#uhhhhh. i think thats everything

[intotheelliwoods]

Take them... 🥺

[watcher-comic]

okay hi

did i promise to make an art... lore dump post literally last month? yes. did i not do it for nearly a month? also yes. and im Very Sorry.

anyway! onto the ranting

So starting off with the obvious, Nanehi's color scheme is based off of the Shawnee tribe's flag!

Obviously more desaturated, but the blue sweater and two yellow stars were meant to show that he's native.

Alright, going in page order I'm just gonna throw around some easter eggs or fun facts or commentary...whatever....

Because this is the only good image I can find of it, Nane wears his parents' wedding bands on a necklace. Because his parents are divorced </3

On page 2, Nane has a poster up on his wall which is my current sketchbook cover in my art class. I believe it's somewhere on my art blog

Nane has a ziptie on his backpack! It doesn't mean anything.

Page 6: The white text that says "what?" is actually a reference to the first debut of Nane - an askblog!

(technically his first word was "huh" but i changed it to what for plot's sake)

Continuing with the black spaces on page 6, the panicked eye doesn't really mean anything. However, the twisted light switch was supposed to represent the noose that shows up at the end of the comic.

For page 7, there's obviously the audience design to talk about, but the things I actually wanna focus on are:

The doodle on the top left, which is Nanehi saying that he thinks he has tinnitus [which he then goes on to immediately deny in the next page]

And the doodle on the bottom right. His fursona is a bunny and if I could, I would've tried to fit more bunny imagery into the comic. But alas :pensive:

Page 13: All the different colored text were the responses I got from a select few people. I showed them the previous panels of the page and asked them what they wanted [there is one distinct person I didn't ask but I will get to them later].

I also want you to keep the... 3rd shade of green in mind [the "i want to see where this goes"]

For this panel on page 15, I wanted it to be known that Nanehi isn't a real person, and they know it. Everyone else's face is squared, even the simply doodled character in the background and the barely visible person in the foreground. Everyone except Nane.

Page 16: Man that's just mold on his shower curtain.

Page 17: There's actually a lot I want to talk about with page 17. Firstly, the design of The Audience. It changed, clearly. Before it was that weird circle thing, but now it's more humanoid - to the point of having hair similar to Nanehi's. The reason being, it's not entirely The Audience anymore. It's The Creator too. Nanehi was based off my fear of being watched and constantly having an audience. The little amount of comfort that the figure gives was... sorta supposed to be an apology to the character- as cheesy as that sounds.

(Also the fact that their text originally said "didn't they already answer that" but was crossed out to say 'we'. The Creator disguising themself as The Audience. And truly, what is to separate them?)

Another thing I want to point out is the dark grey panel. It's the same shade of grey I used for the askblog, and he's smiling in that panel, because during the askblog he was much happier around the audience- or the concept of them, rather.

And then of course, the dark blue text that reads "I know how this ends." That actually wasn't a response I took from someone, but rather a piece of... I guess dialogue, that I felt like someone would say. That specific someone being my friend Classi, who was the only person besides me that knew how Watcher ended. Purely because she had a very similar character and we thought that they'd be buddies.

On page 18, we have 3 entire panels in a different style. That being the style of the askblog.

(some examples)(the last image is where the avatar came from, haha)

On page 19 we have this panel, which you can probably assume what it is. It, I suppose, could both be seen as Nane standing, back to the audience, or as Nane hanging without the noose. You choose.

And of course, the last page. For some reason this fucks me up. Because this is The Creator talking to Nanehi. The Creator knows that Nane has no say in how their story ends, but they're given the illusion of control, because that's all they've been looking for. They wanted control over something, so the only way to prove such control was to show The Audience that they could end the story whenever they wanted. He doesn't know that he was talking to The Creator, he just assumed it was still The Audience. He doesn't know that he didn't really have a say.

This was what he wanted. That's how he's ending the story

[unfamiliaris]

been on a cronenberg kick if you couldn't tell, and dead ringers just killed me dead

[sepiasys]

Staring at myself and the ppl I see around me who are dealing with their disabilities far worse than me and I just.

I feel like I'm not as disabled, not as disordered, in the way of it's not as SEVERE. Which I mean if it's not bad enough then I shouldn't have it/wouldn't get diagnosed with it.

