#so I took pics of my own

[ravenpoefan]

[ionomycin]

Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

[crunchchute]

My Sam & Max cosplay I debuted at a local con during the weekend!

[purisurory]

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love…I love..I love you”.

Referencing THAT ONE Pride and Prejudice scene (two if you count the quote above)

[luminarai]

you’re on your own kid / yeah you can face this

I started this Parse comic almost a year ago (!) but I’ve only just managed to put it together now. I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Kent and how he mostly exists in bits and pieces as seen through the eyes of other characters.

There’s just something about being haunted and defined by your past (mistakes) but also finding strength on your own. (And how there can still a hopeful ending despite it all.)

[newgroundstier]

fashionably late 2 pride month

[teddybearsims]

Jude for Dazed - May 2024 Issue x

[sylvieserene]

Fixing history using the power of editing and my editing skills!!

For today we have, New Titans (1980) Issue #100

✨ Wedding Special ✨

@robstarblog @robstaryeah pinging yall just in case so that this doesn't get lost in oblivion (It'd be painful since I worked 5 hours non stop on it lol)

I think the most time was taken by the final panel and adding in the finishing touches since I pretty much had to change everything to the pixel level, quite literally lol (I'm serious, I did)

Welp I hope the results were worth it! And with that, another one gets a good ending!!

I kinda didn't add sleeves in the first two panels of the final page because it didn't look good and looked janky with how I was editing it so yeah please ignore that-

[slushy-sash]

went to amg2022 last weekend and i took a pic with this one xiao cosplayer and i couldn’t stop thinking how good they looked... so i had to draw him  🥺

the xiao cosplayer in question  👇

[cheriboms]

doctober day 19: memory

aka "the first time lone pine doc recognizes the weird little kid hanging around his garage as the future boy who changed his life 30 years ago" :)

[sunonwaxyleaves]

matty knies kiss kiss kiss!

[cicadaknight]

Finished binding volume 1 of Becoming Whole!

@pikapeppa thank you for being so lovely and sharing your writing with the world! (And for hyping me up and sending me pretty photomode screenshots)

[fitzrove]

[Historian Brigitte Hamann about January 27th, 1889; Elisabeth das Musical, 2005; Jann: Emperor's New Clothes, Elisabeth das Musical, libretto 1992/2016; Hamann about January 27th, cont.]

thanks for the song rec @hydromantia !!!

[izpira-se-zlato]

your Stožice Photo Dump photos have pictures from so many different angles and distances from the stage, did you move around so much somehow? 🤔

ahaha I wish -- I switched places with a friend after the shoving got too bad, but mostly the stage was just a pretty fun layout! We were on the left side of the cat walk if you looked at the stage (so "Kris's side"), and they came up the cat walk bit quite a lot, which enabled me to get different angles of them.

Since this got long -- and turned into something of another pic spam -- more under the cut :D

Here you can see the catwalk pretty well:

It was a really cool layout, imo, bc it made for quite a lot of "front row", and granted, I wasn't actually barrier, but second row (behind the person streaming for JO Subs, actually! So my view was really close to what "viewers at home" got).

... Still close enough to get caught in the Omamljeno Telo Shower 😂😂

And then, of course, I thought the crowd was pretty stunning, too, so this is me having turned around and photographed the crows "in front of" the cat walk ... tip. Or whatever it's called

Not included in the photodump (I think): the large LED screens they had so people further in the back could also see things. That was very helpful when Bojan lay down for Padam, because I'd suddenly lost track of him and the LED screens meant I could find him (and then zoom in on him, which is how I got the pic of him on the floor)

This is said view during Padam -- probably looks familiar from the first pic I posted, because Bojan lay down right where the catwalk grew out of the main stage (and from the pixellation, you can tell that I had to zoom to catch him bc he was kinda small from where we were standing)

But they were really great about moving around, and so they all kind of stopped in front of where we were standing? In the Bojan pic, you can see the camera mounted at the "tip" of the cat walk, and in the Kris with Jan and Nace (respectively) pics underneath, I was facing straight ahead. (The lying water bottle/cups are the same in all three pics)

And, as I said -- I was right behind JO Subs, which you can see in this pic :D (I'd say "you have to trust me it's indeed JO subs", but you can probably cross-reference this with the stream, I think it's floating around somewhere)

And finally, here's them on the "main stage" during Carpe Diem -- which probably shows why I only took very, very few pics of them on the main stage. They were just too tiny from our spot. But they did come to the front of the cat walk there, too, so I did get to see them up close once more.

And finally -- my friend was sitting in the bleachers, so I can even pinpoint exactly where I was standing (even though you should probably be able to triangulate my position from all the pics). I marked my position in blue in their pic (this pic actually is not by me)

God, Stožice was a blast -- if you made it to here, thank you so much for indulging with me in this trip down memory lane 😊

[todayisafridaynight]

aoki deserves a billion and one knives to the organs but tbh if i showed up to the husband of my ex's ceremony Of Which Was The Same Guy Who Made Me Look Like A Jackass On My Birthday and she was like 'wow youre so charming and sophisticated' after i overheard her calling me a creep and a weirdo On My Birthday i think i wouldve killed myself on the spot in front of everyone so good on him for not doing that I Guess

[elvenbeard]

Hatsumōde (初詣) 2075

"What's your omikuji saying, V?" "Seems like luck's coming my way... job-wise at least." "Hahaha, of course! You're gonna go places, for sure!"

I'm lately having a lot of feels regarding Vince's time at Arasaka, and him being half-Japanese, I guess? All brought on by that gorgeous kimono mod probably xD

The thing is... Vince doesn't have a very deep connection to his roots - it's his father's side of the family that he was never particularly close to. His father in particular, who had all these incredibly high expectations of him that he just kept disappointing. Eventually he started to resent that part of his identity as a whole, dyed his hair blond, and when his father died felt like a burden was lifted from him.

And, of all places, he ends up working at Arasaka a few years down the line, where tradition is so important, as is conformity to a degree. During his first interview with their representatives he's asked if he'd consider "toning down" his appearance, and that almost makes him walk out the door instantly. But he stays, and he accepts the job. The Night City HQ is still in the process of being properly established. There's a lot of operatives and agents and managers here from the Tokyo branch, also with high expectations and little tolerance for mistakes. But there's some people among his coworkers he actually grows fond of, some from Japan, some with roots like him, some just with an admiration for the culture. And so it happens that, eventually, he agrees to accompany some of them to the Shinto Shrine around New Year's. The last time he's been there was as a little kid with his father. It's the first time he's wearing a men's style kimono, a very nice one nonetheless. And he cannot help but wonder... what would his father say if he saw him like this now?