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i think the barbie movie would have a profound psychological impact on hua cheng
prev comic / next comic / follow for still more hualian barbie movie content because i am not done
bonus angsty version 🎉 i hate love expressions just a couple tiny lines on the mouth and eyebrows and it goes from silly to sad
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#this is a haha hua cheng devoted joke but idk it’s nice to think about how much of his identity and self worth is placed on xie lian#obviously since he was 10 most of his major life choices were to serve the crown prince#but in the interval time he became one of the most dangerous men in the world and decided it was his responsibility to create a ghost haven#he works on artistic mastery and alternatively brokers deals with and evades assassination attempts by heaven#if asked i think he would say he only does good for dianxia’s sake (What Would Dianxia Do) and is actually a bad person#and similar stuff about his combat and art skills#theres a question here about how much of his success is due to being such a determined person and how much#of it is luck from ‘the savior’ reversing the star of solitude#how much hua cheng is left when you take away xie lian?#he would say nothing#xie lian would say a billionaire genius playboy philantrophist etc#tgcf looooooves to talk about destiny and free will and so do i#all this to say if it was in character for hua cheng to cry at a movie hed be sobbing#this can be read as pre or post confession btw#the poll decided which version of the comic was the ‘main version’ above the cut#tgcf#art#comic#hualian#hua cheng#xie lian#tian guan ci fu#heaven official's blessing#hob#mxtx#my art#barbie#barbie movie#tgcf meme#lmao
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Bring an angel crashing down
I spent too much time on the wings to not show them uncovered by fire
#back upon mine bullshit#this was inspired by a dream of mine with priest!Faust and angel!Dante#where she drags them down to earth decapitates them and gives them the clock head#because due to the contract their head like. contains all the Sinners' sins and so keeps them from being able to go back to heaven#don't rember why though but I give her a free pass on that one#I think this is the first FauDan I've drawn which is wild because of how much I like it. huh#limbus company#faust lcb#dante lcb#faust/dante#👻⏰#go my sillies#DONT RENDER WINGS IF THERES A VOICE IN YOU TELLING YOU TO RENDER WINGS THAT IS SATAN DO NOT RENDER WINGS IT ISNT WORTH IT#this piece in particular was inspired by those final canto 7 lines because Yeah
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Israel immediately broke the ceasefire by the way.
#I saw someone say that all a four day ceasefire meant was that Israel was about to drop four days worth of bombs#here’s a reminder that 100 palestinian children are murdered by Israel every day#I saw a video on twitter of a young boy bleeding out on a hospital floor bc there was nothing thst could be done#I just had to stop and close my eyes and fucking. internalize that#Palestinians are human beings#I’m so overwhelmed by the scale of suffering being allowed to continue#fuck this shit so hard#palestine#israel#free palestine
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the brainworms got me unfortunately
in my head they're like vaguely rivals and lovers where asura is trying really hard to be serious and not let nika get to him and nika is devoting every fiber of focused energy he contains to getting to asura. they're married
#had sooo much fun designing them#i wanted nika in particular to be visually distinct from luffy#bc i wanted to play into the difference betw zoro as an incarnation of asura in some way#vs luffy's connection to nika being through the devil fruit (and the tide of fate or wtv)#they're like luzo but 1000x worse#will maybe design the rest of the crew as deities sometime..... bc this was a blast#these doodles alone took 2 days worth of my free time though so it'll be a while#sacrificed my autism time for college credits smh#luzo#zolu#king of hell asura#sun god nika#luffy#monkey d luffy#roronoa zoro#zoro#asura#nika#one piece#one piece fanart#my art
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mmmmyeah
#when i read tg the rize mother symbolism was so jarring to me but recently i saw someone mention rize and makima together and it made me go#!!!!#because i hadn’t connected how much their dynamic resembles sometimes#how rize and makima both are introduced with the mc being attracted to it and following them for it but the more the story progresses it#they both take the role of mother/creators#also while i added the bit of kaneki and denji cannibalizing rize/makima its worth to mention that both scenes happen in complete different#context and denji eating her out of love would be more fitting parallel to kaneki killing rize and freeing her at the end but i find it#interesting still they both eat them even if kaneki its more in his mind#anyway nobody probably carws for this cus theres like only 5 ppl in this app still into tg#but whatever#mine#chainsaw man#tokyo ghoul
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blessings roll call!!!
