#ON PAPER IT SHOULD BE GOOD-
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idk why im still not feeling it. this bday just started and it’s like 💀
#cozy texts#ON PAPER IT SHOULD BE GOOD-#i finally don’t work all week—#i have free time#if only for the next 48 hours given my original day off didnt get changed#but its still so weird.#Maybe its also because I’m [age here] and still haven’t accomplished anything substantial.#Like. it just hits all over again.#i should probably spend today AND tomorrow on those comms i really fell behind on.#At least then somebody’ll get something.
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smth so good abt labru besides the obvious thing (narrative foils) is also the fact that laios is such an open book / wears his heart on his sleeve and honest down to earth guy that he just loops back around to being unpredictable . like the fuckin, “its not even a monster??” laios fav food reveal is such a funny bit because like . okay. its hilarious that kabru who’s whole thing is being able to read people super well and remember all these details abt them is just so utterly blind when it comes to laios. hes like shooting a dart everywhere and it hits the general direction but at the same time the trajectory is just so off because laios does something bizarre that kabru has to reorient his chart of “stuff abt laios touden” and scramble things around. its like a game. a flow chart of . whatever the fuck
basically Kabru, the guy who knows everything there is to know about everyone. V.S this enigma who isn’t even that mysterious just autistic and easily misunderstood
#its so damn funny#Kabrus LAIOS MANUAL (WIP) (Still Ongoing)#like of course the more he encounters him the more he starts to understand and like#Kabru constantly updates what he knows abt everyone and everything . he is the up to dater. for normal reasons#but its so funny to me that even tho the stuff laios does makes sense . to me. its still like hey man what was that. to kabru#im so good at wording things and this probably makes like only 80% of sense#it is late and i probably should sleep#dungeon meshi#kabru of utaya#laios touden#labru#theyre so hilarious to me . absurd people . i need them inside a printing press#a paper shredder. even
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After a successful Kickstarter campaign (HUGE thanks to the backers who made it possible!!), I'm happy to announce that a compilation of the aroace comics I've shared here is now available in the form of a book called "No One Can Know I Don't Like Sex"!
If you're interested in getting a copy, they're available in various forms, and here's the links to buy 'em:
HARDCOVER VERSION
PAPERBACK VERSION
E-BOOK
You can also find them on my Etsy page, alongside an aroace bookmark, an asexual lanyard+charms set, and other original/fanart goodies I've made over the last months/years. Hope you'll find things you like!
#no one can know i don't like sex#asexual#aromantic#aroace#aroace artist#i should specify for good measure that aside from 5 pages these ARE reruns of comics of mine that you can find for free online#so no pressure really it's really more about whether you're a paper person i suppose#or you'd like to be able to access them in one place and offline#my art#nonburger
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"It's you, you know? It's not the sea, it's not the sun. It's you. You are my favourite part of the summer. It has always been you."
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Even if if took me DAYS, I'm thrilled to say that I finally finished it. Thank you so much for trusting the process yet again with me, for being such patients sweet lovely little things.
Thank you so, so much.
#inklessletter#trust the process#fanart#steve harrington#steddie#digital art#steve art#art#artist on tumblr#stranger things#eddie munson#steve fanart#yes#the sun is just coming up and they have spent the night at the beach#they should be tired#but the only thing eddie is able to focus is the peaceful aura of steve#who just got nurtured out of everything good in the world#who is so full with love and passion that it leaks through his smile#He just took his disposable camara and took a picture of him#trapping not only time but also the happiness and the memories in just one piece of paper that will go with him everywhere and for ever#this beautiful summer boy#this child of the sun that will live for ever like this in that photograph
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doodle dump because i will not finish these evar!!!!!!!!!!
