#On the Savage Side

[aforcedelire]

Du côté sauvage, Tiffany McDaniel

Coup de cœur 🖤

Arc et Daffy sont deux jumelles qui vivent au bord de la rivière, à Chillicothe dans l’Ohio, et qui n’ont pas une vie franchement saine. Élevées par leur mamie Milkweed jusqu’à leur neuf ans, elles retournent avec leur mère et leur tante, dans une maison délabrée et hantée par la dépendance : celle de leurs parents à l’héroïne et aux seringues, celle des hommes à la violence. Ensemble, Arc et Daffy fuient leur quotidien et les araignées à coup d’imagination débordante nourrie des récits de leur grand-mère. Devenue adulte, Arc lutte toujours avec ses souvenirs lorsque l’on découvre le corps d’une femme noyée dans la rivière. Et bientôt, les cadavres s’accumulent.

Cette sensation particulière de flottement et de perte quand tu refermes un roman que tu as adoré, qui t’a transportée, transpercée... D’abord, quelle joie de renouer et retrouver l’écriture de Tiffany McDaniel, son lyrisme, sa beauté et sa brutalité ! De faire la connaissance de nouveaux personnages, d’assister à des nouveaux chemins de vie pas toujours glorieux. Du côté sauvage est un chef-d’œuvre, un coup de (au) cœur, une histoire au souffle romanesque puissant, qui se picore et se dévore, où on prend son temps et où n’a plus le temps. Je l’ai trouvé très dur : la vie d’Arc et Daffy, leur dépendance, la violence dans laquelle elles ont grandi, les hommes-araignées qui prennent tout sans demander, parce qu’ils le veulent et qu’ils le peuvent, leur mère et leur tante qui ne sont plus que les fantômes de ce qu’elles étaient… Les 700 pages sont intenses, un mélange onirique et cauchemardesque. Et savoir que Tiffany McDaniel s’est inspirée d’une série de crimes non élucidés donne un aspect encore plus fascinant à ce roman déjà fort puissant. Je n’ai pas forcément tous les bons mots pour décrire mon ressenti, mais qu’est-ce que c’était bien ! Quelle claque !

18/02/2024 - 02/03/2024

[desdasiwrites]

– Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

[thecmaly]

harem squad said deal's off folks

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more windbreaker comics

[lilibetbombshell]

[katerinaaqu]

I love it how everyone is so hyping over how sweet and romantic Achilles is or even his anger issues and rage but...can we all like talk more on how obsessed that kid was with human sacrifice?

I mean...he sacrifices 12 Trojans to the funeral pyre of Patroclus (and two of his dogs) and then demands Polyxena as his human sacrifice...

I feel no one remembers these 12 Trojans! Poor guys!

Patroclus from the afterlife be like: Dude...no!

[andi-o-geyser]

*record scratch*

Yup, that’s me, watching my future wife fall to the ground dead from a trap I set off. I bet you’re wondering how I got into this situation. Well, my life’s a little crazy, but it all began when my family was murdered in a political coup and I made a pact to create the first gun with a smoke demon...

[mfjenks]

I think it's a common thing for a man to act gayer than ever (if it's even possible in Oliver's case) a couple of days before his straight wedding. The way Oliver talks about dancing topless on the table with Ron Howard and seeing his nipples? "Old married couple" with Charles? This whole touching Olicharles drama??? How much they can't live without each other??? I love my boys. Oliver you will never not be iconic

[that-gay-gal]

Back on the Raph art grind‼️

Idk why I made this I just want to draw green glowing eyes and an unhinged little fella.

So. Here’s an unhinged big fella :D

What is he doing? Why is he acting like this? Uh um how about um why is your uh mom?

… let’s just say he’s savage Raph and leave it at that

The text is from the song “I don’t like my mind” by Mitski

Ok buh bye :]

[criminalelementsts4]

STAR WARS | Nightbrother Tattoos

DETAILS

Depending on who you ask, the iconic tattoos adorning Darth Maul's skin have different origins; in the Expanded Universe/Legends they were Sith tattoos and the process of getting them applied was excruciatingly painful. In the retconned Canon, all Dathomiri Zabrak males—Nightbrothers—have similar tattoo designs that indicate what clan they are from. Their skin colors can range from dark red, to medium orange, to bright yellow.

This set includes designs which are as faithful as possible to the source material. I used the original asset references from both Clone Wars and Rebels to piece together all sections of the body design. Maul's legs, however, are a different story. As he was bisected in his first appearance, we never had the chance to get a look at his legs, so I've taken liberties to guess what the tattoos may have looked like, taking inspiration from the rest of the shapes on his body. Savage was a bit more straightforward as more of his body parts were exposed in the source material.

I did not attempt to make the skin red/yellow in the tattoo design, as I wanted to allow flexibility with the kind of skin colour you may want to be underneath the tattoos, so the tattoo is just black with a slight opacity that allows skin details such as muscle definition to be visible. For the preview image I used skin colours from SunshineyDay22's 195 Skintones in Rainbow Colors mod. For the glowing Sith eyes, please check out my other post.

