#because i got no frame of reference 💀

[roughlytwentytwofrogs]

I'm procrastinating writing my chapter 8 so bad that my "uwu i don't read smut bc it's uncomfortable" ass started writing a shadowzel smut scene

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Overprotective!Yandere X GN!Reader

Women in the office gawked at Theo as he walked by, shamelessly refusing to peel their eyes from the Adonis who walked among them. With dark wavy hair that framed his beauty mark speckled face and droopy emerald eyes always set into a warm smile, he was model material, yet refused to believe it. Theo was kind to everyone he spoke to, but no one could gain his full attention, and affection. That was reserved for his one and only best friend ❤️

❤️ Theo who was Reader's best friend since kindergarten

💀 Every life path Reader took, Theo took as well. They were his best friend, he just happened to have the same interests as Reader!

❤️ Besides, he didn't go to the same college as them and got into the same company in the same sales department just because he was good at numbers like Reader... he also needed to protect them!

💀 Reader was always a hard worker, they would often forget to eat meals while working overtime and would only sleep two hours a night if Theo wasn't there to gently keep them on track

❤️ And despite everyone referring to Reader as a cynical workaholic, Theo knew deep down that they were far too trusting

💀 Remember that girl in grade four who confessed to Reader at recess? Reader turned her down far too kindly! They made her think it was actually okay to be friends! Thank goodness Theo was there to threaten the kid to stay away protect his best friend from that weirdo

❤️ People often mistook the pair of besties for a couple, and that was just ridiculous!

💀 Yeah, the idea of Reader calling Theo their husband, kissing Reader's forehead each and every night, and instead of just tucking them into bed joining them in their shared bed made his heart clench in a funny way... they were just friends!

❤️ Just friends that were also roommates. The economy is terrible right now, just because they make enough money to live alone, didn't it make more sense to live together and save money?

💀 And Theo enjoyed cooking nutritional meals for his best friend! No instant ramen for Reader while Theo's around!

❤️ No, it wasn't jealousy whenever someone started hitting on Reader, he was just worried for them!

"Don't you think Jackson's a bit... creepy?" Theo asked his buddy while prepping dinner one night. Reader glanced up from their work laptop only briefly.

"Why do you say that?"

"Ah, I don't mean to sound rude! I'm sorry.. I just overheard him saying something pretty gross about Mrs. Kim.."

Jackson had asked Reader to grab a drink with him sometime just the other day, and he seemed like a genuinely kind dude. But Reader trusted Theo with their life, and wouldn't question anything he ever said, believing their best friend was simply incapable of lying. Reader grunted and went back to work, and Theo knew by that sound his bestie wasn't going out with Jackson anytime soon.

💀 Theo who could never admit to anyone, not even himself, that his relationship with Reader wasn't a healthy "friendship"

❤️ Convincing himself that his actions were completely normal things for friends to do was almost a full time job

💀 Sometimes he watched Reader sleep, admiring how their eyelashes fluttered as they dreamt ensuring that they were actually sleeping and not sneaking onto their computer

❤️ And breaking down into full blown hysterics when Reader doesn't text him back is just because he's so worried for them

💀 Reader always saw the error in their ways though, apologizing profusely when they finally came home from grocery shopping and seeing the results of forgetting to charge their phone

❤️ It was an especially hard day when Theo had to cut off his own mother. She said Theo was codependent on Reader! Reader doesn't know this though, they just heard that Theo's mother was criticizing their friendship

Reader was stopped at the front door, Theo draping his large frame over his best friend, his large eyes watering. "Please don't leave, (Reader)."

They sighed, wriggling an arm free to mess with Theo's hair. "The fridge is almost empty, dude."

"But it's raining outside!" Theo raised is voice unintentionally as he began to panic, spiraling into an anxiety attack. "What if you get sick? Please just stay home, I can order take out. Let's go shopping tomorrow!"

"Theo.."

"Please!" A sob choked out of the man as he seemingly lost his strength, collapsing against Reader as he stained their jacket with his tears. "I just want to keep you safe!"

Reader gave in, as they always did, guilt stabbing at their heart until they could calm Theo down and convince him they weren't leaving.

