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The prototypes to my Geology Monsters series were these two funky guys from March 2023.
I made the sketch for the marten in the plane from Naples to home, after we'd done a full circle around Mt. Vesuvius and you could really peer into its crater and see how close it is to the metropolis. I had also visited it during my stay there (but it was cloudy all week so unfortunately the view at the summit wasn't good), as well as the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That really sparked something in me. These two volcanic beasts were painted the same week after I got home.
Later I picked up the concept again and the monsters became more, well, monstrous. I still like these though! Both are small paintings done with ecoline inks.
#stylistically I was inspired by the Roman art I saw during that trip especially for the marten#The marten was like a (strato) volcano spirit and the hyena represented pyroclastic flows#I'm still tinkering on the design for the beasts of pyroclastic flows and surges#I like the yeen but it's very tame#I want these monsters to be way more scary because hot damn those things are way more terrifying than any lava in my opinion#it's kind of poetic that Vesuvius is the first volcano I visited#since I had to read the eruption report from Pliny in my Latin class when I was a teen#and that already made a big impression on me#and later I studied Roman archaeology and of course Pompeii comes up a lot there too#Just felt like I came full circle when I was finally there it was kind of emotional#I'd go back in a heartbeat to explore some more#geology monster#avanii's art#traditional art#ecoline#volcano monster#marten#hyena
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Imagine if Machete was Muslim instead of Catholic. His name would be something like Saif سيف, and Vasco would probably be something like Dhahabi ذَهَبِيّ
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#I don't know Arabic so I can't weigh in that much but if you say so!#it seems like these mean “sword” and “golden” respectively that's neat#Machete wouldn't be able to cling to his Catholic guilt in that case#I don't think Islam has the same concept of original sin that Christianity does#I'm simplifying but it's a belief that humans are born with an innate tendency for evil sinning is part of our nature#and staying on the positive and in God's good graces requires a lot of repentance which can lead to excess guilt and shame#I could be wrong but I'm under the impression that this idea of a manufacturing error is a very Christian thing#sorry I know you didn't sign up to hear me try to talk about big theology things and I don't want to make it weird#but I find this stuff really interesting I unironically like to read and think about how religions work#and how they shape things they come in contact with#in Machete's case in particular his troubled relationship with God and his career choice are big parts of his character#and why he turned the way he did and thinks the way he does you know#answered#kachavashka#Dhahabi is such a regal sounding name#I'd steal that in a heartbeat if I didn't already have one extremely gold-coded character
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he literally sews his kids stupid little outfits from scratch does anyone even fucking care
#tmnt#i could talk about this for hours but it pisses me off so bad when people ON MY OWN POSTS are like ooh splinter is neglectful he suuucks#shut up you idiot everything he does is for them he would kill himself in a heartbeat for them#the fact that they even survived past infancy in their circumstances is a testament to phenomenal parenting by any realistic human standard#it's just that a) it's a show about the ninja turtles so of course they're going to have a lot of unsupervised escapades#& it's not fair to read THAT much into his absence b) they are older kids at this point & it's perfectly reasonable for a group of 13-17 y/#s to go to the grocery store without a chaperone and c) his strained relationship with his grandpa heavily informs his approach to parentin#so he thinks that smothering too much at this age will drive them away & he wants to encourage their blossoming independence as much as#possible because that's what he craved at that age#and it's so clear in every flashback that he was a constant nurturing & encouraging presence in their childhood & he misses the days when#they really relied on him hence piebald#and he WANTS to spend time with them he really does. he begged to be in their family band he has to excruciatingly hold himself back from#following them on their adventures at times but again he doesn't want to smother them at this age so he finds other outlets#remember when he bought a 20$ cup of lemonade from raph & leo because he didnt want them to be sad that they got no customers in their#Sewer lemonade stand#he loves them more than anything he's just weird and autistic about it okay. shut up. Shut the fuck up#not really relevant but his room is so baller i'd spend all my time here if this was my room. minifridge and everything
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Rumor has it that Mark Darrah said that bioware had a nasty time transitioning over to work from home and got basically nothing done over that period (he left the studio in December 2020). So unless things shaped up really quickly after he left, veilguard (which was converted back to single player from live service in February 2021) may have spent a lot of time that first year spinning its wheels and not getting a lot of work done. That would honestly explain a lot
#I'd already speculated just based on timeline that a bunch of stuff from the multi-player game got carried over#And if bioware lost a year of dev time for veilguard to wfh struggles then that makes it even more likely#Esp knowing the mass effect team was pulled in to help finish this game#I think the development period was BAD bad#God someone please write a tell all I would read it in a heartbeat#Dav chatter
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2023 wrap-up!
