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SILVER BLAZE PART THREE - happy jonkday everyone. one of these days i'll draw a scene that doesn't take place at night
#sherlock & co#sherlock and co#love when they quote acd holmes#a couple notes: i think i probably made sherlock more excitable than he actually is in this scene#its my opinion that he smiles more than we're giving him credit for but mostly i just needed to make the comic dynamic#and the thought of sherlock excitedly shaking watson was rly funny so. i did that. creative freedom#2. love that u can hear him stimming here i love him so muchhhh#3. the implication that sherlock sat and watched 6 hours. SIX HOURS of totally silent footage#and thought to himself 'hm...that was a bit quiet. TOO quiet...better wake my podcaster'#SENDS me#4. what on earth happens after this scene. does he just leave without elaborating.#anyway theyre fun to draw so thats overriding my sense that im being really annoying rn#im sooo sorry ;0;#5. yeah john has it all. freckles. stretch makes. body hair. scars. mwah#patsart
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Which could, of course, mean nothing.
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#acting choices were made here!!#yeah okay lip bite whatever but WHY are you staring after him that longingly#nobody think about 'Edwin's obviously jealous' â [the world's most confusing seemingly pleased non-response]#about 5 seconds after this#dbda#dead boy detectives#charles rowland#crystal palace#edwin payne#jayden revri#kassius nelson#george rexstrew#listen Iâve had this timestamp with the note âCharles wtfâ saved for a solid couple of weeks#and I kept forgetting why Iâd saved it and needing to go back to check#and going âCharles wtfâ all over again every time#my gifs#exorcising the demons by making gifs for the first time in my life#no I know theyâre not pretty enough but they get the job done
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Lackadaisy Enrichment
#in our enclosures!!#video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right#lackadaisy#WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic#like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet.#the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me#like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but.#good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort???#and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it..#if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also#juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story#and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like#take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol#namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other#which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky#have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the#comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another....#For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's#historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol#like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret...#Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery#which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah#anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots#sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps#and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill#and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have#you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas#SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later
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imma be so real with you I did NOT care for all the cutesy ways they presented Vi and Cait's disbalanced social status in arc 3
#first off the parallel of cait arriving to let vi out of prison. but this time they ~have sex~. IN THE CELL THAT WAS UNJUSTLY HOLDING JINX#bitch why are you invoking THAT REALLY FUCKED UP SCENE right before such a milestone romance scene??? it's not cute??? JINX WAS JUST HERE#then the one thing cait tries to apologize for is MADDIE. GIRL. NO ONE CARES ABOUT MADDIE. WE CARE ABOUT HOW YOU KEPT DEMEANING#AND TORTURING ZAUNITES INCLUDING VI. but that isn't addressed bc vi needs to give her head. speaking of vi#VI WHY ARE YOU GIGGLING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL YOU ARE IN A PRISON CELL. REMEMBER HOW YOU WASTED 7 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE IN ONE#then the way jinx believes vi should be with cait as an alternative to staying with her simply because she is too fucked up while cait make#vi happy. i am sorry but show me where did jinx see cait makes vi happy. then the show just rolls with that and says ''yeah vi should be#forced to leave jinx behind and choose piltover. this is a happy ending for everyone.''#and finally ''i'm the dirt under your fingernails'' WHAT A DEPRESSING FUCKING FINAL NOTE TO LEAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP ON.#a zaunite is literal DIRT under a ruling class piltie's fingernails. and it's cute and means they are gonna be together forever. HELLO????#i don't know WHAT that thing is but that thing is NOT MY OTP#arcane liveblog#arcane spoilers#it's like they were planning to write a fucked up tragic romance story. like they were PLANNING to make cait the bad guy. IT IS CRAZY#they weren't let's be clear. but s1 was so deep and yielded to analysis so well. meanwhile if you look any deeper than shallow into s2 you#get interpretations like THIS#''finally a lesbian couple with a happy ending'' YEAH IF YOU IGNORE CLASS. IF YOU IGNORE CLASS BASED OPPRESSION. CMON GUYS WE DESERVE BETTE
