#Though maybe that doesn't count

[ashilean]

NIDHIKI, toa Mangai of air (2/11)

Perched high on the terraces of Le-Metru, Nidhiki watches matoran toil by day and keeps a keen eye for trouble at night. They wear the great Volitak and wield their air scythe with ease and efficiency--their time in the city having shaped them into a more cunning toa than they ever were in their homeland. As the years go on, though, they can't help but feel this work is starting to get a bit dull...

Nidhiki is one of my favourites. While I tend to favour the brighter colours in the LEGO palette--especially when it comes to toa--the dark green is so attractive.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 105

 A cult summons the ghost king. Except they don’t. Instead they get these tiny white-haired triplets of toddlers blinking at the summoning circle looking confused. 

 They’ve gotten the ghost princes and princess instead. 

 The very young princes and princess who are none too pleased and going to cause problems on purpose for both rogues and heroes alike. As godlings de-aged into their ghost age are like to do. 

 Meanwhile in the Realms, Pariah is staring down at where his trio of ghost toddlers that Clockwork had handed him when he had first woken up and was still groggy just disappeared from. He looks over at Fright Knight, his dearest brother, who looks just as shocked. 

 Clockwork is going to kill them both if they don’t get the kids back now. 

[autumnrory]

it's hilarious that people say rory never received criticism until mitchum it's like okay idk why y'all think criticism in school doesn't count but that very much did happen for her multiple times before that point and it's like. of course she hadn't received criticism wrt her career at that point because why would she have?? (though i guess it depends if you consider writing for the yale daily news to be school or career-related because she received criticism of her work there too and she got better lol that's like a whole arc where she writes a boring story and then follows her gut to the life and death brigade and doyle approves but people love to ignore canon when talking about rory)

but it's just like okay you can argue she hadn't been criticized as a journalist, sure, but 1. mitchum wasn't criticizing, he was outright saying she can't do it and 2. what else was she supposed to be doing as an intern i mean HONESTLY she wasn't being assigned stories or anything, she was doing what she was supposed to while seeing how a newspaper works. that's what internships are for, they're supposed to teach you, and he certainly never gave her any advice or mentorship which is what HE was supposed to do

it's just so annoying when people say she proved him right by giving up like. she had always had this dream and never had reason to believe it couldn't happen. it's what she always planned for, no one told her it wasn't realistic, not because they "coddled" her, but because anyone who knew rory, knew how driven she was, and that if she wants something, she will put in the work to get there. there might be struggles, roadblocks, she might doubt herself, but she always gets back on track. which is the whole thing like. sorry how did she prove him right? because she was temporarily set back after he essentially crushed her lifelong dream AND REMEMBER SHE'S 20 YEARS OLD I MEAN CHRIST of course she's vulnerable to a guy who's been in this for decades telling her, someone who's barely an adult, that she doesn't have what it takes to achieve her dreams. but anyway like, how do you say that when she did in fact follow through with her dream?? people point at her dropping out of yale like "see!! he's right!! she can't do it!! she's not special!!" and it's like yeah okay she lost a semester, went back, fit two years into a year and a half, graduated on time and immediately got a job working on the campaign trail LIKE the whole point was realizing he was wrong about her and everything that followed in the next two seasons proves that

[outlawssweetheart]

Elf community of Middle Earth be like: "You're only 2000 years old? Oh, sweetie, you're just a baby!"

[m-for-now]

Something that I feel like I should emphasize again about my type of shipping is that I care so much more for the dynamic and depth of a relationship than wether it's romantic or platonic or queer-platonic or some other kind of connection.

Give me the actual interactions and parallels and dynamic and i'm in

[dancing-lex]

A very fundamental thing about me is that NO media moves me to tears. I am stoic and nothing can touch me and I rarely cry about real life tbh. But the hinterland doctrine keeps ripping my heart out over and over and over again and maybe it's just a side effect of the emotional turmoil but um. I have officially cried real tears over this fic

[loudn-mcyt]

Ok, listen, I may not be any good at art but if there is one thing I can do, it's build ttrpg characters for games no one else has ever played. And I'm currently obsessed with Skyblock Kingdoms and also in a superhero mood, sooooo here's Ruby and Viking in my SBK superhero au built in mutants and masterminds 3e bon appetit

(I picked the colors from Viking's eyes so if you don't like how it looks I'm pretty sure that's legally his fault) (also it's really crunchy because I had to save a word file as a pdf and then as a jpg and it came out kinda bad oops)

For Viking, I played a lot into the space aspect of his lore (you'll never guess what I did for Ruby). Viking is a teleporter; he doesn't hit hard, but it's hard to see him coming and he's near impossible to hit without a lucky break. He can also turn intangible with a little focus (insert space based justification here for shameless dominion pandering), and like his counterpart Ruby, he can sense when others are tampering with their domains.

