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Watching Amphibia, Sasha is passing my blorbo test
#From my vague knowledge of her I think I will like Marcy too but we haven't been like#Introduced to her yet
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can i offer you some furries in this trying time
@laikascomet
#I KNOW I DREW HER GLOVE ON THE WRONG HAND. I CANT TELL MY LEFT FROM MY RIGHT#i was playing with colors and im happy with how each of these came out!!!!#he hasnt even been introduced yet but i wont apologize for the person i become when we get road boy#i dont know AAANYTHING about him but i love him already. i just know hes gonna be cool#my art#myart#laika's comet#webcomics#furry art#fur#mars#laika#road boy#fanart#eyestrain#just in case
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But she means everything to him. 📹: @medium-observation
#hadestown#hadestownedit#theatreedit#this gifset brought to you by the fact that eurydice and hades both get warm lighting#meanwhile orpheus and persephone both get blue#yes hadestown is all gold and brown but even before she goes there eurydice is bathed in yellows#and then orpheus shows up and introduces blue into her world#both pairs are the ground and the sky. yet more evidence for my eurydice is hades and orpheus is persephone agenda#the way all i've ever known culminates in pure blue and eurydice finally physically letting herself be lifted off the ground#AND LATER WHEN THE EPIC III DANCE STARTS THE LIGHTS ON THE WALLS CHANGE FROM ORANGE TO BLUE#AS HADES SIMILARLY FINALLY LETS HIMSELF BE FREE#orpheus and persephone opening eurydice and hades up to becoming free. to looking up at the sky and the stars#wow i am really not well right now
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It's not totally clear here why Dave's dream self appears to be already awake while his real self is also awake. I think we must infer that his dream self is in some sort of "waking trance" where he's technically awake but too preoccupied by certain things to be considered fully awake.
thinking about jade being lonely as hell on her island and going to sleep waking up on prospit and seeing john (not knowing his name yet) asleep plagued with the creepy dersite doll dreams with the scary teeth and just aughhhh
and she’d like overhear the white queen talk about the dark kingdom derse and the prince(sse)s of the moon that are there and trying to attract as little attention as possible jade would fly out there through the medium because shes so lonely. and she’d go to the purple moons’ towers. she’d find a girl is sound asleep in her purple robes and bed. but the other kid on the moon she finds is awake! except… not really. more like in a trance state. awake but not conscious. but she likes to hear whatever garbled stuff this triangle-speced boy has to say
the trip is long but jade visits this boy a few times since he’s the only non-asleep person like her she can interact with face to face. he usually seems lost in his own world, usually listening to music or talking to himself about stuff that doesnt make much sense. when she’s deprived of sapient affection she’ll touch him in small gestures like holding his hand while he listens to his music and he’ll squeeze back instinctually, and it helps her experience a microdose of the human connection. maybe he doesnt get much in the way of sapient affection either. when she hears The Horrors of the furthest ring another dream headset pops into existence for her to listen along with him and they listen to whatever music hes making. who is he
#homestuck#hs#dave strider#jade harley#davejade#kinda#just for visibility#idk theyre probably like 9 here#havent met yet at that point probably#a year or so later john introduces her to an online friend named dave#she asks about his hobbies and he sends her stuff hes working on#the sorts of music he sends her feels familiar#she feels compelled to learn from him and collaborate#hmm. i wonder since this free association dream dave is more id-influenced#if he composed crystalanthemums from his dreams with jade. because it sounds sweet dreamy and wistful#because it originated from dave in freshjamz#like waking dave i mean. because hes awake but like. subconscious dream dave channeling stuff#and he’s like. huh. whyd i feel compelled to write that damn#and he found it and was like “oh hey i dont remember even making this one its from a couple years ago Crystalanthemums.mp3”#and jade is like “wow dave this is really pretty!!!! i …… dont know why….but i have this feeling that i should be remixing this!”
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Oh! The headaches. Definitely the headaches :)
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And I can teach him so much more.
