#Don't mind her outfit much

[artheresy]

Just saw the Black Swan trailer and I adore it. It's giving me very similar vibes to Blade and Kafka's trailers, in which it is very atmospheric, not afraid to play around with visual effects and certain cues in order to establish a feeling, very strong color choices like if you notice those trailers it seems like they're basked in certain colored light sources which I adore, and the music ties in so well with the video, managing to stand out while also not obscuring or taking away from what any of the characters are saying. I really loved it, I am WAITING for Black Swan's theme to be released in full to listen to, C'mon hoyomix where's that album. All around I just love it

There is one thing I'll say... and it's not necessarily about the trailer more about Black Swan herself and her design, and it's that I think her design and concept for me at least (very important to emphasize that this is based on my own taste and thoughts) would be like 10 times more effectively esp in conveying her mysterious nature if her eyes were obstructed. I do plan to explain that more in a later post, but yeah I think she'd fit the mysterious bill a bit more if her eyes were covered somehow

[failyaoi]

Johnshi/Kencageblade/Swordblade kid oc just dropped (read tags for more info)

[floralovebot]

MADE EDITS i couldn't stop thinking about their outfits and like,, the aspects i liked and thought felt very winx and in line with the individual characters and the aspects i Hated and thought sucked dookie SO i made some edits :)

biggest changes are to musa, aisha, and stella! actually changed the clothes there. flora and tecna i just adjusted the colors (in flora's case to further unwhitewash her and saturate her clothing more and in tecna's case to bring back her pink hair and green and cyan).

explanations on changes below!

I'll start with the simpler edits!

For Tecna, I just wanted to play around with her og colors lol I actually LOVE her new look and I would love to see this be the final design!! It's SO tecna and fits in with the rest of the winx i love it soo much :') I do think they should bring back her pinker hair though! And again, would love to see the green and cyan make an appearance. I feel like neon green is just very classy techy character. And while it is cliche, I do love it akjgd plus I think it looks good on her and makes the other colors stand out more imo! (but maybe this new, pinker look will make people like her more idk :') justice for tecna my beloved :'))

For Flora, I darkened her skin more for obvious reasons. And then I added more saturation to the colors and added back the warmer tones they took out. Imo, the darker, desaturated, and cooler toned look for Flora only works in very specific circumstances. Color theory rainbow!! Bring back the brightness! The color!! The warmth!!

Which brings me to Stella ohmygod,,, please,,,, please stop desaturating her she looks so pale and sick and lifeless STOP please :') Anyway lol, obviously brought back the brighter orange! I also took away the random sleeve. It's cute but it just didn't feel very Stella at the time? The tube top look is Very Classic Stella (very much giving s3 casual but in orange). Tbh, I don't love the dress itself, but I do think it looks better once you add more of Stella's colors. I also tanned her skin more and made her hair more yellow + brighter! Just like with Flora, color theory is important for media!! This Stella design just does Not give sunny, optimistic character. It's giving the gap (aka BORING aljdhg)

Aisha's design stumped me for a bit, I won't lie. I couldn't figure out exactly what I didn't like. But I got it!! One, way too symmetrical imo. Yes, Aisha does have some very symmetrical looks, but like 80% of her looks are very asymmetrical. I also didn't love that it didn't incorporate more of Aisha's powers. It really just went for *vaguely sporty* and didn't try to bring anything else to the table. And some people might say that Aisha's og looks were like that too, but I disagree! They told a story! She's a brave adventurer, a dancer, a princess, etcetc!! This tells me "oh yeah this girl might like to do yoga. cool."

Anyway! So I made Aisha's pants baggier because let's be fucking real for a sec. Changed the design on the pants slightly to make it asymmetrical and incorporated a wave design. Took away that bottom shiny fabric of her shirt. I tried to keep it but it just wasn't looking great with the pants changes tbh. Added small waves to the bottom and made it one shoulder! Also added her classic little circle wave design 1. because it's cute and 2. so Musa wouldn't feel so out of place with a design. Tbh, I still don't love the pants... I think maybe that hem could be higher?