#mepjone gijinkas r so hard man GAH#comedy gold is so funny to me#i don't hate hate anyone from ii but trophy is the guy i like to make fun of the most#i cannot draw him for the LIFE of me good lord#hes the guy i just think about and go 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅TOMATO TOMATO#twophone .. missing them#i swear if i got money from being invested in pairs no one cares about id be rich#always missing dadroog#sighs#and knickle for the end hearts#knickle to the END#gamer yaoi for the win#ii mephone4#ii microphone#ii pickle#ii cheesy#idk if i should tag everyone#oh whatever#ii paper#ii knife#ii balloon#ii knickle#ii nickel#ii clover#ii suitcase#THERES SO MANY OF THEM#two tpot#twophone#i think thats all of them????#phonification
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happy mother's day oolong is your mom now
#lost my good pen so. weird bleedy fineliner#flight rising#mothers day#mmm let me know if i should tag anything else#also my sketchbook is in the other room n i didnt want to get up so.#doodling on watercolor paper lmaoo
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I was inspired by @tapestryoftrauma ‘s wonderful writing, so here’s a drawing of Mark Chasity from his fic called Sink Into Me
#if yall haven’t- you should go check out her stuff#it’s all super good#oh and their edits on the TikToks#(I type it like that as if I’m not on it 6 hours a day /hj)#anyway yeah as I was reading I was possessed with an image that I had to get on paper#(also there is a rad drawing by Oswaldpettyeye at the bottom of the fic that you should definitely stare at and admire)#also also don’t worry- I’ve got more spy stuff I’m working on so stay tuned for that#I cannot express my excitement for SAD#but that’s another post#guys this was my first time doing perspective like this#and backgrounds are the bane of my existence#but other than that I kinda popped off#holy bastard#mark chasity#hatchetfield#curt mega#starkid#team starkid#abstinence camp#cw blood#cw axe#cw weapon#my art
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⭐️KING GHIDORAH SKETCHES!!!✨
Next up on what i wanted to eventually draw was taking the attempt at Ghidorah. At first, i wasnt sure how and also since i was doing this traditionally, that meant i had to draw each head individually each time. The good thing tho was that it seemed to get used to it pretty quickly & wasnt whole lot of a big deal. I did slightly mess up on the front viewing heads at the bottom (for practice) with maybe the consistency of design. But i should have that better fixed later on.
[Another specific reason as to why i decided on Ghidorah but ill mention it later]
I think im doing well at learning how to draw kaiju and im happy with that :D
#godzilla#godzilla fanart#kaiju#toho kaiju#king ghidorah#sketches#traditional art#ghidorah is actually one of my fav kaiju#i never was able to draw dragons well but i think i did good#I really do love kaiju#should i draw gigan next#this actually looks really cool tho#ive been improving with sketching on paper yay :)
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myth of the bare palm
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Our kind used to be hulking things of feathers and claws,
more gods than animals, roaming the snowed planes endless,
until we found each others
and in jubilant relief reached out
claws retracting,
feathers shedding,
so the moment of contact branded heat against bare skin.
#bakuspecial#comic#original art#ask to tag#hi! more creachure#for the record my perspective on this is that I'd fucking love to look like that^ and the#shedding of claws and feathers is a sacrifice#okay Im done lol annual cringe poetry slot filled#what do we learn? well we learn we should remember to prep our gotdamn nib#(I forgot to remove the oil on the nib lol I just plugged that shit in raw on purchase)#(no wonder it held like. two drops of ink at most)#and we learn drawing feathers with a dip pen slaps. just kinetically awesome#movement so slick I forgot and did the vane direction backward for the majority of this lmao#but it was fun. I also forwent the light table for this one so I didnt have to glue my eyes to the paper or turn off my light#waiting for the ink to dry properly sucks tho... well. you win some you lose some#okay. I gotta so lay down now. or eat dinner I havent decided#have a good nite! collide with a guy at high velocity okay?