Idk currently it feels like an "omg I'm like so healthy despite being clearly mentally ill, that's wild. So cool. I'm doing so well comparatively to others who'd be at my level of awareness(sorta?), it's probably because I have been SO into mental health and thus became smth like my own therapist at some point. Yeah I could say it's a disorder compartmentalizing away the most severe symptoms, but that's pretty funny if that disorder is in itself not being severe, relatively speaking for that disorder. I'm so good at self-healing, so good at coping. I mean it's probably because I did so much research as a kid and saw so much stuff repeated in articles that it seemed like common knowledge/sense so I would never NOT see it so I just learned off that. But I know I definitely came to my own conclusions a number of times in middle school and so that means I'm clearly doing better than I would if I didn't, so I'm like. I've BEEN doing pretty good in my healing journey." ("No don't ask me about my memories, I don't have a lot of them, I just know things about em. And I can get by just fine without them!"<-wdym I'm not because I stress out about getting a job due to lack of memory? /lh)

But I KNOW that despite that whole "I'm doing great!" Stuffs, there's other negative self talk I could be doing. I've done it before. NAH NO ITS LITERALLY WHAT I DO WHEN I DOUBT BEING A SYSTEM LMAO ITS ME GOING "oh, its not as bad, this must mean I'm not having these disorders right." Like ignore the whole high functioning or spectrum aspect of disorders and having traits of them, ignore nuance.

There's also a level of guilt or smth I think? Which is like "oh, I shouldnt be thinking or feeling like I have these things or whatever, because other ppl." That's vague but true; other people must have it worse, more severe, and I get that. So it keeps me from speaking bc; it's like the whole levels of autism thing, yk? Autistic ppl who are high functioning/have lower/lesser needs talking over people who are higher needs, who need more help and accommodation. I dont wanna be a dick and talk with the people who have it worse. I clearly don't have the experiences to talk from, anyways (though that's just because my life has been SO boring, honestly. Because sheltered. Couldnt afford stuff, didnt have ppl to do stuff with, or just wasnt allowed to bc mom deemed it unsafe. Plus the whole aspec stuff (aroace, possibly apl, agender, etc) meaning I dont rlly connect with a lot of queers and THEIR experiences)

Idk I'm not like. In the state of mind where I would feel the low self-esteem, and I've legit been thinking about that as well with this; that I just feel good and stuff ^^

So it would make it rlly hard to think like that; I'd have to pull from memories probabyl.

I'm sure this is probably disordered. Gotta love dissociation <3 Gotta love the unintentional, subconscious compartmentalization of my emotions and feelings and self-concept <33 (and the occasional intentional avoidance probably)

[jadeoru]

SMUDGED LIPSTICK!

06: grow up -> prev / mlist / next

now playing: i want to kill you - citizen 🎶

a/n: citizen is soooo yn coded i fear

extra:

peacekeeper noya is real!!!!

tsukishima is lowkey evil

he DOES care about yn!!! but at the same time if everything goes wrong then at least theyll have some FIRE new lyrics

tsukishima and kiyoko have the craziest gossip sessions ever

trust me they talked shit all NIGHT

bokuto and akaashi hit it off HARD at the bar

noya and hinata have another plan to get them together

hence the reason why theyre sharing a room

theyre matchmakers i swear

uhhhhh thats all i can think to add

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[jellysmudge]

what are your teen mom and bro headcanons. im obsessed with them

TEEHEE ok *rubs my hands together like a fly* lets see what do i havee

CW for mentions of alcohol;

- They grew up in a series of parochial (Catholic) boarding schools. Its a popular headcannon that they were in an orphanage, which I love, but orphanages were pretty much completely out of fashion by the 1960s, and are usually replaced with foster care. Because I wanted them to have grown up consistently around each other, a boarding school was the best option (which also happens though it isn’t as common as foster care). They had, of course, all the baggage you could expect from this.

-Bro resented his upbringing from the moment he was old enough to notice that there were other options and start using critical thinking. He wanted out more than anything. Mom thought that as long as she wasn’t alone, everything would be okay. It was all that mattered to her.

- These two were the Troubled Teen ARCHETYPE!!! Their idea of a fun activity was one of them causing a diversion so the other could steal from a convenience store.

- Mom’s drinking started early, same as Roxy. It started with communion wine, and escalated. After it became a pattern, Bro would sneak into the girls’ dorms and hide any alcohol he found in her area so she wouldn’t be punished, and try to get her sober. He loved her very much, but over time, came to resent this.

- Mom thought that Bro’s obsession with puppets was creepy as hell (as she should). She hated Cal.

- They snuck out All. The. Time. They both had hidden stashes of things they weren’t meant to have. Mom had a couple of handheld games taped to the bottom of her bedframe. Idk what Bro had but yknow what. As I’m typing this I’m realizing that it was probably porn. I guess.

- Bro would climb the side of the building to get to his room after sneaking out and would physically fight anyone who tried to rat him out.