#ffxiv#endwalker spoilers#Erenville hasn't 'met' Fransi nor really has any conception of her existing#which is very funny because she CAN sass him back from Frog's subconsciousness#like when does Frog have to start introducing everyone she carts around with her#how do you explain Esteem first time you cast her in front of someone for starters#anyway I rushed through the end of ShB just so I could see Erenville again#sue me :P#ICONIC greeting second only to meeting Estinien as a Dragoon just on account of how I feel headaches yet to come over the horizon#also the 'look of the gleaner' thing is very much part of why Frog was so gleeful to get her hands on authentic gleaner gear :)
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Small question, does it have to be Gotham for Cass? There's charas like Dick that can go establish their identity in a different city. Then there's Bruce, Steph, Jason and Duke who are so intrinsically tied to Gotham that this has to be the city for them. Where does Cass lie on this spectrum? Tq!
EXCELLENT question. I think Cass' situation is somewhat unique because of the way her character was handled post-Batgirl (2000).
In favour of Cass not staying in Gotham, she doesn't have the same emotional connection to Gotham as the four people you listed. She wasn't raised there, and in Batgirl (2000), she has next to no ties to Gotham civilians. In fact, it's when she moves to Bludhaven in Gabrych's run that she gains her first civilian friend and civilian love interest. The iconic volving panel is from Bludhaven, too. It's undeniable that the distance from Gotham, from Bruce (and arguably Babs), helps her grow:
Batgirl (2000) #71
It can't be overstated how important ownership is to Cass. To own something means, necessarily, that you not an object. You are a person who something belongs to, and who belongs to something. By calling Bludhaven the "first place that's ever been... mine," she's explicitly saying that Gotham was not hers. Bludhaven was the first place that made her feel fully human.
But there are caveats to this. Cass goes to Bludhaven in the wake of Stephanie's death, a Gothamite through and through. It's probable that Steph's death colours her view of Gotham here, and her willingness to embrace Bludhaven is in response to the pain that Gotham now brings her. (This is also after Babs calls Cass stupid). Feeling like Gotham doesn't belong to her might stem from these specific circumstances, and not be applicable in current canon.
Still, if the story had ended there, I'd say Cass doesn't need to stay in Gotham. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
Red Robin (2009) #17
After Bruce's death, Cass goes to Hong Kong. Well, 'goes' is putting it nicely. She was written off to make Steph Batgirl, which resulted in Cass a) not appearing in most comics, b) being stripped of the bat symbol, and c) being isolated from everyone she cares about, besides Tim. It's a horrific and undeserved fate, reversing everything Cass' story once stood for (narrative agency; becoming a hero; finding a family).
Though Cass regains the symbol and becomes the Bat of Hong Kong, she is no longer part of the narrative; her distance from Gotham became a representation of her distance from narrative importance. That's the real danger of Cass leaving Gotham - unlike Dick, who is a big enough character to be guaranteed solos in Blud, Cass leaving Gotham will forever hold the threat of erasure.
I'm discussing this in a meta-textual sense, but textually Cass knows the danger too.
Gates of Gotham #5
Here, Cass rebuffs Dick's assertion that Gotham will never keep either of them because they don't belong. She says, "It's about how you choose to see the world. Everything else is just an excuse." She's repudiating multiple things: editorial's decision to boot her from Gotham; Bruce's decision to take Batgirl away; even, somewhat, Dick's ascension to the Bat mantle when she wasn't given a chance.
This is ultimately why, though Cass could work elsewhere, I think she should work in Gotham. It's the place she ran to after David Cain, the place she chose to stay in, and the place that gave her Batgirl. Most importantly, it's the place that rejected her. It's not about Gotham itself - It's about how she was ejected from it, and how she fought her way back, over and over again. Cass staying in Gotham ensures history doesn't repeat itself. It rewards Cass fans who survived OYL, Batman Inc, and New 52 with the light at the end of the tunnel.
This is just my opinion! I do love her stint in Bludhaven, so I understand other people preferring her elsewhere. Just for me, she may not belong to Gotham in the way Bruce, Steph, Duke, Jay, or Babs does, but she deserves to be there.
