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Let's Go To Bed x
#the cure#let's go to bed#japanese whispers#robert smith#lol tolhurst#by em#I'M PRACTICING OKAY#this is such an easy one#probably already giffed to hell and back#also i discovered that the abbreviation for let's go to bed is LGTB so that's beautiful#also lol's dancing is always incredible and worthy of your attention#added the thirs gif cos robert looks kinda h*t idk
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So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.
#yes i'm just going to come out and say it i'm talking about sera#not exclusively but i am talking about her#'but her writer actually iS A--' you don't know that! it doesn't matter! and i don't care!#just say that you do not like the character.#people will reblog posts about the latest actor or YA author or whatever getting forced out of the closet and be like#'wow. :( that's terrible.'#and then GO RIGHT BACK TO DOING IT#when are we going to learn#when are we going to stop doing this BEFORE somebody is forcibly outed#because in practical terms#that means you have to be okay with queer characters being written by straight people.#you have to stop weaponizing that against writers you don't like.#you have to be willing to critique the writing on its own merits#without using the writer's (assumed) identity to prop up your arguments#that's how it works#but who wants to actually change the way they talk about media#when tearing apart people's identities for clout is far more entertaining.#gwaren exports#fandom problems#fandom critical
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Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?
(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)
#payneland#edwin x charles#dead boy detectives#dbda#fem payneland#although technically as everyone is the opposite gender their last names should be different#OKAY you know the drill u get fanart and i get to ramble about it#Edith wears pants now#this pains me because i love drawing skirts but after she escaped hell#she met charlotte who made an offhand comment about how it's easier to move with pants#and edith who just spent 70 years running in hell went wait a tick#she feels safer that way is what i'm saying#interesting because as you can see she wore a skirt to confess and we know how THAT went but anyway#charlotte's mom was abusive of course#and she forced her to practice ballet despite charlotte being interested in a lot of other sports#she did fairly well at ballet but this means no cricket bat :(#i know we all love butch fem charles but as he's mostly gender conforming i decided to not do that#no reason for the bracelets but as i wanted to give her a choker i thought they would combine with the earrings#crystal is still crystal because his parents are weird artists who like stupid names#niko though... i don't know what to name him#dead girl detectives
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Tasuki
#jedi robes being as big and billowy and in the way as kimonos is an entertaining thought#and they have to tie them up when they get in the way#obi wan's been doing it for years now and now does it with that practiced ease#qui gon taught him when he was babywan#but also like consider#first time cody sees it he's like a victorian maiden seeing a slice of skin#its 4am on the venator theyre doing paperwork and cody hears a frustrated noise and turns to see obi-wan with a sash in his mouth#its the jedi equivalent of putting up your hair#but its tying up your sleeves#cody is completely normal about it#he sees the sleeves tied up with the little cross at the back and maybe the neckline of his jedi robes is disrupted#he's done for#thank you discord for this idea#obi wan kenobi#obi-wan kenobi#star wars fanart#star wars#my art#fanart#tasuki#may the fourth be with you#may the 4th#may the fourth#i'm gonna draw more of him with tied up sleeves#its hot okay
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i can't stop thinking about them..............
reblogs > likes
#tf2#tf2 fanart#doodle dump#engineer tf2#spy tf2#i've literally been thinking about them for a week straight#not even joking#they're all i think about#i wanna have what they have........#too bad i'm aro#practical espionage#engiespy#napoleon complex#ouuuughhh....#okay i go bed now........
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Shout out to all artists who had to work without any strong direction or instruction.
I wish you a merry “the client likes it anyways”
#non mdzs#The real mood of this comic is:#AKA: you are in charge of designing a character but have only been given personality as a reference.#This was technically for a game dev meeting and I am part of a team rather than a contractor hired on.#But hey the anxiety going into this was still crazy high. I was playing a risky gambit.#Part two of this comic is me putting all those clowns on a powerpoint and presenting them in front of a few people.#Pointing at them and saying “Okay which clown do you like best? How can we sex up this clown more?”#I think I may be giving the impression that I’m more into clowns than I actually am. It just fit with the character okay!#I had to consult the REAL down-for-clowners for tips. Photos exchanged in the dark alleys of a discord server.#A hooded figure shakes their head at the first photo. Slowly nods as I add puffy sleeves. Nods furiously as I drop the neckline.#This clown still needs to marinate a bit more before I’m ready to present them to the wider world.#So stay tuned! They have become a delight to draw and develop!#Game dev diary#As this is part of that new arc in my life.#Can you tell I've been practicing with digital art a lot more? Boy have I ever! I'm getting stronger! And faster!
