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POV you’ve informed the Queen and the Court’s Sorcerer of something and they very clearly know something that they’re not letting on
#hehe just a silly doodle#Gwen’s great at subtlety so would this even happen? debatable#just feel like they’d definitely get up to magical shenanigans post-canon#plus there were enough things in the show that could make a reappearance#Lady Vivian is visiting? Oh no is she still under the curse??? D: *cue mutual looks of alarm*#(it’s okay she’s not. justiceforvivian2024)#but anyway STILL they’d definitely go sneaking around in the vaults or library to find answers to the latest Situation tm#like yeah magic is legal and Guinevere is literally the queen#but that doesn’t stop them from shiftilly snooping!! shiftilly snooping just Happens when ur friends with Merlin#it’s like enrichment for them#ANYWAY yet again I have NO idea what proper anatomy is and I did not use a reference for Merlin and only glanced at one for Gwen so#sorry I cannot do u justice merlin + guinevere </3#my mom once glanced at one of my doodles when I was home and she was like why does Merlin look like a monkey#WHICH WAS KINDA OUT OF POCKET TBH 😭😭#but maybe one of these days I’ll actually learn drawing-related things so I can better spread my beloved post canon Merlin agenda#Merlin#Gwen#merlin fanart#bbc merlin#my art#art#merwen#EDIT: fixed up the colouring bc it was bothering meee rip
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could you pose as danny if he actually dodged i think that woukld be funny
Don’t have Danny hair rn and still got the makeups n all that that I wore today, but that don’t really matter much. Here ya go! Dodging shit! Gotta find me some tight clothing so I can do references for phantom form, but hopefully this works for now
#drawing reference#my face looks weeeeird in some of these#but that’s okay cause people usually use the references more for the pose than the head
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Ew they're flirting again.
#I keep forgetting how to draw hoods. ;-;)#Huh. The colors actually didn't look as choppy as I thought with how fast I've done it. I mean.#It's just flat colors but it still take up time that's why sometimes my doodles are colorless. Anyway#Actually using this to test draw something I'm going to apply on a commission#They're in the autumn clothes I had drawn them in before. 😁 Just that I accidentally made Connie's pants a bit too light 🤷♀️#Okay this time they're not just exchanging puns. He's just probably whispering romantic shiz that's going to cause OP a seizure with how#smaltzy they are#Oh but what if it's actually just casual talk; but he knows it tickles her to talk to her that close. 🤔#connverse#Connie Maheswaran#Steven Quartz Universe#SU#skedooblea#Steven Universe#Ugh A reference was used for a part and it actually looked wrong? 😕
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you were raised in comparison.
it wasn't always obvious (well. except for the times that it was), but you internalized it young. you had to eat what you didn't like, other people are going hungry, and you should be grateful. you had to suck it up and walk on the twisted ankle, it wasn't broken, you were just being a baby. you were never actually suffering, people obviously had it worse than you did.
you had a roof over your head - imagine! with the way you behaved, with how you talked back to your parents? you're lucky they didn't kick you out on your ass. they had friends who had to deal with that. hell, you have friends who had to deal with that. and how dare you imply your father isn't there for you - just because he doesn't ever actually talk to you and just because he's completely emotionally checked out of your life doesn't mean you're not fucking lucky. think about your cousins, who don't even get to speak to their dad. so what if yours has a mean streak; is aggressive and rude. at least you have a father to be rude to you.
you really think you're hurting? you were raised in a home! you had access to clean water! you never so much as came close to experiencing a real problem. sure, okay. you have this "mental illness" thing, but teenagers are always depressed, right. it's a phase, you'll move on with your life.
what do you mean you feel burnt out at work. what do you mean you mean you never "formed healthy coping mechanisms?" we raised you better than that. you were supposed to just shoulder through things. to hold yourself to high expectations. "burning out" is for people with real jobs and real stress. burnout is for people who have sick kids and people who have high-paying jobs and people who are actually experiencing something difficult. recently you almost cried because you couldn't find your fucking car keys. you just have lost your sense of gratitude, and honestly, we're kind of hurt. we tell you we love you, isn't that enough? if you want us to stick around, you need to be better about proving it. you need to shut up about how your mental health is ruined.
it could be worse! what if you were actually experiencing executive dysfunction. if you were really actually sick, would you even be able to look at things on the internet about it? you just spend too much time on webMD. you just like to freak yourself out and feel like you belong to something. you just like playing the victim. this is always how you have been - you've always been so fucking dramatic. you have no idea how good you have it - you're too fucking sensitive.