In honor of all the art I didn't expect to make this year (cuz BOY was this a rough 12 months), here are some of the pieces I'm proudest of.
shoot a silver bullet (point-blank range) - we love Van Palmer, and we love werewolves, so what's better than combining the two?
i can hear the sirens (but i cannot walk away) - body horror! all the Wilderness-themed body horror! ancient god-girls co-opting teamwork in the most distressing sense of the word!
honey, you’re familiar (like my mirror years ago) - what's better than a show operating in two separate timelines? smashing those timelines together and fixing a few things along the way, of course.
i’m starving, darling (let me put my lips to something) - it's so horny and so bonkers, but let's be real: sapphics turning love into communion via physical consumption is something that can be so personal.
a lifelong love letter - happy wife, happy life. these kids deserve a little kindness in the woods, even if it's a wedding no one else could attend.
wanted my heart (but i gave her my soul) - we love Taissa Turner, and we love vampires. most of all, we love Tai warring with the duality of her nature.
those are my personal faves, but honestly? the fact that I sat down and wrote 28 stories this year, when I thought my brain would never let me write again? a marvel. I'm so proud of everything under this tag.
as an added bonus, I returned to traditional art for the first time in a hot second. I'm so proud of these two, I actually have them framed on my office wall.
2023 was a wild year--filled with an awful lot of mess and loss--but it brought me back to my greatest love: making things. making gay, gay, gay things. the biggest thanks in the world to Yellowjackets as a show and the entire team behind it for reminding me how much I love stories, art, and lesbians navigating trauma. here's to following that rabbit hole deeper in 2024.
#2023 wrapped#yellowjackets#yj fanart#yj fanfic#taivan#van palmer#taissa turner#gore cw#seriously if i could send a fruit basket to the YJ team#to liv hewson and jasmin savoy brown and tawny cypress and lauren ambrose#i'd do it in a heartbeat#utter strangers one and all but they've done so much to jumpstart my art brain out of the worst depressive fog#and i will always be grateful to anyone who can help with that#also wildly grateful to the folks on tumblr and AO3 who have prompted and read and commented and written and drawn#and in general fed my hyperfixation with their own#good times y'all. a solid year. let's do it again.
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on the one hand, i understand the appeal of superbat. on the other, why would you date bruce when lois is literally Right There
#tbh this is why the majority of superbat i read is dceu because that lois is SO flat and uncompelling#i don't think snyder can write a woman to save his life#otherwise bruce/clark/lois is pretty damn fun. but they have so little fanfic that i've read it all :')#conpost#i KNOW i'm a lesbian but if you were making a choice between bruce and lois.......i'd choose lois in a heartbeat
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have to share this somewhere bc it's gold to me
neko ima pradu ja imam bradu -girl who got all dressed up yet again forgot to give a fuck about her brčići
#0 notes to me#listen i'd exchange them in a heartbeat i just looked in a mirror and thought it was funny#sorry for the bad humor all balkan readers had to experience reading the mirror thoughts
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i wish i could read the poppy war over again for the first time
#the poppy war#did it cause intense pain and misery? yes#would i still read it over again in a heartbeat? oh absolutely#maybe i'd take my time with it if i could read it over again#instead of reading the entire series in three days
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i would like to profusely apologize to the academy that when awano was able to read kiryu like an open book at the end of ch5 i immediately started speculating if majima noticed this about kiryu too and it plays a part in why he hounds him so much. i'll get my head out of the relationship dumpster i promise
#soda.txt#yakuza#kiryu kazuma#majima goro#i don't like the idea of majima like. protecting kiryu or some shit#he if anyone knows kiryu can take care of himself#but idk is it far fetched to say he sees these features in kiryu. these “flaws” in his eyes#and wants to step in to prevent kiryu from falling victim to them in his roundabout way#like majima reads people with incredible ease he'd see through kiryu in a heartbeat#and he if anyone knows how exploitable something like that can be#so it's another reason for him to hunt kiryu. and make him aware of that which majima sees as flaws#im not tagging with ship it doesn't have to be like that#and i'd be embarrassed to only be analyzing these two from that perspective
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I’m sorry, squiggly my friend. You’ve read ACOTAR???? All the headcannons and thoughts I could’ve shared!!!! Is Lucien your favorite? I only assume cause you said he’s your husband 😉 Seriously though I love this series and I’m so glad to now know you like it too!!!!
AHH YES! :D I have!!! I've read the entirety of the original trilogy! (I haven't read the winter novella or ACOSF yet- I might reread the trilogy first before returning to the world, you know?) They were SO GOOD- especially ACOMAF!
Possible spoilers below the cut? It's mainly just me screeching about the book but just in case!
Of the men, Lucien is definitely my favorite! Though Rhysand is RIGHT there at the second spot! My forever favorite of the series is Feyre; her growth from this girl hunting for the sake of her family's survival to what she becomes in the end was everything. Plus she's got so much personality-GOD I adore her. We don't talk about Tamlin. With all disrespect, he can go dry up in a ditch.
I'd genuinely love to hear all your thoughts and headcanons on the first three books! I love all the characters (except a few- they know who they are) and being able to gush about them again would be so fun! :D If the mood ever strikes, please feel free to yell about the series to me; I'll gladly reply in kind! <3
(Also this is a given but I'll tag anything with spoilers as "ACOTAR spoilers!)
