#//i think i'm still on schedule?

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4)

[humanmorph]

where's my man eclectic

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

daechwita

[hyakunana]

Episode 41: The Jet-Black Shogun

[clockwayswrites]

Danny/Duke, Yellow, Train horn @apersond

Duke was dreaming.

He knew that he was dreaming because everything looked like before. Before his powers developed. Before he could see all the befores and all the afters. Before he knew that he wasn’t fully human. Duke liked dreaming because of that.

Seeing everything he saw was exhausting. It was more information than and human mind was supposed to handle. And, well, he wasn’t fully human, but he was still half. There were days where Duke wondered if he was really able to handle everything. (Those days were usually migraine days.) But when he was dreaming, Duke could still feel normal for a little while.

Unsure what he was dreaming about (and honestly not really caring), Duke wandered the distorted version of Gotham that his mind had made up. The major points were all there, but everything had been squished together like a city in a snow globe. Duke past a new stand full of magazine he couldn’t read in the dream, the covers full of people he knew, and found himself suddenly on Gotham U’s campus in the main quad.

The whole square was bathed in a green light. A green light that Duke knew, but he shouldn’t be seeing in his dream. His dreams were supposed to be like before. There wasn’t supposed to be the distortions here. So why did his boyfriend still light up the world around him with green?

It was almost blinding as Danny turned towards Duke. Danny’s eyes were endless pools of green.

“Help me.”

Danny’s voice echoed through the quad, bouncing off the old stonework buildings like they were in the Cave and Danny was using a megaphone.

“Help you? What’s wrong?” Duke shouted back, struggling against the sudden wind that had picked up.

“Help me.”

There was ringing under Danny’s voice now. Like the city train's whistle when the winter air caught it and made it travel further than you could normally hear it. It matched the way the earth rumbled and shuttered under Duke’s feet like a passing train car.

“I don’t know how! What’s wrong?!”

“Help me.”

The grass fell away from under Danny’s feet, breaking apart and falling into a swirling green void. Danny hung there, perfectly posed in midair for a moment before he started to drop.

Duke dashed forward, screaming Danny’s name, but the shattered hole in the earth kept getting further away and Danny kept falling and—

Duke woke with a gasp.

His clothing was soaked through with sweat. The cold aid from the ac hit him and chilled him instantly and Duke burrowed deeper into the blankets despite how good it also felt wicking the sweat away.

He’d been dreaming.

What had he been dreaming about?

[evostrashbin]

the curse of immortality (spoiler: Kiran is also on this picture 👍)

[starflungwaddledee]

Hear me out…Meta Knight and Starstruck

✧˖°.✧ gravity ✧˖°.✧ ɡravɪti (noun) 1. the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth or towards any other physical body having mass 2. the degree of intensity of gravity, measured by acceleration 3. extreme importance; seriousness 4. solemnity of manner

[guardian-angle22]

TK/Carlos + Touch

↳ 4.18 In Sickness and In Health

[deoidesign]

Hello! I just discovered your blog and I immediately became captivated by your webcomic, but I'm unsure where to read all of it. I know it's on Webtoons, but I can see it hasn't been updated for a while, and you still post about it.

Are your physical novels just prints of the webcomic? Are they a continuation? Is the story complete? Thanks in advance!

Hi there!

Glad you found me and are enjoying my comic!

It's only on webtoons, and the story is not complete yet! We're 2/3 of the way through right now. It's currently on hiatus, and it's scheduled to come back in about 2 months!

I'll explain why it's been so long if you're curious, but also for my followers who might also be wondering about it under the cut. Sorry, it's pretty much just me complaining haha

I took a month off I took 2 months to get the books printed I took a month to prepare my next comic and I took 2 months to write the rest of the series (I knew the character arcs I wanted, but not the time periods or mysteries!!!) I've been working on actual episodes since then

I had to take some time off because of some pretty extreme burnout due to the sheer amount of work it was to draw over 800 pages and write 6 complete stories in a year and a half... I was getting sick almost weekly due to the overwork, it was really really bad honestly. I was having to work 60+ hours every week just to keep up...

The nature of the comic itself is also difficult... Each of the arcs is a complete, self contained story which can be read (ideally) without context, and my arcs need to be about 10-13 episodes each... And since I have an exact number of episodes to work with, it's even harder.