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Been too tired lately to do full drawings hereâs some text post memes
#death note#L#Light#Misa#Matsuda#Iâve been saving this for my doodles for a bit now here they are#I have like⊠a couple more tho I couldnât find them#l lawliet#light yagami#misa amane#matsuda touta
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#A+ wingman đȘł
#pluto the series#pluto series#pluto series ep2#oonmay#aioon x may#mayoon#namtanfilm#namtan tipnaree#film rachanun#gmmtv#gl drama#thai gl#skjdhgfd this scene had me hollering#like why was that so random lmao#oon is just like me fr#this episode was pure chaos somehow#but i love it#but also#on a different note#was no one gonna tell me that phim and pang are already a couple?????#like here i was thinking they were in for some enemies to lovers shit#but theyre already together??#does that mean that phim is gonna cheat with jan or what#i dont like this#i hope they get this right
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a selection of robins
#dc comics#dc robin#batman and robin#dick grayson#jason todd#tim drake#stephanie brown#damian wayne#damian al ghul#duke thomas#ill draw something that isnt a character lineup soon. or maybe i wont! lol#a couple design notes: its easier to see in contrast to some of the other ones ive done-- from yj-- but one thing the robins all#have in common here is the legs dont taper. and square-ish body types#its like poetry. it rhymes#also look at my picture of jenni and bart-- they share the same round shoulders lanky body and flipper feet#these are subject to change though as i get to know these characters more etc so well see#one more thing the yellow on dukes shoes was actually inspired by the yellow on his batwheels robin shoes lol#2024#charater design#comics#id in alt
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I think about this scene a looooot... so much so that I drew it, lol.
Like are you kidding me???
You know, just a couple of guys.
#digital artist#my post#my art style#artists on tumblr#my art#dbz#dbz vegeta#goku#dragon ball#kakavege#vegekaka#just a couple of guys nothing going on here#luckydazeart#400 notes??? that's kinda crazyy
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of painkillers and lenience
...hello! đ I wrote this way back in April; it's been sitting in my drafts ever since. Chronologically, it takes place shortly following Atypical Occurrence.
I wasn't sure if I was ever going to post this. I suppose it's more a character study than a proper romantic installment :') but it's an exchange I'd been wanting to write for a long time.
you can find everything I've written in this universe here!
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Summary: Yves comes down with something. His best friend wonders where Vincent is, in all of this.
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Perhaps itâs merciful that itâs on a Sunday that Yves wakes up with the slightest tickle in his throat.
Yves has an idea what it means. Heâs had the flu enough times in his life to know that it comes on quickly. Maybe if he attempts to sleep it off, heâll have a better time over the next few days.
Or maybe not. He cancels his Sunday plans, goes through his itinerary. Thereâs a slew of emails heâll have to send off, a handful of meetings heâll probably have to reschedule for this coming work week. Heâll need groceries, too, to last him the weekâideally something that wonât take too much effort to make. Resting now seems like itâd be a waste of time. Best to get everything over with before the illness has a chance to properly settle, he thinks.Â
He really does mean to stop by the grocery store. Itâs perhaps just the timing that doesnât work out as planned. Between figuring out how to reschedule everything thatâs coming up with workâfiguring out who he can ask if he needs to reallocate any of his assignments to anyone else, rearranging things for clients, and getting all the paperwork in orderâall of it takes him nearly two hours. He wanders into the kitchen to make himself a cup of tea, finds himself having to turn aside to cough, notes the unpleasant sting in his throat when he turns back around.Â
Itâs not terrible yet, but he feels distinctly off. His head feels a little heavy, and everything he does feels strangelyâsluggish, maybe. Like he canât quite manage to be as efficient as usual. Judging by past experience, heâs probably going to crash in a few hours.
He can already feel a headache brewing. Staring at his computer screen probably hasnât helped with that. If he takes something for it, itâll probably be at least tolerable when it gets worse.
He opens the medicine cabinet, rifles through the couple bottles and the first aid kit he has stashed in there.
Right. Heâs out of Advil.
Itâs no matter. Just a quick grocery trip, thenâhe can grab the rest of his groceries while heâs at it. Yves shuts the bathroom cabinet, grabs his wallet and keys, and makes it all the way to the doorstep outside when the wave of dizziness hits him.