#been far too quick to complain lately. I gotta remember to be thankful too so here goes:#thankful for the moderate weather and the rain!#and also my dark green raincoat with a giant hood and pockets#donuts at staff meeting this morning#my friend is getting me tea while she's out (and said she has a gift card so I don't have to pay her back. she's truly the sweetest)#changing my major is moving along sooo slowly but it is moving and maybe God is trying to teach me patience (again)#Christmas in July is tomorrow!#I have my Secret Santa gift all ready and just need to wrap it#also I think the girls in the activities I teach are having fun and learning things#and even though everyone on staff is so tired this week we are all pulling together and supporting one another#is it a perfect hunky dory time? no.#is it gonna be ok in the end? yes#is it worth it? also yes.#anyway feel free to join me in being thankful. it doesn't fix the problems but it does help obsess over them a lot less.#*gripping the sink* I WILL be grateful I WILL
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Hey, Jake & Jack fans, is this anything?
Both men imprisoned (literal & metaphorical).
Both offered an out from their current predicament by an outside force (arguably in the case of Brain Ghost Dirk).
Both have loose ties to Lord English visually.
Yellow initial glow & Gamzee involvement too.
Sometimes a guy just needs to explode (same pose too).
Both dual wielding weapons.
That same said weapon type (for Jack Noir) having killed Jane Crocker.
It's really looking like Jake is going to do her in.
I would also like to point out that we've had interactions involving these three (Jane, Jake, and Brain Ghost Dirk) before that consisted of similar topics & themes.
Brain Ghost Dirk implying that he's just there as moral support, a manifestation of Jake's powers, and as a coping mechanism. Jane also talking about ruling an empire with him while talking down to him, similar to how she saw and/or still sees him in Beyond Canon's Candy timeline. Jake also being uncertain about doing anything to harm her despite all the bad things she's doing.
Brain Ghost Dirk going away tells us that Jake's more hopeful than he's ever been. This is the moment where he is the most sure of his decisions than he's ever been in his life, whatever those decisions may be in regards to Jane and how to handle this situation.
He is probably going to shoot Jane down, quite literally. I would also argue that after all this time, the lad isn't beating the Lord English allegations. We might as well have a parallel of him killing Jane much like how Jack Noir killed her right before he got possessed by Lil Cal & given some of Lord English's immense power.
Alternatively maybe we'll get to see what the power of hope or hope bullets can do to someone whose done so much wrong & come so far off the deep end in terms of moral wrongdoings. Maybe with every shot that hits her, she'll begin to be swayed to the side of good & start to self-reflect.
I'm still not fully convinced that Gamzee actually cured Tavros' peanut allergy, I mean just look at the panel.
This could absolutely be interpreted as Jake injecting his hope power into the epipen and by proxy injecting both his power & the epipen into his son! If younger Jake is strong enough to defeat Grimbark Jade, then adult Jake might just be strong enough to defeat a peanut allergy is all I'm saying! In fact, now that I'm rambling about it, this seems like the more likely outcome is Jake's hope power swaying or (in the very least) confusing Jane mid-fight. Hope bullets, they would look cool & would be pretty strong!
The power of believing in others & wanting things to change can be a strong tool indeed, Mister English.
If there's one person who still believes in changing Jane's mind (or bringing her back to proper canonicity depending on how you interpret the recent lore), it would be Jake English, the believer.
Okay, maybe this is something! Tally ho!
