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ART 🥺🥺🥺
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[ID: black text on an off-white page. excerpt from artificial condition by martha wells:
I had no reason to trust it. Except the way it kept wanting to watch media about humans in ships, and got upset when the violence was too realistic.
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#take a look it's in a book#sigma reads#robots touch my heart#murderbot diaries#artificial condition#martha wells#murderbot#asshole research transport
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Happy birthday, Dave Filoni! I am sending you some books as a birthday present. I don't think you have read them yet. You may find them quite informative for your future endeavors. Enjoy!
#happy birthday dave filoni#take a look it's in a book#where's eli dave#thrawn books#mitth'raw'nuruodo#grand admiral thrawn#chaos rising#outbound flight#admiral ar'alani#thrass#thrawn novels#mitth'ras'safis#eli vanto#mitth'ali'astov#thalias#timothy zahn#star wars books#star wars shitpost#ascendancy trilogy#thrawn star wars#chiss ascendancy#thrawn ascendancy
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guess what i watched on new years (a redraw kind of)
#hee hee#it was cute#(disclaimer i do not subscribe to d+ so my dollar was not going there iykyk)#pjo#percy jackson#grover underwood#annabeth chase#my art#fanart#hoo#i had to take silly pics of myself 2 get percys arm hand thing right#and then just cropped it bc yea#i almost gave annabeth the hair i did in the last one but i thought#why do i feel compelled to change her hair to fit the old image i had from the books and not the others#and i drew her actual hair from the show#and it looks sm better
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The books reveal that Ford is actually a secret partier
(Available as a print on my Etsy Shop)
(wips under cut)
#doctorsiren#gravity falls#the book of bill#billford#journal 3#stanford pines#bill cipher#jheselbraum the unswerving#gravity falls fanart#digital art#my art#procreate#RAHH MY LOVE FOR MAKING MIDCENTURY-STYLE ART AT TIMES CAME IN SUPER HANDY#I think I surprised myself here 😳#(also don’t take this as shipping him and Jhes 😭💀 that’s his space fish mom 😁)#in the book of bill. obviously he and bill get drunk that time#and then in the 3rd journal#it says that after Jhes told him he had the face of the man who would defeat bill (meaning stanley lmao)#he ‘was so excited’ that he and Jhes ‘spent the entire night partying and drinking cosmic sand’#it’s funny bc Jhes is described as speaking with a steely resolve and is very calm#so it’s silly to me to picture her partying haha#I might make this one a print as well bc I really love how it looks#I’ll print it out tomorrow and decide if it’ll work well enough :) if it does I’ll put it on my shop#😭 the bill…his thumb is backwards BUT THATS NOT MY FAULT THATS LITERALLY HOW IT IS IN THE BOOK OF BILL PAGE THAT I REFERENCEDTHIS FROM WAHH#he can do whatever he wants ig
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In the middle of exams so here are just some higher quality versions of my last sketches!
(There will be no context for Menelaus dressed as a seal and Helen doing drugs. If you know, you know.)
#the odyssey 1997#the odyssey#Telemachus#Penelope#Odysseus#Nausicaa#Menelaus#Helen#Peisistratus#he's here too but I think I forgot to tag him last time...#Athena#yes her spear has an olive tree branch handle and her armor is fashioned to look like feathers#(side note I have silver and bronze armor designs for her too but I love how the gold looks here)#(look forward to a more detailed artwork of her (in a certain Odyssey scene) in the future!)#anyway I recently got my hands on a physical copy of emily wilson's translation of the odyssey!#it was the last copy at my local book store and my library doesn't have a copy#it was a miracle that I managed to get the iliad since apparently a professor at my uni keeps forgetting to return the copy#(on the flip side its fun to see what he annotated and I'm thinking I might take his course once it's empty enough)#anyway I'll have to wait on (re)reading the odyssey#because 1) i gotta focus on exams#2) I want to finish the iliad before the return date (im on book 17 and everyone is such a vibe)#3) I have so many wips I want to finish too
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ART may or may not commit accounting fraud and i think that is very sexy of it
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[image ID: an excerpt from system collapse by martha wells, which reads:
The billing thing is not actually a joke; Pin-Lee and Turi, who does the accounting for ART, were preparing a counter-bill to present to Barish-Estranza after this was over. (If this was ever over.) These money fights between/with corporations were very common and incredibly boring.
