#a little bit. if you squint

[taio-kyo]

Twix redesign :] , now renamed to Tuor! (<- will always be Twix in my heart)

I've had this guy since like. 2017? He changes designs each time I draw him. Hopefully this one sticks

Nubus lore dump below the cut o7 + full image

Worshiped as a deity by some, this winged creature inhabits the coasts of Nubus, resting between the rocky protrusion where the water meets the land and feeding on whatever it can catch in the vast oceans. For years the only proof of the existence of this creature were the indigestible, regurgitated scales from its prey, until it was forced to move land inward by an unknown outside force.

It is the only known surviving true dragon, most notable for its twin heads and the eye like markings on its wings. This fact does make it impossible to know if these traits were something that ran in the species, or if it was a mutation that helped it survive over the centuries that it has called the harsh environments of Nubus home.

Some say that a creature of this size could not have evolved at all, and that Tuor was gifted by Helios to protect the south coast from any leviathans that lurk in the ocean.

[caguaydreams]

boops might be gone but the experience will stay with me forever

[salamispots]

a rug hook commission for @stickynotebirds! :O (who also drew the original sketch/design and I tweaked it a little bit)

[calwasfound]

come on carolina have fun carolina

[thevalleyoftriumph]

Chosenweek Day 1 -- Stargazing / Cloudwatching

ok now play francis forever by mitski

waited a whole 30 minutes so that i could post this at 12am on the 28th exactly instead of waiting Longer for the afternoon. hi.

[angeloftuesdayy]

Dean wakes up one night to strange noises coming out of the dark bathroom, the door only a crack open.

and inside he sees his little brother sitting on the floor. naked like the day he was born, covered in blood and guts and looking up at his big brother -alarmed like a frightened animal- with glowing yellow eyes. eating...

[kotofeden]

WIP

Cuz i need more of Phoenix - Maya shenanigans

[brainrotcharacters]

fuck me if I'm wrong but I think throughout the movie, Logan only ever called Wade by name during the noble sacrifice scene

[thedoodlebuggo]

sketch dump from a few magmas n whiteboards!

first up is human johnnn (ft. arthur)

arthur + darthur!

kayneeee + a starburst doodle cause i love em so much actually

and more oscar because i love him dearly. he's so me fr

[spellboundcities]

down

[xiphoidgreen]

been talking to my friends about part two and what part three could have in store, and we cooked up a theory that I haven't seen before (if someone has already said this... my bad)

I'm pretty confident that we haven't seen the last of viktor, and i think most people would agree with that (it doesn't make sense to me that they'd allow a league champion to be canonically dead, as we know arcane is heavily informing the new league lore).

so we think he's coming back somehow. I like the idea of exploring time travel (since we know that's something ekko will be able to do - again, league), but I don't think its possible to pull it off well in three episodes what with how many plot threads we already have. so I don't think we're going to go all the way back to before jayce is hexcorized to stop him from going on the warpath, and I don't think he's able to be convinced after he leaves the hexcore.

people have said that jayce bringing viktor back to life after explicitly promising viktor he'd destroy the hexcore was a betrayal. I agree, and to me something that viktor has been deprived of often in this show is agency. he already has certain limits because of his health and disability, and it's compounded when jayce and mel frequently go over his head in pushing for hextech weaponry. jayce, knowingly or not, has frequently and consistently taken away viktor's ability to make choices for himself.

so when he's brought back to life using hextech, when jayce promised he'd destroy it, that's the final straw. we know this to be true collectively I think.

so why am I saying all of this? because now viktor is dead again. by jayce’s hand, although we as viewers and viktor know it's not solely him, but it is his likeness. to me, because I think we're seeing more of him, he has to come back somehow once again.

in the old league lore it was viktor himself that changed his body to what it is when we see him, but he's relatively out of commission so it can't be him. I don't think jayce will make the same mistake twice by bringing him back again, and he ran after killing him.

however, we know that while viktor was alive he had a talk with singed about this very topic. about using warwick to make him live for longer. and since viktor knows singed is not proposing this for selfless reasons (we see viktor realise that singed is searching for a way to bring his daughter, orianna, back to life from her goo coffin) and that it would sacrifice warwick, who is still a man, he refuses. but they do talk about evolution, and glorious evolution (hurray for bingo cards everywhere), and the process of evolution not fighting nature, but superceding it. (transhumanist king)

and because singed is now working for the new warlord in town (ambessa), he has the go ahead and the resources to do something like that. he's in the area, he has a body (viktor) that's already been heavily changed, that's conveniently now unable to say no or to fight back. viktor again has no agency.

so I think singed will be the one to bring him back again. against his will, again.

and if we think about viktor's original motivation to self augment, and why he wants others to do the same, it's (to me) a pretty hollow, cartoonish motivation. it's because he's the machine herald! and flesh is inferior to steel! and join the glorious evolution!

but in arcane, viktor has his decisions made for him, without his input, over and over and over again. by people who believe they know better than him. who value their feelings over his own. who's to say he shouldn't do the same to others?

