#Pardon the Dust

[marcusmettalus]

When to Smile, How to Breathe, and Where to Love. (Part 1)

(Side Story featuring @rowscara 's Ostia and R'tan cause why not?) 

"R'tan, I'm fine. I have told you a thousand times now. These Midgårdians haven't tried to hurt me, if anything they are way too courteous towards me." 

Ostia sighed while giving the Nocturne native a soft pat on the arm, the Salamander Astartes had given the Scion a firm hug in public, something that in Imperial space would be most certainly frowned upon. And he didn't seem inclined to let go just yet though. 

It had been roughly a year since the duo had last physically seen one another, and some months since the last communication via the 'Net or Astropath relays. It took some coercing to allow R'tan even access on board the Rogue Trader vessel bound to Midgård space, and even further work to ensure his stay would be sanctioned by the kingdom. But it eventually seemed to simply solve itself with no further pushing from Dame Noémie or Ostia. 

"You left me a message after you had already boarded Lady Durand's vessel and on-route to this Sector. You left me a message before you traversed through a Warp Phenomena, and out of Imperial Space." R'tans eyes smoldering as he spoke, not relinquishing his grasp about the ashen-haired woman in his arms. 

The son of Nocturne had enough stress from his combat deployment, dealing with heretic Astartes or cults or whatever beastie crawls out from the darkness. Suddenly having sporadic messages from his partner, messages which indicated that Ostia was now traveling with a faction that was not integrated with the wider Imperium, and was traveling out of the already broken borders,, R'tan was anything but calm-n-collected. 

Ostia Haldus grumbled a little under her breath, trying to avoid the firm gaze from the Astartes as she was being reminded of the her actions. Though,, the dark green gauntlets seem to relax suddenly, holding onto Ostia's arms more delicately, giving the Scion pause. Turning her eyes back to R'tans face does she see the change of expression from one of scolding and frustration,, to one of relief and care. 

"But we're here now,, I was worried and high-strung, perhaps even a little over-eager and over reaching to get myself to you," R'tan chuckles dryly, a gauntlet reaching up to scratch the back of his neck, "yet that is now past. Though now I've more than likely angered my superiors and clan for this.." 

Ostia was somewhere between overjoyed and reluctant to be enjoying herself. She has had now over a year and a half without conflict, without constant stress, without having to deal with Imperial bureaucracy. And now that her partner is here,, she is torn wanting to share these days of relative comfort with R'tan alongside her, or to return with him back to the ongoing war in the Imperium,, and the backlash that could follow. 

"Ostia cheri, will you be introducing us to your petit ami?" Ostia jumps a little before remembering suddenly that she was on a walk with Noémie when R'tan had suddenly appeared down one of the many boulevards and rushed over to her. 

"Oh! Right uhm, yes so, this is Sergeant R'tan Esatar of The Salamanders Chapter. He is uhh,," 

“Your lover?~" Noémie smirks with steepled fingers while the rather demure Ostia stammers with flushed cheeks. 

(Will continue this more properly when Tumblr stops being a bugger and let me use the Hellsite. Sorry for the dust!)

[kindelwyrm]

Tumblr and Names...

So apparently Tumblr won’t let you swap which blog is your dominant one.  I don’t feel like taking down everything here, as I worked very hard on it! I will be reblogging stuff to this one and shuffling things around until this is my main blog. Please bear with me.

[ihatedean]

boyfriend got the monster energy ice cream

[gorgongorgeous]

well twitter’s imploding

and so is this blog. my god do i have a lot of cleaning up to do. best get to work i guessss

[tiffanycrystalauthor]

Construction area ahead.

It's getting a bit dusty around here... x_x

Dropping in to give you all a quick heads up on what I’m working on this week. I figure, first thing to do is take out the trash. I’m going through, deleting posts that are no longer needed, and changing some of the posts to pages. Just, you know house cleaning. It’ll be good for the site in the long run, but in the meantime, this is your warning that you may run into a few broken links. Please…

[lovecore-stims]

If you sent in a request in the last few months and it didn’t get done, I wasn’t ignoring you it’s just that when the top of the blog says “requests closed”, that generally means I’m not taking or making requested boards because requests are closed

I’m back, might start posting again so pardon the dust

[zarla-s]

I made some Engie under construction gifs for my Heavy/Medic site and you should make a site so you can use them too

[patreon]

[241731bbean]

Daily Dragon Day 4! Today is Sujha the obelisk!

