#wtf is diagonal

[cameoliob]

so i actually have mad indescribable beef with his OG pants from season 4 so i had to take matters into my own hands

[testiclegoblin]

It's Thursday... why?

[emotargaryen]

just accidentally put 2 massive scratches on my glasses lens im gonna kill myslef

[beachboysnatural]

Crash Landing on You the woman that you are

[nettedtangible]

You know what's wild to me is Hinny actually had the potential to be a really good ship and missed the mark so fucking hard bc Harry could never stop staring at Draco.

No one else Harry's age besides Ginny has had any interactions with Tom Riddle/Voldemort on a personal level. And then she spends an ENTIRE YEAR with the guy and Harry never asks her one question about it? not a one?

And I cannot remember a single interaction between the two of them in POA, there's about a million with Draco, but from memory, all I can recall is something like "Ginny was even more shy than ever around him now after he'd saved her life last year" which doesn't really make much sense because he's the only one who could even come close to understand what she's feeling and vice versa. And there's not even 1 scene. One! when they're all chillin in Diagon alley and Ginny comes up to him and they talk about the chamber, not one. It could've so easily been slotted in there at Florean Fortescues while Ron and Hermione look at books or something. But no.

Ginny and Harry could've had a deep bond over 1. knowing tom riddle personally. 2. their fears about losing their own autonomy and sense of self in the face of such a powerful enemy and 3. almost dying together at the hands of said enemy.

But they literally never do. Draco gets scratched up by Buckbeack tho and we hear about 6 renditions of Harry teeth-grittingly mad that he's playing it up for attention.

Like consider this! Harry is walking down the corridor and he hears Parseltongue. He freaks out bc WTF?! the basilisk is alive?! He bursts into Myrtle's bathroom to find Ginny, broom in hand, trying to open the Chamber with the only phrase she remembers from her possession. And he's like wtf are you doing? And she's like, I can't let this control me forever! I'm going down there and I'm going to bury this whole thing once and for all. She's a Gryffindor and essentially Fred and George's prodigal heir to mischief. OF COURSE she would try to go back down there. And Harry would hate it bc he's definitely a ignore your problems until they go awayer

But he would take her down there because he would feel guilty, and protective, and curious as well. And they could actually explore and look around and he would realise that she's actually quite fearless.

(total aside but why the fuck was Harry never pulled out of class in POA by McGonagall like "come with me Potter, you need to open the Chamber of Secrets for us so the professors can go down there and make sure it's all copasetic." Like yeah, sure, just leave a potentially dead? potentially alive? Carcass of a Basilisk to rot down there why not?)

And what if Ginny has a really hard time with recklessness after Chamber. What if she starts doing kinda crazy things that put herself in danger because she refuses to be afraid. What if she develops a "saving people thing" that forces Harry to confront what his crazy brand of throwing his whole ass self at the problem looks like to people who care about him.

What if she won't stop talking to him about Riddle, and it's making him uncomfortable bc hey, that's the guy who killed my parents. and she's like yeah but you talked about his cheekbones for at least 10 mins the other day? and he's like... ok yes but have you seen his cheekbones?!

In Philosophers, Harry says you can't go through some things with another person without becoming friends (referring to Hermione and the troll) but I guess you can almost get murdered by a giant snake and your mutual weird soul bond enemy at the bottom of a giant well and that's not a bonding moment.

The entire sequence of events served to bring Harry closer to 1. Dumbledore 2. Riddle 3. Fawkes the Phoenix 4. The Sorting Hat 5. The Sword of Gryffindor

And not Ginny in the slightest.

Hinny could've been great but Drarry just came in with a chair and fucking bodied Harry so hard that nothing else could ever even catch his attention.

[duckprintspress]

Alright, I know there are four days left of summer technically, but looking at what I have left and what I expect to read in the next few days, I don't expect to finish any more squares, so here we are: my @queerliblib Mega-Queer Summer Reading Bingo Card! I got two bingos total - top row and one diagonal.