#I have not seen anyone talk about the visual; story; & character parallels yet so allow me to jump up on this box real quick#gonna start shouting into this megaphone because holy crap I just now noticed this somehow only just now#I know & am aware some of these are probably a stretch & the order of events isn't exactly the same; but hear me out okay?#did the writing team remember & know they were doing this??? anyone feel free to answer or ask one of them on twitter I just want#to know out of pure curiosity though i can see how answering something like this might be spoiler territory this early into beyond canon#Jake is on the war path & I love that for him; I trust him to rage responsibly tbh#this started off as me being certain of one hs outcome; but now im more certain of the other; feel free to guess which is which#I'm not here to say whether I agree with Jake or disagree with how he's going to handle the Jane Crocker situation; I'm just doing analysis#& finding parallels that may or may not be intentional because at this point I'm honestly not sure; but i figured it was worth pointing out#jack noir lord english and jake english parallels real? only time will tell; but i look forward to the coming updates to hs^2 or hsbc#homestuck beyond canon#homestuck#jake english#homestuck^2#homestuck 2#jane crocker#jack noir#homestuck theory#brain ghost dirk#homestuck candy#cw blood#homestuck upd8#upd8#homestuck spoilers#also yes i avoided having the flashing images be flashing images on purpose; less hassle with tags & stuff & things even if it looks cool
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I miss goro. Bring his bitchass back
#chattin#thinking of him in strikers is funny#local hermit and murderer out in the sun and living free#i think he would like sophia. not a whole lot but like. maybe hes a lil attached#thinkin about him having to be in a camper w the thieves is so funny#my mans is NOT sleeping in that fucking tent. hes finding some rocks to huddle under for warmth#but also. him and makoto riding up front#hes prob got his license too so they share driving duties#this is purely based off of my hcs for him since i didnt play royal but still wanted him alive#maybe his connections w shido also make him a suspect? i dunno#so by saes suggestion; he begrudgingly goes along w them#i think. it would be healing for him to see monarchs and their reasons for being so cruel#to know that they were in a bad place and acted out maliciously bc of it#and to see them grapple w the consequences of their actions#they did awful things even if they thought it was worth it. and now they have to start over#and guess what; life doesnt just end or stop; they gotta keep going#obviously this would make goro gag and block it out. he would hate it.#but it would still be healing#the guy at the boiler room who believed that maybe…..he could change……..hes still there
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#i took a single full color full body slot and im overjoyed at it being filled by a return client im having so much funnn ^_^#a doodley#also god legs are hard on exaggerated proportion characters but i already knew that#also also my issue with more complex more expensive comms like this is i always feel like overworking em to make em worth it#and i feel like a lot of my usual charm and uniqueness gets lost in there. idk. feels generic bc it has to be smooth and perfect and free o#any blemish...idk
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⋆˙⟡ Cyno meets his Sumerian Princess ⟢
#��ˋ°•*⁀➷ selfship art#ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ selfship: cynira#this is actually my favorite selfship piece I’ve ever done so I wanted to bring it to the new blog#took me 34+ hrs but it was so worth it#feel free to zoom in especially on cyno#I put a lot of effort into him#I might continue drawing bits and pieces from this cyno au#bc I love the idea of him being my guard as we travel across the sumeru forests and desert#it might be my most fleshed out au to date honeslty#anyways I will shut up now#the princess doodles
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I've been wondering, do Harpies that were raised by humans simply not turn into kings? If it happens, what would trigger it? What would they do? How would they feel?
The trigger is usually the lack of a king already in a flock combined with persistent fear spikes as a result of crawling beast attacks. Kind of a "oh fuck we need more protection" stress signal from the body. But sometimes it can seem random, sometimes it can happen from someone just wishing really hard they could fuck a tiercel (that's how cuinn did it).
Among humans the harpies frequently encounter crawling beasts but they are not as stressed about it - because it's a job to them to fly out every night and kill those fuckers. Then the flock flies home to the mews where they get guaranteed food and their nests and babies are never in any real danger. This puts a pretty severe damper on most king transformations because after all, growing a bigger body which consumes way more energy and can't hunt as effectively is kind of silly if there's truly no need for it.
If it DID happen, the trigger would likely be one of the other random reasons. Most commonly (it's rare still) it would be a harpy who starts to view their own human keepers as somewhat like tiercels - which is why it's discouraged for falconers to wear bright flashy styles of clothing btw. The falconer-harpy working relationship relies on the harpy taking a subordinate role and accepting human authority. If they start to test boundaries it's a warning sign of a potential inversion of those subordinate/authoritative roles on the horizon. How the harpy feels depends on the individual but the king transformation can be confusing to them if they don't even know wtf is happening which can lead to becoming aggressive (especially food aggressive), withdrawn, moody, etc basically it's rarely a fun time for them.
