#this took a bit of thinking

[tomcat-tango]

LET'S MAKE YOUR MINDCHILDREN SUFFER

Luzie Vogelsang:

3. What's their moral compass like?

7. What's their pain tolerance?

13. What's their relationship to their body? Self esteem? Self image?

19. How do they view the world? Are they an optimist? A pessimist? A realist?

Delta:

4. How do they feel about sparing women and children if given the choice? Do they value certain lives over others? (while she was still in active service)

6. How far would they go to save someone they love? Would they sacrifice themselves? Others?

15. How do they kill? Do they try to minimize suffering? (again, while in active service)

20. Are they codependent? Do they have abandonment issues? (i'm sorry but i had to, i know it's low hanging fruit 😘)

Kirill AND Romeo, i want to compare them for Science Reasons:

2. How much death and/or destruction have they wrought?

3. Do they try to prevent unnecessary suffering?

9. What do they regret the most?

16. What haunts them?

and last but probably the longest and hardest one to answer: for the entire Lonestars crew, Kirill, Walker, Brooker, Toby and Leo's squad

10. Do they have the ability to love?

(feel free to ignore that one, that would be so much work to answer lmaoooo)

GIrl, I had wait until I was back at my pc to answer all this (aint no way i was trusting mobile to not fuck things up)

Luzie Vogelsang:

3. What's their moral compass like?

Luzie is a Lawful Good through and through, though it can occasionally dip to neutral, she's got a strong compass.

7. What's their pain tolerance?

HIGH.

13. What's their relationship to their body? Self esteem? Self image?

I'm going with regular non-au Luzie on this, overall she doesn't have any super bad body issues, but being down one eye and having a very noticeable scar certainly causes her some discomfort outside of a battlefield. Modern AU she hates how fucked up her knee is.

19. How do they view the world? Are they an optimist? A pessimist? A realist?

Overall I'd say a realist, but she hopes for the best. If there is no hope, fighting for a better tomorrow becomes An Ordeal.

Delta:

4. How do they feel about sparing women and children if given the choice? Do they value certain lives over others? (while she was still in active service)

Civilians are not targets, therefore they won't be in her sights. Kids certainly have the most leeway.

6. How far would they go to save someone they love? Would they sacrifice themselves? Others?

She would possibly sacrifice herself if it was someone she was close with, but would not ask the same of anyone else.

15. How do they kill? Do they try to minimize suffering? (again, while in active service)

Quickly and efficiently, or well...bomber role.

20. Are they codependent? Do they have abandonment issues? (i'm sorry but i had to, i know it's low hanging fruit 😘)

Oh she's definitely co-dependent. They gave the Tomcat separation anxiety.

Kirill AND Romeo, i want to compare them for Science Reasons:

2. How much death and/or destruction have they wrought?

Romeo- Active service in 'nam. He has a bodycount.

Kirill- Didn't see much action in his active service.

3. Do they try to prevent unnecessary suffering?

Romeo- No.

Kirill- Listen this guy is trying to put you down as quickly as possible, take that as you will.

9. What do they regret the most?

Romeo- It may be the 1am brain talking, but I can't think of any regrets besides not having a higher killcount.

Kirill- His service record is as clean and empty as a freshly abandoned Wal-Mart.

16. What haunts them?

Romeo- Dead and scrapped squad mates.

Kirill- Romeo.

and last but probably the longest and hardest one to answer: for the entire Lonestars crew, Kirill, Walker, Brooker, Toby and Leo's squad

10. Do they have the ability to love?

(feel free to ignore that one, that would be so much work to answer lmaoooo)

bOI

Listen the machine men we know don't love in the same way we do, even the more advanced fellas and gals like Walker and Delta. Could you argue that they feel something like it? Probably.

Toby definitely does, though he has much more familial bonds than romantic.

[technomaestro]

1, 4, 11, 13, 20, 30, 33, 53

get to know me, pick some numbers.

selfie

A late night pic, showing how curly and fluffy my hair's gotten over the past few weeks.

4. what are you looking forward to?

A board game I backed a LONG time ago finally got to shipping and will be arriving soon, so I'll have a new game to mess around with and new minis of cute dragons to paint. I've got new job interviews lined up for next week too that may put the past few months of job hunting to an end which will put my mind at serious ease.

11. are you listening to music right now?

Yup! I'm currently listening to...

13. how do you feel right now?

Honestly? A little overwhelmed; I've had a lot of big news come my way the past few days and I'm living through the adage of "when it rains, it pours" as the past few weeks have been so routine the days started blending together a bit but the past few days have been nonstop switch ups, leaps of faith, and game changing news for me.

20. what is your favourite song at the moment?

The one that's jumped *super* high on my on-repeat playlist has gotta be this:

It just strikes that right chord of epic and inspirational and powerful all at once that I really enjoy right now.

30. favourite tv show(s)

Oooh, probably Leverage, Eureka, and The Expanse. I could go back and re-watch those series any day and be happy.

