#I've been cooking this one for so long

[jeleynai]

Baby's first attempt at comic panelling |･ω･)

The cat's name is "Dove - like the soap brand"

[gongyussy]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Quest Continues...

(part 1- part 2)

[moth-flowers]

moth-flowers #21

[rainbowsuitcase]

More Polish Iceman hcs pls! Featuring Mav and Slider, maybe?

Oh, let me see.

I'm working on a related fic right now, but it's too angsty, so I'll try to grab it differently.

Let me just mention (project) again that he switches languages when he's tired and comfortable, because some things are easier to talk about in one language than the other. The only reason Slider didn't lose his mind from his Top Gun-era pining after Mav is because half of his rants were in Polish. (He understood half the words and he could've probably gotten the rest from context but. No.)

He kept his mama's cookbook. It was actually started by his grandma, a woman he only ever met through her food, but his mama added her own recipes too and he could recite them from memory, but he likes looking at his mama's handwriting when he's missing her.

And when he's really homesick, he bakes his mama's goods. But he'll also eventually start bringing them to the 86's celebrations.

He starts bringing them because Slider keeps pestering him about it. He tells the other guys that Ice is holding out on them and calls it "a crime." (He's right.)

No matter where he is in the country, if he's not deployed, he'll always visit his mama's grave on All Souls' Day.

During the first Christmas he spent with Carole and Bradley and Mav, he and Carole had a lot of fun learning and exchanging recipes. The Christmas cookies they make now are a delightful mix of cultures.

By the way, he hates calling them cookies. They're not cookies! (Yes, I am projecting.)

Speaking of the holidays, he insists on celebrating Saint Nicholas day by giving Bradley sweets (because he wants to spoil the kid, and because he can)

His family always used to call him Tomek and he misses it, but he can't just tell his friends that. (They figure it out anyway.)

Well. "Figure it out." Slider brings it up in a memory from the Academy and they all understand it as a kind of childish nickname. They think it'll be funny to try once, but they're not prepared for how soft Ice gets, so they decide to keep using it. It's like their secret weapon.

Mav once calls him Tomaszek when they're drinking and he almost starts crying. He keeps using that one too, but only when they're alone.

And lastly

"Kurwa, Maverick."

That's it. Just imagine him saying it.

[bestagons]

What Dan and Phil Text Each Other 4 + Familect (article)

[disposal-blueeee]

VARGASTOBER - day 11 : yarn

" do you remember . . . when i took one of those skeins of yarn that gran keeps lying around , and i decided to make our entire room a huge spider web ? so i looped all this yarn everywhere , all over the chairs and beds and tables and doorknobs until you couldn't go anywhere unless you were crawling ? " a smile and edgar wondered for a moment that if scriabin did have a creative streak in him , how could that be expressed ? how else could he express it when he had no body of his own ? work to create a past , a life that he never and would never have , maybe even this whole time . . .

uncropped ver under the cut X3

[sun-marie]

Shameless Self Promo Sunday <3

i was tagged by the lovely @rookinthecrownest!! Thank you so much for the tag <33

This was my first week after finishing Avowed, so I started attempting to draw my Envoy, Cedrych Hartwell:

and I've actually done a lot of IRL art this week as well, such as:

a sketch of Isabela (from my memory^^;;) I did while it was slow at work:

a sketch of my "hypothetical ideal man" on another EVEN SLOWER day at work (ft. a coworker's stick figure buddy <3):

A quick oil painting of an eye to experiment in my Painting class (the "towels" sign isn't part of it we just don't have anywhere to store paintings so it's above our sink):

And my Final Project, that's basically done, for my Painting class (Prompt: Nighttime, Oil on Canvas):

no pressure tagging @layalu @solas-backpack-mug @herearedragons @full---ofstarlight @rookamell @appolojustice @glamfellens, and anyone else who'd like to play and show off their work!! (and yes that also means YOU 🫵🏻 consider yourself tagged by me and tag me in your post so i can seeeee <3)

[temporary-tats]

Commission for @notoftheskaal of cover art for @kaelidascope's Bees fic, Something About Moths and a Flame! (definitely recommend giving it a read!) 🖤💛 Definitely one of, if not my favorite piece that I've made thus far!

(My ko-fi and links, should you wish!)