you were like, maybe too good of a kid. unwilling to make a real fuss. and the whole time - the little points, the little validations - they went unnoticed. it isn't that you were looking for love, specifically - more like you'd just wanted any one person to actually listen. that was all you'd really need. you just needed to be witnessed. it wasn't that you couldn't withstand the burden, but you did want to know that anyone was watching. these days, you are so accustomed to the idea of comparison - you don't even think you belong in your own communities. someone always fits better than you do. you're always the outlier. they made these places safe, and then you go in, and you are just not... quite the same way that would actually-fit.
you watch the little white ocean of your numbness lap at your ankles. the tide has been coming in for a while, you need to do something about it. what you want to do is take a nap. what you want to do is develop some kind of time machine - it's not like you want your life to stop, not completely, but it would really nice if you could just get everything to freeze, just for a little while, just until you're finished resting. but at least you're not the worst you've been. at least you have anything. you're so fucking lucky. do you have any concept of the amount of global suffering?
a little ant dies at the side of your kitchen sink. you look at its strange chitinous body and think - if you could just somehow convince yourself it is enough, it will finally be enough and you can be happy. no changes will have to be made. you just need to remember what you could lose. what is still precious to you.
you can't stop staring at the ant. you could be an ant instead of a person, that is how lucky you are. it's just - you didn't know the name of the ant, did you. it's just - ants spend their whole life working, and never complain. never pull the car over to weep.
it's just - when it died, it curled up into a tight little ball.
something kind of uncomfortable: you do that when you sleep.
#writeblr#warm up#my dad was actively doing bad shit to us and we STILL were told we were lucky . and to a point i do think im lucky#i just think also there's somethin to be said about like. how about we stop using comparison to dismiss ppls individual struggles#yes there are people who have no perspective. for the reference tho having perspective actually made me really unwilling to get help#for what was a serious and debilitating mental health issue. bc i thought i didnt DESERVE IT#and i would rather have 600 ppl who aren't THAT bad get help and get heard and get seen#than make any 1 kid. do the math that i did: look at the world that is dying and the people who are hurting and say#''oh. okay. others have it worse. they are probably better people than i am. i am being unreasonable. i cannot ask for help#i am not good. i am taking too much space. i am not worth saving.''#bc our WHOLE lives we are taught a scarcity mindset - that you can 'steal' from someone. so that instead of changing a system that doesn't#actually offer fair support to everyone#we put the impetus on the individual to just... demand less.#and here's something - there are probably ppl who think i DIDNT deserve to get help#bc i DID have it better than other people#and something about that is ... so sickening. bc i think all of us in some way at some point WILL need help.#we were supposed to make communities. we were supposed to offer our hands. we were supposed to raise the barn#instead we said: it could be worse. now handle it yourself
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three Mikes, three emoji memes.... PART 2????? 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
THE BUTTER EATING ONE IS TAKING ME OUT…
#ask reply#THESE ARE ONCE AGAIN ACCURATE#I really should start looking to these types of emojis for expressions references#cause I literally use no refs I go purely based off vibes#the mikes are not okay out here 🙏🏾
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so this was how tmagp 7 went, right?
#returning for like. 2 seconds to make this silly little shitpost before jumping off this hellsite once again. okay bye ajsdljasld#i just used Shahan Hamza as a reference for Sam's design idk#tmagp 7#tmagp spoilers#tmagp vague#tmagp#tmagp fanart#the magnus protocol spoilers#the magnus protocol#mag pod#samama khalid#jonathan sims#jon sims#jonathan sims fanart#tma#the magnus archives#my art#shahan hazma#jonny sims#the archivist#tmagp shitpost#the magnus protocol shitpost#tmagp thursday
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vampire au where they can only drink the blood type they were before they were turned. other blood has an almost poisonous effect, burning them from within like acid and drinking too much of it can kill them
in the old days, before the knowledge of blood types, it made humans they could feed on absolutely precious. they're kept safe, pampered and doted on; a vampire’s most prized possession
attacking another vampire's human is seen as the highest insult; not only is it a slight against them, it also carries the implication of "i want you to starve"
it's also used as the cruelest of punishments; starving a vampire for months, until they're feral with hunger just for their torturer to throw in a random human, watching them desperately suck down poison, their instincts begging them to keep drinking even as it kills them
ghost is one of the few who survived it; thrown in a pit so deep, he saw stars in the middle of the day, left with nothing but the dried bodies of the humans roba drained without care, others with their throats slit, blood he can't drink spilled out around them
a taunt of the one thing he needs but will never get
but ghost hasn't survived this long just to give up here
he refuses to die in this stinking, rotted pit
ghost is a force of nature as he descends over roba's manor; killing any who wander into his path until the halls run red. until he gets his hands on roba and tells him a secret:
vampires can feed on the blood of any vampire, regardless of blood type
