#might as well commit to it

[tifa-simp]

Sometime I randomly remember that Tifa kills a fucking dragon with a kick and smile.

Anytime she loses to anyone, I'll pull that out as backup evidence that she holds back a lot when it comes to fighting human cos she knows her kick can smash someone's skull.

[kingcael]

all in the eyes of a boy

[shepscapades]

[dbhc flavored] Hermit a Day May: Day 31 — Ren!

[thatsitso]

Come on in

[fishymom-art]

cinema is when a man lashes out at his computer and to show the irony of it they do THIS to remind you that yes, this lunatic is screaming at a machine like it's a human being

[miguxadraws]

famous last words

au belongs to @spitinsideme

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 259

You know, going back in time, they thought it would be easy. Stop the end of the world by preventing the Being from well, coming into being. It should be easy to take them out, one death to prevent an untold amount of them. What could a child do?

Well. 

They really should have remembered that with a child usually comes their parent as well. And erm, said parent doesn’t seem to appreciate their logic. In fact, they are… getting their ass kicked. By a civilian. A feral civilian who apparently is very protective of said child-who-ends-up-destroying-the-world. 

They might need assistance…

[emry-stars-art]

Also it’s still St. Paddy’s where I am so the Irishman himself ☘️

[hinamie]

i have so much band!au content in the pipeline my brain is Rotting but enjoy these two for now

jjk band!au

[taylor-titmouse]

it's been across all my platforms that i keep getting asked whether vanesse will keep and wear the womanulet all the time, and i'm feeling some sort of way about this question, because it feels like an oversimplification of the trans experience, but also a flattening of her character. she is literally introduced in the book admiring her own naked body in a mirror, has no problem announcing in front of a stranger that she has a prick, and gleefully tops. this isn't a person who would ever feel the need to live full time as a cis-bodied woman. she thinks she's beautiful exactly as she is.

but metanarratively it's also like. the womanulet is clearly a toy. it's not a permanent story item or an event that exists on a timeline. it's just a what-if scenario. for it to be permanent would mean i'd be taking one of my most beloved trans characters and making her...... functionally cis. to what end? if i'm not exploring what that means for her, what would making that permanent actually say? and i'm definitely not exploring that in a 20-something page silent comic about having an aphrodisiac-induced orgy. so it would be a crazy choice.

i guess it's just because i've been asked like six times that it's started annoying me, because to ask it at all shows me you aren't thinking beyond the surface read of "trans woman has magic gender switch device" and are missing all the context of the character and the space in which the concept exists.

like how could the answer ever be yes?

[battscalamity]

false really makes me giggle here

[leafofkudzu]

Happy March, everyone! I hope the Winter blues don't have you too down, because Spring is just around the corner! And what's even closer than that is the first Saturday of a new month, which means it's time for another art party hosted by my guild, [VS] Verdant Shield!

For those not familiar, art parties are a concept carried over from Final Fantasy XIV: in-game get-togethers for artists of all kinds to hang out, chat, and create together! For GW2 parties there’s more of an emphasis on hanging out and gathering references during the party itself, and then in the days/weeks following to work on your creations at your own pace and then post to the shared art party tag. We’ve used the same one (#VSArtParty) since the very beginning so you can go allll the way back and explore what people have made! The most important thing to keep in mind though is this: the ���goal’ of an art party isn’t to be drawn, but to draw others, and share with the community!

Time and /squadjoin information is below the cut, but will also be posted again on the day of the party as squads go up!

Location Information:

It's not exactly the aesthetic you'd normally think of when you think of Fireheart Rise, but Haymal Gore is that frosty little kodan settlement up in the Northwestish corner of the map! Rustbowl Waypoint is the one just beside the zone portal to Frostgorge Sound - you can take that one and head north, or take Icespear's Waypoint and head south (though I think north from Rustbowl is a bit closer)! As far as I could tell by hanging out there for a while, any events that could disturb the peace are restricted to the water, so we should be pretty relaxed out here!

Time & Squad Details:

As is customary, we’ll be having two parties - the first one on EU servers and the second on NA - with an hour break in between for those who may want to attend both!

The EU server party will begin at 9pm Central European Time (aka 3pm Eastern Standard Time or 4 hours before in-game reset). I’ll be hosting this one on my EU alt account, so please either /whisper or /squadjoin Runa Gravemourn for a taxi invite if you don’t end up on the right map!