At the early stages the transformation can be stopped by reducing the harpy's rations and feeding washed meat (meat that has soaked in water for a period of time to remove nutritional value). nobody can suddenly almost double in size over the course of a few months without proper nutrition. If caught early enough it'll stop the transformation entirely but if it's too late, you're just going to fuck them up. Those ones are isolated from the flock and later passed off to travelling/beginner falconers for cheap, which is a disaster waiting to happen
#trained harpies from an established town flock are worth €€€ so you should be suspicious if one is being basically thrown at you for free#but many travelling falconers would take anything if it meant they could earn money calling around to small towns with their bird#unfortunately giving a confused and angry king harpy to a hopeful teenage boy is not. going to end well#ice storm over kosa
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This is just always so funny to me
#the way flans is like we were free to do it because we didnt have any PESKY roommates to worry about telling us NO....#whole time the roommate was just linnell.#seriously though flans was insane for this#i love the image of linnell trying to desperately to reach him by dialing their own fucking song service and being unable to get through an#being like 😭😭😭😭 GOD DAMN IT JOHN#and its like what if like. his parents wanted to call him#but you know what it really was so worth it he was literally so right#i stand with him. i understand why he was soooo excited and couldnt wait to do it and dgaf if it literally made him unreachable#tp
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to my fellow creatives: never stop making art. art is an act of protest.
#i know that this is outside of what i normally post but a few days have passed and i've had time to think#the results of the US elections are hitting me really hard. i feel so gutted and betrayed and have no idea who the hell to trust anymore#so with that being said#I just want it to be abundantly clear that I am anti-Tr*ump and if you voted or support him in any way just unfollow me#actually do me a favor and block me#you do not deserve to read and enjoy art made by me if you think i don't deserve the right to fucking exist.#support black lives#free palestine#very fucking pro-choice#queer lives matter#disabled lives matter#i dislike the performative act of providing a list like this is a menu at a restaurant but i want there to be NO DOUBT where i stand.#there are many others who are more qualified and smarter than me to speak but i want to make it very clear to my followers where i stand.#and before someone says 'keep politics out of art' shut the actual fuck up. art and consuming art is and always will be political#and the only art worth anything is made by people like me and people who I love and support#and don't think it's only the US. the issues we have here are just as present in canada europe and asia and everywhere else.#there's so much more that i could say but that's all for now. my inbox is open.
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Hello GT, I absolutely love Lionheart!
I published my first fic and have been dealing with some criticism; it’s not anythjng super hateful, but it’s not anything meant to make me improve either. I’ve been feeling sort of down because of it. My question is: have you ever dealt with hate or criticism before? What is your attitude towards it?
I find your work and answers on here super insightful and inspiring! I hope you have a nice day ❤️
Fuck em. Like, seriously, just fuck em. There's a time and place for writers to take critique and be strict with themselves; it's necessary for any artist to grow. That place is with a chosen group of creatives whose work you admire and whose judgment you trust. A rando on the Internet, while they may in fact be the next Marcel Proust, probably isn't. And I was raised to believe that while it's appropriate and kind to pay compliments to strangers when they're performing — just as you'd smile at a busker on the sidewalk, and or compliment a chalk artist — it's not appropriate to criticize them when what they do isn't to your tastes. They're providing you with their art for free. No one forced you to read it; no one forced you to listen. If you don't like it, it costs $0 to shut the fuck up.
Also — that thing I said about artists taking critique? That assumes that you're doing this out of a desire to improve your writing, which, while noble, is not actually a thing you need to do if you're a hobby writer. I like trying to improve; it makes me feel good. But at the end of the day, I do this for fun. I do this because in my real job, I am ruthless and self-critical and try really fucking hard to do well, and you need parts of your life that Aren't Like that. You need parts of your life where you're not worrying about whether you're Doing It Right. And living without that anxiety of critique is, paradoxically, the only way you'll find the artistic courage to take risks and develop new skills. Everyone is a little bit rough around the edges to begin with. (Not saying you're a beginner — you merely said "publish," and I certainly wrote a lot of things before I started publishing! But every artist is always trying to develop new skills and techniques; in the grand scope of things, we're all beginners.) Giving someone blunt critique when they're in the beginning phases of their journey as an artist is about as helpful as screaming at your six-year-old kid because he can't swim the butterfly.
And the thing is, these people will bluster and say "well, I'm just being honest, I'm just trying to be helpful," but like: mmmmmmno, you're not! You're not. And it's disingenuous to say so. Because if you were actually trying to be helpful, you would introduce yourself, offer your skills as an editor/beta reader, and start building the relationship of trust that grounds any meaningful co-creative partnership. People do not just accept random critique that comes flying at them from the blue nowhere. And issuing it in that form is the best way to make them hostile, defensive, and unreceptive to it. Delivering harsh feedback without a context of care and support is almost sure to fail as a method of actually changing behavior, and either (1) you know that, and are doing it anyway — presumably because you want people to know how Terribly Clever and Better At Writing you are, or (2) you sincerely have never thought about the effect that context and word choice have on how other people receive your meaning.