OUGGH, she is one of my favorites 😩 I'm so glad I finally drew her!!

Still playing around with glimmer. I don't think I have it right, but the whole point of these dailies is to get the juices flowing, so the challenge is good for me!

[thecoffeelorian]

Status Report Saturday, Take One!

And Now, For Something Completely Different...

...So. I haven't reported on ANY of my fanfiction progress lately, which leads me to working a bit harder to change that as of a few days ago.

In other words, Halloween is coming, and instead of Inbox Trick-Or-Treat, I'm doing something a bit different--fanfic chapters.

Therefore, here are the projects I hope to submit at the end of this month, as well as their percentage of completion:

THE PROJECT LIST

"Study Buddies" {Thrawn x Reader} -- 75% complete. "Dumbstruck" {The Swedes x Reader} -- 50% complete. "Interludes, Part 1" {Obi-Wan x Reader/You are Commander Cody} -- 50% complete.

The No-Pressure Tag List (NPT)::

For Thrawn-- @whydoilovehim @pencil-urchin @imaginesofthefandoms @bingbongooo @telltale-vixen

@mysticalgalaxysalad @razzel-my-dazzel22 @blackddarling @crosshair-lover @dance-like-russia-isnt-watching

For Codywan-- @gun-roswell @skellymom @wolverina2002 @sharpasanaro @minimuffinmountain

@enigmatist17 @nyancat674 @girl-of-1000-fandoms @rubimull @nuuxta

@obsessed-nanu @theosb0rnway @hedgehogcody

For The Swedes-- @snippychicke @gggoldfinch @flyiingsly @talia-the-gemini @stephsageek

@avellanas-nutty-empire

[parasolladyansy]

DxP update - comic panels

Hi-hi! So, I decided to go back & reformat the panels for DxP REWRITE into a more vertical format, stacking the images on top of each other. The square grid made more sense for Instagram, as you swipe to the side, but this is not Instagram lol - here, we scroll down.

There are some panels I drew to stand side by side, so I left them next to each other, but it should overall read better.

Lemme know what you think! Better? Worse? Either way, I’m gonna try posting tomorrow’s comic in the more vertical format (unless you guys hate it lol). See you tomorrow! 🌧️

[prettyraveboy]

random shots of my desk

09/03/24

[knightowl-studios]

“This is a warning for Kray Foresight - free all captive Burnish immediately, or I’ll burn Promepolis to the ground!”

Many hours, layers, micromanaged bg assets, and egregious amounts of colorpicking later, it is finally done //passes out

As soon as I watched Promare I was legally obligated to draw the dragon.

Please do not reupload without permission!

(Very ramble-y) process notes and wips below the cut:

[[Shoutout to Tamberella’s wonderful city brushset, the bg would not have been possible otherwise!]]

I had to cross-reference so many stills and gifs from the movie in order to try and recreate the atmosphere and style XD This whole drawing was also the perfect excuse to whip out the polyline tool again, it’s one of my favorite things to draw with but I don’t actually use it much for...some reason lmao.  Habit?  Who knows...

As you can see, it was initially supposed to include his lil arms, but I couldn’t find a way to make them flow well with his line of action and had to exclude them (which was a bit painful as I was really happy with how the claw shapes turned out).  I figured since the film seems to cheat it the same way, it was fine for me to do it as well XD Though I don’t have a capture of it, originally his body was also in a more straightforward loop-de-loop kind of shape.

I wanted to put special focus into the pose and sense of action (two things Trigger really excels at), namely when it came to the head and jaws.  I noticed that in a couple of shots the dragon’s jaw is “broken” - opened at an unrealistically wide angle - to better emphasize the action, and while I didn’t take it as far as Trigger did I wanted to try and capture something similar in my own way.

