#I WANT TO D*E

[ylceon]

[clownsuu]

I got really bad art block atm again so take some mini doodles I did in my spare time 👍

cw minor implied(?) blood

I almost forgot about the existence of my Emo howdy w h o o p s KSHHHDJDHD

also sometimes I get reminded that Howdy’s “blood” is blue instead of red and I get surprised every single time

[quantummindclassicalheart]

The first verse of The Parting Glass sung a cappella for @elodieunderglass :) Using my bass range for good (and a little bit of evil, if the role calls for it). Featuring a little bit of a growl on the low D if I'm honest.

[atdawn]

MERLIN | 4.03 The Wicked Day

[theloveinc]

I also like the idea of Bakugo coming home from a long, overseas mission only for you to be surprised when you meet him at the airport cuz he’s twice as beefy and four times more scary looking.

[andy-clutterbuck]

requested by Anonymous

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

Tom and Susan?

i love it when i get an ask that i already have a sketch for.

[daintyydoe]

POV: me tweaking because I’m on a vacation rn and don’t have a scale, so I don’t know if I’m gaining or losing.

[melrosing]

so stuff I’ve not liked about the finale and S2 more generally…. unfortunately it’s a lot and i'm thinking i might need to say this in several parts but first and foremost: the pacing really was shit and i don't just mean there weren't enough action scenes i mean the whole season they've had almost nothing to say about these characters and have just been making us think they do by having them repeat the same ham-fisted monologues about power and peace and the cost of war and whatever whilst moving at a glacial pace from one minor plot point to another and by the end of it most of these characters STILL haven't changed, and where they have it feels undeserved, and yes they really are at roughly the place they started so what have they even got to show for these eight hours of TV?? like damn

and I do get that the writer's strike has really effected them here and HBO hacking two eps off their season affected them too and that really can't be helped. but the pacing has been pretty poor from kick off and I can't just put it down to this being a more 'internal' season. i do not care about big battles. it's fine to have a season of a show that’s more about the characters’ interiority rather than plot action. that’s the exact reason why I like AFFC so much.

but these characters barely have interiority like idk what to say. some like Rhaenyra, Jace and Alicent have been spouting the same monologues every episode about wanting peace/wanting agency/wanting peace again etc etc, and the more interesting moments like Alicent's apparent suicide attempts, Rhaenyra's butchering of the dragonseeds etc... I mean where IS the interiority here?? unless they are spelling out a character's thoughts in the most literal way they can (as per Jace's diatribes about the dragonseeds), they leave their audience to do absolutely all the work by showing us nothing, and just leaving us to figure that the characters must be having some kind of thoughts but y'all can decide what they are.

and even Daemon, whose entire ARC was about his interiority.... like look I was so so ready to love this arc. i love fucked up little dream sequences. i love harrenhal. i was really enjoying the angle they took with alys. i was here for it. but now we've seen the whole of his S2 arc, im going to say yes, it was intended as a redemption adjacent kind of arc, and it isn't a very good one. Daemon has a handful of weird dreams, gets shouted at by some Riverlands folk, and he's a changed man.

consider the character everyone compares Daemon to (and who I'm always more than happy to talk about) and that's Jaime. and look at the sheer ground covered in ASOS: Jaime breaks out of a dungeon, Jaime meets a younger version of himself, Jaime gets his hand hacked off, Jaime reveals his anime villain backstory in the bath, Jaime deals with Roose Bolton, Jaime has a weird weirwood dream, Jaime fights a fucking bear - and at this point we're still only about halfway through.

now in contrast, what have they actually managed to do with Daemon this season. where has that finale moment with Rhaenyra been earned. this is not slow pacing for the sake of powerful character development, it's slow because they don't have anything else to say.

and also look at the state of characters like Aemond who seemed really promising in S1, yet in this season he barely reflects on the fact that he hadn't meant to kill Luke, and this war is an accident that he started, etc etc - he's just a killing machine lol. there were some nice touches in there, like i say i enjoyed Helaena telling Aemond how he'll die in the finale. but I no longer trust these writers to do anything with their more inspired ideas because they just consistently fail to do so.

look at Baela!!! like my god, has Baela had the opportunity to do anything except A) what she's told and B) counsel men on their feelings. she has like one moment looking at Daemon and you feel like the series is going to explore how complex it is to be Daemon Targaryen's daughter.... but my god they never do!! so where IS this interiority we've spent eight episodes on! what have they got to show for it!!