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call me a ps2 original the way i be chu lip
second one is a reference to wrtv’s playthrough ! part one but i don’t have a time stamp
last one is an oc heres the original post of her
#a few of these are redraws You May Remember Them#chulip#chulip ocs#the art gallery#that one doodle of miss press i feel like i should mention#since shes the one writing the paper shes like. desparate for a good story#she gets stuck writng shit like 'swimmer daniel is home alone today' so when she finds out about the ufo in scarecrow field shed be.#a little mad#she lives in scf and somehow didnt hear about it
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JACK THE GIANT KILLER
originally this was a kind of personal visual vibe test: I'm still turning some thoughts around about jack in my head (altho I have finished assembling the skeleton of a story and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when I start to press at it) but I really liked how it turned out so I'm posting it as it's own illustration :)
the first post about this idea is over here, but I've fine tuned it down a bit so that the story begins with jack finding the body of a giant while he's out in the woods one day, and the story spirals out of hand before he can stop it.
it's been interesting to read up on jack tales from a literary analysis point of view while I figure this story out!! and through the power of more coffee, I think. I'm close to pinning down an underlying theme I'd really like to bite into. I just need to condense it down to a couple of sentences instead of several paragraphs.
and to close this post out, here's another excerpt from the j.g. ballard's the drowned giant that haunts me!
#i had a whole thing about why i dont link to my ko-fi on art posts but a friend said i should at least do it on original art#also cara seems to be promising as an art porfolio site? if you're looking to jump off of dA because it sucks ass. cara looks good so far!#OKAY moving on from that. in my head there is also a weird fucked up story about the drowned giant I would love#to turn into a short comic. maybe early next year? I think I need to go to a beach and do some studies because in my mind#it has a very specific visual and tone. hmmmmmm.#I had a very vivid dream abt it and I want to attempt to capture it down onto paper#and moving on from THAT. to the man himself. jack. ohhhhhh can you imagine if someone would’ve done a fucked up grim dark#Jack novel in 2013 or something. I would’ve eaten that like a cake. this isn’t an intentionally grim dark retelling although it is. grim.#original tag#generic medieval tag
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I wouldn't go as far as saying fanfiction rotted my brain but it certainly engraved ''truths'' deep enough in there that most times i consume official batman media with romance sprinkled in there i have a ''oh RIGHT! he's straight, i forgot about that'' moment. Like what do you mean Bruce isn't canonically bisexual?? Just look at him, that is the most Bi man I've ever seen! I'll accept repressed, but straight?! Unrealistic.
#batman#bruce wayne#this post is brought to you by:#superbat#i have a permit for this post *get a crumpled paper from my wallet with just 'IM BI' hastily written on it*#brucie wayne can be as straight as he want but i know what BRUCE IS#bruce havin romance subplot with women is good and fine but in my heart of hearts he should also be kissin men or atleast thinking about it#benny babble
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I saw others doing this and I couldn't resist lol this is just for fun ngl 💪
#i haven't done a prompt list since my persona 4 days where i drew one character each day in October LOL#funny enough i also did that traditionally#oh yeah you can notice with day 3 the pen switch in some areas#my good pen died 😔#so now i have my other pen that is literally dying#uhh also i know the perspective of day 3 Mettatons arm is screwed LMAO#nothing i can do with pen and paper :'>#also i have not drawn tvs any different since my persona 4 obsession KJSVSVSVSV#i should state that its a 2000's game too if that helps why it looks old 😭#nonetheless i hope these aren't... too bad lmao#its fun taking a break from digital now and then especially since im going through a small art block#mettaton#undertale#alphys#mettamay#mettaton may#prompt event
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I haven't felt very motivated to draw lately (what chronic fatigue does to a guy 😔) but I have cracked open my sketchbook a few times. Mostly to doodle TBC.
