#.happy new year folks.

[dreamerdrop]

something about how garak and julian both lead with their worst foot forward as the first impression.

which is why The Wire works so well for them, because it’s both of them on full display in a way that forces them both to accept they either like each other at their most infuriating or they don’t. and turns out, they do like each other, even when they’re both being incredibly aggravating to each other.

julian contends with the reality that garak has likely killed and tortured countless innocent people, will likely never be truly honest with julian about anything ever, and that he can be incredibly venomous and cruel at his worst, and julian decides he still cares about garak and will still be his friend in the aftermath.

garak gets to see how impossibly stubborn and reckless julian can be, how frustratingly dedicated to his ideals of looking after other people he is, how utterly annoying julian can be when he’s got his mind set on something… and garak absolutely walks away deciding these are also julian’s best traits, even if garak thinks they might need tempering for julian’s own good.

they don’t actively consider each other proper friends until they have been forced to look at the parts of each other they might find most off-putting, and they both see that and go “… yeah, i still like him, even more now actually.”

idk there’s something about how they find themselves endeared to each other for the exact same traits that would normally drive others away. they fall in love with the whole picture right from the start. of course, julian can joke about garak having murdered people. he knew that from the word go and decided he liked garak anyway. of course, garak falls deeper in love with julian when he demonstrates his near-suicidal levels of dedication to protecting others, that determination was what sparked garak falling in love to start with.

and they can still dislike parts of that whole, garak definitely wishes julian would be more selfish (for the sake of self-preservation, mostly), and julian doesn’t exactly *approve* of garak doing morally reprehensible things, but… they knew exactly who they were falling in love with and went all in anyway.

something about falling in love with someone from their worst parts so that every time you have to reassess your view of them, it only makes them more lovable.

[luxmoogle]

"None of this…makes sense to me…I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real or not?"

1.1.2024 00:13

[featherfangart]

Late as always, but another year of wings, swords and the absolutely best bois <3

[binary-bird]

[bembwashere]

THERE'S NOTHING THERE.

"I've seen outside of Black Mesa, Dr. Freeman." "There's nothing there."

--- --- ---

Back on the HLVRAI Art grind. I've been wanting to redraw an old piece of art I did around 5 YEARS AGO now when I first got into HLVRAI (god that makes me feel old), And now with the new year, It's fitting to do a remake of an old piece <3 (Extra under the cut!)

A still, glitchless and higher quality version of it! Sad how Tumblr managed to crunch the GIF even further than it was before, but I guess the low quality-ness works with the source material.

[about-faces]

[without-ado]

Happy Year of the Dragon

l 운룡도 Dragon in Clouds l Joseon l 19th Century l National Folk Museum of Korea

[magentasnail]

happy undertale anniversary!!!

I am very busy and really shouldn't have worked on this for as long as I did, but the desire to make undertale art was unstoppable

at least i got a new wallpaper

[wigglebox]

Happy New Year! 🎆✨🌈

I hope 2024 is a gentle and kind year for all!

[mars-ipan]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE VERY SPECIAL HAJIME HINATA !!!!!! new year's kisses for the birthday boy :)

[doodlejoltik]

happy new year from ingo and emmet Pokemon!!!!!!!

[dreamingpartone]

the joys of an unhurried sunrise, a slow dawn ⛅

[winds-of-zephyr416]

!!!!!!

[unv3ra]

Krissy pissy

[canisalbus]

I'd like to say that I love your art but never really saw the older stuff where Machete is just getting the shit kicked out of him by a homophobic universe so I only know your cute gay dogs as operatically dramatic dudes getting into Situations that only homosexuality can save them from.

.

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

🎆🎇🎊🎇🎆