#really came out of nowhere

[fanfictionsrookie]

People who criticise Beauty and the Beast, usually do it over the complaint that it romanticised Stockholm syndrome and how the message of the film is trying to encourage women to stay with abusive men.

Excuse me?

Give me one scene where Belle tolerated the Beast's anger, where she wasn't angry, upset or afraid because of it. Belle left the moment she got the chance, only changing her mind when the Beast saved her life, but even then she didn't take any of his shit. Belle was kind but she wasn't a doormat, and it's that kindness that prompted the Beast to be kind in turn and try to change and be a better person. And while Beast might have changed in part with the hope that Belle would break his curse by falling in love with him, she never knew about the curse at all. It wasn't used by the Beast as some bargaining chip or sad backstory. Did people forget that he let Belle go, fully intending to stay cursed forever, if it meant he could help Belle save her father?

Belle never fell in love or chose to excuse the Beast's anger or the way he treated her and her father initially.

Belle fell in love with someone who was trully trying to be a better person, who took interest in her and the things she enjoyed, and who put her needs before his own when it came down to it.

[oh-im-just-passing-by]

does anyone have a gif of the "you're bluffing - that gun's as empty as my balls" scene from Goncharov? funniest line in the movie and I haven't been able to find it anywhere

[proud-memer]

Looks like everyone else has gotten random bots follwoing so glad to see it isn't just me

[anachronistic-falsehood]

it's so funny to me how qsmp fans who haven't watched dsmp will be like "but why is qwilbur important to qquackity like at all?? they've barely interacted and their ccs don't talk much" You Fool. these two are obsessed with roleplaying the most homerotic shit you have ever seen. you were not there in the tntduo trenches. Niki's birthday party. the Las Nevadas arc. the Wilburger Ranvan. Hitting on 16. you beautiful naive creature. ccquackity dropped everything to start stream and log onto purgatory just for the slightest possibility that it really was wilbur and he would be able to roleplay some weird gay shit. wilbur went into phil's donos to say "tell him being needy isn't attractive" knowing damn well quackity would see it and pretend to be bitter and sad about it. they are committed to the bit always and the bit is acting toxic and gay with each other, and that extends to every single character they have played and ever will play in close proximity with each other. of course qwilbur is important to qquackity because they need to act like a toxic divorced couple or they will die

[gunsatthaphan]

lv 100 // lv 1

[balis77]

Shoutout to Magic for taking "Watson equivalent who was a former assassin of some kind" and ascending it to "Watson equivalent who is still an active assassin, not even on the side, like being a detective's assistant is their side job"

Proft: "He's covered his tracks well. He's definitely our culprit, but with all the physical evidence destroyed we'll never be able to prove it to the courts." Etrata: "...So like, does that mean I'm fine to... you know..." Proft: *sighs* "...Just please tell me you're being paid by someone else to do it." Etrata: "Oh they gave me the contract like halfway through the investigation. I was just waiting to see if we could get him in custody first."

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: Hola!

Spreen: [Completely unprompted] I can't be homophobic, my btch is gay.

Tubbo: PFTTT—?!

Spreen: [Laughs as he jumps off the ledge]

Tubbo: [Continues laughing in confused delight]

[not-your-lifeline]

Unsuur's 4th wall breaking line about NPC's limited dialogues and his undying loyalty towards the player even after getting friendzoned

god.... he's giving me the feels

[ryansjane]

"Because I don't like Pear, I like you."

[willowser]

anyway, touya sees you walking towards him with your baby on your hip and his heart skips into overdrive.

[rokudaimeplease]

what exactly are you trying to visualize

[deoidesign]

Hi, how did you learn to draw Steve's physique?

Ohh what a complicated thing to answer...

When it comes to how I learned to draw anything, it's hard to say anything too specific since it's always a culmination of many years of assorted study and practice... but I can try to do my best to explain some of the biggest things that helped me learn, some tips I keep in mind, and maybe at least some places to start/delve further.

(just a little disclaimer it's not like my drawings here are going to be 100% medically accurate.. they're just to illustrate concepts!)