Genre fiction: Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham

Coming of age: Sunhead by Alex Assan

Comfort Read: Thousand Autumns vol. 5 by Meng Xi Shi

Comic, Manga, or Graphic Novel: Blue Flag vol. 2 by Kaito

Memoir: Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman

Poetry: blank

Queer pulp fiction: blank

Short Story Anthology: Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica (I'm the editor so of course I read it!)

Print and post QLL fliers: I DID THIS! I printed out four quarter-sheets and last time I went to the library I asked them to put it on the board. I've got three more quarter-sheets and I'll be asking as I go to other branches, too.

Main character shares your identity: I Want to Be a Wall vol. 3 by Honami Shirono

Stonewall Award winner or nominee: blank

Format swap! Fine by Rhea Ewing (I usually read fiction, this is non-fiction, I hope that counts...)

Free space: Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

Indigenous author: blank (to the best of my knowledge none were by indigenous authors but it's also not something I usually check)

QLL book rec: blank (though again, I didn't actually check, oops)

Queer non-fiction: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

Main character doesn't share your identity: Silent Hearts vol. 1 by Jing Shui Bian

Lambda Award winner or nominee: blank

Set in the past: For the Love of God, Marie! by Jade Sarson

Queer picture book: Wolfpitch by Balazs Lorinczi (do YA graphic novels count as picture books? oh well.)

Queer book in translation: Blue Flag vol. 4 by Kaito

Do a subject search for a book: At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender by Shou Arai

Queer classic: blank

Book with a protagonist older than 40: Guardian vol. 3 by priest (he's like. 10,000 years old.)

Set in the future: blank (amazingly, I've read like no sci-fi this summer?? wtf????)

This was a fun challenge, thanks Queer Liberation Library for hosting it!!

(are y'all in the US? have you signed up to access the QLL through Libby yet? because you should - check it out here.)

[pareidoliaonthemove]

Random Weirdness on the Railway

I’ve done nearly ten years on the railway now, and one of the things they don’t tell you when you start is … you’re gonna hit things.

Animals, trees, shopping trolleys, trucks … people. (Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those stories.)

Where I work, Central West New South Wales in Australia, the most common thing to hit is kangaroos, followed by sheep. They just get in the corridor, and … don’t get off the tracks. Unless we get stock notification from the Network Controller and can slow down in time, we usually can’t stop, and, well, a train can’t swerve.

So yesterday, I’m in the assistant driver’s seat, and we’re going along between the two towns we’re scheduled to run through, and there’s a something on the line. We figure it’s a kangaroo, and sound the horn, and then it starts awkwardly flying.

It’s not a kangaroo.

It’s a peacock.

And it’s not flying away. Well, it is, but a peacock flying directly along the tracks away from a train doing 80km/h is going to lose. Badly.

We keep sounding the horn – we can’t stop. It’s just not physically possible.

And the damned peacock just will not turn. It keeps going straight ahead.

We lose sight of it in the windscreen, and we both check our side windows, but it doesn’t come out the side. We’ve hit it full on, and it’ll be on the tracks as a 900metre trail goes over it.

So we call Control. A peacock is probably going to be somebody’s escaped pet. So we notify control that we’ve hit it, the approximate kilometerage, and that we didn’t see it come out the side. Its up to Control to decide if there is a risk the animal is still alive, and organise for it to be euthanised, and it’s also so they know what happened and when if somebody calls up screaming that a train has killed their beloved, valuable animal (and yes, it happens – some people seem to believe we’ve been chasing their livestock through fields in the train, instead of it got out of their unmaintained fences and onto the train tracks).

And we think no more of it.

Until we get to where we’re scheduled to get off the train.

By now it’s full dark. The relief crew lets us into the yard. This yard is a “Y” junction. It has three tracks in and out, shaped like a capital Y. We came in the right diagonal, and the train needs to go out the left diagonal, so we have to take the locos off the front, and put them on the ‘back’.

The relief crew detaches the locos from the wagons, and we go to do the crew change over at the points at the bottom of the yard. As the locos get closer to the points, we go past a couple of lights.

A call comes over the radio. “Uh, did you guys … hit something?”