Even if Reader never fell in love with Theo, the man would be content just to be by Reader's side, forever being their one and only best friend. As long as he could continue protecting them, from bad dates conspiring to ruin Reader's life, from management that continuously accepted Reader's overtime volunteering, and from Reader's own silly bad choices... Theo was happy.

[nalyra-dreaming]

Be careful, it's one of a kind! - Or: the trial script.

I took a few screenshots and put them through the editor, and there are a few interesting tidbits of information that can be gleaned from the few shots we got of the final trial script:

Supposedly the trial was written by the "Vampire Santiago", and the "Vampire Samuel Barclay". With... "additions made" by the "Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt".

Now the last part is particularly interesting, because as we see in the screenshots we get, that there are quite a few "additions" that Armand makes, but he is not listed there.

We now have (additional) confirmation by Assad (at the SDCC 2024 panel) that Armand was the one who orchestrated Claudia's / their deaths, so let's keep that in mind here. Especially since he is not listed.

"Our red curtain. Our spotlight. Santiago acting as master of ceremonies. But this is the only part of the play that will mimic our normal fare. That and our finale."

There's several aspects to this.

We know that - at least in Armand's tale - Santiago "took over". "Master of ceremonies." But only acting, not actually being. The "mimic our normal fare" both hints at this being not what they normally do, and, given the mock aspect of the trial - it acknowledges the farce it is. It is not a play, not a trial, but something in between, framed as neither, while implementing both.

Santiago's entry speech. With an interesting annotation by Armand: "You are standing half in and half out of your light."

Only, Santiago isn't actually standing in and out of the light. (At least in the version we got to see.)

Now, those who know the books know that the force of Lestat's personality is often called a "light", and not always in a wholly positive manner.

For example there is this comment by Nicolas, which refers to it:

And for every aspect of our proposed damnation you found exuberance, and there was no end to your enthusiasm and the passion coming out of you-and the light, always the light. And in exact proportion to the light coming out of you, there was the darkness in me! Every exuberance piercing me and creating its exact proportion of darkness and despair!

The lights of the stage obviously put them all into focus, too, something that was forbidden before Lestat came and destroyed the old ways. The "walking in the places of light" was one of the things the Children of Darkness accused Lestat of when he encountered them.

I think the comment there is a kind-of-meta comment, of Armand being half in shadow hand half in light. There is a choice here, for light or darkness.

Here, he chooses darkness.

Some things we haven't heard in the episode:

"If the prosecution's evidence convinces you to condemn those HERETICS for the heinous trampling of the vampire laws we will carry out our sentence before your very eyes as only we at the Théâtre des Vampires know how: slowly, inventively, gruesomely."

And then, this lovely stage direction 💀:

"Agency: If and when Claudia or Louis speak, (drive) them together, close their throats, (Santia)go will address it with the audience, as per the below:"

"I don't need to hear from you..."

That part we heard in the trial.

Apart from the stage directions and the part we didn't hear Armand's notes are also interesting once more: "Remember to comment...." and something starting with "Fi"... "Fine" - or "Find their thoughts" (could fit I think). Because this note, even largely unreadable proves once more that Armand was fully in on what they did to Louis and Claudia there. Made sure that the blows... would land.

This one. This one we didn't get to hear! (The part after "Tik Tok")

Santiago reading from her diary: "He soaks in the light from everyone around him, making it all about Lestat. This is most definitely about you and your death."

Light reference again! (See the quote above.)

And (accompanied by Armand's notes to have Santiago hand the diary to the audience):

"I know she was your favorite. I know she was your baby lu. But she had us all fooled. She's the best actor of all of us. She lies so sweetly, doesn't she. But look closer. When the mask falls away, she's a monster."

Oof. When the mask falls away... Pot to kettle.

"I can't hear you." - say it louder.... Lestat.

And then: Lestat's entrance. Being seated in an especially prepared "Bergere en cabriolet".

