#plus I love the duality of these photos tbh

[nevergavein]

Favourite Taylor Swift Tour Outfits: (5/?)

[ikoarts]

October 2023 Art

for some reason i wrote a novel under the cut, for those of u actually reading, thank u for being so patient x

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1 - 03/10/2023 : another of my faves of last year, was trying to get better at drawing trainz, so just Edward and Toby hanging out, displaying the duality of old men x

2 - 04/10/2023 : got a new puter! one of the first things i set to doing after getting set up was to draw a Ru, of course, it was also just me trying to get used to the new MS paint..... it feels very odd

3, 4, 5 - 06/10/2023 : part 1 of redrawing random pics i have of Edward on my phone with my human version of him, this was really fun tbh, and the third here is one of my fave drawings of the year probs.. like sir.. those look heavy... what big uhh.. Glasses.. you have

6, 7, 8 - 07/10/2023 : part 2! i think i just like drawing his face... dare i say this train is cunty or will that get me exiled

9 - 08/10/2023 : something stupid i thought of and couldn't get out of my head for days so had to draw it..... little johnny from oingo boingo's only a lad, doing what he does best, fantasising about radios he wants oh so bad and running people down with a boyish craving for blood.. based on that 1 meme of the guy driving and thinking of a thing then making that insane face

10 - 09/10/2023 : based on that 1 silly vargskelethor song (that could not be less specific), had Shed 17 on the brain and was reminded of the milk song where the skeleton comes out.. thomarse dank 2 much milk and died..

11, 12 - 10/10/2023 : chooshada again :333 first a little doodle on my phone bc i was wondering about her livery, i do think she'd have originally been NER apple green but then painted NWR colours, butttt with a twist... coz i can do whatever i like... the twist is just that she's painted dark blue rather than a sky blue, coz its more her colour x

ALSO MS paint shada, wanted to draw her more uh, idk, detailed ig, idk i love this one, it also served as more train practice

13 - 13/10/2023 : previous one, but with COLOUR!! not much 2 say other than that shes very cute

14 - 18/10/2023 : saw a tweet abt old photos of engine crews posing with their crashed locos and how the NWR crews would do that, made me think of how, if Toni was (choo)shada's driver, she'd do that.. probably x .. very like her to slay in the midst of a terrible accident

15 - 22/10/2023 : predictably, i have some playlists for the ttte engines, one for Diesel which is notable here, so uhh, i have the scrapped song from the lorax "biggering" in there, bc i see it as like a Duck vs Diesel song, ik im surpassing several layers of cringe here but hear me out ok... i drew this at 2am coz i couldn't stop thinking of Duck lecturing Diesel

16, 17, 18 - 25/10/2023 : speaking of playlists, think i was listening to my Robin one here, and felt like drawing him, i have "the land of make believe" in there, which ive always found to be an oddly haunting song, so this is semi based on that, though that wouldn't be apparent if i hadn't just told u x .. this looks like vent art but tis not i was just having fun

also tiny chooshada, i was in the middle of writing something which i have literally Just remembered now and i was writing a scene where Ru is stuck between some characters who shes not looking forward to working with bc they're about to bicker the whole fuckin time and one of them thinks shes a dick, so i drew her being sad that shes forced to work with morons..... and speak of the devil, 3rd drawing is here with 2 of the aforementioned morons :D i think D+D take a liking to her, they're just a little obnoxious (love them for that)

19 - 27/10/2023 : a quick(ish) digital thing of Chooshada again that i did on the side of another project, more engine drawing practice he he, she'll be out of proportion and lacking detail but really it was just to not be too hard on myself about that, it did help i think to understand how to draw her more, plus just look at her lil face... also she has a number here, doesn't mean much other than 8 being her lucky number, other than 11, like those are just her numbers, suppose i could have it be 1188 to ref her bday, idfk x

[lady-of-the-lotus]

Xue Yang’s Costumes

On my millionth Xue Yang rewatch, I noticed something interesting about Xue Yang’s costuming. And only on my millionth rewatch, because my usual observations on costuming is just “Oooh, pretty!” and plus the show jumps around in time. Not sure how it all holds together, but the basic idea makes sense.

In his initial introductions, he’s wearing all black, with some gold trim, a gold leaf headpiece, and mostly black robes with some black and gray inner robes (only really seen in bts photos; a shame). He commits some of his worst crimes in this outfit, slaughtering the entire Chang Clan and some rando cultivators we don't care about.

Terrorizing the women Jiggy used to kill his dad is up there in show’s most disturbing moments that went way overboard why Jiggy why, and his all-black costume reflects that. Not even a hint of a softening greenish-goldish underobe like he wears in Jiggy's torture chamber. The black fits his character at that moment in the timeline.