It takes a ton of planning and a ton of refinement, and working week to week with no breaks I was forced to put out second or even first drafts, so I just wasn't happy with the work I was doing... And to do that for the rest of the series? I wouldn't be proud of the work I did.

Plus... To be entirely honest, webtoon has treated me quite badly IN MY OPINION... They deprioritized me before I launched (I had to beg for more promotion, I'm not exaggerating), they outright denied me the opportunity to even ask for a raise, I don't make any money on fast pass and they pay me less than my partner makes working at trader joes. My first editor left me completely hanging, my second editor (who I loved) was fired... And they told me I wouldn't get a third season before my first season even finished. So it was just repeatedly completely demoralizing.

I'm sorry it has taken so long, it'll have been 10 months by the time I come back. But I realized... I won't get promotion either way. I won't get more episodes either way. I won't get more money either way. So to finish everything, to make it feel good, to make it something I'm proud of, I chose to take longer to make it better.

I am fully aware I will lose a significant amount of my readership for this and it might genuinely affect my career moving forward. But it's what I had to do! So I'm sticking to my guns on it, and I'm confident long term it'll be worth it. It never could have been this good if I didn't take this much time.

[dawnofiight]

Asher Talbot mating call for David

[valhallavalgrace]

Leo, what has been your favorite “to-the-death” activity thus far? I feel there has to be a workshop-to-the-death somewhere in that hotel.

LEO: I think maybe Magnus was right about talking about the past… I’m not sure I’m ready to do that yet, but thinking about it and doing things that remind me of my old life, it feels like progress. prev ask (also about activities!)

[teamoon7]

🇺🇸: I was trying to make Marinette look closer to some older concept arts, more specifically the ones from the PV and (mainly) from Quantic Kids (Pictures below).

I also wanted to distinguish her civilian hair from her hair in hero form, that's why I'm thinking of keeping her classic pigtails in her hero form (because I like the way it mimics little wings), while going for one of the 2 options for her civilian form. Which option do you think fits her most? I'm more inclined to go with the second option because, although it is way closer to the classic pigtails, I think first option is way too close to Socqueline's hairstyle (which I intend to keep the same)... I'm also unsure about the shirt color (in this clothes in specific, that she'll probably be wearing at home) and the eye color (but I'll probably go with dark grey since it's Sabine's eye color too). In the future I might also change ladybug's bangs to make them a bit more different. But what do you guys think? Which is the best option for each thing, having those details in mind? (Specially about the hair)

🇧🇷: Tava tentando fazer a Marinette mais parecia com algumas concept arts antigas dela, mais especificamente as do PV e (principalmente) de Quantic Kids (fotos acima). Além disso, eu queria tentar diferenciar o cabelo dela na forma civil um pouco mais da forma de herói, por isso tô pensando em manter as Maria chiquinhas com o formato clássico nela como ladybug (porque gosto da forma que elas simulam asinhas), e na forma civil optar por uma dessas acima. Qual das opções vocês acham que combina mais? Eu tô pendendo mais pra segunda opção porque, por mais que seja mais parecido com o cabelo da ladybug, eu acho que a primeira opção acaba fica parecendo muito com o penteado da Socqueline (que eu pretendo manter o mesmo)... Também tô em dúvida em relação à cor da blusa (desse traje em específico, que é o traje que provavelmente ela vai usar em casa) e dos olhos (apesar de que provavelmente vou escolher o cinza, afinal é a cor dos olhos da Sabine também). No futuro eu provavelmente vou mudar a franja da ladybug pra diferenciar um pouco mais também. Mas o que vocês acham? Qual é a melhor opção de cada um, considerando esses detalhes? (Especialmente sobre o cabelo)

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Hmmm. I see. So what modernity wants in their stories is morally grey characters - not in the sense that they are merciless killers with good hearts but in the sense that they are flawed but that the lines between good and evil are too blurry to properly make out. And they want those characters of ambiguous morality to make choices that still end up for the better or everyone and those they care about because perhaps what matters deep down inside is caring. More than a story where the definitions of good and evil are properly outlined, we want a story where the choices we make matter, that even if the skies are grey, we can still paint color in this world