Uhhhhh I think thats all for now lmaoo. I definitely have more, but here are some I had off the top of my head. Also drawing

[molathesunfish]

How do you draw so freely? Its beautiful

Thank you very much!!

Assuming you're referring to how loose my sketches are, I think it boils down to mileage. Alongside the classic recommendation of reference + study, usually when I get really into a piece of media I'll draw characters I like a whole lot and it builds muscle memory, and the ones that end up in my posts usually have already been through that process to some extent.

Studying references + going through a couple dozens rounds of extra wonky proportions and nonsensical physics (definitely visible on my own posts lmao) will help with both your brain and muscle and once you've stacked up enough of that it'll become easier to intuit certain things and keep stuff looser.

(hey this got really long, so just scroll to the bottom to see my current sketch process if you'd prefer that)

In my personal experience as a hobbyist, I spent roughly 3 years butchering the loomis method until things looked even remotely to my liking. And by that I mean "layering bullshit guidelines so thick and heavy that by the time I'm done lightening it via eraser there was barely any paper left." Drawing has been and still is really frustrating sometimes but for most of it I have a lot of fun and honestly as long as you have that it doesn't really matter whatever else (again, hobbyist here. my stakes are low). Switching up medium every once in a while if you can helps keep things interesting, and drawing with a pen is good for building both line confidence and tolerance for your own mistakes.

Honestly for all of that this stuff is still RNG to me lol. Every once in a while things just Will Not Work Out, but the rates definitely gets better the more experience you have. I only post about, say, 20% of what I draw probably. The rest includes but is not limited to practice sketches, personal art, stuff too nonsensical for even tumblr, or sketches I just plain don't like.

Uhhhhh now for what you actually asked. I've grown really lax, if not a little lazy, regarding guidelines (when you've drawn a specific thing often enough it just kinda gets tedious) so now i just do these very thin and light lines vaguely hinting at a character's pose and position. The only thing I consistently do is probably the little circle to indicate the head. For more heavily stylised proportions I'll go into more details at the outline stage, mostly aiming for the feeling of it (usually how goofy it looks since thats what I use them for). For more complex poses/ones I'm not familiar with I'll do multiple iterations.

Unearthed some stuff that I probably wouldn't post otherwise (the proportions are a bit off from what i'd prefer and the lineart isn't that confident). Here i am redrawing this for demonstration purposes

gonna go in order of the photos. everything shown was done with a 0.5 mechanical pencil.

usually i start with these very thin, light lines, just getting a very rough ideas of where everything is - head, torso, pose (spine, arms, legs). i sketch largely with approximations and landmarks, keeping in mind some bullet points for the relative distance among certain body parts (e.g. make sure the elbow is always a little past the rib cage. i'll write more out at the end) rather than any precise guidelines. i often don't even clean these up - at the end the main lineart is harsh enough that they override these, and though they're visible they do not interfere with the image as a whole. you can look at any of my sketches prior to this and find them.

then i go in with hard, dark lines, once again noting the respective distance among facial features (i'm using the loomis proportions, thinking about the face in thirds)

this is so unhelpful when i just say it, but genuinely at this stage i rely on muscle memory and mileage. if you've drawn the same anime girl for a bajillion times you can probably intuit the proportions. remember that 3d things have volume and interact. ("yes, see, her bangs and eyes round out like this, two locks of hair (they're thick and well kept, so they should have a solid cylinder shape...) against the side plane of her face - split that plane of the skull in half, and the ear should be somewhere around there...")

ok for the parts where a lot of things happen (clothes, tie, the pose interfering with them etc) i just go ham. make a mess! draw everything out even if they overlap each other. so you can keep track of them. here i also bring in some light shading to make out the form of her torso.

i lighten the whole thing with eraser, but the previous lines are harsh enough that the residue can act as a new base of sorts. i think this is comparable to having a sketch layer with lowered opacity in a digital piece

i go over the whole thing again now that i've got a better idea of the form

rinse and repeat. go all in, adjust, blow the whole thing up if it looks off and then build on the remains

for the last photo, you can see that I've adjusted the right leg, since now im taking into account perspective. I uhhhhh still am not particularly confident in drawing her shoes (or any other shoes for that matter) in 3d space so once again I'm bullshitting the form with trying to wrap around its shape and to visualize the shadows. usually for these I pull up references and pray

a side note for the hands: against an earlier ask, I've mostly switched to using silhouettes and then sectioning the fingers after. here the slight shading approach also help in blocking out and making them readable without you having to stress over the minutiae of what joint should bend where.