(For anyone that IS familiar with mutants and masterminds, you'll probably notice that I didn't fully optimize this character. I was a lot more focused on hitting the flavor of what I wanted than making a perfect character, and M&M is a pretty forgiving game anyway)

(This time the colors are picked from ruby's eyes and the main color of his hoodie.)

Ruby has a lot of utility abilities: she can stop time, but can't affect anyone else while time is stopped, and can sometimes see the past or the future in scraps. Ruby is extremely resilient, mostly rooted in their ability to heal themself repeatedly by taking herself back to a time before she got hit, though it gets harder the more damage they take. Otherwise, a lot of his abilities in combat rely on using his time powers to try something several times, eventually setting up the perfect hit. This results in them hitting a bit harder than viking, though both spacetime siblings lean towards the more accurate but less powerful end of the spectrum.

(Ruby is a bit more optimized than viking; a lot of her powers are pretty cheap and that left me more space to play with on defenses)

I'm probably going to make more of these for other sbk members, but it actually takes a while to make each character and put them into this template to look halfway decent (I actually made this template in word myself. it took far longer than I am comfortable admitting. I have so many other things to do right now. )

[sysig]

Cure for whatever ails ya (Patreon)

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

trying to finish reading dungeon meshi now that it's done and just seeing everyone in the comments talking about ships. gun to my head

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dw-flagler]

funny how much victoria places squarely on the shoulders of tattletale. she COULD HAVE STOPPED THE ENDBRINGERS AT ANY TIME but she DIDN’T just so that leviathan could KILL MY FAMILY. honey you sound insane.

[coquelicoq]

no but it's so funny that breq and mercy of kalr seem to be working from the same first principles (ships love captains) but breq interprets the "i could be my own captain" thing (which it immediately follows up with "i don't want to be a captain. but i find i like the thought that i could be") as "i don't love you as my captain" instead of "i could be someone you (a former ship) could love…"

i also love the ambiguity of that later scene when ship says it likes seivarden mostly because she loves breq. which you could interpret either as ship liking that seivarden loves breq because ship loves breq (the main interpretation, given that ship loving breq is what the rest of ship's speech is about), or as ship liking that seivarden is a person who can love a ship (and ship is a ship…).

idk just like. mercy of kalr my beloved but also. hilarious breakdown of ship-to-ship communication here. breq is the first captain who used to be a ship, breq is the first (former) ship to have the undying devotion of its human (former) officer, ship is the first ship to have a captain who used to be a ship, ship is the first ship offered the chance to be its own captain, none of this has ever been done before. mercy of kalr is trying to go off-script but breq is still interpreting all its responses according to the figurative Intership Social Schemata and Communication Protocol even though none of the prompts are in the Intership Social Schemata and Communication Protocol! like come on babe YOU'RE the one who asked ship this brand-new question and opened up a whole new universe of existential possibility. meet ship halfway already!!

[morrigan-sims]

The other post was getting long, and this is a different sword, so here you go:

I actually fucking finished a mesh edit!!!!! Well, at least the meshing part. This thing has parts from three different sword meshes. Tomorrow it's on to texturing hell. I've never textured anything before in my LIFE, and I just know it's going to be miserable, lmao.

Especially since I assume I'm going to have to make a new uv map and I don't know shit about that. But I at the very least need a texture for renders, and this sword is low-poly enough that I could probably make it an in-game accessory too.

[vagun1ka]

I've got ganqing braintrot (read the tags) +ganyu with qilin tail^^

[monster-noises]

You know sometimes you spend an afternoon re-filing your old art by Year and it makes you think about an old silly project you did a bit ago that you Know you messed up the timeline on and also missed So many pieces and now that you've got everything organized... Gosh, wouldn't it be interesting to try that again and get the chronology right? That happens to you guys right? anyway here's a chronology of the way I've drawn myself since, well, basically since I started drawing. I have doubts anyone will find this as interesting as I do but that isn't going to stop me from throwing it at the lot of you (/v-v)/

[judicent]

Yeah, I did fill 4 sketchbooks in 4 months so far this year. Huh? Am I gonna post even an ounce of it? Well, you see, I am allergic to my phone, so you will have to come CATCH ME