#squiggily speaks#book talks#books#acotar#flyinginvelaris#friend :3#it's so good AHH!!!#is it my all time favorite series? No#but did I love the story when I read it and would happily go back in to read it all over? Yes. In a heartbeat#Please feel free to share any thoughts you have I'd be delighted to read them!!!
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not to be sad on main but I miss my mom
#especially our phone calls#she always had some wry take on something that found a way to make me laugh#grief tag#may as well toss that in there#but yeah i just really wish i could talk with her right now#I'd feel a lot less crazy if i could just call her and joke about how weird my life is right now and beg for some advice#even if realistically I'd take about 23% of it and ignore the rest to her ire#I'd kill to hear her tell me that it'll be fine. just one more time wouldn’t be enough but I would still take that in a heartbeat#i just had my 25th birthday recently and it felt so empty to experience a milestone without her#i know it's not that big but it got me thinking about bigger milestones#and it all snowballed from there#my dad and i have also been having trouble since earlier this year for reasons relating to her passing which has thrown a wrench into things#i wish i could call my mom to ask her how she would really feel about it. or just bitch about the situation for a while.#as it is it feels like my only two options are to grin and bear it at a detriment to myself or to speak my mind and hurt the relationship#and while she may not have a simple answer ready for me she would still listen to me and emphasize with my point of view#while also pointing out when I've gone way off base and have misunderstood the situation#idk um. if you got this far thanks for reading my ramblings ig?#mumblings
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also i have probably said this before but i think faculty need to stop telling students that they shouldn’t go to graduate school. yes students should have the information they need to make the decision (including info about the low stipends, the not-so-great culture of many graduate programs, the vanishingly small number of stable academic jobs, etc). but i’ve always felt like some students are going to hear that and think “well, it won’t be me, i’ll work hard and beat the odds!” (typically your well-off students who have a lot of social & navigational capital and an assured sense of belonging in higher ed spaces), while other students are going to hear it and think “i wonder if they’re just saying that because they think i’m not cut out for graduate study.”
#not everyone needs to do a phd!#but i think anyone who loves learning enough to think 'i wonder if i'd like to keep doing this in a more rigorous way'#deserves to have that desire/interest taken seriously#and should get the chance to learn more about what scholars do and what graduate study entails#i have quite a few students who have gone through that process of exploring grad schools and presenting at conferences#and talking to faculty and writing longer research papers and so on#and have decided 'nah this just isn't something i can see myself doing long-term'#but then i have quite a few who have gone through all of that and been like wow#i know what graduate study entails now#and i know that it's something i want to pursue#also grad students need to stop doing the same thing lol#in general i think the cult of misery around grad school is one of those self-perpetuating things#like YES the systems are broken and YES the advising often blows but ALSO are grad students sometimes in love with#the idea of their own misery? MAYBE#MAYBE A LITTLE BIT#i had horrible advising and was often actively unhappy about that in grad school#but i also had an amazing time and would do it again in a heartbeat#although based on my reading i understand now that is because of a sense of SOCIAL BELONGING#which my school did nothing to cultivate but my cohort actively did on our own#i also think teaching gave me a strong sense of purpose and an identity outside of being a Helpless Student at the mercy of my advisors
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DO YOU EVER JUST. THINK ABOUT KARAI AND SHREDDER
Like. She’s his daughter. He killed her. The regret he must feel now even though they’re both dead
AUGH I AM HAVING FEELINGS ABOUT THEM
:O
WELL I WASN'T BUT I SURE AM NOW
Wow, that is just,, GAAHH
✨FEELINGS✨
#YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE A FIC ABOUT THAT#i'd read that in a heartbeat#asks#owlfacenightkit#my bestie owl <3
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I have some respect for Alice becoming a magician solely to continue practicing her doll spellcraft. Nothing says "true researcher" than sacrificing your literal humanity to get longer time to study potential new avenues for research.
#touhou project#alice margatroid#she might get faster progress if she had a partner though#research is a team effort#that partner is NOT marisa#I hope alice writes a giant thesis on her work one day. I'd read it in a heartbeat.
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Journey to Babel was the best episode since Mirror Mirro. I got to meet Spock parents (Amanda: 100/10, Sarek -1000/10). There was a whole murder mystery going on and Bones got to tell Kirk and Spock to shut the fuck up. Good times.
#how Sarek manage to bag Amanda with 'marrying you is the most logical choice' as a marriage proposal I will never know#anyway I love her so very much and if there was some sort of novel just for her I'd read it in a heartbeat#anne watches tos
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the way the city my boyfriend is from is directly on my chiron line and almost directly on my venus line and I need to visit just to see what its like
#kinda fell off from reading natal charts and now loving astrocartography#similar lines run through where he's from compared to australia#which is a country I'd also move to in a heartbeat#curious 🤨#I think I just want to travel
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