...I've hit the upload limit for photos, so I'll reblog with additions, but in essence:

• very thin lines to map out the pose and mark where certain body parts may go

• i draw everything in approximation, keeping a few bullet points in mind and adjust as i go (which does keep the sketches loose and make it easier to vary proportions for different characters, but also make floating features more likely (evident in some of my more recent posts as well):

loomis for the head and neck

rib cage (+collarbone), then elbow slightly below it

pelvis, crotch halfway point of the whole body

legs, knees their halfway point

feet are about as long as the forearm usually

(Disclaimer: i must stress again that I'm not a professional, and cannot guarantee that these bullet points are entirely correct. This is just how i draw at the time of writing - stylized with little regard for the intricacies of human anatomy)

• with the exception of the first stage, my lines are dark enough that the mistakes get reused as base for correction after they've been lightened with eraser a little bit.

• I also bring in some shading while doing lineart to make sense of form if I'm having trouble. I use this most often for noses, hands, legs, and breasts.

• if you encounter a sketch that Refuses To Work Out, leave it. No, listen to me, Leave It. Revisit it sometimes later, if you want (for mine they range from a week to 5 months, but my sketchbooks disorganization is another matter entirely). just leave it for a bit.

• do a bunch of pen sketches if you wanna get comfortable with mistakes/build muscle memory

• once more, all-time classic: reference the hell out of anything you don't know. 100000 google images. look up a human anatomy 3d model to see what muscles attach to which bone. practice copying 1:1 things that look good to you (practice!! don't post/claim anything as your own if it isn't - this applies to my own stuff btw, feel free to trace for practice at your own risk). note again that the only reason i can only bullshit my way out of these is because i've drawn them dozens of times - the moment you throw me more complex perspectives i'll need to start the learning process all over again

[fandomtrash-whataboutit]

just finished the kings men and may i just say

AUGHHHHH AHHHHHHHH WHAT FILJVBNALWIHBLUSGHf

I have to go first with fucking hmmm??/ with Riko and huh???? I wasn’t expecting it but just holy shit im SCREAMING

And oh my GOID i smal; part of me wishes we could;ve gotten to see even a slightly more open statement from Andrew abt Neil but at the SAME TIME

DO WE EVEN NEED IT? Aaron told him to BREAK IT OFF WITH NEIL AND HE SAID NOOOOOOOO

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

Im so fucking proud of Kevin and his whole thing is like so interesting because i couldn’t appreacite him until looking at it retrospectively. Like i feel like the creation of Neil’s pov was done SO well that I, too, logically understood everything that Kevin had gone through but at the same time couldn’t help but be frustrated with him not reacting (and bu the way that whole wymack Kevin story line is literally my only critism cus im just confused wtf was that)

From what ive heard the next book is jean and Jeremy pov (my guess earlier in the book was that ‘Jeremy’ might be the striker Neil wanted to recruit but i think seeing a different team will be fun!!!) Give me golden retriever energy im really psyched to see how the Trojans work. I think im going to have some of the same frustrations from Kevin with Jean, but it might help that riko is, spoilers, dead?????????

Still losing it from that one

ANDREILLLLLLLLLLLL

Im going to be glued to ao3 forever

And I’ll have to start writing too

Saw a rec somewhere that was just the trilogy from Andrew’s perspective apparently so I’ll have to find that

And recuérdate all my algorithms to show me all the aftg content ive been getting sprinkles of til now

Aaron minyard you confuse and scare me

THEY WON THEY WON THE FUCKING FINALS THEY DID IT MY FOXES DID IT

Unironically so excited for vice-captain Neil. He’s so wymack coded. He’s a bitch. He loves you so much. Deal with it

Matt my beloved

Don’t ask abt the Baltimore arc thats just,,,, i processed that so separately, i think i already posted about it

And uhhhhh im losing my mind

[amimuu]

A splurg of questions if thats okay: What does VTA Lamb and Narinder do on a daily basis? What are their sleeping arrangments? Routines? How does Narinder navigate the touchy awkwardness currently? Does Lamb ever ask anything of Narinder outside of being put to rest when all is done? (Is there ever any hesitancy about that still, on either side?)

OHHHHH ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS I SEE

Alr lemme think UHHHHH….this is gonna be a long one brace yourselves

What do they do on a daily basis/their routines?

