#looking at the clouded sun...

[hauntingblue]

Ivankov blackmailing crocodile... is this when the crocodile mama thing spun out

[melioristicbeast]

they're on a boat

wanted to capture the serenity of being out on the water on a warm afternoon

(they're listening to derek's playlist for once, rec under the cut)

[find this and my other sterek art on Redbubble!]

Had this on repeat while drawing it, thought the melancholic vibes fit ♥

[zen-llama]

pro tip if you care about your mental health don’t think abt rosquez

image ref under the cut!

[copepods]

sleeping god

[artzee534]

Here are some pics of the solar eclipse for anyone who missed it🌒

EDIT: ID now added!

[royaltea000]

Qitian dasheng and other outfit concept sketches

[cursio-neptune]

So, if suns LEAST favorite Pokémon is Sunflora, it’s his favorite pokemon Heliolisk or Solgaleo?

Pop quiz for all the cooking with sun au lore trackers. What is the name of the kid in the cat hat? (It was mentioned in a single panel of one of my comics >w>) << First < Previous ~*~ Next >

The previous Pokemon-related asks can be seen here and extended upon here.

[rayofmisfortune]

GUESS WHO'S STILL NOT DONE WITH COPING

This fella came to mind yesterday after the video haha Something with me and digital/glitched characters, it's a problem

Basically... instead of being completely wiped from existence, Deleted, thanks to not being in his home dimension when the wipe occured, only got... partially erased. His dimensional signature is no longer compatible with any dimension. A lot of things were lost during the erasure, he's lucky to still be alive (or unlucky?). Deleted is just kind of... stuck in the Inbetween. He has no resources no nothing to attempt to make a device to get himself out.

Deleted's design is based on the Solar design done by @/ayyy-imma-ninja

[luckyartdrawer]

(Bitter) Sweet! Art & Drabble

For @divinit3a Café Lunch Rush prompt list! There's still plenty of time before the first prompt is due (Jan 12th), and there's 2 other prompts as well for the month! Definitely check it out lovelies! <3

Drabble name: Instability Of The Heart Contents: Sun x reader, Heavy Pinning, Bitter Sweetness Chosen Words: Clouds, Opals, Celebration, Star-crossed, Letting Go, Hope, Candle Word Count: 1,625

AO3 version now available!

Ch 2. Moon, Ch 3. Eclipse

(Close Ups are also at the bottom <3)

It’s been a whole year…

Unsure how to approach the festivities now, Sun decided to find a quiet spot instead, spending all morning setting things up to participate in his own way. He couldn't not join in, but it just wouldn't be right to go back into the thick of it either.

The not-too-far-off town square, only a mile below his expanse of cloud, is alive in the lieu of celebration. The live orchestra plays the same casual songs, their passion dying the expanse of clouds they rest upon pink with their infectious energy, and the music drifts up clear as day to his ears despite the distance. The community brightens at each strum of a chord, chatter so lively that they create lyrics to their own song. They all are so alight that even once the sun sets, not even a single candle will be necessary to keep the festival bathed in a warm glow.

Sun sighed as he looked towards his namesake, feeling both relief and dread seeing it only moved a little since he last checked, located slightly past the center of the sky above him. Any moment now the square should clear its center and engage in its Hearthwarming Dance.

A spark crackles in his chest, sending longing pangs to his heart and head. It swirls through the burning magma and dips through every ligament, the tips of his fingers and toes buzzing with the itch to do something.

He turns to his partner, waiting for the first note of the new song to swell before grabbing their soft hand and whispering,

“May I have this dance?”

Without his usual banter, Sun embraces them and sways to the familiar beat without hesitation.

Upon closing his eyes, he is suddenly not dancing on a patchy field of clouds, but rather upon a lively opal plaza shimmering in the warm sunlight; the polished stone reflecting all those lovely pink clouds to create a mosaic, speckled with a rainbow of beautiful color.

Yet, the way you shined changed everything. It had completely ruined his view of beauty.

Your smile glistened through the sheer cloud of stardust that orbits around your form. Your eyes were as hypnotic as the ring of light you absorb, blindingly white before turning into a pitch black that's impossible for him to comprehend. He could barely even remember what you wore that day, too busy memorizing your face.