#I don't draw on paper much anymore tbh#bc now that i have the option to fully line and color things digitally if I'm gonna spend time on art I'd rather go all the way#but i probably should get back into the habit. it's relaxing sometimes to draw something without fussing over it#also i drew blackstar recently while bored during my break at work and tried to redraw him digitally later and it just doesn't look as good#it really is easier to get things the exact shape you want during the sketching phase#which is why i want to make my digital art a little more relaxed and lean into sketches for lineart#but it just never works? idk#I don't feel like I really have the mind or eye for art sometimes. idk how to explain it#I don't really know how to experiment with my style or make changes? how do people learn that#anyway I'm rambling#i really enjoy drawing but I'm pretty art blocked recently bc I'm so tired all the time and kinda feel like? idk how to draw? dunno#my art#shadowsight#bristlefrost#rootspring#snowtuft#lionblaze
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what SICKO wrote the last scenes between gwaine and merlin is what i want to know. because even lancelot's last episode with merlin - which had to have been intentionally gay-coded since it's obvious the man is grappling with his feelings for merlin morphing from platonic to explicitly romantic - is still subtext because he doesn't have the tools to healthily express his feelings so he goes for the biggest romantic gesture he can think of: sacrificing his life to save a loved one. the writers also make sure to root this gesture back to gwen by adding a scene where she's inadvertently asking him to make that sacrifice first, so although it's very obvious that it's more for merlin than for gwen that lancelot dies for, she is there to add some plausible deniability, thus keeping his sexuality within the realms of subtext.
i don't want to delve too deeply into arthur's last scenes with merlin as there is both so much to unpack about what they mean to each other and there is also somehow nothing left to say that hasn't been said before. my point is just that there's so much at stake that if the viewer doesn't want to deal with the romantic subtext between them they can hang onto the 38 other dynamics merlin and arthur have represented to each other that the writers spent 5 years plastering on top of the gay subtext. basically, while the romance feels textual emotionally-speaking, it isn't "canon".
i don't mean to say that any relationship is better than another (even though i obviously have a preference) but that in gwaine's final scenes with merlin there's just no subtext anymore. his becomes the most explicit expression of romantic love towards merlin, and therefore the most explicit acknowledgment of homosexual love and the existence of queer people on the show:
it starts out with merlin suggesting that gwaine saved a girl from the saxons and then looked after her because he has a more than platonic interest in her, and they show us that merlin is right - gwaine and the girl eira slept together - even as gwaine half-heartedly denies any interest (which, why even deny it? merlin saw them holding hands! unless the lie is part of the point). then in that very same scene and directly after this exchange, merlin needs rescuing from the saxons, calls after gwaine, and gwaine performs the exact same role for him that he performed for eira: he saves him from the saxons and looks after him (for as long as merlin lets him).
the parallel between merlin and eira with such quick cause and effect (it literally all happens within the same minute) is where the shift from subtext to text becomes undeniable. yes, there have been other moments on the show where a character's affections towards two different genders are beat-for-beat the same, but, again, there has always been plausible deniability. in this case the parallel is meant to be taken at face value: the core point of it is to show us how gwaine expresses his attraction.
then, the dialogue they chose to bookend this scene with takes it a few steps further by functioning as a textual love confession to merlin himself: the scene opens with gwaine thanking merlin for everything he did for eira, and merlin saying that there is no need to thank him as it was the least he could do. a minute later, after merlin thanks gwaine for protecting him from the saxons as both merlin and the show just concluded gwaine did for eira for romantic reasons (even as he denied it by outright lying), gwaine parrots what merlin said when gwaine thanked him: no need to thank me, merlin, it's the least i could do.
but this comes off as the opposite of dismissive: in fact, this echoing of merlin's words is meant to jolt both merlin and the audience. by saying this right after saving merlin from the saxons, gwaine has now intentionally pointed merlin's attention towards the explicitly romantic parallel between himself and eira. gwaine is directly implying he just did for merlin what merlin correctly deduced he did for a woman because he desired her sexually and romantically, and he is using merlin's own words to challenge him into seeing past the initial flimsy lie that there is nothing between them. and what's behind the lie, of course, is that gwaine has done all of this and more because he desires merlin sexually and romantically. the camera even lingers on merlin, allowing him and the viewer to absorb what just happened. that for as long as we have known gwaine, his motivations have always boiled down to "i want to be there for merlin". and now both the audience and merlin finally know for sure what was motivating him the entire time.