All of a sudden, he feels a little lightheaded. Heat crawls up under his skin, prickling and unpleasant, as if something in him has cranked up the heat generation to the maxâbut that canât be right, because heâs shivering inexplicably in the wake of it. He leans his weight back against the wall, squeezes his eyes shut.
Fuck. He probably should have gotten groceries first, before sorting out everything for work. Perhaps going out on his own now would not be the wisest.
He heads back in, locks the door, andâafter some thoughtâcalls Mikhail.
Mikhail picks up on the second ring. âTo what do I owe the pleasure?â
âAre you busy?â Yves starts, but the words catch on his throat, and he has to stop immediately to muffle a cough into his elbow.Â
Thereâs a moment of silence on the other end. âIt depends what youâre about to ask me for,â Mikhail says.
Yves swallows. Shuts his eyes. He doesnât like asking for help, but he doesnât think heâll be in any state to be doing this on his own over the next few days. âItâs not that urgent. Just if you have time,â he says.Â
He can almost feel Mikhail rolling his eyes on the other end. âYouâd say that even if you were bleeding out.â
Yves laughs, startled. âI promise Iâm not bleeding out. Justâdo you think you could run to the store and get me some Advil?â
Thereâs another, longer pause on the other end. âAny time is fine,â Yves says. A part of him already regrets this. âIf youâre busy right nowââ
âIâll be over in a few,â Mikhail says. Then the line goes dead.
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He doesnât remember drifting off, but when he wakes, itâs to a knock on the front door.
The knock is just for courtesy, of course. Mikhail is one of a few people whom heâs permitted the privilegeâor the burden, perhapsâof having a spare copy of his apartment key.
Yves opens the door anyways.
There, in the windy April weather, Mikhail shuts an umbrella and leaves it dripping at his feet. âYou look even worse than you sounded over call,â is the first thing he says.
Yves blinks at him, surprised. âDid I really sound that bad?â
In lieu of answering, Mikhail just looks at him, scrutinizing, the corner of his lip ticking downward. âWhat is it? An injury? A migraine?â When Yves shakes his head, Mikhail presses forward to pick a stray lint ball off of Yvesâs shirt. His hand makes contact with Yvesâs shoulder, and he frowns.
Before Yves has a chance to explain, he feels a tickleânot the first, today, and certainly not the lastâsurface. Itâs irritatingly difficult to ignore, more irritating still when he finds himself forced to turn away, to duck into one armâ
âhHehh-!â hEHhâyyiISCHh-HHEEW!â
The sneeze is rough enough to scrape against his throat. He coughs tightly into his raised arm.
âA cold,â Mikhail says, with a frown. âBut usually you donât take Advil for colds. Waitâdonât tell me this is something worse?â
Yves winces. What is he supposed to say to that? âThe Advil was all I needed,â he says. âThanks for making the trip. I owe you one.â
âNo, Iâm sure of it now,â Mikhail says. âIf it were only a cold, you wouldâve driven out to get this yourself.â
âIt probably isnât,â Yves says, neglecting to mention that he knows exactly where he caught this. âThanks for bringing these. Iâll take the next couple days off. Iââ
The next sneeze sneaks up on him. He ducks into his sleeve again, taking another step back.
âhHhEHâiiDzzsCHH-yYew!â The sneeze sends a burst of pain through his temples, and for a moment, heâs glad his face is too deeply buried into his sleeve for Mikhail to see.
âDoes Vincent know?â Mikhail asks.
The question catches him off guard. âWhat?â
âThat youâre apparently unwell enough to ask me to pick up Advil for you.â
Yves doesnât like where this conversation is going. âI told you not to come if you were busy.â
âItâs not a problem,â Mikhail says. âBut if youâre sick, shouldnât he be over here, taking care of you?â
 âHeâs had a really busy few weeks,â Yves says, which is true, but simultaneously might be true at any point during the year. He clears his throat. âI - coughcough - wouldnât want him to catch this.â
âSo he doesnât even know,â Mikhail says.
âŠPerhaps Yves shouldâve thought of a more convincing excuse. Mikhail isnât the type of person to drop an issue after heâs raised it, and Yves had, perhaps, neglected to think about howâfor all Mikhail does to appear casually disaffectedâheâs one of the most perceptive people Yves has ever met. âHe doesnât have to know.â
âWhat are you talking about? Heâs your partner. Iâll text him,â Mikhail says. Itâs then when Yves recalls that Mikhail probably does have Vincentâs contactâexchanged before their trip to France, so that he could text them all to coordinate the rides to and from the airport.