Damn. Obviously there’s parts hung up in the pipework on the front of the loco. Yuck. They’ll need to be pulled off. Double yuck. I’m the Assistant Driver on the outgoing crew. That’s my job. Triple yuck.

We answer yes, we did.

Silence.

“Uhh. You guys need to see this.”

WTF?

We pull up at the points, both jump down. The car’s been swung around so the headlights are facing the front of the loco. The two guys are just standing there, staring.

By now we’re sweating bullets. There was nothing there when we checked the train over before leaving. We only hit the peacock. We’d have noticed if we hit something else! What the hell is wrong?!

We join the next crew and – no idea what we’re going to see – turn to look at the front of the loco.

It’s the peacock.

It’s the whole peacock.

Its tail is caught in the coupler, and drooping down, almost touching the ground. Its little feet are braced against the coupler, and its entire back and neck is pressed up against the front of the loco. It’s wings … oh dear god, its wings are splayed out, one either side, pressed up against the front of the loco.

We’ve just driven over 100kms and through a major town, at the tail end of peak hour traffic, with a peacock splayed across the front of our loco like it’s been crucified.

That is one hell of a hood ornament.

I don’t know how long we stood there for, just staring at the utter absurdity of the situation, and completely unable to believe what we’re seeing.

Finally one of the relief crew gathers his wits. “We can’t leave that there.”

It’s enough to break the spell, I step forward, trying to figure out the best way to tackle this as I pull on my gloves.

The peacock moves.

We all jump back.

It shakes its head, then peels first one, then the other, wing off the front of the loco. Then it curls its neck, and sort of peels itself off the front of the loco, like a cartoon character after it’s been squashed flat on a wall, and sort of collapses onto the coupler. It sits there, looking around.

We’re back to staring.

The peacock notices us. It glares as it starts shaking itself out, like it’s checking for injuries.

It must be feeling relatively okay, because it stops moving, ups the power of the glare, and then screams at us.

We take a step back, still staring.

This goes on for another minute or so, the four of us frozen, staring, as this peacock screams at us, clearly giving us piece of its mind.

And then it stops. It has obviously said its piece, but it keeps glaring at us, in between looking around again.

And abruptly, it launches itself off the coupler, and disappears into the darkness.

[the-merry-otter]

Saw your post about a viking underdress - do you have a pattern for it? I’ve never sewn anything other than, like, a button back on, and I don’t know where to start but I need an authentic, basic viking/Anglo-Saxon long sleeved dress and can’t find a pattern anywhere! People in reenactment that I’ve asked about it have just said ‘sew one, they’re really easy’ but I’ve never made anything 🤣🥹😭.

Thanks in advance for reading this, and don’t worry if you don’t have any resources!

Aha! So it is pretty easy, but knowing that alone definitely isn't sufficient instruction 😂

DISCLAIMER FOR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: I only do Norse stuff for fun, and therefore haven’t gone as in-depth with research as I do with some of my other projects. This is good for a generic viking-look kit, and it will be sufficient so that no one should go "thats horrible wtf are you doing", but if you wanna delve properly into the world of norse garments, don't take me as an authority on the subject xD

When I was first starting out in costuming, youtube was my friend. Opus Elenae makes a viking underdress here, but the video itself is largely aesthetic, without sufficient instruction to make one yourself.

Elin Abrahamsson has a more in-depth tutorial of the same pattern here, though hers is made for the 14th century. I recommend following hers for the basic construction, and making the gores a little longer (Viking gores would have been from armpit to hem), and following the neckline part of the Opus Elenae video. You also don't need to shape it at all - AFAIK the vikings didn't do that (see disclaimer though).

Also the sleeves are different: Viking sleeves were more of a trapezium shape, with the length from elbow to wrist, one width the circumference of your shoulder, and the other width the circumference of your relaxed elbow (so you can push the sleeve up if needed). You also want a little square about 15-20cm that is inserted diagonally in the sleeve and side seam so that you can move your arm.

Here is a semi-decent PDF on viking patterns, though their underdress pattern is different to what I used. The "Birka Style Tunic" is the closest to the pattern I've been describing - you'll just want to make it dress-length, and add the front and back gores.