And here we have another "I can't hear you! Let me f...". It's the counterpart to the blend-over (below), another read from Claudia's diary there, after Lestat talks about loneliness and Louis "abandoning him". (Btw, I don't buy this shift to blame to Louis and Louis "hunting" Lestat for one second, for the record^^. I think that was all very much BS for the trial, in order to make Louis seem guilty to the audience.)

Armand's comment (on Lestat's first lines) makes it seem as if Lestat was less than enthusiastic - or weak. Now, I said before, I think there's quite enough evidence to suggest that the "real trial" might have gone a bit more like in the book, with Lestat mostly out of his mind and his mind meddled with as well (see below).

But the counterpart to the blend-over is actually the most interesting one, imho:

(This is a hard one to see, it's only seen in blend-over and Louis' hand moves across it before the scene fades to Armand scribbling down the note!)

"It This is too early for Lestat to acknowledg[e...]"

This is too early for Lestat to acknowledge. Louis and Claudia, would be my guess. This direction is proof that Armand made directions for Lestat especially as well. It's the only one (we have so far) where he actually writes the name.

Armand knew he could make this direction. And he made it.

Given Lestat and their history this, for me, is proof, that Lestat's mind has been meddled with as well, at times at least. Because there is no way that Lestat would have followed Armand's directions there, imho. Would not have done something, especially in that moment, where they set up the execution.

Yes, Sam is on record saying that Lestat played along with the play itself so he could get into the audience's heads, and therefore make it easier for him to make them shift Louis' sentence to "banishment" (that's where the "additions" come from, in all likelihood), but there, at the point of judgement and the execution being set up he does not look at Claudia (but he does look at her afterwards!), he's staring straight ahead, swaying on his feet.

Taken out of the equation, so to speak.

(That's an extra shot btw, extra shots always carry meaning.)

So.

Quite the script. -.-

Clear stage directions for Santiago, Lestat, and the other coven members should Louis and Claudia try to do something.

Now. I know there have been a lot of posts about Armand "master mind" or "villain" or victim, or what not. And I am glad that Assad has been so very clear on that just recently, though all of it is already given with what the show gave us, imho.

Armand did plan the trial. Did master-mind it. Did pretend. Did direct. Did lie.

He orchestrated their deaths.

And Lestat interfered with Louis' death. At the very least.

And.. Armand continued to betray Louis. For 77 years.

I said it before, I don't quite buy the tower scene, I expect it to get more context, at the very least.

It will be very interesting to see if they return to the trial next season, and in what capacity.

Because all the "hints" are, all the evidence is there already.

[mayasaura]

ntn spoilers ahead

Question!

I appreciate that you champion Harrow's schizophrenia, and I had a thought that I'd like to run by you. It's intended with full respect for anyone with the disorder, and is also related to the neuro-bio-psych elements.

When Nona, Cam, and Crown are visiting the Captain, Nona hears Varun speak through the Captain. Afterward, she references the incident and realizes that neither Cam nor Crown had heard this happen. I was confused *how* Nona-lecto had that sort of experience, but...

If Nona-lecto is in Harrow's body, is it possible that she's experiencing schizophrenia symptoms? I'm not wanting to imply that it's a full hallucination, though perhaps since Harrow's 'meat' is schizophrenic meat, there are effects. Would mental health/illness be tied to the soul? Personality certainly seems to be, and some forms of memory.

Just rolling this around in my head a bit, and have no thoughts more advanced than this. Thank you for all your theorizing and writings about the books 💀 - heedee

I've been wondering how or if Harrow's schizophrenia effected Nona since the cover first dropped, and literally speaking, the way you're wondering about? I'm still not really sure. Brain stuff is complicated, even before souls are part of the equation, and everything about Nona is already so goddamn weird. I do think Nona is thematically schizophrenic, the same way she's thematically intellectually disabled.

Like the scene you're talking about here:

I think you're absolutely onto something, seeing this as related to psychosis. Reading this scene with that framing in mind, Nona's experience is so clearly about hallucinations. She was just trying to change the subject, and fuck. Turns out no one else heard that! Camilla and Crown's reactions, too.