The main thing about learning various physiques is understanding anatomy. Which feels obvious, but I don't mean proportions; these are important, but perhaps more important is understanding the skeleton and how it moves and learning where muscles connect to bones and where fat grows on the body. When you understand how these function on a more mechanical level, depicting form and movement in a way that feels natural comes in tow.

For instance, understanding things like the pronation and supination of the radius and ulna, as well as the fact that muscles can ONLY contract or relax, will help you understand a bit better which muscles will be flexed and which will not while someone moves. It's inherent to the positioning based on the structural makeup of the body... It's not like you NEED to memorize all the muscles and bones, of course, but understanding and gaining at least a passive familiarity with the concepts really helps.

In tandem with this concept is the way parts of the body flow into eachother. Muscles ALWAYS come in groups because they can only contract. Whatever muscle is there to lift something, there is a muscle on the other side to pull that bone back down. What this results in is a series of straight edges next to curves, which gives us a lot of really lovely "s curves" and dents and folds and so on and so forth just naturally occurring.

I would suggest at least learning the "bony landmarks", which are bones (usually) visible on the surface of the body. things like the iliac crest, the great trochanter, the 7th vertabrae, the acromion process... These can be used to help you understand the parts of the body as angles and relationships, rather than trying to remember lengths and sizes, which vary immensely... (since you asked about steve, he can be our model... also study these on your own don't just take my word for it haha, these are the ones I personally keep in mind)

I've done the same thing with body hair... learning where it grows and in which directions... It helps me make up variations without needing reference, because I have a set of rules I can follow.

The biggest thing that helped me understand all this on a much deeper level was my ecorche course. I sculpted this guy. We started by sculpting the entire skeleton to understand the bones, and then we added muscles on top. Not every single muscle, of course, but the "artistic muscles" AKA the ones which directly affect the surface of the body. Doing this let us see where muscles connect, because we would make a shape, put it on the bone where it actually goes, and then you get to see how other muscles overlap that.

This helped me, perhaps, more than anything else. But I also didn't just start with this course, I had been drawing for years before I even took it. I had been in school for years before I took it. Not that I think it wouldn't be helpful to someone just starting out, but I do think that the more you know going in, the better an in-depth course like this will help you and stick with you. Classes are also expensive, though so I'm not really like... recommending you pay potentially thousands of dollars to take one... But it did help me a lot, personally.

I also, of course, have done many figure, gesture, and master studies...

These just help you quickly gain a stronger understanding of generalized anatomy, and gives you real life examples of and practice with of how people move and balance.

What all this does when combined, is gives me a very solid ability to depict movement and form in a way that feels relatively natural from my subconscious without the need for reference.

The rest of how I've learned to draw his physique is honestly mostly just stylization. I understand the body, and this is how I am depicting it for his level of musculature.

And as I move into depicting him in other ways, either moving in comics or in animation, realistically rendered, or extra stylized, these concepts inform every step of that process for me! When he keeps the same/similar relationships between parts, he gets to still look like himself.

It ALSO really helps when putting clothes on, because the way cloth falls and bunches and lifts is all directly related to the form it is on... So the more you understand that form, the more you can depict clothing and movement in a way that feels natural.

This is all, of course, true when I draw anyone, you asked about Steve so I'm trying to mostly show with him! But because I'm just drawing from raw information of general anatomy rather than trying to study one body type at a time, it allows a lot more "give," I think!

Like, here's most of the cast from TTA so far... actually, they're not as varied as I thought they were nevermind LMAO ignore this part

But, it also makes monster and alien design much easier! It's a lot easier to come up with non-human anatomy when I understand human anatomy, because I can manipulate the knowledge I have...

There is infinite more to study in the world of anatomy... The complexity of the human body goes extremely deep. For our purposes as artists, we need only depict a fraction of it, but more information rarely hurts the process.

I'm sure there's something in here that's wrong on a technical level, I'm mostly going off of memory. But that's kind of my point - I understand enough generally and conceptually that when I am missing something and need to find reference for it, I understand what I'm looking at. It's much easier than trying to learn AND draw at the same time.

I hope even one thing in here helped you! Sorry it's so long.

[nobigsecrets]

It was later, after the medal ceremony was over and Buck took Tommy to the loft, after they had some amazing sex wearing nothing but their shiny new medals, after discarding of them eventually when they got in the way of Buck fucking Tommy into the mattress.