#cassandra cain#ask#gotham#batman#batgirl#i hope this answered your question#cass has spent comparatively so little of her history in gotham for a gotham character because she was constantly mistreated#i think she deserves to make a home there#i also think the line 'family is not home' from red robin 17 is incredibly bittersweet#nicieza was trying his best but for a character like cass to just be separated from her family like that? to be so utterly alone?#to be so divorced from the agency and narrative focus that defined her run as batgirl?#it stings so bad#anyway if new batgirl solo introduces a new city i'm all for it since she's the main character and it's not erasure at all#but we haven't even scratched the surface of all her gotham stories yet so#let her be the bat of gotham!
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now here's the purrbeast
#bathroom is a temp setup while we get them used to the house and the dog#lincoln is okay around them abeit a bit nervous#brownie/moon wants none of it she is not a fan of linc so far 😭#trust me i wouldn't have had them see each other yet but my mom thought letting them sniff each other out meant holding moon while linc#sniffs her#guess who got a couple claw marks on her face from trying to introduce them like that!!!#muscle man voice MY MOM#she's okay lol barely grazed her but it certainly says something here when i say#'hey we should get them situated and comfy before introducing them'#'okay yeah we get it' proceeds to keep holding moon near her face while the dog sniffs#girl you have admitted i have more cat knowledge than you maybe listen to me for once 😭#anyway not gonna get into that in the tags of a cute tumblr post#i was zonked out yesterday so sorry for the late update#we chillin#sunfyre and moondancer#caramel brownie
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Skuld in quantum design :)
#kingdom hearts#kh#khux#khux Skuld#kh skuld#kingdom hearts Skuld#skuld kh#Skuld kingdom hearts#got distracted from typing the tags by going to watch cutscenes with Skuld my friend Skuld in them#I love her#design notes: she got the scarf because it reminded her of Ephemer AND Braig#you can’t see it but under it she has a star necklace that reminded her of Player#this is based on the subject x Skuld theory! hence the scar. she got it either from just player or got one of the lines from fighting#darkness and the other from player idk#her coat was given to her by Braig/Luxu when he broke her out of radiant garden! it’s slightly too small for her now#she’s tall!!! to me. over 6ft. not quite Lea but still tall#her earrings are the only things that survived from her original outfit. everything else is new#she doesn’t have gloves because I forgo. then I was really happy with how I shaded the hand so I’m not putting gloves on her now.#but she probably does have them#she’s been living in Quantum for a while and is sorta tied up in some illegal shit but nothing really bad.#her and Strelitzia are friends!!! they met at a coffee shop when it was raining and Shuld was the only one with an umbrella#they didn’t realise they were both from daybreak until Skuld saw a painting Strez did and broke down crying.#her memory is still kinda fucked. when she first arrived in Quantum she didn’t remember her name yet and went by X.#she started collecting things that reminded her of the friends she couldn’t quite remember. she’s got a shoe box or two of trinkets#she also will get something if it reminds her of Lea/Isa because even if being in RG was hell she still misses them.#also Vanitas is there. he’s her terrible little brother who bites people. she loves him. he is the only reason she knows her own name#she found him and her heart recognised him as Ventus her brother Ventus. she knows he’s not all of Ventus now but it’s too late#he’s her little brother now. she’s trying to rehabilitate him like taming a feral kitten. he’s switching between ‘I want to be loved’ and#‘I’m evil fuck you’. she introduces as ‘this is my evil brother he is terrible and rude but we’re working on it and I love him.’#she would get along great with Sora I think.
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Alright bestie I’m on that shit again
So yandere Superman, right? Like obviously your fucked. The only other yandere in existence that might just be able to keep you from him is Batman, but even then he’d probably sooner work together just to ensure your safety- but that’s a prompt for another day.