Additional notes:

- always, for the love of all you hold dear, fell/finish your seams so they can’t fray

- make your hem measurement a couple of inches lower than you think you want it - it’s way easier to trim that down than it is to add back on.

- when inserting gores, you want it to be sewn in so that the *middle* of the gore is in line with the rest of the hem - the corners will stick out slightly beyond that. You then trim them down to make a nice circle. If you match the corners to the hem, the gore will rise up in the middle.

- best of luck with inserting the middle gores. Expect to have to unpick them a couple of times 🥲

- remember to add seam allowance to your measurements! I usually add 1.5cm-2cm.

- if you're short on fabric, you can cut the gores by tracing out a rectangle of the same length and half the width, cutting it diagonally from corner to corner, and then sewing together the two triangles along the straight edge. This is the common historical way to do it for that time period.

Anyway, hopefully this all makes some kind of collective sense!! It's very distressing to me that I wasn't able to find a comprehensive tutorial on the matter, and has made me even more convinced that I should attempt my own channel. Let me know if you have any further questions!

[beaniebabs]

i just realized my ribcage is uneven. wtf. i didn’t even know that was a thing that could exist. when i lay down flat the left side of my ribcage sticks out like an inch further than the right side. my ribs are diagonal. wtf. can someone take all my ribs out for me

[faunabel]

AGH the reason i cant clear stupid tell your world append is because the stupid hold notes cause my phone to move all over the place :// it pisses me off. four fingers is just too much weight for one little phone. it ends up diagonal and i cant see wtf im doing.

i finally cleared a third song on append (the vampire) but it genuinely enrages me that i cant clear the easiest one

well anyway fun fact i had assumed the vampire was one of rin's songs until prsk because i saw her cover of it years ago and my brain mixed things up. i wish she had a cover thatd be cool. im v happy len's cover of lost one's weeping is in the game tho. i played that on repeat back when it first came out.

also i didnt know childish war was in the game at first. i was literally thinking to myself wow i wish that song was in the game, then later realized it is and just uses the romanized name for some reason instead of the english translation. whats up with that anyway why do some songs keep their japanese names?? i did not know pomp & circumstance was in the game for a while either because never in my life did i expect it to be called ifuudoudou

childish war is very fun btw. the hold flick section irritates me a little tho. sometimes its easy and sometimes all of my flicks miss for no reason.

finally i mentioned earlier how i love most of kaito's songs and i can say the same thing abt rin and len's songs. the only one so far that i dont rly care for is sick of house. but all of their others r soo good and their voices fit energetic songs so well. still obsessed with odo. i also love fake heart and childish war (ofc) and remote control and bring it on and becoming potatoes and i probably forget some

oh also im obsessed with snowman currently. which is by kaito so its unrelated but the accordion?? idk if thats what it is but u know it goes dududu dududu dudududuuuuu i love the way it sounds aghhh it makes my ears happy i want to curl up inside of that sound and rest. so so cozy.

[planet-h4te]

Unexpected, but definitely hot.

(threesome, mmf, casual sex, sharing)

Me and a friend are sitting inside my room watching a show. Both of us are looking at the TV sitting on the diagonal corners of the bed. It's pretty dark in the room.

I notice you come inside the room, only wearing a long shirt from me, some black shorts beneath it and black thigh highs. You enter the room without saying anything because you greeted my friend when he did come in. You lay diagonally onto the bed, your head on my lap and your feet right next to his lap.

We continue watching the show, it seems like you just wanted to hang out a little. As I start to notice how you start to rub your hands over my pants. I try to hide the fact that I get turned on by just looking at the TV. Your hand starts to move up and down on my slowly growing bulge. I realize what your idea is, but I'm turned on by it. And I mean look at her, there is no one that wouldn't want to fuck my girlfriend, especially not my friend over there.