For Musa! I've spoken about this before but I do not like the bodysuit. I liked the concept and the vibe it brings, but it looks So uncomfortable and s1 Musa was alllll about being comfortable. It's why so many people think she hates wearing dresses (even though she doesn't). So I kept the vibe, but changed it to the same mesh that's on her right arm! Which like!! I didn't even see that until I started the edit!! It's so,,, unnoticeable which like,, isn't a bad thing? But also? I think the mesh being on her stomach too makes the design as a whole a little more balanced (and it's a nice callback to her og magic winx!). As for the color changes, really just wanted to go back to her reds and dark blues. I don't Hate the color scheme, but I also don't love it. And I think this feels a lot more like Musa yknow? Also darkened her hair cause fuck that dude

Anyway lol it's not the best edit so don't look too hard :') I just wanted to explore what I liked about the designs and what I didn't. We did get to see a little bit of Bloom's casual, but I want to wait until we get a closer look to speak on it/make edits. Also tbh, I don't really love Flora's outfit but I didn't want to completely redesign her and I concede that this is something she would wear (although it feels more like s4 cowgirl time/s5 casual and not s1 new student time but Fine). For now, I'm gonna pretend the trailer showed us my edit of Stella and not what it really showed. I can't get pale pinterest stella out of my head,,, aggghhhh

[imtrashraccoon]

This is my first attempt at drawing @superbfirnacho 's OC, Ivy, and Nightmare with his canon outfit. It's also the most ambitious watercolour pencil drawing I have ever completed. I think it turned out way better than I thought it would!

So yeah, this is my entry for their DTIYS. If you want to enter, check out their blog since it's in the pinned message.

[viric-dreams]

🧍‍♂️ for eleanor

🧍‍♂️— What stats would they provide as a companion? Where would you obtain them?

So this was actually a thing that came up not too long ago. There's a very non-zero chance she might moonlight occasionally as a chaperone for hire. In that case, she'd raise your Watchful and reduce Scandal, at cost to your Persuasive. Check the papers for how to hire this companion.

[batfamfucker]

Appreciation post for 'girly girl' characters and/or shows that celebrate traditionally feminine things that girls and women are shamed for.

Characters on this list that love makeup, fashion, hair, etc. Characters that are still written as strong, intelligent, brave, etc. That told young girls that these interests are valid, they are not lesser interests. Being feminine and liking traditionally feminine things does not make them weak.

[moe-broey]

Came to me in a vision 🫡 ALSO an excuse to draw some cute outfits!!

[iniziare]

Tag drop: Dorian Pavus

[pass1onepr1ncess]

We've been really struggling to settle on a character design for Alice in a Wonderland inspired/based project we're working on and we FINALLY landed on something we really like! - Nikkie

[aberooski]

Winx au sketches

Wanted to bring the winx au art back so I started sketching and got ideas to tweak some of the Enchantix designs a little bit (basically everyone but Alexis hers was already perfect imo lolol)

Clearly, these were really just for me to draw their hair and wings, hence hardly drawing any actual body for them lolol

I braided Blair's hair at the ends, reworked Mindy's ponytail and changed her accessories slightly, and Jas got the most reshaped wings because I didn't like the way I had them originally but wanted to keep the design semi-intact and gave her the little buns on top to do up her hair a little more lol

I wanna redraw them fully and see if I come up with any tweaks for their actual outfits (again except Alexis but I can't bring myself to leave her out when I draw this stuff lolol) and just to draw the other 3 girls again because it's been a long time.

Anyway, back into the depths I go, see you later!

[reddoll123]

My OC Nadia~

[wxtchpilot]

[goldentigerfestival]

I did a proper tier list for myself for the first time in several years. Giet wasn't in it, but he belongs in the favorite tier.

if you wonder why I don't talk about Moses much, well... two reasons. one, almost nobody fuckin' knows who the guy is, and if they do they either hate his game or never played it. two, I'm insane. you've seen me with Yuri, and you can see here that Moses is the king of the tiers, so... I'm sure you can put that into perspective LOL.