The windows required SO much micromanaging.  I blocked out a “template” of windows using one of the brushes in the mentioned set, grid-warped it to align with the perspective, and then copy-pasted it onto each building and then manually went through each one to make sure every patterns of “lit” windows was unique and felt believable.  The process had to be repeated twice, for both visible sides of the buildings.  As far as individual parts of the pic go, that step probably took the longest.

I also really wanted to somehow incorporate triangles into the drawing since they’re so representative of the Burnish and the Promare, and adding some around the face seemed the most intuitive way to do it.

A lot of miscellaneous things were added at this point, such as the ground flares (polyline tool my beloved), the smoke, and smaller details like making sure the dragon felt more “sourced” in the scene by clipping the tail behind a tower.  The background was also blurred, to help sell the perspective as well as keep the focus on Lio.  The flares were one of the hardest things to manage in the latter regard, too, as due to some oversights in my initial color choices they were actually brighter than Lio and stole his thunder!  So it took several different tries to find a way to successfully de-emphasize them without inadvertently making them some weird sickly color XD

If you read through all of these notes, thank you so much, I love you!!  //hands you a cookie

Bonus layer screenshot:

[mikejudge]

beavis can be such an asshole bro 😭

[momentomori24]

I don't believe liking immoral and downright evil characters says anything about you as a person, but I think acting like this definitely does.

"The HH fanbase will defend Valentinoto the moon and back" this and "Val is praised by a majority of the fandom" that, except said majority of the fandom fucking HATES that moth and fans have been harassed, had their art scribbled on to "fix" it, repeatedly called "rapist apologists" and "abuse romanticisers", get questioned or accused about condoning him irl, received graphic death/rape threats and are in general mistreated by the fandom. A Val cosplayer was mistreated and had a gun pulled on them IN REAL LIFE not even a year ago. Even the VA got repeatedly asked or assumed to be like the character he plays because "why else would he want to voice a rapist??" and told they deserve for choosing that role (fucking WILD btw). People that like Valentino as a character are the minority of the fandom, and even there NO ONE defends him. We all realise he's a disgusting individual whose actions shouldn't be defended in any capacity. What kinda bullshit lie is that?

I'm also in the Mouthwashing fandom, and it too has a bunch of issues. Infantilising Curly and minimising his actions, making Swansea to be better than he actually is and ignoring that he knew of the SA, people still debating or not realising that Jimmy raped Anya in the first place, shipping Jimmy and Curly (which isn't even a bad thing or a real problem but this person would see it that way), ect. But sure, conveniently don't bring that up. Anything for the Hazbin Hotel hate, right 💀

These next comments especially piss me off (nevermind how they're talking about an abuse survivor which is gross already). This might be a hot take and I don't care if that's the case, but I think people refusing to call Jimmy by name and excluding him from the cast is not show of a "good" fandom, actually. Jimmy has a lot more to him besides being a rapist. Rape culture, toxic masculinity, capitalistic exploitation, misogyny, male dominance-- there's sooo much more to explore and discuss about his character besides him being a rapist. And he's an incredibly disturbing character in a fucking horror game. If you can only refer to him by some stupid nickname (which takes away the seriousness of his character imo), ignore the significance of his role and themes in the story and the rest of his character and reduce him to a single trait that's BAD. That's not a good thing, and in fact, probably makes you worse than the people that do like his character because they can at least separate fiction and reality and not scrap well written disturbing characters for the sake of "comfort" or moral standing (again, in a horror game of all things). People shouldn't feel bad for liking Jimmy because he's a very good character, and ignoring that completely and acting like there aren't people who could like him... kinda sucks?

