#…not my best work i will admit

[heartchoi]

[12:56pm] — c.bg

pairing: bf!beomgyu x gn!reader

wc: 430

synopsis: ceramic painting with your boyfriend ♡

"beomgyu..." you call softly. beomgyu's head quirks up, humming in response. yes, love? his hands are busy making quick paint strokes, but his eyes turn to focus on you.

"what are you making?" you ask, peering your head over your own handiwork to look at his.

defensively, beomgyu shields his work with his entire body. the bowl that was just barely the size of his face now covered with his chest hovering above it, both hands closing the sides around the bowl. he glares at you with a playful glint in his eyes, a slightly exaggerated pout on his lips.

beomgyu shakes his head, "nuh-uh. it's not done yet." he says, sternly. a smile etches itself on to your lips at the sight: a 5'11 man guarding a ceramic bowl, having to lift himself from his chair in order to wrap his limbs around it. paint brushes of varying sizes are strewn over the table.

you whine, “come onnnn, just a peek. i’ll let you see mine.�� beomgyu ponders your words for a moment, even tapping his chin with his finger in thought. “hmmm, you need to do more than that to see my awesome, jaw-dropping, stunning piece of art. it would be placed in the louvre if it could.”

you bite back a laugh.

"fine, i bet it’s not even that good.” you say, sticking your tongue out at him.

beomgyu gasps, settling back down. his arms continue to cradle his work, almost as if it were his newborn child. “how could you say that to the love of your life? your man? and look- look at yours! what is that? a flower? tch, doesn’t look good at all.”

"actually, it's a spoon. and how can you judge mine when i haven't even seen yours?" you shot back, a corner of your lip turning upwards.

beomgyu splutters a bit, his mind racing to find a comeback.

just when he's ready to fire back, you silence him — pressing your lips onto his lightly. you don’t dare to fully encase his lips with your own, opting to give him feathery pecks, treating him like he was fragile glass.

that quiets him down immediately, and leaves him chasing your lips for more when you pull away.

“hey. i want more than a peck!” he whines, lips jutted out to make a kissy face. you giggle, “okay, just under one condition.”

“what is it?” he asks, desperation hinting his voice.

“can i please see what you painted?”

“…fine. you win.” beomgyu sighs, his arms untangling themselves to reveal his work to you.

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[snapdragonphobia]

gahhh I miss them

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"We're taking the vents." "Mnh-mnh. It's too tight and too dusty."

Leverage S05E03 The First Contact Job.

[starcurtain]

Hello! Wanted to say that I’ve really enjoyed your analysis on Aventurine’s theming - and yea big agree that part of the charm of the guy is that he’s a weird paradox (he got everything one should technically want, and he also lost absolutely everything he cares about) - and also I like your comment that he is, as a character, actually pretty obnoxious (it’s an odd character charm point to me)

Also your post on the way he interacts with the ladies in the cast kinda reminded me - I know folks tend to focus in Ratio’s note but I ended up zoning in on his convo with Acheron more than anything else - because a lot of Penacony is Aven butting heads with other aeon-touched people (Acheron, Sunday) - but Acheron seems like a fun foil because she also has a pretty double-edged metaphysical blessing that is associated with losing everything she loved, but she ironically hasn’t given in to full meaninglessness.

I think one of Aventurine's defining character traits is that he "tests" everyone he encounters to judge whether they are trustworthy or whether they are a danger to him (I guarantee you, he has some kind of mental ranking scale for how likely people are to dislike or mistreat him), and I think his being obnoxious is actually a direct offshoot of this.

Kakavasha clearly was raised with manners; he knows how to be polite and to tone down his responses to social situations as appropriate, which means that, in every other scenario, he is actively choosing to be obnoxious, even in situations where it seemingly won't benefit him (like talking back to the slave master or being too forward when first meeting Sunday, for example) because it allows him to gauge exactly how others feel about him and exactly how much they will let him get away with.