and i talked more weeks back about how frustrating i've found the writing of women more generally in this series and as of the finale I am finding it so egregious and so condescending. women want peace. women want to protect their children. women are tired of men. women are tired of war. women are trying to end this war peacefully. women are pacifists. women hate violence. and so on and so on and so on like jesus christ who am i even talking about here. even i don't know. it's so boring. it's so dry. and it requires female characters to always be the paragons of virtue, never do anything truly condemnable, never be unlikeable, never fucking anything except stand around saying how much they hate this. im bored of it and it makes me angry that they would do this in a series that specifically seeks to make everyone grey and everyone complex - they keep suggesting that might extend to the women before abruptly shutting it down again. see Alicent and Rhaenyra even STILL, after EVERYTHING, trying to peacefully shut down the war for the sake of love and friendship in the goddamn finale. I don't believe it anymore!! it's not cute! it's just dull!!!

and finally that just kind of brings me to how shortsighted a lot of the plot developments seem, when you see how the characters fail to reckon with their pasts or shit that just happened. Rhaenyra and Mysaria make out, and then that's never mentioned again and the tone never changes between them. Rhaenyra is done thinking about Luke. Helaena is done thinking about Jaehaerys. Aegon actually didn't mention Jaehaerys in the list of things he's 'lost' in that finale. Alicent's relationship w Viserys was just now condensed to 'we were fond of each other but he always liked your mum better'

like idk it's just. if this season's pacing is all about giving characters the chance to change and grow into the people they'll be when this war REALLY kicks off.... do it. write it. do not just write the same monologue a dozen times and hope it'll hit harder with each. doesn't work like that. sorry.

[sage-lights]

introducing!

the angela giarratana cinematic universe (or the "agcu" for short) ���️‍🔥

additional info 1. the bolded names are the people who currently perform at ucb (according to the ucbtla website) 2. the names with an asterisk* are the people who star in "d(e)ad," izzy roland's indie movie

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for refusing to propose to my boyfriend?

We both wanna get married and our families & friends are cool and everything (honestly he's my mom's favorite child at this point), but he says I should have to do the actual proposal and I say he should.

He thinks since I hate every restaurant he takes me to (I work in food service I know what I'm about he picks BAD places) I should just be in charge of it, I think since he makes way more and he's stupid picky about jewellery (he knows what the different gemstone cuts are. He has OPINIONS on gemstone cuts. I am marrying a monster) he should have to buy the ring, and we both need it to be a special romantic surprise enough that we're not about to co-propose or some shit. We're also both guys, so there's not really any traditional rules to fall back on here, either.

It's been mostly fine, but his 30th birthday was the week before last and he's LEGIT mad I didn't propose then. We took a whole trip and had dinner with his entire family (we live a 2 1/2 hour flight away) and shit, so if I were gonna do it, that would've been the time. I told him I've already said I wasn't proposing, and that he can do it himself or we can be boyfriends for his 70th birthday too, and he said "If we're not married by the time I'm 70 you will be LUCKY to still be boyfriends" and stormed off to our room, and now he says he's fine but I'm 90% sure he's been training the cat to bite my hands? It's happened every single time I try to pet her and he looks very smug about it.

So did I fuck up here or what?

PS If I'm not the asshole how do I talk him into proposing already I am DYING over here I wanna marry him so BAD. He BRIBED the CAT to BITE me I NEED this man to be my husband N O W .

What are these acronyms?

[clownsuu]

I have been having a strong urge to make another puppet oc, so alas, take this pain iv made-

When I mean pain, I literally mean it- JDHHFHDH I got so stressed out trying to color him that my adrenaline spiked and now I’m trying to relax LMAOOOO

but anyway, here’s Robbie (not to be confused with Robert), a Howdy family member oc, cause who am I as a howdy supremacy supporter if I didn’t have SOMEBODY related to him smhh. He’s kinda an smartass/asshole (being a 3 horned rhinoceros beetle) but when ya get to know the bastard he’s a nerdy lil goof who’ll never shut up about literally anything he’s done. How many crimes has he committed? He lost count smh.

he’s a little bit more of a serious character-? But he’s kinda still in the same playing field as Dr.Stone is where they are a “guest character”. Also unlike Dr.Stone who has a set occupation, Robbie hops from job to job, one day he’s working at your local seven eleven, the other day he’s a astronaut going to space (don’t ask how he the hell he even got in- he’s too crafty for his own good-)

[qkmlh]

I BARELY GOT BACK AFTER SPENDING AN HOUR IN THE WORST TRAFFIC BLOCKAGE IN THESE CURSED CITIES AND DEADASS SOBBED MY QUEER BIG OLE HEART OUT OVER VENOM AND EDDIE IN THE LAST DANCE Y’ALL DON’T UNDERSTAND I NEED A DUCKING MINUTE!!1!1!