Which tells me you are the last fucking person on the planet I want writing advice from.
#basically: fuck them and fuck anyone who doesn't come to you with kindness when they're offering critique#i don't care if they're a nobel prizewinner. no one is above offering kindness#and if someone thinks they're above giving kindness then you should view them with derision and pity#imagine being so sad you spend your free time shitting on other people's art.#like you're not a critic. you're not the new york times book review buddy.#you read something that someone put their whole heart and joy and free time into#and then held out in their hands eagerly to share with you. because they thought you might like it.#and you sneered at them.#Anon I think you should keep writing forever. I think that the merest sentence you have ever written#is worth more than anything that the authors of your criticism could conceive#and it's you. it's you! if it brings you joy then it's fulfilled its purpose#people mean more than art. you mean more than art. your satisfaction is the object of making it#and finally THANK YOU so much for your very kind words.#they mean a tremendous amount and i am grateful for them.
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i have no problem answering wcifs but if you're gonna send me mean msgs in my ask box bc im taking too long to answer your wcif wherein you ask for the links of 18 separate outfits, thats not gonna make me "work faster" or whatever. i will simply not answer your wcif at all <3 i hope this helps!!
#like i understand wanting cc and typically i am very happy to help people where i can bc i know i have the free time unlike others#but there is this thing called respect have u ever heard of it?? like you don't just get to treat ppl like you are a raging toddler#throwing tantrums and expecting them to work faster just so you can download some pixel hairs 😭#im sorry i try really hard not to come onto tumblr just to complain bc i feel like i do this too often#i really just want this to be a place where i post about things i love ie my ocs but man ;-; that pissed me off like wtf#be nice??? is it that hard? is your ts4 cc really worth being an asshole over? ok rant over
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my experience with maxing out the twins' friendship is just-
Hawke: So, Carver, my dear baby brother who I love and adore, I only need +10 more points to max out your friendship. I've done the grind; through gritted teeth I've kissed templar ass so that we don't raise suspicion. I've supported and defended you and let you take the lead whenever I could. You're my favorite warrior. I took you to the Deep Roads with me because you desperately wanted to go and then made you a warden and you found a place, a purpose. I've practically written my own guide on how to earn as much friendship with you because I love you and it's totally worth it so can I please please have the last +10...? Carver: Hawke: Carver please I'm begging you Carver: Carver: +5 Friendship Hawke: AAUUGGGHHLKSAJDLKAJSDLK-
Hawke: So, Bethany, my dear sis- Bethany: +50 Friendship Hawke: Bethany: :)
#dragon age#dragon age 2#da2#bethany hawke#carver hawke#i love them both they're my favorites#but oh my god the grind of maxing out carver's friendship because it's absolutely worth it and then playing another run with bethany#where i blinked and suddenly her friendship was maxed out was a wild experience sksksk#and it's interesting to think about how carver is 'difficult' when it comes to getting friendship whereas bethany already starts with +50#so it's easier to max her out just by being kind to her and doing her quests early#but after act 1 carver becomes so much softer when your friendship is high with him BUT bethany? i'm leaning more toward making her a warde#and i know she's going to be so resentful of me for it despite having maxed friendship like that's so fascinating??#how the twins start off on such opposite ends with different attitudes toward hawke?? and how after act 1 they switch??#well for the warden routes anyway... i refuse to let carver join the templars and i really REALLY don't want bethany to go to the circle#she won't be happier there no one can convince me she's happier as a circle mage... 'accepting your place' isn't the same as being happy#carver can find a place he's content with whereas bethany is screwed over either way since her magic isn't something she can just let go of#like yes both twins are bitter that they didn't survive the deep roads but carver's always worn his bitterness on his sleeve#whereas bethany felt she had to hide hers because she felt she had to be grateful for the sacrifices her family made for her#and now they are both trapped and free at the same time... carver just happens to thrive but bethany feels she traded one cage for another#ugh the hawke twins THE HAWKE TWINS Y'ALL#I just want them to be happy and loved and alive... why is that too much to ask for??
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