Yuri-hime (princess Yuri) is a joke from the tenth anniversary skits, where the characters were part of a play and Yuri was given the role of princess. technically Yuri would be in the favorite tier with everyone else (I don't have them listed in order of favorites beyond tier, they're listed by game (mainline order, then side order, then gacha order), but if you asked me to pick between Yuri and Vicious for example, I'd reeeeally struggle. some faves are ofc higher than others and it'd be easier to put some over others, but Yuri currently just has special admin privileges in my brain, so he gets his own tier that is effectively equal to "favorite", but he's a princess and he should have his own princess tier).

I have other tiers below this including like, neutral, below neutral but not dislike (basically means I don't dislike them but I don't care either way and will get bored very quickly with them/don't have the attention span for them out of general lack of interest) and two tiers reserved for characters I don't like, but I only want to share my bigger likes and loves here.

Jade, Luke and Natalia are in a weird spot because if you asked me who my second fave in Abyss is, I'd say Jade without question, which is true. I'm not even sure myself why Natalia is higher than him on my own tier list LOL, like in my own head I get it, but I... don't LOL. I guess maybe just bc I feel that Jade has more fans, and I'd feel the need to talk about Natalia instead since Jade has lots of love as it is (and he's everywhere in merch/media LOL)? I'd say Luke and Natalia are probably about even as my third faves tho.

I did have a moment of revelation when I put Asura above Ruca without hesitation and I felt so bad for Ruca LMAO. Ruca's in a good spot for himself, I just didn't even hesitate to put Asura in a higher ranking and I felt so bad LOL I am not helping Ruca's self esteem issues about his past life. Aster also deserves a spot next to Emil and Ratatosk, not just for the luls about it but because he really would be in that tier with them. Grune is complicated bc while I do love awakened Grune, she's there for like two seconds and there's no differentiation for this tier list. If she was there I'd put awakened Grune in like a lot tho!

ToE/ToB aren't here at all because I haven't played them (or watched a walkthrough), so I'm only familiar with them through the gacha games, and it didn't feel fair to rank them based on knowledge of games that only one of them reflects their canon selves and the others are all AUs (and even in Rays' case, their situation/circumstance is still vastly unlike their canons).

I also did favorite games. I only put one of each version because Tales has re-releases/remasters/remakes galore. also in order of release.

I know I put "this one" and not "these ones" but I don't feel like fixing it and I wasn't thinking about anything except Legendia when I made the rankings LOL. Hearts is in a tough spot because it's higher up than Dawn/KoR, but I don't know if I'd put it on the same level as Destiny/Rebirth/etc.

[proneterror204]

Dannys at Wayne enterprise because his parents want to submit their inventions and "scientific" discoverys for official review. He's bored out of his mind and meets this beautiful girl his age and strikes up a conversation with her. (Or he meets a girl and starts to rant like his father.)

Danny: im just saying Orphan has to be a vampire!

????(cass): No.

Danny: Are you kidding me? She moves with far to much elegance and grace to be mortal. Credit to the other bats but they move like mortals. She dances around both rogues and vigilantes!

????(cass): *blushing* No vampire.

Danny: ok maybe not a vampire but like a shadow demon or dhamphir or something! She's to much!

????(cass): orphan. Is. good. What about others?

Danny: oh! stabby robin and red hood are top tier obviously!

????(cass): oh?

Danny: well yeah! Stabby robin practices the art of the sword, a forgotten art in modern times. And red hood shoots pedophiles! Who doesn't like that?

????(cass): Batman.

Danny: well that says something about batman doesn't it. Have you seen the first Robin's outfit? Oof!

*in cass's ear*: Red Robin here. Good job on keeping danny distracted orphan. We're in the process of arresting Danny's parents. Can you keep it up?

????(cass): mhmm. Hey. Cute boy. Take me out to lunch?

Danny: Oh! Yeah! My parents will take hours explaining everything anyway, But uhm. What's your name?

????(cass): call me cass. This is a date, Yes?

Danny: *blushing* oh, uhm, yes. I'm Danny by the way.

Cass: Danny very cute.

Red robin: uhm? You don't have to do that orphan. Hello? ...Please don't make me explain this to B. Orphan?

Batman: Follow. Them.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

It just turned xmas eve and I'm sitting here grinning like a lunatic at how I described Dove's transformation into demon!Dove, specifically because I really like what I headcanon'd about the letters!

