#and btw do not freak out but

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Need a distraction

Ramble about everything you wanna talk about in the new black clover update to me in one go pls

Okay, give me a few seconds.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

BLACK CLOVER MANGA SPOILERS!

Okay so in short, we finally get the fight I was the most interested in seeing as it has all of the characters I like: Yami, Ichika, Nacht and Morgen (and Lucius as well). It first starts off ewith seeing Lucius appearing out of nowhere, talking smack about Yami with the guy being pissed off that he looks like Julius and is using his face. Nacht and Ichika come into the Fight with Nacht using a Mana Zone Spell, which is always hype no matter who uses it.

Then we get to the end of Chapter 374. With Ichika picking up and saving her brother from falling to his demise, yelling at how sorry she was for massacering the entire clan with Yami not being angered in the slightest as he is happy to see her managing to grow and thanking Ryuya, which I love it so much. THEN! WE SEE THE DEMON SOUL PILL BEING USED ONCE MORE! THIS TIME ON YAMI!

AND THEN!

LOOK AT HIM! LOOK AT HOW HE IS PROTECTING HIS SISTER! LOOK AT HIS EYES! THOSE ARE THE EYES OF A MAN PROTECTING HIS SISTER! AND FUCKING ONE SHOTS LUCIUS' CLONE!

The best part?

It lasts for the remainder of the battle, as we see Nacht, with new determination, pulls out this!

OKAY, CHILL REVENDREAD SLAYER!

He gets clapped soon after tho... with Yami saying: OI, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT DYING! I WILL KILL YOU, PARTNER! And we then see the beginning of Morgen vs Yami's new devil form.

AND THEN! WE GET TO SEE ICHIKA AND NACHT TALKING. While Nacht watches his brother fight his Captain, Ichika comes, gives him a pep talk, and joins her brother which is... HYPE!

I love the new Black Heavens, which is close to an idea I had, with the name being Dark Combination Spell, but it is actually Dark Combo Spell.

THEN! MY IDEA AND HOPE FOR NACHT HAPPENS WITH

I WANTED THIS FOR MONTHS! THE FAUST AND YAMI SIBLINGS RECONNECTING! AND.

Even at his strongest, Morgen falls to the flaw of Light Magic, as Nacht uses his Shadow Magic to bind him to finish his brother of.

All in all... I LOVED IT!

And lowkey?

Made me love Yaminacht even more.

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Marvel Meow (2021), Nao Fuji | Professor X and Magneto

Bonus:

[cryiling]

i see a lot of people headcanon that bakugo loves horror movies, meanwhile deku is a huge scaredycat/crybaby towards them. BUT actually i think it would be very funny if it was the other way around

SO. headcanoning that bakugo really fucking hates horror movies. NOT because he's. scared or anything what r u talking about. haha definitely not. but do not turn that shit on anywhere near him or he will fucking kill u

meanwhile deku USED to be afraid of horror movies. but then he decided that in order to get over his fear of them, he was gonna watch a bunch of behind the scenes for them to see how the movies were actually made and to be less scared when watching them. and then he became a HUGE horror movie nerd. he LOVES breaking down how the practical effects work and identifying them on screen when watching. jumpscares don't bother him anymore, he's too busy nerding out about the behind the scenes stuff and analyzing how all the different effects are working seamlessly together to make the horror movie effective

deku loves dragging bakugo to see new horror movies or forcing him to sit and watch them at home together, he's always really excited to analyze the effects and camerawork of the movies. bakugo only (barely) tolerates it because he just looks away during all the "scary" parts and concentrates on deku's mumbling to distract himself from the movie

deku: no kacchan it's actually so cool how they did this shot!! they only had one take so they had to position all the camera equipment perfectly and there's a whole bunch of hidden triggers and the visual perspective makes the intensity of the shot SO much more effective and blah blah blah-

bakugo, face buried in deku's shoulder and very much avoiding looking at the screen: turn this off immediately or i will explode ur face

[keferon]

Isn’t Vortex a fucking torture freak tho? 👀👀👀

Yep. He is. He is a lot of things actually. The more you learn about him the more fucked up it gets

[mattodore]

birthday boy 🎂

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

prince and prince friendship. this is my vision

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Hiccup finally gets a proper illusion spell for his elf disguise. Too bad Jack didn't fully think it through before giving it to him.

bonus:

The Dragon Prince AU Masterpost

[arrowheadedbitch]

Okay, we all know that Kaminari is sometimes a little mistreated in his friendships, usually for comedy purposes but it's real easy to use it for angst, we are all aware of this

I wanna see him snap one day.