33. something you want to learn

I would love to learn how to make my own dice. I love how fancy and intricate and gorgeous resin dice sets can get and I'd love to be able to make my own for my own tabletop rpg characters that match their aesthetics.

53. 5 things that make me happy

Stargazing by a bonfire

The smell of fresh baked cookies

Hearing that the players in my tabletop rpg games had a good session

Stroking my beard like a wizard pondering his orb

Singing along to songs playing on my speakers

[hinamie]

new official illust of them with puppies healed something in me

[spooksier]

me when the emotionally repressed character is revealed to have had something happen in their childhood that was completely out of their control but changed them in a way they can never come back from

[magic-worms]

trying to articulate my thoughts on the 7th tf2 comic confirmation by using the tf2 characters to articulate those thoughts

[wu-does-art]

thinking about Nico adjusting to letting himself miss and long for the people he loves. based on these bits from the sun and the star:

" As Nico and Will followed the trogs, he thought about how much he missed Hazel. He was learning to make peace with that feeling. It was okay for him to miss people because that meant he wanted them around in his life. That idea was *very* new for him- he was used to either pushing people away or watching them recoil from his presence." *

" That was the most surreal thing of all... Was he happy? Nico wasn't very familiar with the sensation, but he couldn't deny that he felt wonderful in Will's presence. He even longed for the son of Apollo when they were apart. A funny thing had happened as the two grew closer: Nico suddenly understood all those cheesy, sappy love songs he'd always hated."

[unsung-idiot]

not exactly the response Mabel was hoping for

[synthsays]

Monster Falls girlies how we feeling about this one.

Happy Fiddleford Friday Y'all

(Bonus art under cut)

And one for the fiddauthor peeps

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[bacchuschucklefuck]

soon it'll be dawn again

transcript under the cut ⏬

page 01

Fig: no way? - you're still up?

Riz: Wh– yes?

Riz: Why'd I not be.

page 02

Fig: I me~~ean - that took.

Fig: whole day.

Riz: Yeah?

Fig: 'm beat.

Riz: you should sleep.

page 03

Fig: nah. my guy's still up

Fig: I wanna hang out.

page 04

Riz: That's really nice.

Fig: Hah! - Nobody ever expects an Archdevil rockstar to be nice.

Riz: … yeah. - 's just budget work tho. (the stuff I'm working on) - I've heard it's boring.

page 05

Fig: yeah, but you do it…

Riz: It keeps things going, right? - Nothing happens if nobody sits down and - does the thing.

Fig: That's right… - though. Yeah.

page 06

Fig: sometimes it's someone else who - doesn't want the same thing to happen.

Riz: … - mm.

page 07

Riz (off screen): …It took me a long time to get that not everyone likes doing what I do. - 's probably because you guys are so nice– - or. - kind.

Riz (off screen): to anyone too, not just. - the people you /love/.

page 08

Riz: that's not how it is elsewhere. - The world's– not. hostile. - but 's not like it's kind.

Riz: So I'm doing as much as I can now… 

page 09

Fig: Hey.

Riz: ?

Fig: Go dig some dirt with me.

page 10

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - oh you meant like - actual dirt. (not incriminating information)

Fig: o yea.

Fig: there's clay in the backyard soil. - sometimes when I'm sun deficient or something I go touch dirt for a bit.

page 11

Fig: here u go

page 12

Riz: uh

Fig: now we make a thing! - 'm pretty good at freehanding a bowl.

Fig: I'll show u

page 13

Fig: just– yep, flatten that out as evenly as u can, then–! - actually ur nails'd be so good at cutting out the strip. [larger than usual space] wait. - wait. wait u can carve patterns with them! we HAVE to try

Riz: uh - What. do I carve?

Fig: anything!!!

page 14

Fig: and– yep just seal the inside uh. seam?

Fig: yep that works - okay time's up! all contestant hands up

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - okay - wh. what's next?

Fig: haha - watch this.

(sound effect text): FWOO—MP

page 15

Riz: WH– DON'T JUST DO THAT???

Fig: Now it's fired!

Riz: THAT WAS NOT SAFE

Fig: (actually it's just dry. if u add water rn it'll dissolve)

Fig: ok catch!

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - careful!!

Fig: dw no need haha

page 16

Riz (thought bubble): oh - it's warm…

Fig: now I want you to throw this.

page 17

Fig: u gotta do it - c'mon

page 18

Riz: wh– - It's like 3AM right now

Fig: oh it's not /fired/ fired it's not gonna make a loud noise

Riz: And then just? leave a pile out here?

Fig: pour water over it & it'll be gone I told u

Riz: but

page 19

Fig (off screen): RIz.

page 20

Fig: I've done all this before.