In the climax battle scene of DDD, I gave Dove the same runes that Raven glows with in s4, except I Elaborated. I gave them Purpose besides just Look Cool and Ancient. Excerpt below (DDD, ch20).

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And when the merging was complete, Raven couldn’t believe what she saw.

What had he done to her?

She lifted herself from the dust and stood with a stance so powerful, so confident that Raven couldn’t believe it was DOVE under that cloak. The newborn demon stretched, flexing, gathering and astrally caressed the currents of energy – Suddenly she threw the scorched cloak away and revealed an outfit that swept across her curves, skirting her back and shoulders, so provocative it was barely even there; its pieces embraced at her cocked hip and accentuated her battle-ready stance.

So little of that crimson and leathery flesh was hidden, the real Dove would have fled under the covers from embarrassment. But more importantly, more frighteningly, this utterly uncharacteristic outfit revealed messages sewn into her skin like astral battlescars:

Dove was marked with dark scrawls of energy, the epistles burning in activation, scripts to keep his power in her body, runes to channel evil energies ripped from the very cosmos, letters as old as the chaos they channeled were strewn across every inch of her exposed flesh. Warnings on her arm. Triumph flooded down her back. Terms of surrender splashed across her collarbone and met at the four cauterized scars on her chest.

Trigon was gone, sealed within her by the sigil of damnation, and the magic now thriving within her was clamoring for violence - delirious to be unleashed, even as embers of the fading hellfire still lit her skin.

And here was the perfect target.

Dove’s senses, human and preternaturally enhanced, all detected Raven’s presence. She sensed the signs of heightened emotion: Raven’s calm mask was strained. She saw the subtle tension in her shoulders, heard her heart pounding a heavier rhythm than it had a moment ago. She felt the slightest shift of blood flow as Raven’s muscles tensed, preparing for battle at her instinct’s call, and she could feel the air strung tight around her as Raven's powers raged within her, the trained instinct to eliminate the threat, warring with the protectress instinct to not hurt her little sister.

And most satisfying of all, her telepath mind tasted Raven’s fear, an absolute delicacy whether the fear was for herself or her lost sister’s soul.

[attleboy]

i thought too hard about insect motifs got a little silly and made... a lot lmao these versions of the characters are from @sm-baby's amazing digital carnival au!! full images and rambling about insect choices are gonna get stuck under the cut... it'll be a bit long and i will be putting photos of real bugs down there so be mindful

pomni: "butterfly"

inspirational species are black swallowtails mostly for the shape, and malay red harlequins mostly for the pattern

carnival pomni's actually the one that kickstarted this whole set... i drew her hat in a way that reminded me of butterflies, went "wait...", then i fully leaned into it :)

jax: "centipede"

there was no specific species for jax. without being able to use color, they were too similar to pick any out... i have included a giant centipede just for reference though since it was mainly larger centipedes i used for inspiration

anddd there's a little bonus sketch for how pre-sentience jax might've looked with a centipede outfit... he gets a bug scarf and some goggles!

ragatha: "ladybug"

inspirational species was the twice-stabbed ladybug chosen because the inverted color scheme looked the best out of all the ones i tried, and also because it's a metal name and we know ragatha's good with a knife... stabby stab... i did add more than two spots to the dress though, it just looks cooler lol

gangle: "spider"

inspiration was the spinybacked orb weaver which i was absolutely ecstatic to find because come on that is the perfect spider for gangle like look at it!! it looks like her mask, it's got red, it's got gold on the limbs, literally twinning

zooble: "mantis"

inspiration was the spiny flower mantis which, like with gangle, i feel is pretty much perfect for zooble... they come in many colors (including pink), have abstract patterns, and it gave me the excuse to cover zooble in spikes :D fun

and no kaufmo because i'm lazy and he's dead (sorry kaufmo fans but am i wrong), and the rest don't have bug names that i know of?

i still want to draw the carnival characters in their regular looks sometime, i just got really really inspired by the idea of secret skins and bug-themed outfits and went a liiittle haywire :P

anyways if you read all that you're a real one and you've got too much time on your hands... if you didn't, i understand, i get wordy, sorry :'D okay i think that's all byeee