Back to yan Superman, imagine you’re his darling and he is “keeping you safe”. But one day, you get snatched up by some organization that wants to use you as leverage or some shit, but you are just sobbing in relief at maybe being free- only to have Superman show up and do some not so super things to everyone who “stole” you
There are just so many casually horrifying things about Superman that people don't realize until you start like digging into his lore. "Oh he's super strong and a super fast flyer" actually he can do basically anything at those super speeds to the point he can literally even PROCESS THOUGHTS at near light-speed which means he has Absolutely Terrifying reaction times and can make plans and schemes on a dime, which, you know, can be even better utilized by him being intelligent. He has natural invulnerability so if you throw a punch at him too hard you could literally shatter the bones in your hand and he can't even control that, like you could literally hurt yourself with him on accident! He can see across INSANE DISTANCES and his x-ray vision doesn't have like a set range so he could do anything from, peep inside buildings to spy on you, to looking under your clothing for any bruises or injuries or even self harm marks, to peeking behind your hero disguise to learn your true identity, to seeing if there's anything inside your stomach and seeing if you're eating properly. Like jesus christ he literally found out Lois was pregnant from waking up one morning and suddenly hearing the heartbeat of the FETUS, there's literally nothing from him pulling that stereotypical "I know you're nervous or lying or afraid because I can literally hear your heartbeat increase" scary bullshit
And let's talk about Lois for a sec because my god her death was literally what kicked off the Injustice timeline? And there are other forms of Superman media where she just straight up dies naturally of cancer! Sure we could take the easy way and say "in this au Lois never existed or was just Clark's friend and he loved YOU" (which is my preferred default tbh bc, no competition for Reader lol) but I mean if you're going for that angst, that real whump, a yandere Clark Kent that just lost his wife/unborn child to either the Injustice incident or cancer, now overcome with grief? And in those cancer timelines they usually already have a son, Jonathan, and sometimes Jordan, and here's Clark thinking, well, his boy needs a mother, and he's got these weird feelings for you, and lil Jonny clearly has affection for you, maybe bring a bit of a platonic yan himself who sees you as either a big sister or even a secondary mom, so... be his wife maybe?
Like my god if Reader somehow helped him through the grief of losing Lois and managed to avoid "fully activating" Superman's anime villain arc, like he's going full fascist in the Injustice 2 Bad Ending, then some shit DEFINITELY goes down when Reader gets taken away. It just reactivates all his trauma. No! He can't lose anyone else! Jonathan can't lose anyone else! You're not just someone he loves, you're his FRIEND!
You're just huddled in whatever cell you've been kept in with your black eyes and bruises and knuckles bloodied from trying to fight back when you hear Clark's voice and you look up with excitement that just falls immediately off your face because holy shit did he just unlock that thumbprint scanner with a severed arm, and suddenly you're realizing there are other shades of red on his costume and dripping from his fingers
I can only imagine like, ngl I considered a sequel to my fic Doubt where Reader escapes the manor and runs into Supernan as the only other person who can protect you, so here we would have the inverse: you're the only one who knows about Clark's increasing instability and, while you still have your own freedom and autonomy, try to speak to Bruce about it, and now you have Batman Vs Superman: Competing For Your Heart Edition. I can only imagine what sort of unhinged reactions there would be if you think you've got Batman alone and you're beginning to cry all "Bruce I'm really worried about Clark, he isn't acting like himself, there's something wrong with him" and. Clark is like literally using his x-ray vision to read lips through the walls if he can't use his super hearing to outright eavesdrop.
Of course as you suggested, I'm always a slut for ideas with"oh shit I ran to this guy to help me and he's ALSO crazy, now they're teaming up and I'm in some weird shared/poly situation with TWO nutjobs". Lmao you go to Bruce concerned about Kal and Bruce goes to confront him and Clark just drops "did you know Y/N has been hiding self harm cuts under their hero suit also wow they smoke HELLA weed and im worried about their lungs and all the stuff they do when they're alone that no one else knows about 🥺" and suddenly here's Bruce " thanks i hate this actually :)" and there's a scheme concted to spy on you or move you elsewhere.