âWait,â Yves says, unable to keep the panic out of his voice. âDonât. If you text him, heâll - snf-! - feel obligated to come.â
Mikhail doesnât lower his phone. âIâll just ask him to drop by,â he says. âYou can talk to him about it when he gets there.â
But that wonât happenâcanât happenâbecause Yves knows that if Vincent were to see him like thisâŠÂ
Iâd feel terrible if you caught this, heâd said. Heâd sounded so upset over it. How can Yves, after all his reassurances last week, admit to him now that heâs faring badly enough to need someone to look after him?Â
Besides, Vincent probably has enough on his plate already. Yves knows enough to know that in their line of work, taking time off almost always means being swamped with assignments upon return.Â
âPlease donât ask him anything,â Yves says.
Mikhail looks long and hard at him. He looks as though heâs trying to puzzle something out. âDid you guys get into a fight, or something?â
âNo,â Yves says. âItâs nothing like that.â
âThen, if youâre on good terms, why are you so resistant to the idea of him coming over?â
Yves squeezes his eyes shut, and then opens them. He can think of a dozen more excuses to field away the questionsâthat isnât the hard part. Mikhail has always been good at seeing through his bullshit, but if Yves has to steer this conversation to a close through sheer willpower, he thinks he can do it. But then againâ
Maybe itâs fine, he thinks, if Mikhail knows. For better or for worse, Mikhail is his best friend. Yves knows that if he asks him to keep his mouth shut about this, he will.Â
âVincent is my coworker,â he says, slowly.
Mikhailâs eyebrows creep up. âYes, Iâm aware.â
âThatâs not what I meant,â Yves says, with a cough. âHe is just my coworker. Nothing else.â
The alarm that flashes across Mikhailâs face is unmissable. âYou two broke up?â
And there it isâanother crossroads, where Yves thinks the easiest course of action would be to reshape the current lie into a simpler one, to keep the trappings of their fake relationship intact. With anyone else, it would be easier, that is.
Yves says, honestly, âWe were never together in the first place.â
âBut you went with him to France,â Mikhail says, confused. âNot to mention, to Margotâs new year party, and then to Joel and Cherieâs housewarming. Are you telling meââ
âThat was all an act,â Yves tells him, and waits for this information to register. âThere is nothing between us thatâs real. Thatâs the reason I havenât called him.â
The recognition settles on Mikhailâs face. Then he laughs, a little disbelieving. âYouâre really not dating him? Why would you lie about that?â
âDo you remember Margotâs party?â Yves asks. It seems like the right place to start, after everything. âErika was there with Brendon. And I was bitter, andâto be honest, jealousâand I wanted to show her I was fine. So I asked Vincent to go with me.â
âThat was months ago,â Mikhail says.
âIt was easier to just keep up the act, after that.â Yves says. âEasier to have him accompany me once a month than it would have been to stage a proper breakup. But obviously, this is all temporary. I just havenât figured out when itâs going to end.â
Mikhail is quiet for a moment. Yves looks past him, at the staircase that leads down to the first floor.
âYouâll be fine, then,â he asks. âIf you two break it off.â
âOf course,â Yves says. âI know itâs going to happen someday.â
âYou wonât be upset at all?â
âWhat is there to be upset over?â
âFrom the way you spoke to him, I really thought there was something there,â Mikhail says.
âHe is a good liar,â Yves says.
âMaybe so,â Mikhail agrees. âBut you are not.â
He says it so calmly, it barely registers as an accusation. But Yves hears it, loud and clear.
âVincent is attractive,â Yves says. âAnyone with eyes can see that. Thatâs all there is to it.â it feels wrong, even as he says it. Yves has always known Vincent to be attractiveâthat much hasnât changed. But he knows that the feeling in his chest when he sees him at work, in the break room, or at lunchâthe unusual acheâis a little more than that.Â
âMargotâs party was at the end of December,â Mikhail says. âItâs April, now. Margot wouldnât tell you this, but since I donât like withholding my feelings from you, I will.â
Yves waitsâwaits for Mikhail to tell him how all of this has been unduly dishonest, how Mikhail doesnât appreciate having been lied to.