[bleue-flora]

Write the autitic c!dream essay🙏🙏

Why I think c!Dream is Autistic - Part 1

[context]

[Part 1] - [Part 2] - [Part 3]

Welp… I guess while on the topic of neurodivergence now is as good as time as any to do this. So, at long last…

Since every version of this essay ended up way too long I’m going to break it into 3 parts, and I'm going to make more generalized statements for the sake of brevity. So, if there are things about this or autism in general you would like more clarification on or know more about, my asks are always open (though I do ask that you please wait to flood my inbox until after you’ve read all parts). I would also like to add that for the same reason of length, I am not going to go in depth on all of the facets of autism and diagnosing it. I am not a psychologist, and this essay is not about defining autism and going into full depth about what it is, but about the specific aspects of Dream and the dsmp that I think point to autism, based on what I know and more importantly my experiences as an autistic person. Having said that, just so we are on the same page - Autism means that our brains are literally structured differently (also known as neurodivergent), which means we think differently and process the world differently, it does not make us inferior or broken or less than larger society (neurotypicals), it only means we are human beings who are wired differently.

Now, for part 1 I’m going to briefly go into the traits Dream has that I think point to autism, keeping in mind that this is not necessarily all inclusive, these are not necessarily autism exclusive, and some of these can be effected with masking and personal growth. 

Highly obsessive - in general and for specific interest, to the point of not taking care of oneself, like forgetting to sleep, eat, shower, or just not caring enough to do so. 

Strong willed, determined and dedicated - not going to give up easily, willing to stay up training or farming for long hours or put in the work especially for our obsession. Our priorities aren’t always productive, but we are not ones for laziness.

Isolated - outcast, odd ball out, set apart, on the outskirts, loner, alone even if surrounded by people.

Highly intelligent - smart, clever, big brained, skilled, knowledgeable to the point of ground breaking (ex: Einstein, Elon Musk, Michelangelo, Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci…etc)

Trouble with emotions and feelings - from recognizing them, processing them, letting ourselves experience them, understanding them, leading us to often then lash out, explode, or have a meltdown.

All about the facts and truth - sometimes to an abrasive and candid point where it can become more important than how people feel or the main point.

Logical mindset - making decisions based on logic and strategy rather than on emotions to the point of struggling to understand others when they follow no such logic

“Black and White” thinking - right and wrong, good or bad, yes or no, on or off, love it or hate it, friend or foe. Everything is in extremes.

Rule follower, one to fight for justice and for others - we are stubborn and in our strong conviction we are out against injustice and misinformation, fairness and what is right and true is imperative. 

Unable to forgive and forget - hard to let things go. Often have good memories and are able to remember things with the same detail as if it were happening again and not years ago. It doesn’t really fade with time and that makes us easily hold grudges, and hold things and behavior against people.

Resistant to change -  doesn’t matter how big or small nor whether it’s good or bad, we are enemies of change. We like to understand so uncertainty and new things are often disagreeable.

Able to recognize patterns - able to see the full picture, see history repeating itself and people’s behavioral tendencies, which makes us good at scheming and masterminding. We hate change so we want to predict things to avoid being surprised. 

Trouble articulating our point - stuttering and stumbling over our words, because our brains are moving too fast for our mouth to keep up and it’s hard to explain ourselves because our brain works differently. (we’ll talk about this more in part 2)

Struggle with body language? - I mean it’s hard to say given the Minecraft format, but to me wearing a mask could be to avoid having to make eye contact (which I hate) and appropriate facial expressions and stuff like that, which are pretty important in diagnosis. So while some headcanon that Dream wears a mask because he's too expressive and doesn't like being exposed I actually think it might be the opposite and saves him a lot of effort and brain power to not have to worry about his facial expression. :)

Stimming - (yes an ADHD thing but also an autistic thing and it's very common for someone to be both - like me ;D) vocally and physically often when more stressed, again hard to say for a Minecraft man, but I see him constantly moving like pacing the cell or jumping around and stuff as stimming and he does vocally stim on occasion as well.

Or in other words - Reasons I think c!Dream is autistic:

C!Dream = me, me = autistic -> c!Dream = autistic… boom, shortest essay ever XD lol jk 

But seriously it is a major reason. I read a tumblr c!Dream character analysis (don't remember who's) back before I even joined tumblr and related soo much, which is pretty concerning when you relate to a villain - because like wait does that make me a psychopath? but I have empathy and I care and I'm not out to hurt people so why would I relate so much? And that's when I realized I think it is because he’s autistic like me so we think a like... I mean seriously the similarities are scarily uncanny down to things that have happened to me in real life…

Anyways, thank you for reading. I hope I made sense and got the idea across even by not going into super detail on all the points.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

i just wanna see more of these two dorks interacting omg >:'D <333

[beigetiger]

Ok now that I've thought about it a bit more I have a take:

Our blessed relationship horror: character thinks it's romantic, author thinks it's fucked up

Their barbarous cishet romance: character thinks it's fucked up, author thinks it's romantic

[moominmanoneandonly]

Tik tok audio so good that it just made me create 100 out of 250 slades on flipaclip in less than 30 minutes at 1 am

[spotaus]

please know whenever you give any ichor lore in either tags or a post, i am going

i love love love lore drops.