I've even thought of "Reader oh nooOoooOo, that, giant monster or villain attack or whatever also coincidentally destroyed your shitty little apartment complex? You mean Clark 'accidently' got sent flying into your building or smacked some giant creature into it and now you don't have a place to live? And you're broke too? Oh no 🥺 Well, BATMAN has this nice big house with lots of room in for you to stay toooootally 'temporarily', we PROMISE uwu"
Batman is the one who can put a tracking chip injected into your skin or even disguised as a filling in one of your teeth, and Superman is the one who can zoom off to rescue you/retrieve you "faster than a speeding bullet". I think one of the only people who could bring them down together at that point would be like. Fucking DARKSEID and, Jesus no, you definitely don't want HIM treating you as a pet 😭 the evil Batman that was brainwashed by him in the Apokolips War movie was scary enough (and scary HOT, lmao, let him keep me as some sort of prize and the only luxury Darkseid will allow him as a reward for his obedience. Lord Batman goes from having a meeting talking about like enslaving people to returning to his quarters and railing tf outta you because he's still holding onto some slim vestiges of humanity where he cares about you but also using you as his personal anti stress fuck toy)
#yandere superman#yandere batman#yandere dc#i got a draft whee damian and jon like you and introduce you to their fathers#and suddenly stalking you becomes a family affair#the boys walk you home and jon lies about having to pee so damian can plant bugs while youre distracted#the boys going back to their fathers and telling them all of your personal business#'yeah dad when she was at work i used my xray vision and saw her creepy manager grope her in the walk in'#suddenly your small little privately owned cafe was just bought out by wayne enterprises and your boss is fired or goes missing#maybe Bruce gets you a job st Wayne tech bc hes been following you as batman and he doesnt like you working third ahift#lmao heres hoping i actually finish it wven though im not quite sure where to go w it yet#but like its literally over 8 pages at least so. obviously some sort of creative juices are flowing#yandere stuff#sinprompts#at this point i cant promise shit bc my emotions and motivation are waaaaaacky
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"You haven't changed a bit, huh."
#911 lone star#911 lone star spoilers#paul strickland#asha fulton#I was so nervous about how they were going to introduce his new love interest#like how are you going to make me care about yet another new character?#and yet HERE WE ARE#I already like her and this intro to her and paul was so. damn. good.#a smile like that!!! yesss#my gifs#episode: s04e05 human resources#911lsedit#i need more paul in my life and so does everyone else#my faves
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ive gotta say ive gotten rly rly tired of the genre of post by trans men that goes "someone directed virulent transmisogyny at me today under the belief that i was a trans woman! but lol im a trans man! accidental ally!" like i dont actually think its funny that someone insisted you were a man in a way meant to be demeaning and threatening because they mistook you for a trans woman. im not sure why youre laughing.
#97#transmisogyny#like your reaction being limited to 'i was mistaken for having been amab which is my goal therefore this is good'#yet not extending to 'this is what trans women have to deal with all the time. holy shit.'#hm.#the times im happy about being mistaken as a trans woman is the time people were being v nice to me under that assumption#bc it shows that that was a situation where an actual trans woman wouldve been safe#one example is when my sister introduced me to some of her friends and one of them made it a point to interact w me as a woman#despite me looking Extremely Like A Guy and it made me rather uncomfortable#(bc i thought he mightve clocked me as transmasc and was being transphobic)#until it turned out that my sister HAD mentioned i was trans but the guy misunderstood and thought i was a pre-transition trans girl#and under that light its like. its funny but also im glad he did that even if it was out of a misunderstanding#that showed i was in a situation where a pre-transition trans girl who did not pass in any way wouldve been correctly gendered#okkk the transandro truthers are finding this one too and still managing to take issue w it#gonna just lock it down as well
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Did saint ever ascend biting notos? Also how was the gang’s reunion in the void?
of course Saint has! after all, its sole reason for existence is this. no matter how lonely and difficult the quest will be for it, everyone has to go
as for your second question... my god as u can see i went off on the first one, this is legit the biggest comic i've ever done- i'll do some stuff for the reunion in the void at a later point i prommy 😩✌ it'd be better like that either way. these guys haven't been introduced enough for my tastes for the big relief ending yet
#Spot says stuff#rain world#rw#oc tag#// body horror //#rw saint#iterator oc#rw iterator#oc: biting notos#oc: filler iterators#philosophy sessions au#my art#shout out to Spore for being introduced by her death u go filler girl! im... trynna fluff up the group a lil since the whole late game-#-story depends so much on the unity of iterators n itd be nice to have at least Some repeating names 😔#notos' way of speakin does NOT MATCH WELL with LONG ASS MONOLOGUES yet it KEEPS HAVIN LONG ASS MONOLOGUES. FUCK YOU TOO CHILD#saint keeps reminding me of the rabbit from pooh and then like. shendu from jca my god what a combo
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THANK YOU FOR 100+* FOLLOWERS: REQUESTS OPEN CLOSED!!