But to your point about neurobiology, and the relationship between soul and body, it doesn't really tell us much. Nona wasn't hallucinating, because it turned out Judith wasn't just screaming. Varun was speaking to Nona through Judith in the language of a murdered planet, a language that sounds like screaming to human ears. Like Nona's uncanny knack for human languages, that's a product of her soul, not her brain.

We get proof of that later when Nona is pretending to be Harrow, and faking being effected by the blue light. She imitates the way Judith screamed, makes her mouth make the same shapes Judith's did, and her words come out in italics; just like Judith's words that Camilla and Crown heard as screams. She calls for help, in the screaming language she'd heard from Judith, with Judith in the room to hear her, and Varun answers by attacking the planet.

To your question about whether schizophrenia would be connected to the soul or to the body in setting, I don't think there's a dichotomy there. Body and soul aren't separate things, even when they're separated.

Lyctorhood, for example. You'd think muscle memory would be a clear cut case of living in the body. It's muscles. But when Ianthe chowed down on Naberius' soul, she got his reflexes with it. His swordsmanship, his stance, his training. The soul brought the body with it. And when Harrow literally cut Gideon out of her brain, it removed Gideon from her memory even when her soul was elsewhere. She spent half that book in the River, but didn't remember Gideon until her skull construct failed and her brain began to heal. So I would say that, just like memory, it's both. Harrow's schizophrenia is tied to both her soul and body, and there's not really much point in trying to separate the two.

[wormlips]

The way I got into Thramsay, I was frightened at the thought of reading ff about them, even though I shipped the guys from Killing stalking — arguably not as whumpy. But, they were the most toxic pairing I’d shipped, up until that point. I had only ever watched GoT too, till recently. I thought the fanfiction would be darker, I think. But I was still intrigued, cause I did draw them on one occasion. Then like 5 years later, I came to check this tag on a whim, and had such a visceral reaction to some fanart on here. Long story short, I now strangely ship three pairings where one half of the ship kidnapped (“kidnapped”) the other. And two where one character has .. lost some bits. *whispers* how are there two?? 💀

Yeah it's funny how you can tell yourself 'im just going to take a quick look' and then fall head-first into things. like you never saw it coming but suddenly it's a part of your life

or dismissing a thing only to return years later and realize that it was right up your alley all along

Your ask made me write even more because like you I hadn’t shipped anything on thramsay's level before so i didnt have a good frame of reference what it might have been like but i were intrigued too and it's cathartic putting into words what i think makes them so captivating to me

I definitely had interest in toxic relationships with abusive and dark elements in it long before but none where one of them had literally removed body parts from the other. I think Ive always been on the softer side so I need (needed? Idk if i do currently) some sort of mutual feelings even if it is irrational or non genuine like people who cant help but still love someone who hurts them or the reverse - loves someone but cant keep from hurting them. The DA fic kind of pushed that to its limits but it contained some sort of lingering sentimentality amidst graphic descriptions of flaying and i was thinking you can do that??? Though in that fic the torturer had been corrupted by magic so their relationship had been normal at one point which separates it from thramsay. but it had been proven to me that ppl could justify* ”love” in horrible conditions that is interesting to read and i should stop writing but i went into thramsay fics to find out if someone had done so (also whatever else, i was fucking around to find out)

It just hits the spot i ❤️ characters being conflicted about their lover and i want to be unable to tell if the ”love” they feel for their counterpart is actually something else

even though i'm not particularly into show-verse thramsay anymore the best example i can give is the infamous bathing scene where ramsay asks if reek loves him and reek says of course with full conviction and it's like obviously it isn't true though reek might feel like he does because he has conditioned himself to have that response, he brainwashed himself to cope and for safety because he has to believe so ramsay can't find out he's lying but then if he thinks he feels it so much that he does............? how do we define real vs fake love an-... whatever i'm going too far we don't need a philosophical discussion of this rn

you can make it worse by switching between him being self aware of all this to fully believing he's always been ramsay's, the way he slips back into theon's thinking patterns in the book from reek's and anything inbetween until you have toxic sludge on your hands and furthest thing from a normal, healthy relationship

and even more fun if you do the same to ramsay, it doesn't have to be real love but it's such a clingy obsession and dependency, mutual belonging and the idea that he will always return so his closeness, his whispers will be likened to that of a lover because what else is there to compare it to *there's probably a better way i could put it but by justify i mean the author writing something that makes sense from the character's point of view. i don't want to be misconstrued