You were a star that had gone supernova, a rarity unseen for the last 3 centuries, let alone for a star of your kind.

Even the thought of your imagery causes him to inhale sharply. He clutches at his partner tightly, mindless of the give as he steps around in a traditional dance.

You were so scared when the change happened all those months ago...

Sun had found you holed up in your dark room, begging him to not look at you. He had initially come over to barge down your door for being an hour late to meet him, only to find your home was unlocked. It wasn't too unusual, so he welcomed himself inside, used to doing so after years of friendship.

His bitterness over how you kept him waiting for so long evaporated at finding your tearful state, almost unrecognizable if it weren't for your usual wear and voice.

He's still ashamed to say that he was enraptured by you despite the state you were in.

You were a glimmering dwarf star before, enchanting enough as is, and yet somehow you turned into something even more bewitching, compounding his years of desire into something even stronger. It felt right. Not to see you sad, but to see you in that form. Everything about it felt like you. The pull was indescribable in every step he took, the very essence of you invading his senses.

As soon as he recounts reassuring you, drying your tears, and pulling you into a hug; he snaps back to having you in his arms in the light of day, grasping his right hand and prancing with ease across the square, expertly avoiding other participants.

The magnetic pull is intense, the need to somehow get closer and closer was nearly impossible to ignore. He wanted to run away from such a force, yet he only clutched your hand tighter as he spun you, pulling your back into his chest and locking you there for a beat too long.

He was so afraid that you could read his every move, regardless of knowing your sheer obliviousness to his desires.

You always playfully indulged his yearly insistence of being your dance partner, yet nothing had come of it from either side. But this time, his gaze was constantly locked with yours, unable to break contact. His possessive grip had ensnared you, barely leaving even an inch between you. He couldn't help but pause, disregarding the mass of bodies moving around him, wanting to hold you forever.

How could it not be obvious?

Regardless, he knew it was inevitable he'd spill out his soul to you soon, barely able to restrain his lips from colliding into yours at that very moment.

He hoped, he prayed, he begged like a mantra to the celestial mother that you'd feel the same. That this magnetism isn't so one sided. That restraint would one day be unnecessary and he'd finally be able to drink in the flavor of your kiss.

Only mere seconds had passed when he released you from his hold, continuing the dance as if nothing happened. Perhaps to you, nothing did happen.

Would that explain what had happened?

He spent that whole day with you, following you to vendors with traditional carbon foods and indulging in your proximity as you'd graze hands and bump shoulders on occasion, finally left comfortably alone as the town's people were accustomed to your new appearance by then.

He was more than happy to scoop you up the moment you said you were getting tired and overwhelmed. You insisted that you didn't want the fun to end, but he could tell by the sound of your voice that you at least needed a change of pace.

The sun was setting when he leapt up stray puffs of clouds to the field above the plaza. He pranced in circles, leaping gaps to the dying beats of music, and teasing about dropping you through them when you didn't believe he could cross. Your rivers of laughter only fueled his audacity, as he never wanted to hear them end. Inevitably, his foot barely slipped off the edge of one of his more daring jumps, causing the two of you to fall forward and collide with the cloud beneath you.

Despite the grunt the two of you made at the impact, you were quick to laugh at Sun’s failure, teasing him about his cockiness biting him in the behind.

But Sun couldn't ignore the press of his body on top of yours, the echoing melody of your voice ensnaring his throat, refusing to allow him to even draw breath, let alone words. His mind fogged over, the only reprieve to his pinning troubles all pointed towards you, and he desperately needed that relief.

Your lips were more delicious than he could have ever dreamed of, your endearing expression was wide eyed and glowing.

Glowing so much that he actually had to close his eyes for a moment to recuperate, despite how much he wanted to savor your appearance.

And then with a fluttering blink, he's back in the present, kneeling down in the same position over some sad facimally of you. The cloud he molded this morning was mangled already from his delusions, but due to his fall it had melded into the cloud below it, its pink color feeling more taunting than sweet.

Sun looked down at his hand to find a tiny piece of said cloud still in it, a tear welling up in his eye.

It was too fitting.