I wanna see everyone react to Kaminari when he's just so sick of it

Kaminari is the one that can drive, imagine he's having a real REAL bad day and finally he just snaps for the first time in front of his friends

It was already a rotten day and he was starting to lose his grip on the sunshine he always was sure to portray, and now his friends were fucking around when they were *supposed* to be getting in his car

They've left him waiting too long and he just wants to get home so he can get his grip back in the peace and privacy of his dorm

Eventually, he looks out and sees all the people who SHOULD be in his CAR right now just kind of fucking around near it

He goes "Oh, for the love of-" and just...LAYS on the horn

HOOOOOONK until everyone is looking at him, even Aizawa stopped in the middle of his sentence to look at the car, obviously Bakugo starts yelling at him so he rolls down the window, sticks his head out and let's everyone know that he doesn't give a shit what you have to say, if you asked him to drive you home and you aren't in the car in 10 seconds, you are WALKING

He seems serious, so after a little one sided arguing where a few people (mainly Bakugo) try to yell back only to find Kaminari is rolling the window back up without listening and sitting in the car looking pissed, well no one's ever seen Kaminari pissed off PERIOD, not just this pissed off but pissed off at ALL, so it goes without saying that they get in the car.

Usually, Sero gets front seat, this time no one in his friend group is allowed up there, only someone he ISNT pissed off can sit next to him, the rest can figure out how to fit in the back seat on their OWN

Someone tries to turn the radio on to diffuse the tension a little and he says, the fakest smile in the entire world on his face and a fake nice voice that does NOT hide how pissed he is plastered on, "If anyone even TRIES to turn on *my* radio, I am pulling it. Out of the car! ���😤"

It is a very tense drive home.

[tunamayojazz]

saw that fav ship trope: chronic sleeper x chronic insomniac tweet and guess what! it's them

[cashmere-caveman]

forever obsessed w the fact that in bh lore vampires do actually die and stay dead for a short bit and then come back wrong. something that sadly never really gets elaborated on but that i find deeply fascinating bc it is implied that they remember the afterlife! which is such a cool and insane nugget of lore to give ur vampires like hello. also the implication that it scared the shit out of them, or at least out of mitchell..... can we talk about it!

mitchell eating his stupid fucking noodle box as hes waiting w the newly turned vamp to make sure he doesnt wake up alone and scared even though lauren mocks him for it!

mitchell making sure to remind george to NOT look at what's beyond the threshold when they are preparing to say goodbye to annie when her door shows up!

that little moment when annie decides to tell owen the secrets of the dead to drive him insane and george asks what that was all about and mitchell shakes his head so annie goes ahaha lol i was just improvising even though both her and mitchell know better!!!! thats their best friend who they will protect from the horrors of death as long as (in)humanly possible! they love you alive boy ♡

[nedconte]

(Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.)

[inkskinned]

this is sort of pathetic, but when you were younger, you were sort of puzzled by the cartoon representations of fathers: how a kid would be outside with a mitt, waiting to play catch.

it's not that your father never played catch with you, but you also didn't like when he did. something about a hard ball coming quickly towards your face doesn't seem exciting. not that you'd ever say you don't trust him. you trust him, right?

it's not like he never tried to teach you anything. or never tried to parent. on rare days, a strange person would walk in your father's skin. bright, happy, magnificent. this version of your father was so cheerful and charismatic that you would do anything to keep him. and this is the version of your father that would laugh and gently coax you try again. this is the version of your father that would break down the small elements of a problem and point them out so you have an easier time with them.

