#Someday I'll prob make a post going over all of them tbh

[jjellysoo]

Xanxus' eyes are emphasized as a symbol of his power, intimidation and rage. It's intriguing, then, that one of the only times they get obscured is when he processes Squalo's death in ch. 398/9. TFW you fail so hard at keeping your facade up that it leaks into your visual symbolism

[bittybattybunny]

A novel?! That's so cool!! Can't wait to see!! Life is kicking my ass right now so I haven't been able to read any fics :'( I'm a slow reader a d I like to take my time...but! Next week I'll be able to relax and one of my favorite ways of doing it is by reading fics!! I kind of got behind TLC but I'll be able to have a full marathon then :D

That’s the idea!

Tbh I’ve actually debated it for a while cuz like TLC is already so fucking canon divergent and I’ve basically written my own lore so extensive I’d need to make a powerpoint somedays.

Like really I’d just need to change a few names (Subcon Snatcher, Nyakuza, Moonjumper, DJ Grooves) and do a lil redesigning (Like Hattie probs will get more curly hair like Ru has, Ru’s leviathan form will be the Natural Leviathan form with a couple tweaks, Redesigning the cryptic, redesigning the Moonjumper design (tho Ive actually already redone Sena’s Twilight demon form so I’ll need to futz with Morgan and Marcus)

And I think it could be good to swap over!!

Plus if I do this once I finish the fanfiction I can rewrite and reorganize the plot because it’s changed soooo much. like rn I’m pretty on course for the rest of the fic and Know what i’m doing but earlier on I can changed a lot of details during the course of writing that I wanna kinda retailor. Plus I can go into more details in the earlier bits when I was getting back into the swing of writing!

Like it’ll be a lot of work I mean it’s a god damn monster

but I think I’d break it up and change it up to fit more in volumes---

so like volume one would be Hattie meeting snatcher and Snatcher’s adapting to life on land and would end when he’s in the swing/his feelings tart forming (so around sun festival/moon festival)

Volume two would be the section I’m currently in progress of posting with Him swapping from the “im a lonely grouchy eel” to “I’m a dad and I think Im in love” and his relationship with eclipse and would end probs around a big angst event coming up :3 (yeah look forward to that)

Volume 3 would be what I normally call “climax” whenever i bring it up in regards to TLC and it’s the part I’ve hinted a lot of what’s going to happen but I’ve been kinda tight lipped on other wise and would be the final volume with a potential epilogue for the story (and this is the part I’m currently typing for tlc and it’s had mouse screaming when she realized what was happening and that its finally happening cuz she and gin know what i have planned but not how it goes down)

Other things I’ve considered is a few ‘spin off’ books to go with the main 3 (also notice i kept it in 3s? I like 3.) Like the actual story of Hattie’s parents (probs expand it to be a solo novel), probs a like ‘lore’ book (think the gravity falls journals0 that explains the demons, religions and stuff I’ve created

And of course there’s a few other things I’d plan >u> but I’ll keep a lil hush (but a hint is it may involve ‘alternate realities’ tied to tlc) because this is all still a huge ‘maybe’ and will happen when the main fic is done and I have a lil more time on my hands/health improves (tho tbh past week I’ve been dealing with the fact one reason my hip was so fucked for like all of 2021 may have been MY FUCKING SHOES and I’m so mad at how much pain I was in for such a stupid thing)

if you can’t tell this isn’t like a sudden thought thing I’ve actually been thinking about this since... I want to say I’ve considered this since when I was posting the sun festival chapters!

ahhh I hope you enjoy!!! tbh I’m unsure if I’ll update this week and next or not. I have the chapters done and covers sketched but I’m so nervous posting these chapters blah (nothing bad in them. I think i’ve mentioned just. mental barriers and stuff I deal with. the next like 4 chapters are all kinda angst heavy but also plot heavy and mean a lot to me personally lol aka--- Eclipse’s werewolf reveal as well as the in canon reveal of her scar origins)

but i feel you on life kicking the ass, hope you can rest up!

[secretlotsixam]

before i descend into hollow knight hell here's the before/after pics on that loulou edit and some further notes (aka me going over everything i did lmao) (i might start doing that for each edit tbh bc i like sharing what i've done + i think it could probably help to just like openly share how i do things i do)

before

after (w no further effects other than shadows/smoke being drawn on, some sharpening-and-softening + the color grade from this post though edited i think)

same after as before but with a copied and gaussian-blurred layer and an edited version of this text overlay

the shadows (including the back... i'm v proud of it) (sans the neck/nose shadow which is by simandy) and cigarette smoke were all drawn by me on a drawing tablet and in paint tool sai, you can do the same in photoshop probs though bc it's just a multiply layer and then just good old drawing shadows and blurring the edges to make them not as harsh and etc

the blue/red torchlight CAS lighting is by anjuta on tumblr, and then for the sharpening i used this method i do on all my photos which is like... copy layer, squea's sharpening actions on layer copy, set layer copy to darken, merge layers, then copy the merged layer, gaussian blur it and set that to darken and 25% opacity, and then merge again. makes things nice lookin if darker in the details lololol

to be able to erase the letters i just flattened the text into an image tbh which you can tell if you look close enough probably... but hey yknow

ive seen simblrs who redraw huge parts of their sim edits and ill be honest that's fair but i don't have the patience lmfaoooo. the day u catch me doing hair strands u need to start bullying me into studying bc i'm definitely procrastrinating on smth if i do that. ppl who do that r simply more powerful than me </3

anyway since i wrote a huge paragraph on the editing alone and i physically cannot shut up about my ocs here's the tag on my blog for the Pictured Lad. fun facts about him is that he is a vampire, he is vintage 1920s irish-american and his name (Louis Callaghan) is a loose pun on the word callous. i'll make him a playlist someday

ppl rly haven't yet capitalized on The Back of The suit i feel like. or maybe im not seeing it idk but i was excited to show it off :'3