In that original moment, it was as if you dissolved right in his arms after that kiss, but he refuses to believe anything bad happened. He searched your home, your favorite places, and even contacted your friends and family. No one knew where you were.

Some believed you to be dead after he finally admitted what happened between the two of you.

He vehemently denied that possibility, despite the plausibility. You were barely older than he was, still spry with centuries of life ahead of you. You couldn't just die from a kiss…

The only spark of hope he was given was when he questioned one of the elder Neutron stars, one of whom recalled personally knowing a singular supernova; one who had been taken suddenly to a world beyond the sky to contain their unstable make up. They had returned only once to explain their departure, before saying goodbye for their next one shortly after.

Sun brought the small puff of cloud to his lips – it should have been your hand.

He couldn't repress the tear that escaped him.

It's been a year since your disappearance. He still hasn't given up on his star-crossed lover, if he may even call you that. Your sudden departure left him wanting, stagnant, unsure of so many things.

If you reciprocated, wouldn't you have come back to him by now..?

Overtime, many have caught onto his depressed demeanor and advised him that it's best to learn to let go.

Preaching that waiting is fruitless.

Denouncing the Neutron’s tall tale of some magical plain snatching you away.

Scolding Sun for ruining his life over some runaway star.

However, he cannot help it; you own all the hope he has left. As he is unfortunately, completely, woefully in love with you.

Close Ups!

[windowsloth]

"My land is the land of the far horizons, of the wide sky. It is the land of grass and wind and galloping hoofs. In summer the wind can be as hot as the breath of an oven, and when the pampas take fire, the line of smoke stretches a hundred leagues and the lions ride our cattle to escape it, looking like devils.”

Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch

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took another swing at some fan art I drew earlier in the year, this is much closer to what I had in mind. Definitely outside my comfort zone but I had a lot of fun

[bluecapsicum]

I thought you'd appreciate seeing these clouds that I saw being shared online by people from far north of Sweden!! I'm honestly blown away by how they look like, have you ever drawn this kind?

[Image ID: Both pictures depict long, horizontal clouds that have a mother-of-pearl iridescence, painting them dozens of pastel colours bleeding into one another. /end ID]

Gorgeous pictures, thanks a lot for sharing them! The first one has been edited a little bit, but really, not even that much. These colours are incredible. The first one is by Adam Jacob, taken yesterday in Lycksele, Västerbotten, and I haven't found the source for the second one.

On the website for the Swedish national public television service, they have a page where they take submissions for nice weather pictures, and you can see a lot of these nacreous clouds there, including this first picture. Very cool fog bow picture by Susanne Samuelsson on the 27th.

I think the government name for these is something like nacreous polar stratospheric clouds. I cannot imagine how mind-blowing they must be in person. It's amazing how consistent the iridescence is.

I haven't drawn these exact clouds for Reports, but I do have this illustration from last year:

I also have these weirder ones:

But I do have a few reports of iridescent clouds, they're just not polar stratospheric clouds. Here's a few:

This one's for the iridescence fans. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to brag about my iridescence paintings.

[justdrawlynn11]

Have a drawing of Solar for tonight!

I haven't really drawn him colored before, so I wanted to try it out for a test round! I think he turned out nice!! :DD

[phoenixwithapencil]

I think people who draw Zack a little monstrous are onto something actually. Esp if it’s a Zack lives AU.

Zack who is Changed undeniably by Crisis Core. Zack who Is A Monster and who Is Not Monstrous. Or at least does not allow it to consume him.

Zack who is a monster, like Angeal and Genesis and Sephiroth and when cloud tells Zack what sharp claws he has Zack says ‘all the better to protect you with’

Zack who doesn’t run back to Gongaga to lurk in the jungle to be hunted. Zack who gets support from the people he loves and who love him in turn because ff7 is a story that time and time again rewards that. Zack who is marked by his grief and by his tragedy and by his very DNA and has people to keep him from drowning in it all.

Zack who is not the same, but Zack who still has dreams and honor and so much love. A monster. But not monstrous.

[meatballerino]

[mourning-at-night]

IF IT (the fabricated nature of the reality you’ve been sucked into/the creeping realization you should be somewhere and someone much worse) SUCKS, HIT DA BRICKS!!

[chronodia]

walking on air