Well, excluding crusades…

Lamb: basically it goes like, morning sermon, checking on the disciples individually, checking on how they are doing on supplies and stuff like that, and just going around the cult making sure everything is working properly, sometimes sending a follower or two on errands to get more stuff if needed. They normally have a little checklist with them to not forget (which they tend to make the night prior). They also go on walks sometimes, in which Narinder usually tags along (I think I answered an ask about this before but am not sure). They walk in silence 80% of the time, and sometimes they stop by the Lamb’s favorite spot (a tree up a small hill close to the limits of the cult grounds). After this Lamb goes back to their room and does NOT sleep unless they really really need to (which can be up to 6 days without sleep)

Narinder on the other side: wakes up, Morning sermon, checking the protection he set around the cult is still working, cleaning the Lamb’s statue (and leaving offerings, usually flowers), following the Lamb around a bit, checking on the Lambs’ memorial altar (set up by the lamb when they first started crusading. Narinder started taking care of it after they died), and then if it is a silent walk day he just goes and tags along. Sometimes he tries to give gifts to the Lamb, but they are usually rejected or immediately disposed of. Still, doesn’t discourage him. After the walk or if there was no walk at all he goes back to his hut and sleeps. Lemme say that cat sleeps a LOT. Which brings us to the next question

Sleeping arrangements:

It’s basically like this.

Both their sleep schedules are concerning for very different reasons. Lamb doesn’t sleep nearly enough, practically avoiding it like the plague. It was easier when they had the crown cuz sleeping was more of a choice, but now that they are stuck in a semi-mortal body that has semi-mortal needs it’s not as easy as it was. They dread it. Because every time they go and sleep there’s a new nightmare waiting for them. About what? About what not, really. They are haunted. And funnily enough Narinder barely shows up in these dreams, and when he does it’s usually in the form of a memory or a comforting presence. Usually

So yeah avoid sleep at all costs!!

And then there’s Nari who just sleeps an unhealthy amount of time ever since he was freed. The cultists assumed he probably needed big amounts of sleep for some reason and just rolled with it. They were wrong. In fact Narinder doesn’t need to sleep AT ALL, but he enjoys it. He finds his dreams comforting especially cuz a certain someone tends to show up. Before resurrecting the Lamb this was his way to process his grief, but after resurrecting them he is finding it very hard to leave the habit behind and honestly? Why should he. Now,

How does Narinder handle the touchy awkwardness?

Oh boy does he struggle. Lamby here tolerates his presence but they made their point clear. They don’t wanna talk. And Narinder respects that, begrudgingly. He does however, bring them gifts as mentioned before, hoping this can somehow ease things a little between them (This is the way in which he knows to give affection, offerings.), but naturally it is ineffective. He is protective of them too, but mostly from afar.

Does Lamb ever ask anything from Narinder aside from their initial request?

Sometimes, but it’s rare. They do however ask him at one point to please take better care of himself. And other stuff later on in the story. But currently, just the occasional “Please go get this or that” or asking for his company during crusades, mostly cuz that’s both their responsibility.

And so we get to the best one.

Is there any hesitancy about it?

OH BOY IS THERE. A big chunk of the main arc revolves around what they both truly want and have wanted for a long time but their lack of communication kept them from. Narinder straight up hates the idea of having to let Lamb go again. While the Lamb is exhausted and feels betrayed, but a part of them wishes to remain with Narinder for the rest of eternity, so that makes things more complicated

See, they’ll eventually talk this all out but that’s after they actually start crusading and are basically obligated to spend time together. Everything I listed here eventually starts to shift as the story progresses , shifts that include Narinder getting into knitting to avoid sleeping all day, discussions about what ifs, lamb accepting some gifts and eventually asking Nari to please not go where they can’t follow. Fun stuff :]

HOPEFULLY THAT WASNT TOO LONG OF A RAMBLE (who am I kidding it was UHM.) and also hope very much it answered your questions :>!!!

[nerves-nebula]

idk i use queer labels in a kind of functional wayyyy like i use trans masculine and butch not cuz i have any affinity for masculinity itself (queer or otherwise). those are just the best approximations of what i've got going. i'm transitioning my damn hormones and they are making me more traditionally "masculine" in some ways so. trans masculine.

im very much kind of like uhhhhh the reality comes first and everything else comes after. the label is whatever i think matches what's happening. body changes first, gender identity second. i dont consider myself masculine in spirit (whatever that means) but rather thats how i think i appear to people. idk its kinda how i am about philosophy, in that i get irrationally irritated by philosophy that i think doesn't have any stake in the real world hah.

you'd think that'd make me one of those people who are like "no a lesbian HAS to be like x y z !!" but NOT SO, it just means no label has ever felt like it actually fit me cuz they are at best surface level descriptions of a more complicated situation. so i dont really care what words people use to describe themselves

[paingoes]

policy for cyoa is im going to try and let it stand in isolation / not make too much metacommentary because uhhhhh native properties of the gestalt + my main concern is that its just Too Much Destroyer (could be said of my blog already) especially because im now at a very critical point in the canon timeline and dont want to direct attention away from it that much. cyoa can stay but only if it sits quietly and behaves itself.