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BAWKtober Day 3 - Cider Press
Can't wait for a sippy sippy~
If you'd like to support my BAWKtobering by buying a commission or a treat for my spoiled, spoiled chickens, all my links are in my pinned- *i am immediately mobbed by a flock of chickens and dragged off stage in a cloud of feathers*
#Kinda late cuz i'm trying out some new hatching brushes i got for ivy's feathers and it took a little to get the hang of#but once i do i think it will save my hands#normally i'd do hatching by hand but my joints are at the point where i'm like Work Smarter Not Harder#and i think it turned out nice! it gives nice texture#it'll be fun to experiment more#still haven't found an easier way to draw poppy's and i fear i never shall this is my fate#okay anyways#BAWKtober 2024#BAWKtober#cider press#makenna made a thing#chickens#tiny fluffy dinosaurs#the BEST animals#chickenblr#birdblr#october art challenge#drawing prompts#autumn#fall#artists on tumblr#daily drawing#apple cider#why did i practically paint render the dripping cider in this that was so unnecessary lol#i am possessed but the spirit of BAWKtober
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Happy Anniversary to Our Flag Means Death! (March 3, 2022) - Episode 1 "Pilot"
#ofmd#our flag means death#stede bonnet#rhys darby#ofmd season 1#may make gifsets for the other episodes not sure yet xD#but i wanted to do something#not the greatest but i'm out of practice lmao#hopefully this looks okay#my gifs#my edits#the polite menace (stede bonnet visage)#the crew
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is this too niche.
aka i SWEAR i've seen a total drama life series art thing but when i went to go look for it i couldn't find any SOOOOOOO i made it myself
Bonus:
Alenoah as that one desert duo scene because i was stumped on who i should've drawn for that scene
#trafficblr#life series#grian#goodtimeswithscar#desert duo#should i tag total drama too?#yeah sure whatever okay#total drama#noah td#alejandro td#alenoah#not really meant to be shippy but i can understand if it is taken that way#i will not be surprised if this kinda flops#7th grade total drama fixation came back and so obviously i melded it with my other favorite thing#eh they're both practically death games#if you do not fit into this niche but you found this i'm sorry but there is so much i need to explain if you don't get that second photo#and just so little time#my art
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A bit tired of people complaining about Sanji's principle of "not hitting women" being misogynistic when it has been clearly stated multiple times that he does not choose it and it's heavily tied to his trauma and admiration for his dad and respect for women and definitely not from seeing women as somehow weaker than him
#like okay i get where you're coming from and i understand that from a simpler perspective it's weird#if meet a guy irl who refuses to fight against women no matter how evil they are for no reason other than being women i'd consider it odd#but.... we have watched sanji's backstory and we have seen him actively feeling bad for not being able to hit female enemies#like what do you not understand#you can say the practice itself is based on misogynistic views too but the reasons why sanji doesn't hit women are more complex than that#a lot of people might disagree with me but like#i'm not saying the act itself is awesome and solemn and correct but you can't go and call sanji a misogynistic character just bc of that#like saying he views women as weaker than him is just. wrong. and i've seen people say it#and yes this behavior adds to his gentleman personality and it's also for the writing to show how polite and nice he is to women#but it's not exaggerated. he genuinely has issues viewing women as equals bc he romanticizes them#and that's bad! he knows that's bad!#let the character grow?????? i swear people can't read 😭#i'm not making any sense i just woke up but yeah#one piece#black leg sanji
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Writing the Occult: quick notes for non-practicing hobby authors and other nerds🕯️
Hey. Real talk. If you're writing about occult rituals, magic, the works, whatever, there are some great ways to clean up your act and get some better, more aware accuracy in there. A lot of stuff in the wider consciousness of pop culture is kind of...not correct, or, uh. Should be something you're aware of. For instance:
G*psy is still a slur! No, Romani people aren't more likely to be fortune tellers than anyone else. Quit it with the weird stereotypes. The "g*psy fortune teller" thing hasnt even been on trend since the early 1900s. Move on.
