#then work for ten hours

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[game-grumps-captions]

Happy pride month to Arin Hanson and this moment specifically

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Repress It, Mk!

Mei and Red Son wouldn't be his backup singers (because they support going to therapy) so he had to improvise. He's fine, all good all the time all good

[kyouka-supremacy]

Okay I'm going to be honest for two seconds. I miss Akutagawa

[daily-basil]

Guess who's studying perspective in faces

[dandelion-roots]

No matter what you do, you just can't shake him off, can you, Chūya?

[lyrics: Florence + the Machine | id in alt]

EDIT: I made a whole ass janky animatic to this song, enjoy!

[sesamenom]

they insisted on playing their own wedding music

and a gold haired version, because of the love songs

[sctumsempra]

this is so incredibly self indulgent but. hear me out

[dreameroftheblue]

I have lost my mind, he hijacked it and lives there now

[leverage-ot3]

hozier starting to sing take me to church and then unfurling a pride flag healed something in me actually

if you listen closely you can hear me yell ‘oh my god’ when he does it

[one-flower-one-sword]

well I know what you want from me you want someone to be your reflection, your bitter deception setting you free won't you come and dance in the dark with me? show me what you are, I am desperate to know nobody better than the perfect enemy and I know what you want from me you want the same as me my redemption, eternal ascension setting me free

for @bladesmercy's fic The Fear of Falling Stars

[aropride]

does anyone want to completely reorganize the way society works with me

[terracyte]

was watching doctor who w some dear friends and had to draw the two best-est boys of all time <3

[yokowan]

shaders test

[r0sebutch]

do i think henry hopclap is secretly evil? no

do i think he’s related to reuben hopclap? yes

do i think his “you can do anything you put your mind to as long as you work hard and put in the hours and keep at it” mentality has anything to do with the “hours upon hours of menial work just to improve” efforts of the ratgrinders? maybe a bit.

[carouselunique]

question: u had that sketch sale back around june, are you still in progress of finishing those? i don't wanna seem impatient or anything cause i'm not, just curious :0

Yes! I have done a few each week for a while between work and school for a while I got a LOT over Discord so it’s just going into people’s hands directly, but the ones who give me permission to share (some of the commissioners asked for character designs that they wanted to share themselves when their works are out) I’ll put in a roundup post! I got like way more of these than just the ones who asked on Tumblr or Twitter, the number is massive lol