#and seeing that i actually had hips

[rosestthorns]

I've been on hormones for just over 5 years and now my body is just about the way I've always wanted it to look. I've still got a long ways to go, and a lot of work to do. But I'm a long way from where I started and it shows

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Quicky little question *clears my throat* Magneto in some Fire Emblem inspired armor? (Askin' because your Zephiel art is beautiful & I'd love to see Mags with a Rudolf-esque/Edelgard-Esque design)

i keep coming back to this ask with genuine intent to do it but i just devolve into joker laughter when i open my refs cause like.. what else do i do here... Corporate Wants You To Find The Difference theyre the same pic...

w/e i tried anyway please enjoy !!

bearded ver under the cut

[youling-the-ghost]

This is peak fashion right here.

[soath]

Obviously, DnD characters are wish fulfillment and lots of people don’t want to address the slow senescence of the vulnerable human form in their fun games. That being said, narratively, I do think that levels should probably fluctuate over the course of a lifetime. The level twenty world-saver is going not going to stay level twenty into their old age—that’s not how athletes and retirement work! Wisdom and Charisma casters maybe, but your STR/CON/DEX builds are going to soften with age. They might still be the spryest bastards in the old people tai chi group, but “terrifyingly in shape 70 year old” is not the same as “deadliest man on the planet”. Drop those old folks a few levels, give them some creaky bones and presbyopia. It’s good for them, promise.

[toffeebrews]

heard ink will wear anything huh? well... (ink sans by @/coymet | this was partially inspired by this post by the grinningkitten)

version w/o flowers

the flowers were actually a last minute edition, just thought it would look more "romantic" that way. for who? hm, I just imagine for himself LMFAO.

[shima-draws]

My doctor: Hey yeah that's not normal I don't think it's an issue with your hip

Me: Oh?

My doctor: It's an issue with your spine

Me: OH

[twinkthrasher]

The more i think about Asher logically the more icked out i get... I was cooking dinner and i was reminded that this dude is just incapable of cooking?? he's like in his thirties?? and we MARRIED him?? god bless his heart...

[harocat]

i love figure skaters, they just get better and more unchill every year

I DO TOO. I do have mixed feelings about Ilia rn because I really worry about the way he's being managed. I don't think Ari (his manager) cares much about long term success as much as breaking as many records as possible (honestly if you read Ari's Russian interviews it's a little scary the way he talks about his athlete). I know he's trying to get all this done while his body is still very young and capable, but at the same time I worry he won't even make it to the Olympics if he's not careful. :(

[cthulhubert]

"Scarf/veil worn over the elbows" - like Aqua in Konosuba? Yeah, what is that? Seems tonbe associated with holy/divine characters, so maybe it's referencing some religious art?

In reference to my tags on this post.

They don't always seem to draw her with it, so for a minute I thought you were talking about those detached sleeves, LOL

But yes, exactly!

I actually had a dream, and while it was tangential, one element was an ancient aliens esque theory, that angels/gods were real beings, because of the consistency of this sash/stole/shawl/ribbon thing shown in art across the world.

Unfortunately for the theorists in my dream, we actually know pretty well how it went.

The ancient Romans just really liked showing deities framed by a billowing garment, "Velificatio ... represents 'vigorous movement,' an epiphany, or 'the vault of heaven,' often appearing with celestial, weather, or sea deities."

The etymology is roughly "setting sail", and Pliny the Elder describes a wind god as "Making a sail of her garment."

I sometimes call it a veil because well, the Japanese version is always really diaphanous, but as you can see in the wikipedia article, it's sometimes associated with initiations into mystery religions, where it's related to the veil or shroud Romans would put over their dead, so removing it symbolized rebirth, and (stretching a little here) it billowing around someone showed them as near but aside from death.

It's shown a lot of ways (there's this little known painting called Birth of Venus from the 15th century, check out Zephyrus in it), but, well, here's Neptune from the 3rd century:

Familiar, huh?

Art meets silk road, and a sash becomes really popular in depictions of celestial, flying apsaras:

I think this guy's from 500ce or so.

The cloth itself doesn't really have a name, but in Japan the tennin (lit, heavenly people, analogous to angels) wear hagoromo (feathered rainment) that they sometimes need to fly.

Here's a guy doing a selkie to one. "Marry me or you'll never return to the heavens."

As you can see, a hagoromo (center) includes this exact windy sash, but there's also more to it.

I don't really have a conclusion, but thanks for the ask, prompting me to retrace my path learning about it.

[satellitedyke]

OHHHHH okay I literally do just hate living alone

[badolmen]

“here’s a chubby [insert character name]! ☺️” but they still have defined obliques, no double chin, no fat over their belt, muscular arms, thigh gap -

[bmpmp3]

doing watercolour scan image transparent cutout experiments

[toubledrouble]

I have very strong opinions about how and why blades of glory are actually better than the cutting edge series, both cinematically and plot-wise, but I'm not sure if tumblr is ready to hear that

[noblest-roman-of-them-all]

Being a fanfic author is a lot of fun because I can just be piddling on tumblr, see a screenshot from a show that reminds me I recently had a dream about one of the characters, and think to myself. "Huh. Maybe I'll try paralyzing him from the hips down."

[standardfarelife]

I threw out trash and did laundry (and folded and put it away) and vacuumed and cleaned the carpet today

And then I lit Shabbat candles and said the blessings and prayed

And it fixes next to nothing but I actually feel ok right now

We had pizza for dinner (which is what my fiances' little sisters wanted) and I just have to keep reminding myself that life goes on

And we are still here, and we will always be here; in all our ways and all our forms

שבת שלום עם ישראל חי