what's more, by using merlin's own dismissive words, gwaine also implicates merlin's penchant for repression and denial and never allowing himself to be given credit where it's due. this unfortunately never properly gets dismantled on the show, but this moment shows that gwaine knows merlin well enough to know that he goes above and beyond for people, and that merlin's reasons for this ring as false to gwaine's ears as gwaine's reasons for saving damsels do to merlin. it also bittersweetly implies that gwaine has accepted that these are the platonic, repressed terms on which he can have a relationship with merlin. but i think the way in which he explicitly points all of this out to merlin is meant to imply that he isn't entirely happy about having to accept that. or, to circle back to eira, that merlin seems to be cheering for him to enter a heterosexual relationship when gwaine would clearly rather be with him.
what's additionally interesting to me about this is that this is one of the only scenes on this show that touch on same gender attraction that isn't using magic as a metaphor - because merlin doesn't have magic at the moment, yes, but also because gwaine is the more active character in this sequence, and he's an adventure hero, so he simply fights the bad guy to protect the person he loves. there is no metaphor to wrap this in, so he just gets to explicitly state his bisexuality. in the next scene, the very last one he and merlin share, it all becomes about magic again, which is both representative of merlin's sexuality and the show's "plausible deniability" approach to gay-coding, and so neither gwaine or merlin are permitted to acknowledge it. also, and this is for another post altogether, but all things point to "gwaine knew". not least because he gets to come out as queer without the complications of the magic-as-gay-metaphor which in turn emboldens him to ask merlin for the truth as directly as the metaphor-suffocated narrative will allow it.
tldr gwaine textually and canonically expresses and then confesses his feelings to merlin in a shockingly well-written and layered scene which makes gwaine the most explicitly queer character on bbc merlin and it's entirely because he exists outside the magic-as-gay-metaphor plot while loving someone who embodies that entire metaphor and it's crazy to me that we don't talk about this more. once again i ask what SICKO wrote this and where were they for the entire rest of this fucking show
tldrtldr at least gwaine is bi. its like i always say. at least gwaine is bi. at the end of the day. gwaine is bi. dont cry ok? gwaine is bi. at the end of the day. gwaine is bi. when all else fails. gwaine is bi. we'll always have. gwaine is bi
#[normalgirl voice] i care a normal amount. about canonically bi gwaine. come closer i promise i am normal about canonically bi gwaine#i should make like that bi lancelot guy and submit this as a paper. the people need to know bbc gwaine is bi (REAL NOT CLICKBAIT)#gwaine#bbc merlin#gwaine x merlin#merwaine#bbcm#ALL OF THAT packed into a 2 minute scene. after having gwaine sleepwalk through almost two entire seasons#they even managed to make giving gwaine a last-minute female love interest feel less like a cop-out the way these things usually do#& more like a quick way to make him explicitly bisexual. and then they made it even funnier by making her fuck off and betray him for money#eira with the bleach blonde hair you will always be famous. to me#this show would be so good if it was good. the “gwaine” show on the other hand IS good. it just unfortunately . doesnt exist
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My study partner and I got to weigh our rainbow trout, and wow have they grown! They came to us weighing an average of 10 grams, and only in a month’s time even the smallest fish have doubled in weight! There were some very hefty guys too, from a randomly selected group of fish the biggest weighed 81 grams, a massive amount of growth considering how small they were before! We’re aiming for an average weight of 100-150 grams, so we’re well on our way there.
To weigh the fish, we put them under anaesthesia so they wouldn’t be too stressed about the situation or thrash around in the weighing bucket. Here’s a picture I took of some rainbow trouts still coming to from said anaesthesia, absolutely zonked:
You can see some drastic size differences between different rainbow trout individuals. Not to worry, every fish recovered and was swimming normally with their buddies after a few minutes!
#so far there has been only a singular fish death after one jumped out from the tank in the night but we solved that issue with a lid#besides that the rest of the ~100 fish have been doing mighty well! they swim actively and look healthy#its hard not to get attached to these little guys! i was greatly looking forward to seeing them again#hmm i should get a tag for my fish research#maybe just fish research?#yeah thats good#fish research#nothing super fancy research since im not writing a paper; but this is sort of pre-research!#perhaps its nicer to not have to handle the funding hell that is actual research to be honest
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