#oh god people are getting excited

[terrence-silver]

I’m getting Christmas excited now! 😁 Could we please have some Christmas Terry x Beloved headcanons🎄🎄

Well, in Terry Silver's case, there's a doubt he celebrates Christmas at all just like there's a lingering feeling, that even if he did, there was only one parent who did, which I am guessing, is his mother, who I envision as an (Irish?) Catholic, while his father very well could've been Jewish? Or maybe they both were --- we’ll never know, but the question is open for debate in all it’s variety for people smarter and more in the know than me. If those religion-centric headcanons I wrote are anything to go by, Terry Silver has a very complicated history with any and all celebrations (and a complicated history with just about anything else too), especially Christmas, because in a mixed-demoninational household where one’s possibly neither here nor there, with unstable and generally strained, unusual and complicated relations, which I feel he was born into in spite of all the money and prestige, celebrating one event over the other felt like he was taking one family member's side versus the other side, and so Christmas wasn't celebrated in the Silver household as he was growing up. Not officially. Something that persisted all his life, the way I see it. Terry Silver, on his own merit, was never a Christmas tree, sweaters, hot chocolate and ornaments kind of guy --- too much of a workaholic typically 80′s yuppie for that at heart, even when the 80′s were long since over. The holidays usually passed in a flurry of his family's cocktail business events, merger fundraisers, over-glorified charities and black-tie home parties and no Christmas as we know it, and this is, again, something that continued well into adulthood, his mature and older years as well. Basically, he’s far more likely to have some coveted bejewelled silver Menorah out than a tree while he conducts business as usual, if ‘Shalom, Sensei’ is anything to go by as an indicator.

But, that’s to say, if a loved one celebrated something else?

He just gives it to them, independently of himself.

Why?

Because their life is his and that counts every part of them, including holidays they observe, even if he himself doesn’t and never has, and never intends to, having no connection to a thing other than through beloved. Possession? Yeah, loads of it. Think of a metaphorical precious heirloom snow-globe on a mantlepiece that Terry cherishes or has a particular fondness for. Well, beloved is a little like that. And sometimes, he gets to play with it and shake it to observe the snow dancing under the crystal dome all for him, controlled by the movements of his hand or how hard or gently he shakes in the particular moment. There’s an idyllic winter scene inside of it. Maybe, a tiny tree. Ornaments. Falling stars. A whole little world in the palm of his hand, that he controls and that belongs to him. He could break it, or he could safeguard it. He can do whatever he likes and that tickles him. But, it is love, so he will preserve it. Oh, will he ever. Fiercely. Territorially. Murderously. And then, when Christmas is over, he gets to put it away, because it is his and he gets to have the right, the way he sees it, to feel greedy and jealous of a thing that belongs to him. That’s how he feels about  the whole ordeal. About Christmas. Beloved gets all the markers of a holiday from him. The most expensive tree. Decor. Gifts. Do they want all of Santa’s fucking reindeers packed up in the backyard of the mansion? Any obtusely insane desire he can showcase his devotion with? Anything money can buy? Anything they please? They get it and he indulges them and he observes them enjoy it because this is a sensation he gave them, just like he himself would enjoy the world inside the snow-globe --- and then Christmas ends, and the same snow-globe world gets put away, until next year.

[lylahammar]

IT'S FALIGON DAY BABYYYYYY I'VE BEEN DREAMING OF THIS DAY SINCE 2018 WE'RE POPPIN MASSIVE BOTTLES 🥳🎉🐉🍾🍻🔥

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A rejuvenating encounter.

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[kordyceps]

wheezes into my coffee cup about THEM

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im so Normal. totally not shaking and crying rn

[mistyscenter]

Cove every time he talks about being uncomfortable In social settings/not being able to properly express his feelings because they become too much for him:

Me: I know what you are (autistic)

[galgali]

love how the trailer keeps up the tradition of making dante look cool and keeps the fact that he's a fucking loser with the personality of a teenage mutant ninja turtle a surprise

[tracle0]

Feast your eyes! My pride stars :)!

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[intotheelliwoods]

if I had a nickel for each rottmnt trend I set I would have 3 damn shiny nickels

[v-tired-queer]

Y'ALL HOLY SHIT I just found out that I can be trained in swords by an organization in my area with different classes!! They have ones for daggers and long swords and other kinds of European swords that I can't fully remember right now because I'm too excited!!

I CAN LIVE OUT MY DREAM OF BEING A LESBIAN WHO GENUINELY KNOWS HOW TO WEILD A SWORD!!!! ⚔️✨️❤️🧡🤍🩷💖✨️⚔️

[crow-caller]

good angel turns 7 goddamn years old on the 22nd I'm going to lose my head. did you know bad end is 6.5 years old. Did you know Angel radio is 8.5. Did you know I'm 27. did you know time continues ceaselessly forward and so do i

[ask-the-invincible-crew]

Snitches get stitches, Burt.

[piquuroblox]

Scrolled aaaallll the way back to double check, but I am a proud owner of the title: second person to ever draw fanart of Ae

The relic of August 17th…

I’m so OG fan core

HI🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE THE ONE WHO DREW THAT? Okay. Okay hey. Hmm.

[crazylittlejester]

Pretty sure it was your fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53258788

OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT IS IT?? THAT LINK YOU SENT IS MY FIC, I DID WRITE THAT. I MIGHT SCREAM IF THE ANON ACTUALLY MEANT MY FIC BECAUSE THAT’S SO COOL WHAT

(here is the art being talked about)

[goldkirk]

excuse me for a while guys. tonight I just now figured out that people ACTUALLY like me. Like for real.