[angelicartemis]

Posting these before my mind blanks out entirely on me- 😁

OKAAAYYYYY SO UUHHHH HI @ntls-24722 I DREW YOUR ELDRITCH KING AGAIN- 🧍‍Don't mind the framing of it please. I drew this in the very corner of my little aggie board (of all places). 💀 So yeah uh little oopsie on my part- I'm also still not confident enough to draw Comet's body just yet, so you get another headshot fbxhhzd. I feel like the way I drew him looks a bit weird, but I can't go back nowwww.

I'M SORRY IF I GOT SOME COLORS WRONG BTW- I had references but by the time I had some colors down I was a lil too tired to go back. So uh yEa 💀

Besides that, there's also this DJ drawing that I had done (a few days ago) on an aggie between me and @artastic-friend. I had drawn it on a WHIM but they decided to get back at my ass and ended up drawing the Wallace Darling that they shared on their account. 💀

He's messy, and he sure as hell ain't perfect, but I'm still sharing him anyway because I put a little too much effort into him for some reason.

Anywho, that is all- I shall take my leave into the hole once again. 🚶‍

[puffyducks]

DCRC Week #3 (Part 2)

Aight y'all now it's time for Don Rosa's The Son of the Sun let's get it

Unlike the PKNA chapters we've read so far I actually HAVEN'T read this comic before so this will, in fact, be a true Live Puffy Reaction™

You're telling me THIS Scrooge actually pays his child nephews for their labor but DT17 Scrooge doesn't?? And he's supposed to be the nice one...

A philosopher's stone eh..... wonder how he got that....... I'm thinking about Fullmetal Alchemist sorry-

wait are they gonna kiss ewww

You can tell how much the boys love going on adventures from their reaction here, it really is the best of enrichment for them. Now hurry up and get in the plane. Also poor Donald getting smacked around when all he's done is just fucking stand there 💀

Why the fuck does the Junior Woodchuck guidebook have so much information about the Incan empire, to the point it even knows more than the guy at the museum that studied it? I mean I wasn't allowed to be a boy scout (on account of the fact that I'm a girl) so I'm lacking a frame of reference here. Maybe the actual boy scout handbook had like 200 pages dedicated to every major empire in pre-Columbian America idk.

Scrooge showing up like FUCK the natives just gimme my damn gold

WOOK OUT!!! HE'S GOT A GUuUuUUN!!!!!!

Man where's Launchpad when you need him 😭 not that his flying would be much better but y'know

What a silly and whimsical old fellow he is after holding a family of mostly children at gunpoint for multiple days! Look at him frolic around!!

Nevermind he just had all his joy and whimsy revoked sucks to suck

flat

Love how cute and happy the family looks in these panels (plus a bonus miserable Glomgold as a treat)

I REALLY need to read more of Rosa's works (which is to say that I have a giant copy of Life and Times that hasn't been cracked open yet because I've been waiting for the right opportunity to be able to actually sit down and go through it). I'm also taking this opportunity to plug Don Rosa's twitter account actually cause it's my favorite social media page ever. It's not even run by Rosa himself like he has a team that posts for him and they just upload pictures of him sleeping and eating breakfast and stuff, it's literally the best you guys.

[thesockwhisperer]

I donated this painting to my highschool. The reference was an electron microscope image of a detached bee stinger :D.

If the frame seems weirdly sized the reason is that we had to pick a new frame last minute because the one I had picked out got stolen 💀.

[lesvegas]

ritchie’s🎃💀 ABCs of Horror Movie Marathon!! 💀🎃

Horror movie challenge prompted by @quintsmachete

Day Thirteen - M is for My Bloody Valentine (1981)

I already passed up on one Canadian movie this month, there was no way I could skip another one. Especially not one that was filmed somewhere other than Quebec, Ontario, or BC. Especially especially not one that was apparently so violent it had ten whole minutes of film cut from most releases that were essentially lost media until they were re-released in the 2000s (and are notably grainier than the rest of the film as a result).