It is SO Incredibly™️ in character, comic book accurate, and very much proof of what they mean to each other that Eddie was ready for them to die together. The realization that they will die and so be it he was willing for them to do it together. Not Venom, not Eddie, but both as the Lethal Protector. AND WHAT DOES VENOM DO!1?1! IN TRUE VENOM SYMBIOTIC FASHION AND DEVOTION VENOM THROWS EDDIE OUT AND EVEN THEN!!! WHEN EDDIE BELIEVES THEY’LL STILL DO IT TOGETHER!! THAT VENOM IS REACHING FOR HIM!!! VENOM REACHES OUT TO GRAB THE DEBRIS TO SHELTER EDDIE; TO PROTECT HIM ONE LAST TIME

DON’T FORGET ME!! THE FUCKING MONTAGE OF THEM TO MAROON 5’S MEMORIES!! I’LL NEVER FORGET YOU!!!

THE LAST DANCE TIL DEATH TO THEY PART AND SO VENOM GAVE EDDIE HIS SECOND CHANCE A FRESH START AND THE FIRST THING HE DOES WITH THAT IS GO TO LADY LIBERTY AND FULFILL THEIR PROMISE!!!

MY TEARS ARE BLINDING ME RN I HAVE WORK IN THE MORNING I’M HUNGRY AND I CAN’T DUCKING TYPE ANYMORE YOUR HONOR I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME BELIEVE ANY OF THIS REALLY HAPPENED WE REALLY SAW THESE TWO BOZOS WITH THEIR RIDICULOUS ANTICS AND GOOFY DISAGREEMENTS AND SICK AS HELL IN SYNC FIGHT SCENES BOND TOGETHER OVER THE SPAN OF SIX YEARS THAT WAS ONLY ONE (1) WHOLE YEAR IN UNIVERSE AND COME TO MEAN SO DUCKING MUCH TO EACH OTHER!!!!!

THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANTED AND NEVER COULDVE EXPECTED AND IT HAPPENED ITS REAL IN A WAY YOU CAN PASS IT OFF IF YOU’RE IN DENIAL/SURFACE LEVEL ABOUT IT BUT IT DID FOLLOW AN ENTIRE ROMANTIC OUTLINE IF YOU SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS!!!

AND EVEN AFTER ALL THAT AFTER EVERYTHING THERE IS STILL THE OPEN ENDED IMPLIED HOPE IF YOU CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN GOODBYE FOR NOW THE STRAND OF VENOM TAKEN AND LEFT BEHIND AND THE COCKROACH THAT SURVIVED

KELLY MARCEL, TOM HARDY, THE FUCKING MARKETING TEAM AND EVERY PERSON WHO WORKED ON THIS I AM BITING THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE AND WILL MAKE MY WAY TO YOUR WALLS

[bite-the-bloody-hand]

In the dream, a great danger was looming over you. But I was there for you, ready to help you no matter what.

After about 100 hours of work, it's finally done! Full version feat. Non-explicit nudity & my thoughts on the piece under the cut.

Ah, I'm very happy with how this turned out. There are more things I would have liked to do, but are a little beyond my skillset for right now.

I wanted to capture the post Not-A-Date dream if you're really going for that True Love ending. The sense of being trapped by an unseen force; the sense of being together but still yearning. Daeran somewhat adrift, yet still clinging to his lover. The symbolic halos in the background eclipse together, enhancing the light between them. Meanwhile the presence of The Other seeps into everything, poisoning what should be a pleasant dream into a nightmare.

I wanted to keep their poses just ambiguous enough that you can't tell if they're laying in bed or dancing; I think I managed! I hope I did anyway, lol.

Basically I wanted to be self indulgent, so I was :3. To everyone's benefit, I think.

[andy-clutterbuck]

The Ones Who Live | 1x03 - Bye