Moving over, Valentino is not and has NEVER been portrayed in a positive light in the show. I can't wrap my head around people that genuinely think that. Whenever I hear people say that the arguments I always see are "he shouldn't be attractive" and "he's just a cartoon villain" and "he acts silly and quirky even tho he's a rapist" among other things, and I don't think these people realise they're spouting eugenics bullshit and demonstrating that they don't know anything about his character simultaneously. No, Valentino isn't a "positive" portrayal of a rapist because he's attractive (way to tie morality to appearance btw). No, Valentino isn't a positive portrayal of a rapist because he acts goofy and funny and silly. Those traits are intentional and important to his character. Val is the Overlord of lust and depravity, hell's most famous pimp. His beauty is how he lures in unsuspecting sinners, and his personality is how he gains their trust and gets them to sell their souls for him to exploit (notice how Angel signed his soul away willingly). He's supposed to be appealing. He's supposed to be charming. He's entire persona is meant to be disarming. If he were like Jimmy or just a one-note unlikeable guy, his position in the show and his relationships with the characters wouldn't make sense, so he isn't. That doesn't make him a more positive portrayal or anything, it just means he's more fleshed out and written more complex than you want him to be. He's a very real depiction of an abuser, of their two-faced nature and how being attractive and charming to others doesn't make you less of an abusive monster to someone else. For context, I have been abused by someone extremely similar to Val, so his depiction feels very real to me and it's extremely tiring seeing a bunch of assholes who have probably not even seen the show or have been abused act like he's "romanticised" or "unrealistic" or "bad" simply because he was written by Vivziepop (who's ALSO an SA survivor like what is wrong with you 💀).

This is a broader point and not entirely related to this specific case, but we don't give people shit like this over people liking murderers and serial killers-- acting like all a sudden liking a rapist character says something negative about their writing or about the people that like them is INCREDIBLY stupid. People don't talk like this about Alastor and Vox-- who are both VERY despicable people. Both of them are also abusers among other horrible things, but they're not (or at least Alastor isn't) rapists so they're "not as bad". This is a sentiment I see all the time in both the fandom and hatedom whenever Valentino discourse comes back up, and this line of logic that rapists are a unique evil that can't be liked as characters in fiction but murderers and cannibals and serial killers are totally Ok is so dangerous and backwards. Liking evil characters says nothing about you as a person aside from the fact that you're a freak in the fun way. Liking evil characters but then going after others who do as well because you consider their character "too evil" and watering down the crimes of yours to justify liking them says a lot about you tho. Saying that the characters you like says something negative you in general does too.

We seriously need to stop bringing morality into fiction and saying that "normal" people wouldn't like certain immoral characters. We need to stop ostracising people for their "problematic" ships, proudly brag about ostracising them and justify it by calling them "weirdos". We need to stop saying villains are "badly written" because they're not written how YOU want them to be written, regardless of whether or not that opinion is valid (which in this case it isn't). We need to stop putting fandoms in some weird competition with each other about how characters are written and spit on people who actually enjoy them, are comforted by them or felt seen by them (gestures at the whole Angel dust situation barely a week ago). And honestly we need to stop giving attention to people like this, who spread a false narrative and kick others down for being fans of a media they don't like or know squat about for whatever reason. Who spread lies about the media or fandom in question in way that's blatantly in bad faith.

This crappy post is sitting a 17k while I'm typing this. The way people can just say ANYTHING about Hazbin Hotel and its fandom-- doesn't matter if it's valid or true or if they watched the show or know anything about the fandom at all, it just has to be negative-- and others will eat it up no questions asked needs to be studied at this point. We saw that in the months the show first aired. We saw that with the Angel Dust video. We're seeing this again here. I don't think we should be harassing anybody over fiction and in general (and needless to say don't harass any of these people) but calling out bad actors who pull shit like this more often and making it uncool to shittalk Hazbin Hotel and its fandom (and any fandom from unapologetically dark media where the people deal with enough bullshit already) for no reason and in bad faith is a change I'd be down with. Like, wash your mouth of its name and disappear into the shadow realm, goddamnit.

[hyaciiintho]

👍?

Send me a 👍 and I’ll draw our muses as one of those “Draw your OTP like this” pictures | ✿

🌸｡*ﾟ+. I decided on THIS prompt-- it was just very fitting :D He loves his ghost son SO MUCH !!

[cyberb07]

🤩 They came! 😆 Meet Freckle and Mordecai! 🐈🐈‍⬛

They're plushies I bought to back the production of the animated series, of the webcomic series, Lackadaisy🌼~

😆 I'd say it's been a success, cuz they're set to get a 5 episode season! 👏 All the backers, for Christmas, they'll be getting what they bought to kickstart it~ As for the show, we don't know when that will come. Well, when it does, I'll have these two sweetie bois cuddled in my arms while I watch~