I'd heard of this movie before, and had avoided it for as long as I have because I heard it was notoriously gory and violent. With the tolerance I've acquired from other horror movies, I can safely say this one is pretty tame in comparison to others I've seen (keep in mind that I watch and rewatch Saw movies for fun these days; your mileage may vary) but I still enjoyed seeing where it went and I can understand why it was a bit much for some audiences back then. It was pretty funny being able to tell when something particularly gory was about to happen because the picture suddenly got a hell of a lot grainier, but I think that added to the enjoyment for me personally, and it could serve as easy warnings for anyone more squeamish who's hesitant to check this one out.

Gore and effects aside, this movie feels like a mostly standard slasher up against modern standards. What really sets it apart is the fact that it features a cast of working-class small town Nova-Scotian miners instead of middle class suburban teens or college students, and the fact that it's really Canadian. I haven't seen many other Canadian slashers so I don't have a good frame of reference here, but this movie really feels Canadian even outside the various brands seen here and there. That said, this movie could've easily have taken place in Newfoundland instead and I'd probably just be wondering why they don't sound very Newfie. This might not be a selling point for most people, but whenever I come across a Canadian movie that isn't ashamed of the fact that it's Canadian AND it's good, I have to hold onto it and not let go. I gotta cherish that shit, because it's so rare. There are tons of good Canadian movies out there, just not a lot of famous ones like this.

I don't really have much else to say about this movie, honestly. It's not too different from other slashers besides the level of violence and the setting, but I still think it's worth checking out and I'm really glad I did. If you like slashers at all, you should see this one if you somehow haven't already.

Will be seeing this again. Five, uh... valentine boxes? Outta five 💝💝💝💝💝

[aversiteespabilas]

I've been summoned yet again!!

I LOVELOVELOVE all the illustrations you've been doing for SL and ROTMR and I've returned to yell at you about it 💗💗

first i wanna talk about the illustration you made for the first chapter of SL. I wanna be not normal about framing real quick, because it struck me as a very specific artistic choice. Our perspective as the audience is placed outside the main setting. Literally. we're peeking through bushes.

we are Not a part of the scene currently unfolding. You could have very easily framed the scene to feel more like Yusuke's pov, but you chose not to. In the written version we're very much reading from Yusuke's perspective, but the audience is never Truly seeing through his eyes, it's not a i/me situation. The audience sort of looks over his shoulder. which, in the illustrated version of the scene, is exactly the position the audience is placed in!

I like that Testuya's gaze isn't on *us, this is a moment between them and them alone. It feels intimate. We're outsiders looking in on a story we have no place in. but ur so gawd darn good at this shit that it doesn't change the power and connection i feel as a viewer. Anyways, all that's to say, I think the connection you made between the two mediums was really neat and very well done. Infinite kudos!! 

NEXT!! the most recent one you did

i mean. WOW. what a way to visualize tension!! I love how the rabbits are framed by the broken glass, it looks like they're trapped. they're walking on glass but scratch that bc the glass is already broken and unless they wanna cut up their toe beans they have to be veryyy careful. 

Also, i love the silly little background yokai they're all so rise coded i love them sosososo much! The little wormy dude? he's literally the love of my life, i'm obsessed with him 

on the topic of background stuff, ny is TRASHED. (referring to the illustration you posted for ROTMR chap. 2) 

I knew there was a ton of rubble and destruction but i don't think i really digested the implications of it all. the purple veins choking metal and concrete? the strong buildings trusted by new yorkers to shelter and protect reduced to unrecognizable rubble?? It evokes such a feeling of horror…and considering possible real world events that may or may not be canon in ROTMR, it hits Really close to home. the whole ordeal is just such a terrible trauma.

on a lighter note, the puppies are adorable as ever! I enjoyed them so much on your cover art for the fic and it's such a treat to see the puppers closer up. I actually love this scene, it's so goofy! poor yuki is concerned for todd's safety on SO many levels 😭😭