Fig: Can you trust that at least?

page 21

Riz: no, I– - I do. - I trust you.

page 23

Riz: okay what happens now

(sound effect text): glob

page 24

Fig: we do it again!

page 25

Riz: wh. [larger than usual space] What do you mean. (this clay's too wet also)

Fig: see! you're already learning

Fig: [blank speech bubble] - there are flows that are futile to fight. - The world changes.

Fig: Things change.

page 26

Fig: I've learned my lessons with "forevers". - But - as an artist

Fig: I can give you one thing: - You can always do it again.

page 27

Fig: most of everything depends on the rest of the world, - but this. - making new. - that's yours as long as you want it.

page 28

Fig: So?

page 29

Riz: Yeah. - Yeah! - let's make another one.

[theimpurelily]

So I was rereading chapter 37 of Shen Yuan of No Relation by @grubus and I realized something. SQQ did exactly what YQY threatened to do years ago and then some.

What an over achiever.

[h0estar]

every now and then i look back on this GIF i have of nalu during tartaros arc and cry about how this particular scene alone solidifies the beauty of their relationship (natsu holding lucy's hand gently in the face of chaos and panic did wonders to my heart)

[hinamie]

bunch of portraits

[bunnieswithknives]

AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.

Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him

[funkle420]

no talk me i angy cant stop thinking about my girlfriend who's been kidnapped by a crazy powerful ancient magician

[hattiestgal]

If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about drawing fat? :3

JUST THE EXCUSE I WAS LOOKING FOR

So, for me personally, a lot of the time when I draw fat characters, I'm not looking to specifically capture the specifics of fat as much as the feel of fat. Bulkier, rounder shapes in the right places that has a feeling of weight to em! A lot of that is intuition and simplification at this point, but it all works on the same frame as just any ol' person. Like take this-

For example. This is the basis for any body shape, not just the more average one that it may imply. Sure- it can be that average body shape:

But also a fat one too!

And a big part of that is knowing where fat usually tends to bunch up on the body, so lets take a look piece by piece! (Please keep in mind this is very simplified, and not completely precise in some parts)

THE FACE: Cheeks (in purple) and especially the chin (in light blue) are the places where a lot of the fat is gonna wanna gather and round out on your face! Additionally, theres a small pocket of fat beneath the cranium on the backside of your head. It's small, but it is there. I believe fat can build up elsewhere like the bridge of your nose and forehead, but generally speaking, you're gonna have a whole lot more buildup in other places first.

THE TORSO: A lot of the fat built up on the torso is gonna be sent to your tummy. More cushioning for vital organs, mostly out of the way, it just makes sense. Additionally, the lower backs fat builds up and joins with a patch of fat on your sides that forms what is typically referred to as the love handles to make that double belly look. Along with this, the immediate next target for the torso is the breasts, followed by the upper back!

THE ARMS: For this limb, a VERY notable amount of the fat present builds up on the tricep and bicep areas, lessening once you get towards the flexor and extensor areas. You can almost think of the arm as a sort of triangular shape, wide side starting from the shoulder and tapering towards the hand, which itself mostly builds up fat around the back of the hand and the fingers. The shoulders themselves don't build up too much fat unless you got a lot

THE LEGS: And finally, you can think of the legs having pretty similar curves to what you're probably already used to thinking. The front of the thighs getting a big buildup, along with the back of the calves, the other parts being flatter in turn. As far as the feet go- similarly to the hands, the top of the feet, along with the heels get most of the buildup, as fat on your soles would impede mobility. The glute, hip and crotch area will also especially build up fat, lending to the same triangular shape that you can see in the arm!

A big thing to note with fat is that it tends to taper off towards joints. Your knees, elbows, shoulders, hips, and all the other places are gonna have significantly less fat so that you remain mobile and flexible, as that's important!

Now that we have an idea of where fat builds up on the body, you might have something that looks kinda like this

Which yes, does demonstrate a solid understanding of the places fat builds up, lacks the weight you're probably trying to convey, which brings us to out next point! Fat is well... heavy! Gravity is what gives fat much of it's shape, especially as you tread towards larger and larger bodies.

This is demonstrated really well on the arms especially-

Those big ol' bits of fat'll really start to sag when left hanging, and they will squish like hell if they run into something. I like to think of these bits of fat as big ol' ovals that squash and stretch depending on if there's an obstacle in their way or not

These are the important shapes to remember when it comes to the weightiness of fat! If you take all of this into mind, you should be getting something a lot closer to that shape you've been after!

Oh, and always remember that fat bodies come in all variety of shapes and sizes! Play around with a whole lot, and seek out all the resources you can! it'll really lend to your knowledge when it comes to this kinda stuff!

And as I always recommend when it comes to learning art- look at what your favorite artists do with fat bodies. See what you really like about the fat bodies they draw and try to replicate it in your own work, I promise you it's one of the most helpful things ever.

This is like the most basic of basics when it comes to drawing fat bodies though. If there's any additional thing about fat bodies, or maybe you want clarification on something, don't be afraid to ask! If there's enough to cover, I'll make an addition to this post!