it becomes a legend in vampire high society; if you starve another, you'd best make sure they actually die
otherwise you might end up piled in a dining room, the vampire you left for dead lounging on a throne of corpses with his fangs lodged in your throat
ghost decimates roba's empire, burning it to the ground until no one dares to speak his name in fear of incurring his wrath. it's incredibly taboo for a vampire to feed off another but ghost's too powerful for anyone to challenge him and the other vampires are too scared to try. scared of what he's willing to do, the lengths he'll go to; not that they'll ever admit it
soap is the first human he ever brings to court; delicately bathed in the finest silks and jewels, his throat always bare so he can show off ghost's ownership, his bite framed in lace
he's not like the delicate waifs the other vampires show off; he doesn't cling to his master, demure and submissive. he shows off his teeth as often as any vampire, fully willing to rip out the throats of any who insult him or ghost
a feral master needs a just as feral pet
#this also has me thinking of the different ways vampires would test blood before they drink it#obviously they wouldnt go straight for the bite just to get a mouthful of poison#have you seen the interview with the vampire movie and that scene with lestat and his sharp ring cuff thing?#ghost would absolutely have something like that#i see him having a full skeleton gauntlet type thing that cuffs onto his wrist and fingers#and at the end of his fingers hed have the claws#using them to shallowly stab johnnys throat#just enough for a drop to run down to his collarbone for him to lick up#goddamn#soft stop writing half your aus in the tags challenge#its hard okay i like to keep the post clean but then i get supplementary ideas so they go here#i only wanna present one idea at a time but i need everyone to picture soap dressed like one of the brides from van helsing#anyway high vampire!ghost and his beloved human pet!johnny au when#also peep the coraline reference lmao i had to#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#we’re a team. ghost team#soapghost#ghostsoap#ghoap#simon ghost riley#ghost cod#john soap mactavish#soap cod#cod mw2#save post
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yay redheads. more to come im sure
#naruto#naruto shippuden#uzumaki kushina#kushina#kushina uzumaki#nagato uzumaki#uzumaki nagato#nagato#gaara#sabaku no gaara#gaara of the sand#ermmm yes#i tried to get closeups but for some reason the screenshots always got blurry so i just gave up#take this#throws this at you#surprise to my jjk audience i actually mostly care about naruto#but jjk is probably still what youll see more of#because naruto ended in 2017#and wow doesnt that make me feel old#anyway yeah more warmups. got a few work pieces done recently. feels good#i drew gaara first with no reference because i used to draw him a lot#and then i used references for kushina and nagato. and i think it shows. their hair#okay thats enough outta me bye#my art#artists on tumblr#illustration#fanart#anime art
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what I loved about the AAA assembled episode was us learning that “I wanted to work with Kathryn Hahn” was really “I wanted to work with Aubrey Plaza”
#I hope u guys get the reference I’m making to that one tweet lmao#so I guess it really was Agatha all along#and maybe I’d like to work with both these people okay!#and I’m using this term in a Twitter way lmao#agatha all along#agatha harkness#agathario#aubrey plaza#kathryn hahn#rio x agatha#agatha x rio#wlw#rio vidal#mcu
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Requests are open ? 👀 A Barney perhaps? Any Barney . I miss him and love seeing him in your style.
I miss him too when is his train getting here ..
#coughs up blood. barny when will u return from the war your so handsome and cutes . And funny#giggles. okay I’m done SORRY.#barney calhoun#half life#my art#id in alt text#requests#half life 2#hl#hl2#i WILL DO ANYTHING BUT USE A REFERENCE i was measuring out face proportions by feeling out my own face with my fingers. Is he stupid.
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Reunion
Solas and former Inquisitor Lavellan
Can’t wait to spend hours in the CC recreating my Lavellan for DATV ^^
#okay im proud of this one because I used zero references#so yes the hands are awkward but I’m trying!!!!! trying very hard lol#rotating them in my head#just like I will use the photo mode in datv to rotate around everyone in every cutscene lol#solas#dragon age#solavellan#dragon age inquisition#my fanart#drawing#daze chroma#dazechroma#dragon age the veilguard#datv#dav#da: the veilguard#solas x inquisitor#solas x lavellan#fanart#im going cRAZYYY it’s only one more month but I am losing my mind#rattling the bars of my cage#and so on#veilguard hype
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(crash) landing in scala
#one of these days i'll learn how architecture works instead of seeing a screencap and going “okay let's use this exact angle as reference”#really manifesting mickey's scala trip to end up like this#strand this rat in the past and give brain the opportunity to learn about the future !!!!#okay i was gonna make a point about how donald and goofy are there in that one khux quest bc their gummi ship crash lands there#and i was about to be all like “surely mickey can do the same thing and just land in a different era instead”#but i just went back to that set of cutscenes and mickey is ALSO there. but not in his kh3 outfit. mickey why are u there#why are you like “so it wasn't the star shard that brought me here...”#did you not arrive with d&g??? chip and dale?????#“what in the world is going on?” me too mouseboy genius me too#kh#kh brain#kh mickey#my art#sketch#edit: okay no i skimmed the cutscenes wrong lmfao. mickey shows up with a star shard into the same time and general place as d&g#knowing they would've landed from the sky just like him#why were you guys traveling separately in the first place...... interesting to think on#kingdom hearts
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Lezah and… Ved??