For the NMJ decapitation, he’s wearing mostly dark colors, with two thick dark gray accents, and the gold leaf headpiece. There's a hint of his future changes via a greenish inner robe just visible in a quick shot and the greenish tinge to the gray bands on his robe. The colors are lighter here depending on your screen, BUT it's NMJ's Empathy, and not to be trusted. His inner robe is different, and the other robe has a pinkish tinge? Chalking it up to the disordered Empathy and moving on.)

He’s booted out of the Jin sometime after this, and is found by Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing. He’s wearing all black again, with hints of gold trim. He’s switched to a more elaborate silver scorpion-like headpiece, as if having distanced himself from the gold-headpieced Wen/Jin even before being kicked out. I wonder if he saw the writing on the wall with the Jin, or if he swapped it out after he left (it’s unclear if Jiggy had him beaten, or just kicked out and his enemies found him). 

After living with his new family Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing for a bit of time, he’s in head-to-toe gray. He’s still a Bad Guy™, but in addition to having Xiao Xingchen kill many innocent villagers, he’s also starting to develop Actual Human Feelings Of The Non-Murderous Variety. (The duality of Man.) This is the outfit he robs the grocer in helps Xiao Xingchen shop in, has the Bonfire Soft Look in, and has XXC kill the villagers in. Still with the silver headpiece, and that inner robe is still the gold-trimmed black one, as he hasn’t let go of his old ways entirely. 

By the time Song Lan shows up, and Xue Yang’s been living happily and peacefully in Yi City without murdering anyone for a while (going by the novel, which the Viki captions don't contradict), and he’s dressed mostly in green. I know it was likely chosen because no other major character wears non-minty Jiang green, but green is the color of life and the opposite of black in that respect (by Western standards anyway, which the show was clearly influenced by in dressing Xue Yang and WWX in black). His inner robe is olive green. He’s as soft here as he’ll ever be. Silver headpiece is still there and tbh I miss the understated gold leaf.

And then of course it all goes to hell, and the next time we see him he’s disguised as Xiao Xingchen, yet still wearing his signature colors despite only appearing in them once before shhh green is XY’s color. He’s no longer-straight up Bad in his old I Am Divorced From This Miserable World And Murder Is Fun So Why Not? way. And he's still Not A Good Person but his entire life is now devoted to bringing Xiao Xingchen back—a display of devotion (platonic, romantic, or selfish; take your pick)—and goodness (for him—this is clearly Not An Actual Good Thing To Do... though honestly repairing XXC's soul isn't all that bad if he's willing to then set him at rest and not explore the creepy The Dead Obey agenda.) Reflecting this, he’s wearing a lot of the greenest green we’ve seen him in yet, with a thin dark gray outer robe trimmed with the old gold he can't fully give up.

His hair is simple, no headpiece, either because he’s impersonating Xiao Xingchen or because he's evolved past the need for fancy hairdos or because he’s waiting for XXC to come back and braid his hair (let me have my headcanon). This is the outfit he dies in, struggling for one last look at the candy. (I’m still unclear on if he was involved in luring WWX to Yi City to pick his brain in CQL, or if he was wandering around as Xiao Xingchen full time and bumped into WWX, or what. Makes for sense for him to draw WWX and the others to Yi City than NHS in CQL).

Side note, green is totally his color and he has an underrated fashion sense. I’d love to see him, Jiang Cheng, and Lan Xichen on Project Runway

Bonus Wang Haoxuan: Put your collarbones away, gurl! This isn't a nightclub.

[proudtobeadepphead]

What are your favourites bts photos? like in group and alone

AHHH NONNY! sorry for the late reply gshdhd 🙈💖 and omg what a lovely ask ahh!

okay here we go (i thought of picking my fave solo plus ot7 pic/'s, but gosh this is so hard i love so many pics of them and have like 1000 .... pics on the phone, these are just like 1% of my current faves but i just have to many i would add here so ... 🙈💓)

Ot7:

(i picked the first one because that was at wembley concert day 1 where i also saw them 😭🙏, the others because at the grammys they just looked fine as hell ahh plus the last one is just THE CUTEST)

Namjoon:

(i live for these concept pics tbh ohh god they are from another world! 💞, this is also my lockscreen currently 🤭)

Soekjin:

(oh god this photoshoot just brings so many movie ideas in my head and we just NEED a movie starring jinnie in it ahhh 💕)

Yoongi:

(i really can't decide oh god but i just love agust d yoongi or mint yoongi so i went with this one 💖)

Hoseok:

(this is just so super soft and precious just as hobi is ahh i love it 💫💕... also his hands ahh)

Jimin:

(again sooo in love with this photo shoot, but arghg these are only newer pics i have so many old shoots i also love but it's so hard to choose 🙈💓)

Taehyung:

(this one hit me so hard ohh his lenses and haiiir ahh.. but gosh the duality of this man avbsjd i have so many more faves 💞😍)

Jungkook:

(definelty this "jk smiling and being happy pics" are my faves 🥺)