll see.

[clumsypuppy]

gregnant

anton belongs to @poicyss

[dragonlordofmiddleearth]

Girl what did Arthur do in the legends

He got Morgana pregnant with baby Mordred

[donaviolet]

Friendship is the most special thing in the world because no award could be give me bigger happiness than jumping around in my room and smiling because my pookie asked me if I wanted to match pfps

[11queensupreme11]

any dark romance fanfic recs? any fandom!

pjo:

they'll name a city after us -- fem!percy x dark!apollo

princess of the seas -- fem!percy (pairing might be poseidon, idk but it's incomplete)

child surprise -- percy x apollo

alice in borderland:

colors of your heart -- reader x niragi

smile, the cameras are watching -- oc x niragi

diabolik lovers:

the switch -- reader x yandere!various

baldur's gate 3:

hellish rebuke -- tav x ascended!astarion

she will be mine -- tav x ascended!astarion

this... omg this is it, i guess? i'm so sorry, i would usually recommend a lot more fics, i promise you, but nowadays my library's so dry 😭