But Mikhail doesnât say any of that. Instead, he says: âIf youâre still intent on keeping this fake relationship upâŠâ Here, he meets Yvesâs eyes, a little sternly. âYou should think about who youâre really doing it for.â
Itâs only for convenience, Yves wants to say. Now that weâve set things up already, itâs merely the path of least resistance. But that isnât quite right, is it?
âDonât worry about me,â Yves says, trying a smile. âVincent and I have talked this through already. Whatever happens with our arrangement, Iâll be fine.â
âOkay,â Mikhail says. He pockets his phone, and then hands Yves the bottle of Advil. âSorry for the interrogation, then. If you believe it to be fine, I trust you.â Perhaps thatâs the worst part of it. Mikhail has never been the type of person to stay quiet about any foreseeable problems, but Yves knows that his agreement now is not a tactical retreat, nor is it an acknowledgment that itâs not worth arguing over something they wonât agree on. Mikhail is dropping the subject because he really trusts him.
Yves just doesnât know if that trust is justified.
Mikhail turns on his heels, steps delicately past the hinge at the bottom of the doorframe.Â
Yves clears his throat. âThanks for stopping by.â
Mikhail nods. âFeel better soon. If you need anything other than Advil, just give me a call.â
Then heâs gone. Yves shuts the front door behind him and wonders just what exactly heâs gotten himself into.
#sneeze fic#snz fic#sneeze kink#snz kink#snzfic#i wrote the majority of this on 4.21.2024 đ initially with the intention of writing much more#(atypical occurrence part... 3?)#but i think it feels most fitting to just end it here :') that is what i have the stamina for in any case#i feel the need to apologize for how short this is + for the fact that vincent is entirely absent#you can maybe see why i hesitated for almost 7 months before posting it#a couple notes:#mikhail (yves's former college roommate and current best friend) is mentioned in the first installment i ever posted#but he shows up most substantially in foreign home#i am fond of their friendship dynamic... is it obvious? đ#yvverse#my fic
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What you mean to me
#jojoâs bizarre adventure#vento aureo#golden wind#giorno giovanna#guido mista#giomis#nessâ art#hi this is the longest comic Iâve ever posted so far. enjoy?!#I wrote the general idea for this and the dialogue around two years agoâŠ#but I never went through with the idea because. wow. this is too long#a couple of months ago I found my old notes and sketches of this and um#now here it is#this is my love letter to this pairing because Iâve loved them dearly ever since I finished gw#the last page was originally a separate drawing unrelated to the comic but I decided to repurpose it for the narrative#Iâm used to making humorous things so it feels a little weird to make something more sincere (although thereâs still a little haha funny)#I feel motivated to make more stuff like this but at the same time I donât really want to because of all the effort necessary#but um#happy that this project got finished!!! and not abandoned in the depths of my desk!!! yay!!!#and yes I decided against adding the other page I. actually reasoned with myself for once
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the world can change when i hit the summit!
#parkour civilization#minecraft#evbo#sorry i have absolutely no notes about his design he's just A Guy#trust me when i say that i tried to give him bunny/dog ears and a tail#it simply didn't work out#he does have a couple little flourishes here and there#evbo's the kind of guy you want to display in special little bag like a nui#thank you evbo (person) for evbo (character)
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did a little scene rewrite fic for the iconic Misa/Kiyomi dinner scene.
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(in which two women who hate each other but don't really hate each other, but can't figure out why, or maybe they know exactly why and don't want to admit it, end up having sex on the floor. is maybe... what it boils down to.)