(According to Martyn, ART is of course capable of doing its own accounting, but it always ends up with extra numbers that no one can trace. So now Turi does it and has to keep a hardcopy ledger because otherwise ART would alter their data. No one knew if ART was making up numbers for the hell of it or if these numbers represented actual credit balances that ART was hiding somewhere.)
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#sigma reads#murderbot diaries#martha wells#system collapse#take a look it's in a book#robots touch my heart#asshole research transport#murderbot
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I appreciate the lovely science museum volunteer who saw my four-year-old and started carefully explaining basic magnetic properties
I appreciate EVEN MORE that when firstborn went "oh, like a maglev train" and "that's an electromagnet!", said lovely volunteer totally code-switched, and we quickly ended up at
"Want to see a gaussian rifle?"
Oh boy did firstborn EVER
#the moment where the volunteer kind of paused and went#Oh are your parents scientists?#Kind of you sir but even if we were#Firstborn absolutely gets to take his own credit here#We had to look through three different books the day his dumbed down children's magnetism book mentioned electromagnets#and he wanted to see a technical diagram of one#(thank you How Stuff Works by David Macaulay and all that man's books)#(I do not think preschoolers were your intended audience but boy did your audience find you)#Anyway that's how ferro fluid ended up in the birthday wish list
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Charles whose dad smashed his cassette tape with a hammer learns to navigate the backpack cause, like, he needs to be useful, yeah?
and this way Charles has everything Edwin needs, and if Edwin gets sick of him he’ll just.. he doesn’t know what he’ll do.
but then Edwin gets the record player.
he suggests, tentatively, that Charles might play some of his “queen” if he liked. after all, if they are to haunt potential realtors away from their new office, they may as well entertain themselves.
so they take turns, switching out; edwin likes opera. he shows Charles how to waltz, chiding Charles to stop looking at his feet til they’re gliding, whirling around like they’re in the movies. Edwin’s smile is small and pleased and lovely. (Charles attempt to get Edwin to headbang along to queen results in a sort of awkward rhythmic nodding. Charles loves him so much he could die again.)
And, like. Edwin doesn’t like clutter. he doesn’t bother with the random tidbits ghosts give them for solving cases.
until now, apparently.
now he comes back from trading at the goblin market with little useless things—a cursed rubix cube, records from bands Charles mentioned years ago.
Charles is so busy trying to subtly read his book on Edwardian courting rituals (disguised by Nikos discreet manga covers) that he doesn’t realize what Edwin’s set down in front of him. he stares at Edwin’s spiky handwriting, the tidy numbered list.
“I thought, perhaps, that we might—start a new tradition.”
Charles blinks, eyes stinging. “Mate, did you.. make me a mixtape?”
“Crystal assisted me, and while she was absolutely insuffer—“ Edwin staggers, catching him with a surprised little noise.
“I love you so much,” Charles says, muffled into his throat. “You’re my favorite person. I love you so much it hurts, sometimes.”
“Yes,” Edwin says softly, hands curling around his waist. He takes Charles weight like it’s nothing. “I believe I know the feeling.”
this is a longer fic on ao3 now!