as a kid, those days happened more often. but somewhere around 11, you started being too much of a person, and he was often cross about it. when he'd try to sit you down to learn something, you spent the whole time with your shoulders around your ears, nervous, uncertain. terrified because you didn't immediately understand how to navigate something. worried you will run out of his goodwill and then you will have the Other Father back, and you will have ruined a good day for your entire family. something about you being visibly afraid - it just made him angry. he would accuse you of not wanting to learn and storm away.

on tv, it's not like there's a lot of versions of men-who-are-mostly-fathers. they can be good dads, but usually their stories are not told in the household. so it's normal that your father is there, but he's never around. you know he was in the house, somewhere, it's just not that you guys ever... "hung out". he just seemed to get kind of bored of you, annoyed you weren't made in his perfect image. frustrated with how much energy it took to raise a kid. over time, you kind of adopt a bittersweet band around your throat - he knows nothing about me. he says at least i never abandoned my family.

and it's technically - technically - true. he was there for you. sometimes he even made an effort and made it to the big moments; the graduations and the dance recitals. he grins and tells everyone that he taught you. it almost erases the days in between, where he complains because you need a ride to school. the weeks that go by where he doesn't actually ever speak to you. the times you say i am struggling and he says figure it out on your own. i can't help you.

and that's fine! that's all fine. you can call him if you are having a problem with your car. or if you need a ride to the hospital. he loves playing hero, he just doesn't like the actual work that comes with being a father. and you've kind of made your peace with that; because you had to, because you don't want to live your life like he does; the whole world at a managed distance, a little rotating and controlled orb he can witness and take credit for but never truly love.

as an adult, you are rewatching some dumb cartoon - and again, the child standing in the rain, with a mitt, waiting for their father to come play catch. as an adult, there's this strange creeping dread - this little thing? this little thing, and their dad can't even show up for that? oh god, holyshit, it's not about the mitt, is it. oh god, holyshit, your father spent most of your life leaving you hanging.

[talesfromthecrypts]

Thirst (2009) dir. Park Chan-wook

[cherryloveruwu]

I tried to discern Mona's features and facial expression in this scene (it was very difficult because of the quality😭), here are the two most likely options

[blueskittlesart]

what’s your process when drawing simplified and/or detailed backgrounds? any tips or tutorials? thanks!

the tiktok art critics are gonna crucify me for this one but genuinely my answer is that i trace. i find a reference photo (emphasis on PHOTO, do not trace other people's work) or take one myself, overlay it in my drawing program, and trace that motherfucker. this is what i do for almost every background. I've been encouraged to do this in art school. because most of what i draw is from video games, I usually either take my own reference photos from the game in question or use an online model resource like noclip to get the precise angles that i need. csp also has a bunch of free 3d models of like classrooms and other common buildings. there is legitimately no reason to kill yourself trying to draw complex backgrounds from scratch, and by tracing you ARE actually intuitively learning about how perspective works and spaces are constructed. in the event that there IS some specific background i need to draw that doesn't already exist somewhere, i find a reference photo with similar vibes/perspective and alter it to fit my needs during the tracing process (i.e. if i need like. a very specifically furnished room that doesn't exist anywhere but my head, i find just a regular room in the perspective i need and then add the right furniture in as i go. i've also gotten very good at frankensteining reference pictures together, which, again is a literal actual skill they teach you in art school if you get an illustration degree.)

the most important thing in terms of backgrounds imo is making it so your characters don't look out of place in your backgrounds. the only foolproof way i know how to do this is to draw the background FIRST, and THEN put the character into it. trying to draw a scene around a character is always going to look a little off, imo, and it will almost always be easier to account for perspective on a character than on a full scene. I also like to color my characters either at the same time as my backgrounds or after the backgrounds, because, again, it's much easier (and makes more sense in terms of how lighting and color work) to adjust a character's color palette to fit a background & lighting situation than it is to do it the other way around.