"Voodoo" dolls are a racist perspective of an African-derived traditional religious practice. Vodun is a religion. It's not even a gone or far away religion either; Vodun and Santería have followers and priests all over the US, as do other ATRs. Since. You know. Slavery. The word you're probably looking for is "poppet", which is the term for the tool itself (tiny cloth doll for magical use) as opposed to, like, a whole religion.
A wendigo isn't a catch-all cannibalistic creature; it's part of a wider religious worldview of the Algonquian peoples. Native people have requested that you Stop Talking Abou That— yes, even asking that one YouTuber to Stop That, not that he seems to care. White people seem to cannibalize other people all the time anyway, so I don't see why there's a huge need for a Native scapegoat... There are other supernatural creatures and shapeshifters that eat humans. Pick anything else.
A lot of higher-level occult rituals as writ are just. Straight up antisemitic! If you're writing rituals and your magical language of choice is in Hebrew...hey. Stop that. Same thing goes for "elites who eat babies/drink blood." A some of it is a clumsily handled metaphor for the cannibalistic nature of having an upper class in a society, but a lot of it really is just dressed-up antisemitism in a trench coat. If you're looking up real rituals for worldbuilding...FYI, you may want to glance again before adding it to your work.
Just because ten dudes are standing next to each other in order to do a weird ritual doesn't make them a cult. That's just a ritual. Cults have more specific requirements; ie, whether or not there's religious abuse going on. You can make your weird spooky org have religious abuse, but if they're just, like, high schoolers, they're probably just novice occultists who occasionally hang out together.
I haven't seen anyone use "spirit animal" in a couple years, so that's great! Native people have also requested that we Stop That. Spirit Animal is a specific religious concept we don't have to tread on. Think of a synonym for the concept you're trying to convey; don't steal a word that's already in use for a religious practice. (Same thing goes for totem FYI.)
Hallucinogens often make you throw up. Like. A lot. People do certainly attribute religious visions to them, but also like drink a lot of water and keep a bucket nearby, because the whole scenario is just super disorienting. Most spiritual circles who utilize similar substances will have a trip sitter (someone sober to call 911 if there's an emergency) if they've got the resources.
Making up rituals for your story is totally cool. People invent new rituals all the time. There isn't a standard to be held to on that front unless you outright name a real life religious or occult group they're meant to be part of; THEN people will want standards. Until then, though, you're probably good.
Most TYPES of rituals have, like, a label, though. A ward prevents something from entering a protected space, an invocation brings something forth from within you, a banishment pushes something away from you, a consecration makes something sacred...A lot of these may be obvious to you from pop culture, but if you're going to try and make a character an expert on magic, adding the vocabulary to their lexicon makes their expertise more believable.
There are a ton of ways to exorcise ghosts! Basically every religion has, like, ten of them. If you want to add a little extra flavor on banishing/preventing evil spirits, google [character's religion/culture] [ghosts/spirits] to see what sort of flavor you can add to their specific person.
Occultists and witches and wizards and priests who do magic argue all the time. ALL the time. Interpersonal drama is real and it can Get You.
It's traditional to do certain specific rituals naked. Just FYI. It's not required. Just traditional. Utilize this knowledge for narrative potential... or don't. I'm not your boss.
Yeah, sometimes there's blood; your mileage may vary narratively. Most people don't go for the whole knife thing —you can get lancets at any drug store—but maybe your character is especially dumb or otherwise desperate. Palms and fingers hurt the most knife-wise; if your character knows what they're doing, it won't be their hands.
The keeping skulls around thing is real too, if legally and financially difficult to arrange in many cases. It's usually animal though. Human remains have a lot of laws in the states and, obviously, relatives want to keep their family close to their family — still, narratively, your mileage may vary.
The "White magic" and "Black magic" dichotomy is racialized. No, seriously. The things people demonize about dark magic— soul magic, necromancy, zombies, love/control spells, etc— are all really warped versions of Ancestor worship and other spiritual practices from African Traditional Religious beliefs. Well, the whole Zombie thing is actually a holdover from slavery and it's more about forcing ex-slaved peoples into performing more labor even after their death while White people are afraid of traditional Black spiritual resistance against colonial religious oppression— I'm going too deep into this, just trust me that if a dichotomy says that White is good and Black is bad, there's probably something hinky going on.
And, finally:
Ouija boards are sold at Barnes and Noble by Hasbro for $25, and a tarot deck can retail for as little as $20 from Spirit Halloween or Spencer's. No, they can't summon demons from the astral into your house. Can they talk to ghosts? Up to you; it's your story. Are cheap paper board and plastic planchette powerful enough to murder people, though...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My magic 8 ball says that the odds are unlikely.
