#anyways i kinda like this water as well

[sketchesfromthemoon]

i’ve recently gotten back into mha and i can’t stop thinking about ghost aus

[aroaceleovaldez]

apparently pjotv twt was being weird about book!Percy's eyes being green because they don't think the ocean can be green (???) so consider this a sequel to my Grace siblings eye colors post and here is some visual references of green water for all your Percy inspo needs:

And for reference, the water around New York-ish where Percy is usually is somewhere around this color:

or some alternatives:

or here is a nice hazel green if you want his eyes more on the brown side, which is very common in freshwater ponds and streams:

or if you want him to have totally brown eyes - water rich in tannins will appear brown, greenish-brown, or very dark brown - this is sometimes called "blackwater" due to often appearing very dark or having low visibility:

[amogus-real-not-clickbait]

part 1 of a little comic / art sequence that i've been working on! :D it's part tribute, part experimenting with brushes n colors and trying new thingz :]

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and thus continues my endless quest of spreading the carrot fics like a plague! if you've seen my art floating around you probs already figured that this au holds a very special place in my heart, forever and always!!

if you haven't heard of it, it's a fic series by @crowned-ladybug called carrot soup!! it made me wish i could speak colors and i need more people to share my struggle xd

go check it out if you're into sweet voice lore and qpr level gayness and just wanna feel warm and soft and warm (hurt/comfort my beloved) <333 there are some heavier themes cos everyone's traumatized but they're working through it! be sure to check the tags and stay safe! <3

[ironicsoap]

you are expendable, you are not expected to return

[swordmaid]

thalia with her lava lamp swirls im vibing with it i think

[egginfroggin]

Well, they're in my brain now

Transcriptions:

Mabel: "40-year-old trauma, PSSH, what trauma? No trauma here, puh-lease. (trauma should fear me, if anything)"

Ford: "???" Arrow: "baffled child" Arrow: "flyaway of wi-fi, very important" (that last one is a joke, it has no signal receiving properties) (that we know of) Book cover: How to comprehend the Power of Mabel (you don't)

family fun activity: crossbow shooting (with live bolts, even!)

Please ignore the roughness of. basically all this. and especially the third sketch. People are hard, and the less said about inanimate objects, the better

Don't mind Mabel, she drowned her trauma in glitter and garrotted it with yarn, really, she's totally fine, she's okay, no trauma here, really

I feel like sci-fi blasters would be horrible for stealth, so that's probably part of why Mabel managed to acquire a crossbow for Ford -- keep that beanpole hidden, my stars, he's so small

In other news, regular ol' hands are hard, and I'm convinced that this small child (or tall adult, but I haven't tackled him yet) is the final boss of hands because. fingers. Help.

Anyway, have a good day! ^^

(Program: Krita; time taken: about 2 hours)

[puppppppppy]

Atla live action 😐

[yellllowstar]

slowly I'm recovering the beauty of discovery

(creature by half•alive)

(textless + timelapse below cut)

[vampmilf]

hold on im still too mad at this one fucking guest to take a nap i need to be a hater for a minute

[yellow-yarrow]

i fucking hate hungarian politics, who am i supposed to vote for, the centrist liberal party, the other centrist liberal party, or the coalition of the social democrats and center-right party that used to be full of nazis (what a joke)

[keeps-ache]

i have Thoughts

[seventh-district]

sometimes it’s late at night and you’re cleaning your room and you come across a few old black and white photos of a young girl and you stare at them for a long minute wondering how on earth they got lost in an old Kroger shopping bag with an unopened pack of cigarettes and a receipt dated 2017.

and you look at the girl in the pictures sat on the floor of someone’s home you don’t recognize, smiling and playing with a set of keys and a tiny part of you feels like it recognizes her but you aren’t sure.

and you flip the pictures over hoping to find some sort of annotation that would give you context and all you find is the year 1964 stamped in tiny font along the edge.

and you flip them back over and time stands still as you realize that the recognition you feel is because she looks so much like you once did and next thing you know your hands are sweating and shaking and you have to sit on the floor because you’re crying so hard because it hits you all at once that you’re looking at your mother.

[butchvamp]

this is a long video but it popped up on my feed and i thought it was quite interesting, (she shares some videos in the description too i want to link directly: a shorter video/tiktok summarizing the topic, and another tiktok stitched in response that digs in a little deeper) and is kinda relevant with some of the things i've been talking about with DA, though this discussion is specific to monster romance + "cozy" fantasy and how a lot of these stories use d&d or tolkien as the foundation of their worldbuilding with little thought and without understanding the harmful, racist stereotypes it perpetuates..... and of course these are just prevalent tropes across the fantasy genre as a whole, whether inspired by d&d and tolkien or otherwise (as we've seen in DA). i really like the quote from the substack article she links by Michael LaBron, i feel like it makes it very obvious how these depictions are directly connected: "In the same way that Orcs create a boogy man that justify the hero's violence, sexy Orcs create a monster that the damsel in distress doesn’t actually have to be afraid of."

the other article i shared previously really expanded the first half of that quote with the "civilization versus savages" binary that we see with a lot of fantasy races (orcs, goblins, drow, and qunari in dragon age) but i think this half of the discussion is important to have as well so i just wanted to share. here is the article by Michael LaBron:

and here is this article again too that i shared when talking about dragon age earlier, by Daniel Heath Justice:

i love fantasy, it's my favorite genre, it's what i personally write for myself, and i think learning about and discussing the flaws within the genre are an important and integral part of enjoying it, too, which is why i've been discussing it so much with veilguard, and i wanted to share more examples as this discussion has become relevant in a lot of spaces right now outside of just gaming/RPGs/TTRPGs.

[cuteniaarts]

Post-recovery Summiya concept sketch :)

[elegyofthemoon]

ok but i'm just thinking about one of the memory logs for sakura and how mobius tells sakura that what happened to her after her mantis surgery is at least better than what happened to both mobius and kevin after theirs, but from then on, sakura is no longer human and no one else will look at her like a human like before

then you timeskip over to when sakura is trying to save rin from MOTH, and she's arguing with kevin about how the MANTIS soldiers will always be outsiders and a threat to MOTHs because of the surgery. and how this treatment is what makes sakura afraid for rin and inevitably leads to her doom i :(

[normalgirlatron]

they toned down joe’s freakazoidness in the show considerably which is why he’s somewhat likable in the first 2 seasons, and then once you get to season 3 his original (book) nature starts to come out more and SOME (not a majority, which is unnerving to me) people started to dislike him after that. and idk i just think. people wouldn’t like him so much if they read the books first, that’s for sure… 💀 they’d see him properly for who he is instead of idealizing that kind of toxic, creepy, depraved man and acting as if that’s their dream guy and they want that. because like. ugh. they don’t see the nuance i don’t think… he’s such a well-written stalker incel murderer, it’s unsettling and it’s perfect for that kind of thing but instead they got rid of his more predatorial creepiness and suddenly people who watch the show think he’s genuinely ABOVE being incel-like, entitled, and a skeeve 😭 as if his whole thing is that he IS those things, he just doesn’t admit it to himself because he views himself as inherently deserving of a woman and love no matter what. what i’m getting at i guess is that by removing his creepiness at the start and then not even seeing it through makes the message of the show incredibly difficult to see if you don’t try / didn’t read the books. instead, it’s watered down and now people think he’s just soooo hot and a misunderstood lover boy yandere who cares and loves you so much he’d kill for you!!! 🥺🥺🥺 NO????? THATS NOT WHAT HE IS!!!! that’s not what the show is (poorly) trying to show you and it’s not what the books were for i’m sure