The NA server party will begin 1 hour after the EU party’s official end, at 7pm Eastern Standard Time (aka 1am Central European Time or at in-game reset). I’ll be on my main account for this one, so please /whisper or /squadjoin Khina al Amiri for a taxi invite if you don’t see my customary white cat tag hanging around on your map!

Closing Words:

I'm dancing on the edge of being summoned back into work for the season (I work in a greenhouse), but as far as I can tell this shouldn't interfere with this specific Saturday's party since they like to divide everything by calendar week! If anything does come up though I'll be sure to let you guys know who the stand-in host will be until I'm off work and can take back over!

I say this every single time but it's also true every single time so I'll keep yapping about it: thank you so much to everyone who comes out to these things, you guys are what make them special! Take care of yourselves, and I'll see you this weekend! ♥

[beelittle]

Uhh wip I’ll probably never finish? +thumbnails

Might post full thing later, might try the sunset idea… who knows

[many-gay-magpies]

a bit late to the party, but

Happy anniversary, Dead Boy Detectives!!

i don't have anything new to share for it, so have this collection of payneland sketches i drew in my notebook while attending my art history lectures over the course of this year. i had been waiting until i got them all digitized to post them, but if i keep on doing that they might NEVER be posted, and they deserve to be shared with the world. so enjoy some payneland hugs (and kisses!) (and one random pretty charles) <3

most of all, thank you to all the amazing people in this fandom for making it such a welcoming, cozy and generally just WONDERFUL space for the past... well, not quite year for ME, but for a lot of people! this has been the fandom ive felt the most genuinely involved and at home in pretty much ever; it's gotten me writing like nobody's business, AND it's made me some of the closest online friends i've made in a while (@babyseraphim of course, my best fandom buddy, and special shoutout to the whole payneland party server on discord <3). so just... thank you all, so very much; please enjoy these dead boy doodles, from me to you. <333

[fuumiku]

Demon AU (krkb)

+ bonus Kuro

Kurokabuuu!! If Kabru gets to be naked then so does Kuro, equality for all 🔥Not to break the mystique but in that intro comic Kuro isn't flexing he's just pushing Mickbell away bc he about to be in business mode gdbdg. Was weird trying to make Kuro look more demony, did not work very well except for making him buffer but hey...! A black dog demon yeah yeah yeah...!

I have accidentally recreated Howl's Moving Castle... NOW HEAR ME OUT- The base concept for my satyr Kabru AU (the initial idea was the sketch where he has no horns haha) now turned demon AU was materializing Kabru's fear of anything monster, particularly his insecurity as a kid of being an incubus('s child and that making him a monster), and helping him work through it so he can love himself and others and the world better, but everything started clicking only after thinking about Kuro's role in the setting more. He's this feared dude with a witchy reputation and a lil rhyme about how everyone should stay away from him for their own sake etc etc, but he's not a demon just a dog dude really. The setting in this AU is much like Dunmeshi, but all monsters are called "demons" instead and tied with this concept of demonic not just monstrous, there's special generalized fear in them being kinda fundamentally evil. But they're just beasts, and sometimes just demihuman races, like Kuro. Magic does exist though, and curses, and yeah just a folk kinda vibe!

Kabru because he's become supernatural knows how to speak Kuro's tongue now too, or maybe he's always known it idk... But Kabru sought Kuro out because he's The demon guy around, thought if anyone around would know how to do anything about his having become a monster it'd be him- Mickbell is there too ig like waaa this innocent-looking (def isn't) human loves this demon and lives with him, alone but peaceful as hermits in the woods? Wah wild. Wah we can still have love?? Wah we can fall in love together and live happy monster lives even if ostracized??! Wah wait I'm not even a monster it was just my own latent magical powers cursing myself because I worried and believed myself to be a demon so intensely for so long?!! Wah we can truly have it all...... Growth feels so nice. Except Mickbell, that grown ass man is not finding inner peace yet. Still he's chill here since he's a side char not a main one

It's how Kuro's confident in himself despite everything being stacked against him, it's how he still trusts and likes himself, it's how he just wants a simple happy life and pursues what he wants, it's how he takes things simply... Self-critical Kabru always neglecting himself over obsessing about the greater good could learn from him........ Kuro is the only one after his transformation that unconditionally welcomes him and shows him compassion and it's all so confusing to him, especially since at first Kabru wouldn't even offer that same humanization to Kuro, only risked it out of necessity for his own circumstances, but he gradually becomes able to see the humanity in him despite his appearance, mannerisms, way of life and ideals, until he sees the humanity in him and himself too despite their appearances, until he finds there's nothing wrong in this routine and life of theirs in this isolated magical little place, until........... Just about accepting all of those fuzzy inbetween ways to be that are unclean and hard to understand from the outside, and growing comfortable in them and loving himself and kuro and the life they've made together.......!!!!!! What if through humanizing you I humanized myself... What if through growing a understanding for each other wevalidated ourselves, love as self-love...