#charles rowland#payneland#dbda#edwin payne#dead boy detectives#dead boy detective agency#charles is not allowed to come to the goblin market because he’s too nice & can’t haggle. also if Old Lady Troutbucket flirts with Charles#One More Time edwin will not be held responsible for his actions.#also. one of the things Charles gets Edwin for his birthday is a proper library card. Edwin checks things out at night so people don’t see#floating books. the librarians have a running joke that a very polite ghost is taking their missing books <3#anyways. thinking about Charles who couldn’t leave shit out or else it’s get smashed or binned#slowly starting to leave his things around the office. Edwin taking cases with dumb rewards because Charles looked excited about them etc
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Out of sight, out of - wait.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#granny wen#a-yuan#It's always fascinating how colours translate from the page to the screen.#It would probably surprise a lot of people to see what some of these comics actually look like in physical form.#My lighter colours takes about 3-4 washes before it shows up on scan which means it tends to ripple the page.#And my yellows and oranges are drastically different colours when scanned compared to the ink colour.#There's about 20 or so comics where everyone's hair is purple - because it scanned in the exact same colour as my light grey.#Wait my book is right here in front of me so I can...yeah...Comics 57-77 were indeed purple.#This is all to say - is it not fascinating how what we see is often not the full truth of what the subject truly is?#Is it not fascinating to open another episode that reminds us that despite everyone's claims they could totally spot the evil YLLZ-#-The man walks around among them for months as no more than a man haggling for deals like the rest.#It's almost as if he's just a person. It's almost as if none of us - no matter what we do are really anything more than just a person.#Your good acts will be overtaken by how other's interpret you in negative light.#Just as easily are people willing to forgive crueler actions if they hold you in high esteem.#But what's real? Is the page I hold the real version of this comic? Is it the one you look at?#Is the man known as Wuxian the most himself when he is alone or on the battlefield?#Perhaps he is and has always been a scared orphan boy lost in the market.#I think there is no good answer to any of these questions.#But I do know that panic rising in WWX as he frantically looks for A-yuan was for more than one boy.#To be human is to have layers around a delicate center. We only really grow around our wounds from childhood.#In other words; Donkey from Shrek would also probably call Wei Wuxian an onion. I'll see myself out now.
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Final manifestations for Book 7?
I'm trying REALLY hard not to build up any solid expectations, because I wanna go in ~fresh~! they're already so far away from anything I thought would happen (not in a bad way, I'm just accepting that I'm on Miss Yana's Wild Ride at this point and we're seeing this thing through 'til the end, by gum). so it's nothing too major, but:
they've been handing new crying expressions out like candy lately, I want to see some delicious Malleus tears.
honestly I want everyone to cry buckets. their tears sustain me. the more Silver angst specifically I get the happier I am.
SILVER!!!! 👏 VANROUGE!!!! 👏
just let him have this. the poor boy's been through so much. let him have his big "I'm proud of you, son" moment with Lilia.
I'm 100% expecting Grim's arc (and probably whatever's going on with Crowley) to be its own episode, but a nice hook to leave us hanging on would be good!
a nice hook though, please, I don't think I can take another "Grim is attacking us! now wait eight months to find out what happens :)" cliffhanger...
some Meleanor? as a treat? just a little bit, a tiny quick flashback or something, please Twst I just, I just want to see her again. let her have a little ghost cameo like Dawnathan Knight got. Lilia and his kids are all having their big group hug or whatever and she can gently fade in to be all like
(turning asks off until I'm done playing, SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE Y'ALL)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 13 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 13 spoilers#one last chance for me to be wrong about everything!#(no it's good i am enjoying it SO much) (just stomping right down on all of my personal like buttons with its whole weight)#(it's just also VERY good at totally subverting all of my expectations)#i don't think we're actually gonna get a permanently dehorned malleus though#just because it feels like an insane thing to remove the most iconic part of one of the most iconic characters of the game#but i could see like...a temporary thing ala raisin vil#or a permanent smaller change like cracks/chips or something (kintsugi horns would be super cool actually)#but i do think it's more likely we'll find some way to keep the status quo re:horn design#if this was the END-end of all of twst then maybe but they still wanna sell merch of this guy so they can't change his design TOO much#i am sorta wondering if he might get a bit of a power nerf though? take him down from ridiculously overpowered to just normal overpowered#idk they made a point of saying the horns were specifically what caused the weather stuff#and the weather stuff has been called out in particular as one of the reasons why mal being so stupidly magical makes him pretty unhappy#everyone's scared of him all the time and he has to actively try not to accidentally kill people when he gets upset#so. idk. maybe it was just a little worldbuilding. but i thought it was interesting they brought that up was all!#me: i'm not going to form any expectations (writes a whole thing speculating on the fate of malleus' horns)#look it's now or never okay#that end of episode rhythmic better be SO cute because i'm already losing my entire head over this