its both funny and scary to me that the cyoa has breached containment among people who havent read the source. i dont even know what to do with that tbh i feel a little guilty because it feels like milking the same premise twice. but its also cool if a large part of the audience shares the ignorance w the POV character

but in the interest of not telling the same story twice i have given some thought to the level of canon divergence and what might be happening throughout empire at the same time and whats happening with paris becuase you know things have to be extremely extremely bad for him to have willingly parted with delta for even a short span of time. so im thinking about that. idk i worry about the adventure growing beastly because im thinking about it too hard. the most likely scenario is that it dies abruptly and that death is what prevented it from going completely off the rails......

in part i wish i had just made it a stand-alone story 🤔 alas ! but thats related to my general wish to branch out further and write stories set in a different universe. however again i cant do it now because whats happening in Vol II is really really important to me and arguably everything ive written previously has been building up to this.

[moonlit-dreamers]

Name all your favourite TSAMS ships

fuuucckk dude

this is like asking someone which pet is their favorite you cant do this to me man ;-;

but i might as well talk about some specific ships that ive been rotating around in my brain more recently tho fair warning that a lot of these will have more abusive themes (tho i'll try to be as brief as possible since i dont want this post to go on forever lol)

off to a great start with sunvant/lord eclipse. ik a lot of ppl like to make them fluffy but they got so much toxic potential. like idk man. the power imbalance + lord eclipse being both physically and emotionally abusive is some good shit. sunvant is absolutely and purely devoted to him. nothing eclipse could do would change that. every punishment is a lesson. every reward is a blessing. every command is a job he does happily. yes, hes absolutely terrified of his lord, but isnt everyone? isnt everyone meant to be scared of their god? if he isnt scared then is he really appreciating his lords true beauty and raw power? idk man. some good shit right there

the obvious sun/eclipse. i can never escape them in any form. main dimension sun/eclipse, dark sun/eclipse, sunbeam (eaps sun)/eclipse, sunvant/eclipse. all of the above pls. but if we're going with MAIN dimension suneclipse their relationship could be sooo many things. (which is y i like the ship so much bc its so versatile!) it could be a fixer-upper, abusive, friends/enemies with benefits, you name it. anything and everything is possible with these 2 bitches and its wonderful

sun/solar is actually the first thing i shipped. even BEFORE sun/eclipse. shocking, ik, but i felt like they had sooooo much potential THAT NOBODY FUCKING SAW. like- an emotionally broken down mechanic who feels guilty over the death of his own sun and an anxious mess that just wants to make things better. how could it be any more perfect??? solar coping over his suns death with sun by accepting that hes gone but at least he has another to love and he wont be empty forever. AUGH

solar/eclipse. im fucking rabid over these 2. like idk man. i feel like theyd be so weird about potentially liking someone whos like a distorted reflection of themself. projecting their own self loathing onto each other then realizing just how similar they actually are and how it.. might actually not be that bad. then learning to love themselves by loving the flaws of the other and accepting who they are now. idk man. this is just wholesome thoughts tho dont think for a second i dont have toxic thoughts about them lol

sun/solar/eclipse (are you noticing a pattern yet?) is THE polycule. idc what you say, theyre all kissing each other. fuck you (/silly)

this is for my own au becuzzzz i wont let go of a chance to talk about them :3 we got sunshine(sunvant)/solstice(eclipse) and they are an absolute WRECK. theyre both fucked over by their past and the beginnings of their relationship is so rocky bc sunshine doesnt trust anyone + doesnt understand nor believe he deserves affection (hes also constantly wanting to go back to lord eclipse). meanwhile solstice doesnt even see sunshine as a person and rather as a project to work on (and also an opportunity to maybe better himself. maybe if he can help someone then that means he can be a better person). solar comes in later and while i havent Completely thought about their dynamics i will say that both solar and solstice are very overprotective of sunshine. they both constantly butt heads bc they both want to protect him while sunshine just sits in a corner head in hands trying to figure out how to get them to stop without having his own panic attack (they get better tho dw <3)

anyway uhhhhh i think thats all for now lol

have fun with this info ig

[sidesteppostinghours]

WIP wednesday

tagged by @thecryptidenthusiast! this is on wednesday! dont. dont look at which wednesday it is. its on wednesday thats whats important here.

uni projects were absolutely kicking my Ass this past week so i havent been able to do much, but i do have these:

Ortega stares at the file in front of him. The new villain stares back.

Puppeteer.