People who play along are potential allies (Robin, the Trailblazer) and people who act grumpy but actually tolerate the obnoxiousness are safe (Ratio, Sparkle, most of the rest of the Express Crew), while people who respond poorly (Sunday, basically everyone else Aventurine dealt with in the past, etc.) are forced into showing their true colors. If minor obnoxious behaviors can provoke them, then it means their core response to Aventurine is likely to be one of dislike and disrespect. He's just forcing that response from them out into the light sooner, rather than later, by being obnoxious from the get-go.

(And, to a certain extent, I think he also just finds it fun to be a bit obnoxious. Like, he's free to say and do whatever he wants now--who is going to stop him from being a brat if that's what he feels like doing?)

But on to Acheron... Yes, I do think there are a lot of parallels between Acheron and Aventurine (came from a doomed people, lost everyone, both determined to hold out against nihility and live just for the sake of living, "blessed" by aeons), but I think narratively speaking, the story puts Acheron in a different position when her tale entangles with Aventurine's: the surrogate big sister role.

Acheron's a very good parallel to Aventurine's sister in numerous ways: First, she essentially sacrificed herself to defeat the evil threatening her people, but is ultimately unsuccessful, resulting in the permanent loss of all she knew.

This loss also resulted in Aventurine's sister actually dying, while Raiden Mei experienced a symbolic death, taking on the name "Acheron" to evoke the Underworld, getting a ghostly, bleached white form, and prowling the river of nihility like a wandering spirit of the dead.

Second, the philosophy Acheron espouses is nearly identical to Aventurine's sister. When even as a child Kakavasha was doubting the value and meaning of life, his sister was the one constantly reaffirming that life has meaning, despite its hardships, and that continuing to exist is the way to honor those who have sacrificed for you. Just as Aventurine's sister expresses that people must hold on to faith, Acheron reminds everyone she encounters to cling to the last bit of color and light in their lives.

This ends up being echoed by the role of guidance that she plays for Aventurine, with him both directly relying on her for his continued survival:

And turning to her in his moment of greatest emotional need:

(Sound familiar? It should. This is the exact same question Kakavasha once asked his sister.)

But there's also a very, very nice visual parallel that goes on with Acheron and Aventurine's sister: the dusk rain that accompanies her.

For Aventurine, the rain has complicated emotional connotations. For the Avgin, it was desperately needed, life-giving water, and thus was considered a direct blessing from Gaiathra. Rain on Aventurine's birthday was the sign of his being favored by the aeon, and yet it also rained on the day he lost everything and had to flee from the only home he had ever known (conveniently also his birthday, dude this guy's life sucks).

Meanwhile, the rain for Acheron is equally complex--rain can bring life, the renewal of barren, lifeless lands... But we also see the rain accompany Acheron through her worst loss, the final collapse of her planet:

It also is said to rain constantly within the shadow of nihility, a lightless gray that washes away all that people wish to cling to.

For both Acheron and Aventurine's sister, the rain accompanies the end of their "lives," the backdrop to their ultimate sacrifices.

Yet it is also in the rain that they both send Aventurine onward, escaping from the cage of his destiny into a "better" life. From beneath the shadow of the storm, they both bid him to go and not turn back, freeing him and permanently changing the course of his life.

The rain that took everything from both Aventurine's sister and Acheron is ultimately what saves him.

It's all a very tidy and well-written parallel.

[corrodedparadox]

Started looking at a few of ur artworks and Im absolutely blown away with how unique it looks!

Starting as a beginner artist, was it hard to find ur niche and audience? Or was this something u never really thought about/ realised?