I think he hasn't noticed anything yet. I see your feet moving towards his pants. I see how he's completely overwhelmed by that, he doesn't know what to do, but he decides to just stare at the TV. You start to lick my bulge and get a little bit more playful with your butt as you get your feet closer to his dick. You also feel his dick growing inside his pants. He slowly grabs his phone next to him and tries to play it cool. He texts me:

friend: wtf is happening? am I allowed to play along?

me: this one time, yes

He keeps his phone in his hand as I feel you unzip my pants and start to suck me off. I try to distract myself by looking at the TV, but it's so hard. My eyes start to wander down to your ass and I see you wiggle it slowly back and forth. My eyes continue wandering and I see you in your knee socks. You have his bulge right between your feet. Moving them up and down slowly.

You look up into my eyes and wait for my approval. I just nood and you start to get up and rotate. My friend is overwhelmed not doing much but letting you open up his pants and his dick pops out. And you start to suck him off. I feel your feet around my dick as you start to give me a footjob. As you move your head up and down on him your ass continues to wiggle and I take the invitation and move down your black panties. And start to finger your pussy, while you give me a footjob. I look over and see your long brown hair moving as you go up and down, I start to hear you moan.

I move your legs to the side and get my head between your legs and start to kiss the outer lips until I lick over your clit. I can feel you getting all sensitive and moan more while you deepthroated his dick. I eat you out, I see you rest your head on his lap, eyes closed just jerking him off as you moan slowly. I start to rotate you into your back and then push your head to the end of the bed and let it hang off.

I nod my friend to stand up from the bed and he does. I put your legs up and push your long shirt up until your belly and your tits are exposed. You look so hot in your knee socks, pale skin and dark hair. You look at me as I push my dick inside you. Your eyes roll back and so does your head. Laying ready for my friend to push his dick inside too. I start to fuck your cunnie faster and using my thumb to circle around your clit. Your legs that are up start to get all tense, I know you are a fast girl, especially if someone is touching your clit but this fast? I can feel you cumming, your whole body starts to shake. Both of us are so turned on that we also start to cum and you feel me filling up your cunt and him shooting his cum inside your mouth. And you swallow every bit of it.

[rainmustfallts4]

DovahSims: A Legacy of Legends ◇ Gen 1, Part 2

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Time to go dumpster diving c: Hopefully we get something good that we can use.

“Um… what are you doing?”

“What’s it look like I’m doing?”

“Digging through the trash?”

“No, you donut! I’m diving for deals.”

“…huh, so you’re one of those crazy guys my mom warned me about. I thought she just made that up to scare me.”

“Hello, ma’am, would you like to talk for like three minutes?”

“Whatever for?”

“My social is low.”

“Your what is low?”

“My social. You know, that bar that goes down when you don’t talk to people for too long?”

“…huh, you’re one of those crazy men my gran warned me about when I was a child. Why, I thought that was just a story!”

“Why does everyone keep calling me crazy? That’s so rude :(“

“I’ll just have to drown my sorrows in this corner. Rain, wash over me! Take away my sorrows!”

He got clean just so he could dumpster dive again lmao

“Mister, whatcha doin’?”

“Seriously, does no one in this town know what diving for deals is?!”

“‘Course, I do. You’re lookin’ for furniture, right?”

“…kid, you may just be the smartest kid in this place.”

“Hehe, thanks. Greg tells me that, too.”

“Who is Greg?”

“My demon bestie! Can’t you see him? He’s right here!”

“…huh, you’re one of them demonic kids I always heard stories about. Creepy.”

“Hello, sir. Shall we converse while stuffing our faces?”

“My kids hate me.”

“That’s why you don’t have kids.”

“Why couldn’t I have met you 16 years ago…”

There are some lemon trees near his plot of land so he harvested them and planted them. Rather than selling them, he’s gonna eat them so we don’t waste money on buying food. The problem is that it takes like 8 lemons to fill his hunger lmao

I have a bit of rant here. I wanted a diagonal house so I placed the shell and started to make the entryway/porch. Only… STAIRS DON’T GO DIAGONALLY. Wtf sims. I was so happy with the shape and then you make me have to redo it all so it’s not diagonal anymore ;_;) Do you know how lazy I am, game? do you

Some cute selfies of the cutie c:

His life thus far has been rough, but he’s happy to have a second chance, as difficult as it may be. He can only hope that it will get easier as time passes.