FEATURES

Larger resolution and texture quality (2048 x 4096)

Custom CAS thumbnail, located in the Tattoo section (Upper Chest)

Tagged for Human and Alien (not compatible with Werewolf Sims)

Tagged for Teen, Young Adult, Adult & Elder

DOWNLOAD

Darth Maul: Direct Link | SimFileShare Savage Opress: Direct Link | SimFileShare

(View this creation on ModTheSims)

[dathomirafterdark]

Zabrak boyfriend dropping the carcass of his latest kill on your doorstep is a courting ritual.

[fansids]

Another old piece of concept art. This time for the Blood Moon Monkies:

Something something the horrors of existence something something discovering personhood something something morality in a creature not built for it

[spyres]

the hack to surviving the pmd fandom is to not interact with explorers fans (<- guy that is an explorers fan)

[amorfista]

I somehow managed to forget publishing this. It's literally my most recent Savage Opress fanart, "Unrelenting Force", I'm ridiculously in love with it (and him COUGH!!) and I still forgor 💀 

Here's my artstation post VVV

(also edited the post to include some detailings with a better lighting since i love making dark shit and then anybody browsing tumblr on broad daylight will hate my guts hihi :>)

[judesmoonbeauty]

Extra-extra-extra 🧈

[headfullof-ideas]

Presenting two more characters and their redesigns in my HTTYD/The Deep story! One is more involved in the story, but the other makes PLOT, and neither really ever interact or connect to one another plot wise to my immediate knowledge in the overall story.

Introducing Savage and Eret!

Savage is not an Outcast and Alvins right hand man, but a true Berserker warrior, serving Oswald and his family for years. But when Oswald the Antagonistic becomes Oswald the Agreeable, Savage starts to grow restless. The Berserkers aren’t at war with the Berkians and surrounding tribes anymore, Oswald trying to maintain a semblance of peace in the dragon-war ridden Archipelago. Savage is a follower, not a natural born leader, but years of peace treaty after peace treaty, and babysitting Oswalds whelps has made him seek out other like-minded Berserkers, planning an uprising against the passive Chieftain. Oswald seemed to have caught on to what Savage was doing, escaping their attempted assassination, and now Savage is trying to commandeer the Berserker Tribe as a whole through sewing doubt amongst the tribe against Oswalds children, and trying to pit the siblings against one another in hopes they’ll simply get rid of the other for him. Savage isn’t good at thinking things through though, especially what the aftermath of his plans to stage a coup or civil war amongst the tribe to try and take leadership might be.

Eret son of Eret is a budding Dragon Trapper, partaking in his father’s business of trapping dragons and bringing them to Auction Markets run by the Grimborn brothers. Dragon Trapping was introduced to Erets family through his paternal Grandfather, with loans being taken from the wrong people, with no money to pay them back leading his Grandfather to Dragon Trapping. With similar habits being passed on to his son, Eret Sr, Eret has been taken on as crew for his fathers quest to pay off the debts his grandfather failed to pay, and his fathers own drunken mistakes. Eret isn’t sure how to feel about it all, his father pushing the looming mantle of Captain on to Eret as his eventual future, leaving whatever debts his father fails to pay before retirement for Eret to try and absolve, with old bedtime stories from his deceased mother and her side of the family speaking of dragons being more than wild animals. Eret’s been grappling with his internal struggles for a few years now, and a sudden interaction with some Archipelagon teenagers apparently riding dragons only rattles his inner beliefs even more.

I decided to go a bit of a different route with Savage in this story, making him a member of the Berserker tribe instead of the Outcasts. There are a lot of elements of his prior design still in this one, but he’s got a lead part in a lot of the early Berserker central arks and plots, especially in Heathers early story, and why she makes some of the decisions she does in Riders and Defenders of Berk, which has a sort of butterfly effect on the way she is in RTTE. He’s not a MAIN villain like the Grimborn brothers, Alvin, Heather, Drago, and a certain someone from the games, more of a small villain and a reoccurring nuisance. He gets his comeuppance however, as he’s not good at thinking things through, especially in the long run, and eventually gets revealed for all his nefarious schemes, and promptly exiled

Eret is a little different to the swashbuckling Dragon Trapper that’s in HTTYD 2, but he’s also nearly five years younger, a little older than Dagur and around the age that the riders were in RTTE. So, eighteen-nineteen-nearly twenty. He’s not Captain of the ship yet, and dealing with a lot of inner family struggles and trying to come to terms with what his future may hold. Generational and pawned off debt is how I play off (Headcanon wise) how he came to be under Drago’s employment in the films, and I’m playing with the setting of the early stages of how that happened here. With his grandfather and father both taking loans they couldn’t keep or pay back, and turning to Dragon Trapping to try and pay them off. Afterall, dragon parts and living dragons sell for a LOT of money. The Dragon Riders throw a bit of a wrench in things though, and Eret ends up being one of their first allies beyond Dagur and someone else in the Archipelago. He’s also a little shorter and not nearly as beefy as he is five years from then, not having the experience to build up that kind of muscle yet. I did this partly because of his age, and partly because Nico Marlets early concept art for him (whose HTTYD art I love and want tattooed to my brain) had him being a little more scrawny, and so I thought that was a nice callback

More characters to come…eventually, as it takes time to draw these, especially with the designing process I go through

[melveres]

with each passing world I grow to dislike the marleybonian dogs more and more.