It was later when they were enjoying the afterglow lying next to each other in bed--

Buck inched closer and straddled Tommy's legs. He took the medal out of Tommy's hands, intending to put it back around his neck--

Instead, he caught Tommy's wrists with the red band.

On impulse, he pulled it tight, looped it around itself between Tommy's wrists, effectively cuffing them. Buck felt his eyes go wide, he wasn't sure what had made him do it but boy, he liked the look of the red ribbon smooth against Tommy's skin--

Tommy took a sharp breath and Buck looked up from his bound wrists to meet his eyes and holy shit! He wasn't prepared for the dark and needy look he found there, but it didn't leave any doubt that Tommy seemed to like it, too.

Experimentally, Buck gave a light tug to the band he was still firmly holding in his own hand and was rewarded with the way Tommy's breath hitched again and he didn't miss the soft twitch Tommy's cock made in response.

--

[djarinova]

╰─▸ ❝ reiner braun ❞ ˋ*ੈ*⁀➷

content - loss of virginity, slight breeding kink

a/n - not proofread but I need to get this off my chest because something about reiner and virginity is making me insane.....

let's say you've been dating reiner for a couple months now, you've been taking it slow. dating a guy you'd met through a friend- a guy who was essentially a stranger to you -wasn't exactly what you had planned. but he was sweet. he took good care of you, took you on amazing dates. and he was beyond understanding about the limits you had when it came to sex.

it wasn't as if you had zero sexual experience before you got with reiner, and the two of you had spent plenty of lazy sundays hanging out and exploring what makes the other person feel good. the first time reiner made you cum with just his hands you had to force yourself to keep your sobs quiet, pressing your face against his neck to stop him from noticing. the pleasure was immeasurable. it had made you almost dizzy.

but reiner wants the first time the two of you have sex to be special. once you had told him of your lack of sexual experience he had sworn to himself to make your first time the most memorable and beautiful experience. he wanted it to feel easy for you. he didn't want you to be worried or anxious, to have your negative emotions cloud what should be a joyful and happy experience.

he fucks you so gently that first time. easing himself into your tight pussy as slow as he can manage. he bites his lip almost hard enough to draw blood as soon as he feels your warmth around him. despite having the experience of feeling you clench around his fingers, he never could've prepared himself for how good you felt around his cock.

you squirm and screw your eyes shut as soon as he enters you, your hands gripping and scratching at his back once he bottoms out. your whole body is focused on him. the sensations threaten to overwhelm you when he begins to thrust in and out of you. the only thing managing to calm you down is his voice.

"you okay down there, sweetheart? you're doing so well. just hold on tight to me, I'm right here."

reiner wants more. he wants so desperately to fuck you faster and harder, to make you bounce off the bed, to fill your bedroom with moans and the sounds of his thighs hitting yours. he wants to mark your pussy as his own, and to hear you beg for it. he wants the words to leave your pretty lips. knowing that he would be the only one to ever cum inside you, knowing that you'd never ask anyone else for that, it would make him finish right then and there.

"that's it, princess. keep breathing for me, okay? nice and easy."

he can feel you tightening around him. stifling a groan, he manoeuvres himself so his arms cage your head. your breathing is rapid, your legs are beginning to feel shaky, but you manage to do what he says. you focus on your breathing, matching it with reiner's, as your eyes meet his. something about how he's looking at you makes your tummy erupt with butterflies, you're unable to stop yourself from clenching around his cock, the hearts in his eyes are as plain as day and it makes your head spin.

"you feeling okay, sweetheart? fuck, you feel so good."

it feels as though reiner's cock is splitting you open. his size always made you a little anxious, but knowing that he was stuffed inside your pussy, knowing that he was the cause of this pleasure, made your eyes roll back. your nails dug into his back, and reiner is sure you're going to leave marks with how hard you pressing. but he keeps his pace, listening to your moans, and he begins to work out just how hard he can push you.

his breathing starts to get ragged the more he thinks about what he's doing to you.

you.

his innocent angel.

you.

his inexperienced virgin.

you.

the only one he wants to fuck for the rest of his life.

[thrumugnyr]

Fair Alistair, fair.