[astrologycharts242]

Me trying to use astrology to predict on myself in regards to relationships. (Part 2)

I told my indian friend on Reddit about the start of October idk how it's going to happen but most likely my male friend is gonna make me have to go in one of those places. Since we hop in his car and go to different places every now and then.

Boom so two days ago November 7th 2023. He wanted to go in the mall to get a suit for a wedding the same week. I was like let me test out this prediction. While he is trying on clothes I'm walking around the mall seeing friends. I checked up on his suit wearing once. Then I was like let me go to the cafeteria sit down see if they have any free wifi or good food. The restaurants are behind where people sit by the way. I didn't like the food in that area. I sat down was on my phone. For about 2 minutes this girl was walking behind my back very slowly. I was like wtf is that behind me. She wasn't walking directly to me but past me in like a east to west direction. I glanced at her face a bit to see if I recognized it but I didn't. It was a very lightskin chick wearing a red shirt. She had bleached or blonde braids.

Next thing you know in a diagonal direction I guess to see my face better. Somehow she had a friend that appeared out of nowhere. They were both looking in my direction smiling not in a bad way either. I looked behind me and nobody was there so I guess they were looking at me. Maybe I should've waived. Thanks to astrology I was confident an interaction like that was gonna happen. In the month of October a girl I used to mess with in school was working at an event I attended so I interacted with her multiple times. I knew an interaction like this was going to happen but the cafeteria where restaurants are would be the prediction.

Now if the girl I saw in the mall becomes a future girlfriend or a chick I end up having sex with wouldn't be surprised at all.

The prediction is supposed to make a more interactive meet up though like an actual conversation.

The area is like that but the photo on the right is old. The restaurants are set up as stalls. They got a chinese restaurant there too.

[skyland2703]

waitwaitwait had a crazy idea.

if Gridstagram is a thing, then, what about a secret ranger underground market.

like. cafes, stores. like that kinda shit.

is this worldbuilding?

Ansjdjsjsjdbd yes this is world building and I 100% support it. COMPLETELY.

Because 1) The vibe omg. They should have a secret underground mall— I’m tempted to say like Diagon Alley but fuck jkr— but it’s DEFINITELY a thing. And it’s got a secret entrance from every single ranger base— idk teleporter a or smth.

You’ve got places where you can buy power ups, hang out with rangers, MERCH. Of each others teams.

You’ve got this one super techy section for all the geniuses, you’ve got a karaoke bar for the ranger musicians, you’ve got a trophy cabinet where all of them place momentos.

Theres a zord bay that just HAS all the zords and a zord hang out spot— that’s the biggest part of the mall??? Everything else is human sized. (Samurai zords get trolled a lot for being utterly TINY) and even spare zord parts etc are made/sold.

GUESS WHAT I THINK we just figured out how Nate got his hand on all those ranger weapons and shii.

I also feel like this starts somewhere mid-Jungle Fury/Megaforce. RJ definitely has a hand in this. most of the generic mentors don’t know about it because mentors are buzzkills usually (Not Solon and Dr. K obviously.) but yknow. Zordon Gosei Captain Mitchell and the like.

AND THE CAFÉS. ranger double dates. Color coordinated cafés. Ships of different colors arguing on which color cafe they should go to. And it’s all run by rangers in their free time!! So they’ve got schedules and dates.

Arfjfjdjjshdhjsns THE BRAINROT IS REAL. I love this idea wtf.

[luci-in-trenchcoats]

I had the "you were seen hugging a child" moment in public just like Jensen in this chapter 😭 I was hanging out with my little brother in the park and he decided to come up and crawl into my lap and hug me tightly to which I obviously responded with a hug back and a ✨Karen✨ came up to me and threatened me with jail because I was molesting a child (???) like woman chill he's my little brother wtf is wrong with you I ain't gonna yeet him six feet diagonally because he came up for a hug 😭👌

ALSO ALL THE FEELS IN THE NEW CHAPTER, DUDE YOU DO BE KILLING ME 😭😭😭 He's so adorable and confused and all over the place I just wanna give him a hug :(

I'm so sorry that happened! Like, I get people being concerned but also not everyone in the world is evil. Sometimes people are just out with their families being normal.