I love including Rin into things, for a more plotty story it'd be neat if she tried and followed Kabru... He up and disappeared and she's a capable mage and she doesn't know what his plan was because he never tells her anything so she goes out and pursues him- Could even be the main antagonist besides just idk self-hate and townspeople lol, like she thinks Kuro is keeping him prisoner or something and also because she kinda represents the same kinda social trauma Kabru has, where she's strict about conforming and being an irreproachable undeniable human so she kind of wants to drag him back to that state he was in of anxiety over acting and being human enough...... But of course in the ultimate confrontation when she has her staff pointed at Kuro and they talk, she's hurt by him not confiding in her and thinking of her as someone who wouldn't help, but she understands and stops and yay happy ending :> And if we want them to be in this Holm and Dia may be allies I feel 🤔Like maybe they help out Kabru when they see him, help him escape their human village at one point or something, Holm is quite nice and cares for spirits and Dia's fled her home too so they kinda get it in a way, it'd contrast Rin... This isn't about the Laios party lol. Rin & Mickbell shenanigans would lowkey be fun like maybe Mickbell tricks Rin into thinking Kabru IS there against his will so she can take him away and the status quo of Mickbell not having to share Kuro with anyone is preserved, or maybe they just shittalk and grumble together. Gbdgd this is a plotline about accepting change and these two are noooot happy about it

So yeah he hates being a monster that's the schtick!! Won't a cool dog man pleaseeee turn me human again. Surely he can do that right. So he goes to live with this feared coolass magicky guy and that guy's little guy at his weird home and through making connections and self-love the curse you actually unknowingly put on yourself gradually lessens and disappears, but you don't care anymore because that's the point 😌 Which is why I call it a Howl's Moving Castle recolor gdbd

Kabru is usually the voice of reason within kurokabu so it's really fun switching the roles in that way. If you're just stumbling into this and are sooo confused first of all congrats on getting so far second I can't overstate how unironic this is + if you want more explanation about the ship I made a brainstormy manifesto here <3 Like, did you know Kuro's name is actually Yodan? He was likely called Kuro by Mickbell due to the language barrier. In this AU it's because no one's interested in him as a person so people just give him an ominous title that means black. But Kabru learning his name and Kuro willingly giving away that information and Kabru feeling the weight of it because he really thinks this'd allow him to control him (he can't actually control bc he's not a demon! No one's a demon yay! Just weirdo humans who get otherized)......

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Other vers because I 1) really like it and 2) am very indecisive. I overthink every single slight color change I stg lol

Sigh....... Like bro what if we were both so so far away from home and we knew we can't really go back and we've made our peace with that but man I miss not having been ripped away from my homeland and we are both so so isolated in our own ways in our presents and with a small yet gigantic gesture of compassion and of seeing each other we can learn and grow together with secret study dates where I teach you how to communicate the same way you're teaching me your language, we are both reaching across to each other we are both finding in one another a presence and humanity that feels so rare anywhere else. A sliver of warmth a sliver of home but also a sliver of the new, and embracing that things are changing and that we've changed and wow the animality within humanity and the humanity within animality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey bro your humanity I am only now fully grasping and coming to terms with is so hot bro............ What if your beastly features ended up making me more comfortable in my own stinky human animal flawedness bro........ What if we could just be together reassured through each other that we're human enough no matter what and that's all we need to just be and wahhhhh aughhhhh

Kurokabu is Kuro needing to choose between Kuro and Yodan. Kurokabu is needing to feel comfortable in animality within humanity. What if we stopped repressing ourselves 🫶

[levemetal]

*looks at Mujiu and chuckles* I'm in danger

Calamity SJ makes a comeback this time in an AU with God!MQF!

...except Mqf quit his job because he thought heaven was too boring. Down there he meets his old Shen Shixiong! He starts following the calamity around, under the pretext of doing research on calamities! Because, why not? And SJ is tolerating his presence.

It escalates from there and by the time they're married neither knows how they got there.

Thank you to @sillyxaly who humored me with the AU and thus worked on it with me and I am so sorry for screaming about it so much with me.

Little marriage Mujiu as extra in big <3