Funnily enough I had the opposite in terms of trying to find an audience when starting out. A lot of my earlier art was just a bunch of random furry ocs/nonsensical doodles/etc just trying to hop on whatever art bandwagon was going on to try and fit in and prove myself as an artist. It was only when I realized I wanted to create impactful art for myself, along with wanting my art to be something that can stand alone and not have to be influenced by context for the viewer to connect with it, that really let me start creating the work I make now. After shifting to more personal work I found people were a lot more receptive to my work, and I just managed to build my little niche over time. Peoples reactions to my current art definitely influences what I make now, but even then I always just created works for myself, and I’m very grateful people like it :)

I do consider the work below as one of my “cornerstone” drawings in terms of my development as an artist, it was my first work were I actually tried working a full scene, along with using it as a vent piece. Really set the tone and standard for all my other works

[theflagscene]

I saw this clip from an interview with Sailub & Pon today where they were talking about when they first were paired together and their acting/workshop teacher asked them to just sit and have tea together to chat, only to come up to them later and tell them that watching them interact was like watching a couple that had been married for 30 years just enjoying an afternoon together. And if that’s not exactly what you wanna hear from your acting coach during an emotional intimacy workshop, I don’t know what is. Talk about high praise, no wonder they work so well together.

[totallyboatless]

Amazing, motivating, beautiful: the gay pirate show Our Flag Means Death makes me actively want better things for myself

Devastating, painful, existential: the gay pirate show Our Flag Means Death makes me actively want better things for myself

[mysticalcats]

HI HELLO ITS ME SORAH Sorry for messaging out of the blue but I was on pintrest and I remembered collages are super cool, and you make collages, and could you make one for foxglove??????? He’s so cool the colors would be so pretty :DDDD

HI SORAHH THANK YOU FOR ASKING !!! HERE IS MY BOY

[astralhope]

This is a little project that I worked on in the last weeks, and I finally finished it.

The Japanese dub is my favorite, but the Italian one was the one that made me discover Zexal, and I used to watch the show in Italian until the third arc.

I watched the episodes from the first two arcs in this dub many times and I'm still very attached to most of the characters' Italian voices.

This dub is very dear and nostalgic to me, so I wanted to share some Astral's clips from it on my blog.

But I didn't want to put a bunch of Italian clips here without any kind of subtitles, so I decided to do the subtitles myself. But what should have been just a few clips became all Astral's scenes in the first two episodes, and it took me more time than I anticipated.

Just a few things before you watch the video:

- I tried to do this translation more literally possible (so I apologize if some lines sound weird), but with some phrases and expressions I had to translate them in a not literal way to keep their meaning.

- The edit of the video is a little rough because I favored the audio over the video and I tried not to cut the lines too much. And since I only used Astral's clips, some transactions between scenes are not very smooth, I apologize about that.

- I hope that the subtitles are easy to read, I never did something like this and I did my best to make them readable and not too fast.

- I rewatched it several times to check it, but it's very possible that there's still some errors or/and weird phrasing, so I apologize in advance for any errors.

After all those premises, here is the finished work:

Astral's clips from episodes 1 and 2 of Zexal in Italian dub (with English subs):

(I'm sorry for the bad quality, but not only the original videos were in a low quality, but I also had to lower it even more to upload it)

[moeblob]

he's a demon. he's a cleric. he's absolutely suffering.

[fromamelodytoasong]

EVE BEST as ELEANOR O'HARA in “Nurse Jackie” S1E4 | School Nurse

[hey-heigo]

happy year of the dragon 🐉🎆🧨

click for better quality bc tumblr chewed this like a dog

[hysterical-cats]

I've been meaning to draw Warsaw Bomba for literal years and it was finally time. I love u warsaw bombie my beautiful 2000s emo girlfriend

[lord-squiggletits]

Honestly it annoys me that pride, ambition, and generally having a big ego are always villainous/evil-coded personality traits because personally I think if you genuinely are a prodigy at what you do you are 100% within your rights, perhaps even deserving, of flaunting your skills and being proud of the fact you can do something that only a small fraction of other people can do. Is it even ego at that point if you genuinely are as good at your field/skill as you say you are? Are people not aware that becoming a prodigy at something is something that takes lifelong sacrifice and practice sometimes to the point of giving up on having a normal life, relationships, etc even potentially destroying your own health???? God I fucking hate how pride in your own skills and ambition are so villain coded all the time. As if it's evil to want to be good at something and be recognized for what you rightfully earned

[yazzdonut]