Not Heartbreak. Not anymore, at least. He rubs his hands against his face, sighing. It doesn't make sense. He still remembers the jolt that went through him the first time he heard that name. Had the decncy to introduce themeself before they started breaking his bones, but in hindsight, he wishes they hadn't. His blood ran cold, and maybe his reactions did, too. Yeah, that's it. The name was a distraction; that fits with the way Puppeteer operates. That has to be the reason he lost that fight. Heartbreak: 2, Ortega: 0. But if they're looking for a reaction, why change it? Go so far as to mess with people's memories of what their name used to be? He's only grateful that the rest of the Rangers seem to remember everything the same he does. If it got bad enough to affect the team, he'd have to call in Cyrus, and he'd probably swear at him again.

was having thoughts about the "there are some perks to being a telepathic body snatcher, after all" line in the sewers when you consider potentially disliking the name picked out, and how ortega would feel about that.

"Thank you for showing me it doesn't have to be horrible." Mirlene's chest muffles your words, but you can feel her mind lighting up at them anyway.

"What?" she asks, but she is already adding up the dots. At least you can't see her face with your eyes shut and you curled in on her. "Mon couer..." "It's fine. It was a long time ago," you lie. You can feel her consider her next move, a slow, deliberate process at odds with how she normally thinks. It's no surprise when she reaches a hand out to you, and only slightly one when she leaves it hovering an inch or two above yours. Asking permission. That was always the difference between her and the scientists at the Farm. Treating this simple touch as if it's just as important as the places she put her hands on a few moments ago. You take her hand and squeeze it gratefully. "I'm sorry, mon couer," she whispers. "You should never have had to..." She can't quite finish the sentence, trailing off at the end. "I did, though." This time, you look up. There's a furrow in her brow. Too worried for something that's already passed. The kiss she places on your knuckles is gentle enough to nearly break you, though her thoughts are anything but. You can feel her fury, bubbling in the background of her mind in a muted flurry of [righteous anger and] protectiveness, but it's a feeling she puts to the side because they are secondary. Secondary to you. You are what's important to her. You are her first priority. Will the novelty ever wear off? You don't think so.

got brainblasted when i realized that theres likely eventually going to be a "thank you for showing me it doesnt have to be horrible" scene with mortum and took so much psychological damage i had to make my own take on it. MCBODY MORTUMSTEP PLEASEEEEE IM WAITING FOR YOU LIKE A LOVER LOST TO WAR

tagging uhhhhh @hyper-pixels @firststrikerr @reapersmarch andddd @glass-warehouse if yall are up for it?

[oscconfessions]

haiii this is the anon who said nickloon is like cartman x heidi and id just like to expand on this a little more because uhhhhh bored

In season one Nickel and Balloon never really interacted, at-least not enough to form any kind of any form of dynamic at all.

In season two when Balloon was trying to get better, Nickel basically spends the entire season being a dick to Balloon and telling him he sucks/telling the team that Balloon is pretty useless. Let’s not forget how Nickel immediately started talking behind his back in the maze episode.. reminder that Balloon hasn’t done anything to Nickel up to this point.

In the COMICS because I am bringing these up because they’re said to be canon unless the series specifically contradicts something, Balloon writes everyone apology notes, INCLUDING Nickel. Balloon is being genuine and just wants to be on good terms with everyone. However, Instead of accepting the apology or just being a normal person and saying “Hey I don’t accept your apology” or something like that, Nickel just.. doesn’t even care?? Like he just looks annoyed..

In season three, Nickel is nicer but is still rude, which is part of his character so I’m not totally against that. I do think being slightly nicer to Balloon was definitely from some help of the notes. However, even when they are getting to good terms Nickel just weirdly babies Balloon constantly?? Its kinda gross imo.. and Balloon is SHOWN being upset/uncomfortable by this! I mean.. telling someone to “watch over” you while being a grown man just because you moved teams is..? Remember how Cartman constantly did the whole “Heidi is super smart and really funny” thing? Yaah.. anways. Eventually Nickel does apologize genuinely and thats good and I have no problem with that, I just hate how weird everything was before that. I HATEEE how he babied Balloon, Its weird. Anyways no hate to Nickloon fans, I just like ranting about stuff I care too much about

SORRY FOR WRITING SO MUCH I JUST LIKE EXPLAINING THINGS 😭👅

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[wildcatfourteen]

how do you come up with such interesting composition? your pieces are always so captivating 💗

thank youuuuuuuuuu <33 and the truth is. idk. i am kinda just winging it and making a lot of adjustments as i go.... im not very orderly about it and have my thoughts kinda all over the place. heres some examples under the cut w what process pics i could find

direction process goes >>>

first did a pencil sketch for big shapes. was just placing stuff down. i wanted to make ref sheets for an art trade but didnt want to make a traditional type bc i hate drawing ppl standing full body (bc im bad at it 👍) also i did not have specific outfits in mind and was going more for a reference of the general vibe of the characters, so i just wanted a full body pose + face close up. to avoid having to show specific details. bc i was cheating. was originally going to have multiple text bubbles around for the character facts

did like two sketches digitally. messed around a LOT with placement. the little emote heads came out of me feeling like it was empty and boring on its own and they are fun to draw so why not include them. the multiple text bubbles seemed like a bad idea now so i took them out and just did one text wall.