Wooo!!!! It is so freeing to hear that, thank you haha!!! Everytime you rb or ask or smth I always kinda just go

AND. Y'know- ya know what this gives me the chance to do??? LORE DUMP (putting it under the cut because it might get long lmao-)

I went back on my old phone (basically my art storage system) to find some old art of Ichor!! Like, the four pieces above are not completely Canon anymore, (I couldn't draw Paps to save my life 😭) but this was from before I had decided how Ichor and Reward were created!

The first one labeled 'Judgement' is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of New God aged Ichor! This was when I had it planned that Ichir was the God of judgement abd he made some poor choices so Balance chipped a piece of his power into Reward and Ichor had to raise him. That's no longer the case, but the design transfers over! In the second one 'Punishment and Reward' you can see that Balance's Halo was going to be on Ichor too! This is technically something he *could* manifest still but he deeply chooses not to. The design from 'Eclipse Era' for Ichor is 100% accurate. This was the Era when Ichor ran away from the god's to go stop a prophecy + ended up falling in love and having a full mortal family. (They- they're dead as hell but uhhh-) Then the training fits were scrapped, but the concept continues. Ichor has to train to keep himself healthy since his godly magic is weakened, abd Reward drags him out to do little exercises once they're trapped in the Catacombs!

Another thing is this one specific tree? (Looks goofy af, ignore that- it's meant to be a weeping willow but fluffier lmao-) It's on a ridge a few mountains away from Mt. Ebbot, overlooking a mountain village that Ichor always went back to. It's their sacred tree, but Ichor was the one who made it so different. Smth smth his blood got to the roots once. But basically if he's mourning, if he's celebrating, if he has any big occassion he goes to this tree. It would break his heart if this Tree was ever cut down or severely damaged by anything that wasn't Weather related.

And (old art again, rip my skills-) once upon a time, Ichor could manifest Dragon Features from his magic! Now this translates into a Canon ability to turn into a dragon-ish beast form, but that's more his bones reshaping and less Gold Magic Manifestations lol. He's always had a connection to dragon-vibes, and because he doesn't use gaster-blasters, he *is* the blaster. Only when he needs it though. (And with the chains he can't change shape at all, so that's only a post-story kinda thing or pre-chains thing lol-)

I also have another scheme cooking (two, actually?) One with his Sons (the immortal ones that exist in Catacombtale and escape into the Omega Timeline if that happens-) and the other is Regarding the first drawing I ever made of him and doing a comparison lol- Hoping this was fun lore in the meantime!!

[softdreamlesssleep]

God, "I missed you" sex is the best

[trissaysmoi]

Explore, reflect, and everything in between [draft]

There are nights when I find myself looking up in the sky. Colored with a shade of blue; decorated with millions of sparkling stars. These stars are so distant from us that darkness still dominates the things around me. 

I often think about the technological advances we created to go beyond our home planet. I’ve read about the first time Yuri Gagarin broke the invisible barriers that separate our atmosphere from outer space, or the time Neil Armstrong and his team first stepped their foot on the moon. Thousands of space missions have happened since then, with some of them being a part of a race between two global superpowers on who is superior in space technology.    

Humanity has come a long way in exploring the unknown, spanning hundreds of generations all the way from ancient times. However, it’s mind-boggling that in reality, we just barely scratched the surface of the universe. At least for now, anyway.  

It made me remember all those science fiction movies I watched over the years. Human creativity is playing with the ways people in metallic suits explore the universe with their gigantic spaceships, dodging over asteroids and fighting extraterrestrial beings. How accurate these are, I’ll never know in my lifetime. And it left me with an existential dread that I was born a little early to discover what’s left of the universe. 

Humanity has also come a long way in its existence. Our written history spans 5,000 years, and it continues to be written as we breathe. Each person breathed their first breath and exhaled their last. They fulfilled their destinies and co-existed with the people at their time. 

Some of these people, though, ended up becoming greater than the rest. They left their legacies in the world for the next generations to come. From Alexander the Great to Jesus Christ, Napoleon Bonaparte to Mahatma Gandhi. To this day, their names are still being spoken, their stories are still being shared. 

Too bad I was born a little too late to shake hands with Jose Rizal, or join Hannibal Barca in the Carthaginian invasion of Italy. The best thing I could do is read their narratives and take inspiration from their wisdom. 

It may seem like I complain about not being born at the right time, but the truth is, I feel like I’m where I’m supposed to be. Fate didn’t put me into one of those spaceships because I may mess it up and fall into the abyss. Fate didn’t put me in ancient times because I may have been too grossed out by Roman communal toilets.

Instead, fate put me in the part of the timeline when you can do anything in a rectangular device. Fate put me in a world where I got to meet the people I love.   And fate put me in a time when I can reflect on the lessons of the past and look forward to what the future brings. #