*edit: changing it from 50+ to 100 😭 9/11: ANNDDDD THAT'S A WRAP!! thank you all so much!!! 😭😭 i only really started posting consistently 2 weeks ago and there's already so many of u... for this, i'm opening requests!! (@beneathsakurashade twi n...)
they will be open until exactly a month from now, on september 11th!
rules!
the fandoms i will draw for are: twisted wonderland, honkai star rail, dungeon meshi, tian guan ci fu, and genshin impact!
i will keep to one specific art style for these, which are kind of a detailed chibi style! examples will be under the cut!
please only 2 requests per person!
only 3 characters per request!! however, you can ask for grim without him taking up a character space :3
PLEASE send visual refs for any ocs!! i will not draw requests purely on verbal description. picrews are okay only if there aren't any drastic changes needed to be made (color changes are completely okay, ask for anything else if unsure!)
some requests i may have to reject for certain reasons! in this case, the rejected request will not be counted towards the 2 request limit!
what i will draw (if unsure, feel free to ask!):
╰┈➤ canon characters (i will default to canon appearances, but i am willing to draw them with headcanons if you send visuals!) and original characters
╰┈➤ canon x canon* and oc x canon
╰┈➤ animals, plants, furniture
╰┈➤ detailed characters BUT they may take a longer time to draw so they may be put off for after other, simpler requests
*no proship
what i won't draw:
╰┈➤ gore (blood is ok though!)
╰┈➤ full backgrounds
╰┈➤ mecha, non-humanoid, furry
╰┈➤ NSFW
examples of the style i will use!
#・❥・my art#navigation#art requests#art reqs open#oh also i havent formally introduced her yet but the girl in my pfp and in this image is my mascot; honi!#ALSO THE 9/11 THING WASN'T INTENTIONAL....#the cake was so fun to draw actually. 10/10 would reccomend#h0neybane's 100 follower request event!
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quick little thing of the main characters of my flatland/gravity falls fic in the style of my old flatland short film, since i was thinking about it
#flatland#gravity falls#flatland: a romance of many dimensions#bill cipher#andrew kryptos#realizing this is the first time most of you have seen my flatland ocs!#Clementine Playfair (the abnormal line) is bill’s coworker and the equilateral (Chuck Voynich) is bill’s boss#Clem’s dad Teddy is the iscosceles and her boyfriend Gus Sebald is the Polygon#(yes the practically Irreggular daughter of a disabled isosceles is being courted by a Polygon it’s all very scandalous)#gus is very sweet tho. only nice polygon oc I have he’s very much the black sheep of his family#anyway andy has no friends his age other than bill and spends most of his time loitering where bill works#so he’s also friends with everyone here#probably should have drawn bill and Andy’s parents but their families both suck so I didn’t want to#also thought about drawing my main regular line oc but… I haven’t introduced her yet so#style is a little different mostly because nobody had legs in my old film but ah well. they look better with legs and clothes#and clothes are actually weirdly important to my fic if you've read it
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some news,,, I’ve made an OC for the latest fic I’m working on! Very excited for you all to meet my girl Juliet Thompson: English teacher, Shakespeare enthusiast, and girlfriend of one Captain John Brady 👀
#I’ve had so much fun writing for her hehehe#she and brady are just ADORABLE 🥰#so excited to introduce y’all to her!#masters of the air#sage speaks#oc: juliet#oc: juliet thompson#… not gonna put any other oc tags here yet bc Spoilers lol#john brady#mota#mota oc#john brady x oc#masters of the air oc
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what better way to come back to drawing than with something so incredibly self-indulgent
#puyo puyo#rulue#hi :) been a while#ivebeen moving house and a lot of other stuff and i only got back about three days ago#and unpacked my tablet and immediately went to warming back up to it#tablet my beloved.#anyway so through my court mandated (tablet shipped off) break i was introduced to raspberry cookie? from cookie run#(thru a pack of gummies my brother bought me LOL)#n i saw her and all i could think of. was rulue#'wouldnt rulue look so good. in.. that outfit.'#and then as soon as i could make it happen i did :) for me and me only :))#i love drawing you can just do whatever!!#anyway i wanted to post Something. !#Anything#so here we are since everything else is stuff i cant share yet#:) thanks#my stuff
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