#thunderstomm#tomm talks#tomm art#thunderstomm art#my art#my doodles#traditional doodle#doodles#fop lezah#fop ved#fairly odd parents#fairly oddparents a new wish#the fairly oddparents a new wish#the fairly oddparents#fairly oddparents#fairly oddparents: a new wish#a new wish#I wanted to do my own take on anti-fairy dev !! since I’ve been drawing fairy dev and hazel#and hazel already canonically has an anti fairy so…!#I like to imagine that Ved uses a mask of kindness much like how Dev uses a mask of mean#once he takes off those glasses he is a SAVAGE#digital reference for the character soon!?#maybe (:#okay to reblog#please reblog#!!#(:#fairly odd swap au
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GAKVU REACHES TOWARDS GOLEM
meme edit under the cut
#pig does art#thank you corru observer for breaking me out of art hell. my first big old piece in a while#anyways YAAY YAAAY hi followers and mutuals. play this game for me !! it is linked right there in the post (use computer)#and it is so good. sooo fucking good#btw drawing the timestopper thingy was scary at first because i wasnt sure how to go about it#but if you fuck around and find out (and use references) it all ends up okay#i feel pretty good abt this piece like the only reason i could draw gakvu so accurate is because of refs#and because my style works well w the obesk designs i think. geometree.#guh. enjoy#corru.observer#corru.observer fanart
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WATCHED C3e99 DOWNFALL PART 1 AND UHHH I HAVENT DRAWN FAN ART IN YEARS BUT THE MUSE REALLY SPOKE TO ME THIS TIME
Step 2 figure out how the Emissary actually looks
#I VOTE WE JUST CALL HIM APPLES#my sibling and I were watching together and I was like noshir STILL hasn't come in yet I bet he's in the fucking crate#and then#Apples <3#BE APPLES#I've solely been referring to the emissary as Apples in all of our conversations okay I love him#im big in love with Asha tho I am very excited to see what the rest of downfall brings us#I feel like my brain was going 7000 mph the whole episode trying to remember every scrap of lore I could remember#idk maybe more art to come I guess???#everyone thank my good buddy P who can not see this post as it will be spoiler tagged for them but they somehow unlocked my art block#by introducing a What If Ashton Draws As A Coping Mechanism AU and I went slightly feral over it <33#critical role#exu downfall#critical role campaign 3#god my tagging system has gone to shit there is so much goin on#bells hells#it's not BH but that's what all the rest of the C3 stuff is tagged with so im just gonna do that for my own searching purposes I guess#sams art#cr downfall
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You're the sunflower/I think your love would be too much
#WOO FINALLY DONE#considered doing a second part with hanahaki riku buuuut. i got a car journey in an hour or so and im impatient#so doing it later means not at all#but anyway!!! had fun w him#still tryna figure out how to draw sora ill prob redraw this when i figure it out#rearranged the heart station more toward the redesigned one but then didnt rlly follow thru cus i wanted both riku and kairi on it LMAO#also i think i drew them too small for this to come across but my thought process was “sora with lots of freckles = sunflower center bit”#and obvi the station of awakening as well#was gonna be kh2 sora but hnnng his design is. so much#ambitious#i think “your love would be too much” works for every version of soriku though so its okay#soriku#kingdom hearts#soriku endgame actually#kh sora#kingdom hearts sora#sora kingdom hearts#riku kingdom hearts#bev draws#beverly says stuff#this happened cus 2 nights ago i satr up in bed and said THIS SONG IS SO SORIKU CODED#and then i wanted to make the sunflowers behind him look like stained glass#but i didnt know how & figured putting a station there would give a similar effect#regardless! sora looks kinda goofy in the face but im p happy w this !#using references are for cowards (NOT ACTUALLY. USE REFERENCES DO NOT FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE)#kh#kh1#kh1 sora#kh1 riku#also tried out some different brushes for colouring this and i like them :3
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