#death note#death note fanfiction#misa amane#kiyomi takada#kiyomisa#death note fanart#my art#I've been wanting to write a kiyomisa fic for aaaaages#it was such a good time#not super big on the whole two women fighting over a man trope#so Light's name is mentioned here and there but#I really didn't want to make it *about* Light#it's mostly about Misa and Kiyomi's characters' individual hang ups and vulnerabilities peeking through#because I think they deserve to have their characters fully explored#they're a complicated couple
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watching death note and house of the dragon simultaneously earlier this year did something permanent to my galaxy brain
#THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING BUT THEY'RE SO DAEMYRA CODED !!! IM LIVING IN 3023 !!!!!!!! if this doesn't flop i'm doing a couple other scenes too#timeskip rhaenrya is long haired near. you abandoned me! ive been alone! and look at what my life has become without you. droll tragedy#also: the choking scene. L never told you. did he? (:#anyway yes targeryan AU problematic etc etc. im living my truth <3 also the age difference here is the same as canon#mello is illegitmate maybe. a la heathcliff wuthering heighs#death note#house of the dragon#mello dn#near dn#mihael keehl#nate river#meronia#near x mello#artists on tumblr#horreurart#ALSO i cannot believe i got these done in 4ish hours. i was aiming for fast and fun and not-for-profit. im :0#these look SO good. there's an art lesson here somewhere#incest / because: targs
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MosBank being the little instigators setting off Neil to Orca's hijinks is Thai-on-Thai violence, and I love it.
Starting shit and minding other people's business knows no language barrier.
#the couple that gossips together stays together#mosbank#first note of love#I love them here#and now I want them to cameo in all Taiwanese BLs just starting shit#the way they snitched on Orca was too quick#do they have beef with him too?
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Speaking of coins, I think it's neat that we have a trinity of Apollos with uncommon characteristics:
Apollo Karneios with ram horns and ram ears, Apollo Soranus with a star diadem and a pick-axe and Apollo Vejovis with winged head, a trident and a dagger. (The last two are the results of his syncretism with Roman deities)
What's more fun about the coins of Apollo-Vejovis is that some of them put a thunderbolt under his bust or straight up show him holding it:
And I can't help but think of this being equivalent to a girl wearing her mom's makeup for the photo day
#apollo#look Apollo has already used thunderbolt in a couple of classical texts#I don't think Zeus would mind if his son borrowed it for a few minutes for a photoshoot#Okay jokes aside Vejovis is such an obscure deity (just like Soranus)#The explanation given by Gellius is that Jupiter/Jove is ultimately derived from âiuvareâ which means âto helpâ#so Vejovis was the antithesis of Jove...doing the opposite of help#he was believed to bring harm with his arrows#So was also prayed upon to avert evils#hence his syncretism with Apollo#I also feel like they also just syncretised Jupiter with Apollo to some extent here#because soon after stating his identification with Apollo#Gellius has mentioned that a she-goat was sacrificed to Vejovius (yknow as a nod to Amalthea nursing Zeus/Jupiter#this also happens with Apollo Soranus actually#Soranus is conflated with Apollo and called the highest of the gods#and Servius notes that âhighest of the godsâ is a title given to Jupiter#so yeah it was a not a complete or even a direct syncretism but there was a line that connected them#and i find the implications very interesting#mine
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OKAY so I am re-listening to "Death and The Queen" again and I am having Thoughtsâą.
I can't find any info about when this drama takes place continuity-wise, but my personal placement would be after "Planet of The Ood" (4x3) and before "The Sontaran Stratagem" (4x4) because 4x4-4x6 take place directly following each other with Donna stating at the end of 4x6 that she plans to travel with the Doctor forever. Donna's determination to continue traveling w him is in keeping with the conclusion of Death and The Queen, where she comes to the decision that the Doctor IS her "happily ever after," as it were. Placing the drama after "Fires of Pompeii" and "Planet of The Ood" also makes sense with Donna's desire in the audio drama to have a break from "the extraordinary" of traveling with the Doctor (specifically, horrific death and destruction,) which adds understandable context to her seemingly being so willing to leave the Doctor after searching for him for so long.
 (Don't talk to me about the ending of Forest of The Dead. It's unlikely Donna would have left the Doctor even if she found Lee. Donna's desire to confirm whether Lee was real could be easily contextualized by her wanting to know how much of her experiences inside CAL were a fabrication, and what the supposed "perfect husband" persona would have said about her if it was drawn from her own mind. Also it was written by Moffatt so it shouldn't count anyway.)
ANyway, what I actually wanted to talk about. Notably, considerable emphasis is placed on Donna enjoying her role as Queen and especially caring for her subjects and having power to help people. A greater amount of text is dedicated to her talking about how as Queen she can care for her subjects than her love for Rudolph, even before the reveal that he is human(?) trash. Her attachment to the role of Queen that marrying Rudolph will grant her is established to be largely based upon her passion for helping people rather than luxuries associated with rank, especially in view of the montage of how royal life on Gorotainia is not as glamorous as she hoped but is still enthralled by being Queen. Later in the story, when danger has appeared, her main role in the story is sacrificing and taking the lead to protect her subjects.