Adorably confused is the perfect way to describe Jensen right now lol. He needs all the hugs he can get!

[krowspiracyanon]

The more I look at my most recent art the more the flaws pop out. It looks amateurish in a way even my really old stuff never did. Not helped by the new-to-me manga style.

The size of the head could be brushed off as perspective (viewer is standing slightly above, and Dorian is leaning forward) but no.

It was simply made too large and was not resized when I had the chance. His face was also made too wide for the three quarter angle, which in reality should slim a face.

I even think the angle was a bit off in an unflattering way, making the face appear as flat and wide as possible. Remind me to check out some guides on photography blogs to work out wtf I did there.

Putting his muzzle on him made it worse. I'm thinking that the horizontal bars drew the eyes sideways.

Also the black parts securing it at the sides of his face were high visual weight, being large, solid, and very dark. I quote the definition of high visual weight - your eyes will be drawn to the parts that are "bigger in size, simpler in shape, use dark colors, or have high contrast." Those parts of the muzzle are all of the above and at the bad angle both sides were shown.

So yes, obviously your eyes will be further drawn from side to side emphasising the width. Mental reminder to take this into account next time.

Packing more hair on the other side of his face in an attempt to cover up some of the width only made his head look larger and disrupted the diagonal created by his body and hair. It messed with the composition.

Also with the position of his features (especially mouth) and the angle of the muzzle the chin should have been angled further up, blunted and foreshortened. Otherwise the features should have been lowered and the muzzle angle less severe.

As a tall adult man he also needed to be longer and sturdier in the body and limbs. I was trying to make him strong without being bulky but he looks too compact and delicate.

I also need to study and practice the curve of fringes (bangs) at different angles.

The grey of his hair and PJs were different and had different finishes but a bit monotonous.

Dorian's hair was also too cool and dark grey. He's an albino with pale peachy white hair. Maybe very pale greige. I keep giving him iron grey because I haven't yet chosen or mixed the right colour. I skipped the highlights and it looked very flat compared to his shiny pyjamas. It's also too straight and not fluffy.

The picture does have its charm though.

Dorian's expression is less soft and dreamy than the original inspiration but he looks giddy and lovestruck. Cute. I originally wanted to have his face and hair illuminated by pink light streaming through the window, and call it 'Pink In the Night' after the Mitski song.

My favourite bit is his shoulders and his hands. I was making educated guesses at anatomy from the shoulders and underarms (I haven't studied that yet) but I did put some thought and work in there. The hand and fingers are a little simple but I'm pleased with them. (Going back I would have coloured that little gap as flesh though, to show his thumb. It actually was flesh coloured and I went and absent mindedly screwed it up.)

I did learn a lot of new things doing it by the book. Especially with the inking, which made me change some brushes to suit my needs.

I'm very happy with actually doing the figure drawing from scratch rather than chicken scratching or guessing the strokes by eye, and using the grid method was a good guide.

Dividing the canvas into a grid of thirds ('the rule of thirds') will also be good for original composition if I get to that.

And at least I'm working out why I'm not satisfied with my work so I can break down each part, rather than just hating it.

I was initially trying a manga style due to being intimidated by fine art tutes and hoping it would help me work more efficiently. (Rather than getting stuck on detail and never finishing, or attempting things too advanced and getting frustrated.)

But it seems a little of what I've read and seen has soaked in. Perhaps I should get back to the fine art angle more because it seems I'm decent at rendering but also literally never learned the fundamentals.

There's a video by Stephen Bauman called "I wish I knew this when I was an art student" where he brings up something called 'blocking in'. Other videos on the sidebar refer to this as a quick method and maybe it'll work for me better than the unfamiliar manga style that results in fat heads.

He also talks about the fear factor and intimidation that can put someone off from art, which is very relevant to me. It was reassuring to hear that it's normal and there are ways to manage it.