Obviously, you can do whatever you want with your work— I'm not your dad and I can't stop you, but if you're the kind of person who's like, hey, maybe I do want to prune out accidental racial slurs from my vocabulary...hey! This list is for you! Halloween is a time to get spooky! Get scary! Get booped, even; still, if you want to have an underlying thread of what the occult looks like in practice, you might want to dust off a couple of mid Magic/Witchcraft/Spiritual/Occult books from your local library and flip through 'em for ideas. There's some fun stuff in there.
Like the sacred blowtorch ;)
Happy Halloween, everyone! 👻
#I wrote this for the DP x DC and other ao3 authors crowds so if this post goes out beyond that it ain't my fault okay.#don't come for me for expertise on the occult I'm out of practice and don't do that on this blog#find a nice witchblr blog and be polite :)#tw drugs#tw blood#tw cults#tw self harm#faer winds
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✨💕 The winner of the DGP is———! 💕✨
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#kamen rider#kamen rider geats#kr geats#hyperbattle dvd#azuma michinaga#keiwa sakurai#ace ukiyo#neon kurama#tsumuri#fanart#comics#comic portfolio#artists on tumblr#nichiyoubi no noraneko#as i said on my wip post - excelent dance drawing practice#yes i literally described the entire dance in my alt captions lkjhgfd#i asked my jp teacher if its cringe to write in japanese in a left-right comic and he said its okay so here i am#on my way to continue fooling my non kr followers into thinking micchi is the protag#btw im locked away from twt due brazil reasons so hope y'all feel special seeing this here or on bsky#BTW question to the chosen ones that are reading my tags until here:#is there a sort of etiquette rules regarding making ship kamen rider art?#i ask bc its the first in a very long time i do fanart of characters portraited by actors so i'm not really sure whats ok and whats not#stupid question i know but i'm always for the 'better safe than sorry'
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Okay okay hear me out...
A series of illustrations based off of One Piece Islands in the format of postage stamps (future merch potentially? Little stickers?)
#one piece#skypiea#conis one piece#fan art#my art#okay I'm actually rather pumped by this idea#keep an eye out!!#also I've been trying to practice color and rendering more#I hope it is working!!!!
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@INUKAG-WEEK DAY ONE (YEARNING): you belong to the stars, my darling. I could never keep you. Only love you. (insp)
#Inukag Week#Inukag Week 2024#Inuyasha#Kagome#Kagome Higurashi#Inukag#Gifset#Gif#I love this quote for them#The first time I read it this gifset came to mind with these exact scenes#I'm not entirely happy with the result though#But that's okay because I'll get better with practice#Sidposting
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reaper's rewards - earrings of imminent demise edit
an excuse for me to render him, like i need one or something
i made this real quick because i wanted to render him in his fancy, husband-approved party outfit with the event earrings and i needed it to fit his ears so here we are
they are edited/converted(?) to fit @1-800-cuupid's lovely human ears, which are perfect and i love using them on like all my sims :) i thought i'd go ahead and share it in case anyone else shares my very specific earring/ear-related cas preferences
sizing is a little different both due to proper fitting and also because i like chunkier jewelry so you get to suffer with my tastes now
☽ CATEGORY: Brow Ring Left
☽ REQUIRED: Human Ears by 1-800-CUUPID
☽ DOWNLOAD: GOOGLE DRIVE ☾
(don't mind my ramblings in the tags)
#ts4cc#ts4 cc#like i guess it's technically been edited to my own tastes and it is content that is freely shared so sure we'll tag it#ts4#this is really about how pretty he is okay#that's it#that is why this happened#this took me like 40 minutes to do tops because i'm out of practice with blender but like#imagine paywalling an existing ea mesh because you like recolored it or something#i definitely can't think of a time where that happened *cough*#anyway bye#lilmoon-cc
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just for a while
#minecraft#wandering trader#comic#art#hope this is comprehensible.......... i dont have much practice at formatting comics lol#anyway. was going through old mc trailers and wanderous journey made me CRY. and then think abt traders. solitary existence...............#i'll add image descriptions after workkkkkkkkk#okay edit i did the descriptions!! if anyone has any advice on how to make them better please feel free :)) i'm worried theyre too wordy 😓#havent done comic descriptions before
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