#and couldn't find a suitable image of rdj/cevans in a pool to post alongside it for transitional blogging consistency?

[fohatic]

continuing the convo about what manips actually involve: here is the manip i recently posted at an early progress stage (a couple hours into the process), at which point it was already getting late and i'd spent so long trying/rejecting various heads/poses/body parts before settling on these components (cevans body shot+steve head; stock torso+stock legs+tony head) that i was tempted to just post it like this and call it 'artsy' so i could be done with it.

...but instead i spent more hours trimming and refining and resizing and shading and recoloring and grafting more pool water pieces in to blend disparate sections etc etc because i'm a perfectionist and needed it to look good 🙃

Tony: "What's the matter— did you forget your unitard? Get with the century, Rogers. Nobody's gonna arrest you if you show some skin, y'know."

Steve: "You're the one making a federal case out of what I'm wearing."

Tony: "My pool party, my rules. At least take your shirt off. The farmer's tan just isn't a good look, no matter how swole you are."