Notably, when things start going downhill and Rudolph starts talking to her about the difficult choices that he must make as royalty she comments that Rudolph is âjust like HIMâ (the Doctor) and that she went with Rudolph to escape these darker aspects of her travels with the Doctor, specifically the hard choices that go with the role the Doctor plays in the universe (while she doesnât connect these concepts directly, these two statements are placed very close to one another textually.)
Only when her relationship with Rudolph and role as Queen seems like it will involve some of the same dark choices that her travels with Doctor did does Donna decide she doesnât want to be involved anymore, which is quickly reversed when she finds out she needs to become Queen in order to protect her people. (I love Donna. In case you canât tell.)
The narrative has established that a large part of Donnaâs attachment to her relationship with Rudolph is potential authority to help and guide people, and that her main interest in pursuing a life with Rudolph rather than her travels with the Doctor was her perception that her role as Queen of Gorotainia would not involve the same death and destruction she has seen with the Doctor. Perfectly understandable after experiencing something like Pompeii.
Donnaâs compassion and empathy have been essential components of her character since her introduction, with her wanting to protect the Doctor despite being irritated with him and feeling sorrow for the children of a Rancoss that wanted her to be eaten in âThe Runaway Brideâ, her taking the time to mention Stacy in âPartners In Crime,â and literally everything in âFires of Pompeiiâ and âPlanet of The Oodâ. Donna has always taken the time and the energy to think of others and work to protect them, even this early in her run. In view of how deeply she feels the pain of others, it is understandable that she would find the idea of a world where she could help others from a position of power without all of the death and chaos and destruction appealing, and her outrage at Rudolph for once again putting her in a position where she has to witness (and potentially be responsible for) terrible things happening to innocent people is believable. He proves that being a Gorotainian royal is like being the Last of The Time Lords. On a smaller scale, sure, but still.Â
So the text (and Donna) have set up the idea of Rudolph being similar to the Doctor in role, so what is the difference? Rudolph doesnât much care about people. He is willing to sacrifice his own people quite coldly.
The Doctor does care about people. How good of a person he is, or how good of a job he does caring for people is up for debate, but he cares.
Which all leads me to this quote from âBeautiful Chaos,â that I cannot believe is cannon and real and published.
Why does Donna love the Doctor?
"I wish you could see what I see. We've been to places, to worlds, to futures and pasts you could only dream about. I think half of them I dreamed up because they can't be real. But they are. And everywhere we go, we make a difference. We put things right, we make people happier. That's what the Doctor is all about. He finds a way for the universe to make sense. And I love him for it.â
Donna Noble wants to make a difference. No matter where she goes, she cannot escape the death and pain and suffering and chaos and nonsense that is the universe, and she canât help but want to help. And right there beside her, the Doctor is working to put things right too. And she loves him for it.
We have this entire drama dedicated to Donna wanting to make a difference, while also escaping the darkness of the universe, and she learns she canât. There are no happily ever afters.
Except with the Doctor.
I have so many feelings guys.
#tendonna#ten/donna#feel free to interpret this as platonic if u want but this is why I love them as a couple okay#they are whole independent people who learn that if they stand together they don't have to carry the whole world on their shoulders#they understand each other and they have goals that are fundamentally compatible#how is that not sexy#ten x donna#doctor/donna#doctor x donna#donna noble#this is a Donna Noble Stan blog#tenth doctor#big finish doctor who#death and the queen#doctor who#not me being afraid my old English lit teacher will find my tumblr and give me notes on this#1K word essay lets go lads#dw meta#THE TENDONNA THESIS LIVES#I AM FERAL FOR THEM#GRASPS UR SHOULDERS AND SHAKES VIOLENTLY âTHE POTENTIAL!!!!!â#okay so maybe Rudolph kinda cares but he has the spine of a wet noodle#not sure if any Rudolph stans are hiding out here tho#not gonna bash any other ships here but#is this not substantive??? Is this not compelling???
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