[berlingotesque]

I’m a little late but happy birthday batim ! <3

I wanted to draw some big fanart for the occasion but art block had other plans so… yeah. Have this little page of doodles I made recently instead.

[mothorcus]

I think we miiiight be interupting something-

(closeups and speedpaint under the cut↓↓)

Speedpaint↓↓

Closeups↓↓

This was an absolute monster to finish and took me a stupid amount of time to finish buuuut i think it looks pretty damn good considering my hate for backgrounds :D

[dustykneed]

post-the search for spock but it's a yuri slice of life comic <333 nothing as good a bonding activity as lovingly combing out your vulcan wife's hair as you fondly bitch about your other wife 🩵💙💛

[liauditore]

BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY!

[bonelessicecream]

[fin.]

Headcanons:

Ji gave Jiequan a nickname because prior to meeting Ji, Jiequan's name had never been called fondly. He flinched every time Ji called for him. They tried a few nicknames, but ultimately settled on "Xiao Quan" because Jiequan was terribly small for his age... (And perhaps also because Ji hoped he would not grow up too quickly - not like those other youths they once knew, who pursued power to a terrible end.)

Jiequan only started referring to himself in the third person after he met Ji. He never had the chance to be a proper child before that. He outgrew the habit as he got older, of course, but he was excellent at playing up his cuteness as a child.

Jiequan has a brief period where he thinks Lear is really cool. That's why he has a ponytail as a teenager.

...In some ways, Jiequan only grew up to be what he was because he encountered Ji. He wanted to be loved, desperately, and forged himself in imitation of those heroes that Ji seemed strangely fond of in the histories they recounted. If anything, perhaps the problem was that his imitation was too good. He became a larger than life character, an act, a collection of someone else's ideas- and lost the sincerity which made him so endearing as a child. Yet at the same time, this turned him into someone Ji could no longer accept: a cruel, sadistic, and self-centered man who willfully inflicted pain onto others for his own ends.

But Jiequan could no longer turn back. He came to harbour a strange mix of bitter resentment and desperate longing for Ji's affection. If guoshi didn't approve of his actions, then guoshi had to be wrong, because Jiequan- Jiequan was doing everything right. This is what he wanted, right? This is what they asked for. He listened to Ji's prophecies and counsel as guoshi because he could not let go, and yet dismissed their words as merely the anxieties of an old Solarian.

When he met Yi, the first thing that struck Jiequan was how deeply unlikeable this tiny runt was. Sharp-tongued, standoffish, and disinterested in anything that didn't appeal to him, Yi was the type of person who made enemies as easily as breathing. And yet... He was outstanding. His martial prowess and scientific skill, for one matter, and for the other... the fact that Yi was undeniably loved. They weren't so different really, Jiequan and Yi- and yet, Jiequan was alone while Yi had friends and family who cared for him.

So came the second thing that struck Jiequan about Yi: he wanted him, and he wanted to break him. What would it be like, he wondered, to have someone finally hold Jiequan and only Jiequan in their eyes? Even if the emotion was motivated by pure hatred- what would it be like to occupy the whole of someone's mind? To be seen as himself, instead of a ghost from the past? If he took Yi apart, perhaps Jiequan could finally figure out what allowed Yi to cross the invisible wall between himself and others that Jiequan could not. At the very least, he would break the wall between himself and Yi - by any means necessary.

Jiequan wondered, in the end, what should he have done to keep holding on to the warm hand that saved him in the ruins of his childhood? What could he have done? He wanted too much, maybe- more than he could achieve as a weak, coddled child. Maybe his sin was that he could not stay a child forever. (That does not mean he ever really grew up.)

(Ji always saw him as that small, bright Xiao Quan who asked him for fairytales with sparkling eyes. That child simply wandered too far into his fantasies for Ji to find him before the end- not unlike another man Ji once knew, no-- but they cared for the two differently. He never did quite manage to make Xiao Quan see that.)

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