i actually dont like the text wall now and think breaking it up wouldve been more fun visually but that would've required effort i didnt wanna put in LOL

^ i lost the pencil sketch for this one (i always do a pencil sketch) but it was actually just the two half body drawings at first with none of that shit at the bottom or the close ups until i was like fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk i gotta add smth around to make this look like theres stuff happening..... the idea was to draw the two main characters of the labb novel in some kinda comic format w panels around and i then. kept adding things until it seemed like i was getting somewhere. thats kind of my process for everything TT i think it helps to stay in a workshopping stage for longer if needed to get somewhere but i often get impatient LOL

im putting a stupid note abt this here bc im still annoyed at myself but in this novel, there was a bit about a crossword puzzle related to a murder case and i only thought of it afterwards that it would be kinda cool to put the sugar cubes in like a crossword puzzle formation....... why didnt i do that......

^ and heres some of the process for this one, but i lost a LOT of the steps for this. the beginning was totally different. the character wasnt as pathetic and scared looking at first but then i was like uhhhhh lets draw him that way :)

the first pencil draft was from a different perspective and it was gonna have a mirror composition to it kinda? but i wasn't able to make that look appealing so i deleted it. it still had the curtains tho but then i also included stuff with framed mirrors + other frames around

i decided to instead make the curtains be the focus of the whole piece to not make it so cluttered. character's pose was so different at first it was so bad i dont even wanna remember it. i took out the frames entirely bc i didnt think they added much to the piece in terms of the atmosphere. since like. the more i worked on it w the character's + the goat's expressions the more it gave a 'being hunted' feeling to it and portrait frames dont fit that vibe. which feels funny bc u look at it and thats all u can think abt but i wasnt even gunning for that when starting out. BE FLEXIBLE. TRUST THE PROCESS.

[rbarrysncream]

Not a doodle idea, sorry. But I was wondering do you have any college advice? I have to forecast classes tomorrow and it is low key intimidating

@superdemon552

uhhhhh, I'm probably not the best person to come to for college advice, but here's a few things from the top of my head:

(these aren't gonna be in any order so, sorry if they're a bit random lol)

-If you have roommates, even if they're also a bit messy with their things, its always nice to keep the room area somewhat clean

-Make a schedule for washing dishes and doing laundry

-Buy a few protection devices (I have an alarm, and a tube of pepper spray that looks like lipstick (makes me feel like a spy lol))

-Get all of your required classes over and done with, that way you aren't scrambling during your last years at college

-Dont be afraid of asking your teachers for help (coming from a person who feels insanely stupid every time I ask for help...just do it. its not the end of the world, and you aren't the first, or last person to ask for help)

-READ YOUR EMAILS. DONT JUST SKIM THEM, READ THEM. Especially if it involves your roommates. There was an email sent out about housing for next year, but I didn't see it until later, and we got stuck with a dorm building we didn't want. READ. YOUR. EMAILS.

-also, when you move out, make double, triple, QUADRUPLE sure that you packed EVERYTHING. (I left my full-ass mirror back at my dorm at the end of my sophomore year, and my roommate had to throw it out)

-Always carry a few dollars in cash. You'll never know when, or if you may need it.

-Get a debit/credit card

-If you need to take a day off, take the damn day off, and dont let your mom make you feel bad about it (yes I'm projecting lol)

-but on that note, dont take so many days off that you miss important classes. sometimes you truly just have to tough it out.

-some classes are gonna be incredibly boring, and youre gonna want to gouge your eyes out the whole time, but they're gonna be incredibly useful in the long run. Ex: I had a 3 hour Business of Art class every Wednesday last semester, and it was the most boring shit in the world, but it actually helped me make my resume, which I've been sending out to different job applications

-If you have multiple roommates, make a group chat. helps with things like grocery shopping, meme sending, and letting members know when its their turn to clean up a bit

-if youre having trouble mentally, and you dont have a therapist, talk to a counselor! I spoke to one my entire last semester and it helped SO MUCH. also, if you dont like the counselor you were given, at least in my school, you can ask for a different one

-Make a schedule for doing homework

Thats all I can think of right now, but I hope this somewhat helps!

Good luck in college, bestie, you'll do great!!!