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fire cannot kill a dragon BITCH
#a song of ice and fire#game of thrones#asoiaf#got#mine.png#i have no clue what dany era this is i just wanted to see if i could get down how i think book dany looks just like. in general#results are inconclusive#also ive been doing like exclusively multimedia w either sketching or doing full colored pencil first and then taking a picture#on portrait mode ☝🏻#and finishing the rest in procreate so if things look weird thats like#why#im figuring stuff out lmao#and like! where ae the highlights on her coming from?? idk but surely not that fire#daenerys targaryen#adding tags bc my tags are my safe space and if ur reading them then. ur in this with me i locked the door i secured the chains..#just realized that lowkey with how daenerys is described as being just like#ethereally pretty as per the targ pretty gene#i sort of picture her face as like#one of those insanely pretty girls u see on tiktok and they just like naturally have a disney princess face#no makeup bc their skin is perfect and their lashes are naturally super thick and long#thats dany to me#this face ate an entire raw horse heart <3
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Trench Spotlight
#malevolent#malevolent part 53#wow this was a muscle study that exploded#I listened to the entirety of the second murderBot book while doing this#I was supposed to test out nightreign tonight#fuck man#turned into a color study I guess#arthur lester#john doe malevolent#I figured I’ve been coating him in blood too much lately so I left out the thorn injuries and such#moments before 3rd degree burns#malevolent podcast#malevolent fanart#I missclicked on a multiply layer and the entire piece came together in a blink of an eye#gotta love serendipity#Arthur was cold as fuck for just taking that#crazy what good references can help you with#everyone use sketch fab I beg of you#want to thank a mutual who just posted a pic of a very beautiful bare chested man#istg I learned so much from looking at their sketch
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Some cards to give to your loved or hated ones this Valentines Day!
Bonus Billford:


#gravity falls#book of bill#stanford pines#ford pines#bill cipher#stanley pines#Stan pines#grunkle stan#mullet stan#fiddleford mcgucket#billford#Valentine’s Day#wanted to make a complete inverse of each card but the light pink line art made them look scary#bill canonically uses a flip phone#past behaviour shows he does not take being blocked in any way well
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JAMIECLAIRE + BOOK COVERS (insp)
#outlanderedit#clairefraseredit#jamiefraseredit#perioddramaedit#perioddramasource#weloveperioddrama#onlyperioddramas#useremsi#usersteen#userjamiec#userelizabeth#usereponine#**#outlander#jamie x claire#otp: there’s the two of us now#the time i spent trying to make the layout and colors of the text/icons look exactly like the book covers.............#bUt this was a lot of fun to make <3#also i started this literally almost a year ago and have been waiting for 7b so i could do the moby one 😭#little did i know it would take so long when i started this lol
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GUYS IM CRYING @/Cestrigolol ON TWITTER BOUND PART OF MY FIC AND IT LOOKS SO AMAZING??? this is actually making me so emotional rn like😭😭look at it….the stuff i wrote looks like a book…and the extra little design elements like the silhouette of hogwarts, the unique font for the beginning of each chapter, my art on the front AND the back…ITS SO BEAUTIFUL GAHHH😭 ILL NEVER GET OVER THIS🤸♀️🤸♀️💖💖💖💖 THESE ARE JUST PICS SHE SENT ME BTW I DONT OWN THIS BUT I WANT TO!!!
#EVERYDAY ILL REGRET NOT PUTTING MORE THOUGHT INTO MY USERNAME FOR THIS FANDOM...CHOCCYMILKY WILL HAUNT ME#ESP WHEN I SEE IT ON THIS LEGIT LOOKING BOOK BINDING LMAOO💀#ill just be staring at this for the next 16 hours im so floored that ppl take the time to bind fics bc im too lazy to even bind my own#i suck at this technical graphic kinda stuff and id 1000% need to commission it/pay someone to do it if i ever got it done#i guess bc i find it such a pain to do THATS WHY IM EVEN MORE TOUCHED WHEN I SEE OTHER PPL DO IT!!#BC THEY WANT TO!!#MY FIC IS ON SOMEONES SHELF NOW AND IT LOOKS SO PRETTYYYY😭#she said this is just the first 'volume' so i guess shes gonna do my entire chonker of a fic in volumes and if she does I CANT WAITTT😭#that also makes me curious what the final page count is gonna be at whatever font/font size this is LOL#choccyfanart#hogwarts legacy fanfiction#😭😭😭😭😭😭
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important news: clerk t's book bedazzling program was a smashing success
i didn't get to finish mine, though, i had to go be on the circ desk

#take a look it's in a book#dinosaurs eat man. woman inherits the earth.#library avenger#yes that is my own copy that i picked up from a library used book sale in 1999
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