Also, i have to bring it up every time, I love the paw shapes 🥺

i love all your shapes but im a BIG fan of the rabbit shapes. They're so rabbity i'm obsessed!!!!!! the ears and the paws get me every time 🥺🙏

and i never mentioned your drawings from a while back, i yelled at Rhin about it at the time but they Just reblogged ur tetsutoshi thingy and i got blown away all over again AWWOOOGA HUF HUF WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!! im never gonna get over it!! All your little spicys are great 😭😭🙏 

I dont think any of us are getting past the furry porn allegations. 💀

And while i'm on the subject of spicy tetsutoshi, the new chapter of H&H was BEYOND phenomenal!! It was SO worth the wait, you put your whole soul into that thing 😭🙏 

I honestly haven't fully collected my thoughts on it, there's so much to digest and think about. I might invade ur ao3 inbox sometime soon but i just wanna let u know that i at least read it

anyways, back into the abyss i go, I'm fully submerged in the sand box, you guys buried me under the sand and placed a makeshift flag on the mountain of sand covering my body. lots of hugs and kisses, until next time!!

- 😎

WELCOME BACK SUNNYYYY

The way I just JUMPED from my bed this morning when I saw I had an ask from you HIIIII OMG

My Illustration Era is afoot buddy! Listen, I have a to-draw list that lately just keeps getting full of composition and background ideas for specific scenes and what am I supposed to do about it? NOT deliver??

It's just. I feel like I found it, I found a winning formula for creating immersive ambience that involves having at least three layers of objects (foreground, background, and the characters), and it's funny how by adding that bit of distance from the characters, that "obstacle", suddenly the audience acknowledges they're there, like there's a camera they could move in the space. Plus the blur effect, it creates some DELIGHTFUL pictures, and I've been exploring the potential of that method in as many creative ways as I can find with these scenes! Might not be long until I try to tackle landscapes... Myself from a year ago would be so proud...

For SL Chapter 1 my original idea was actually very different. I was thinking of putting the camera well above both of them, inspired by that line that says their ancestors and Grandfather Jotaro are watching them from the wooden beams. In the end I decided against it cause it was a weird angle to find reference for, cause they'd look a bit awkward from above and mostly cause I realized I was particularly interested in showing Tetsuya's face, since in SL this is the lasting impression of Tetsuya that's going to linger throughout the entire fic, and I wanted the viewer to have a clear look at the person we're talking about. The resulting composition was not as "confrontational" as I had originally intended, it actually feels more intimate and warm, although I did make use of sharp light and shadows to create more tension. I feel like it does work in service to the fic as a whole, though 😌 And Rhin also mentioned that "outside looking in" vibe! It plays within the character-centric, present tense third person that Rhin's narration uses, although of course I'm not planning for all the illustrations to be from over Yusuke's shoulder. I'm kind of approaching it like I would movie scenes! This is Yusuke's movie and we'll need to see his face too from time to time adgsffs

Like with the Chapter 5 art! I really really wanted to have a clear view of all three characters, so I was thinking of an interesting and dynamic way to see all of them confronting the oni. Then I got the idea of the broken glass! I was very excited to see what it would look like framed with that transparency. I also had a lot of fun with the little marketplace yokai, finally those weird critter doodles I made on the corners of high school notes can come in handy- Admittedly, it's not exactly the big crowd I was envisioning? But it gets the point across that they're not the only people there.

Regarding ROTMR Chapter 2, oh boy I feel you. With this one I wanted to achieve a sort of contrast between the destruction and the cute comedic puppy rescue moment, which would reflect the duality of that scene and, in a way, the fic itself. I wanted the environment to accurately represent how messed up everything is, cause it really does hit different when you're seeing it in a picture. I actually took reference from the Rise movie, and how New York actually looked during the krang invasion, and was kind of surprised at how much utter destruction is depicted, including the pink/purple goo EVERYWHERE. In contrast with the bleak nighttime setting of the movie, though, this scene is set in broad daylight, so you can see the goo and the buildings and the dusty environment very clearly, but there's also an intended air of calm and you can see a bit of construction going on in the background. The danger has passed, and they're going through the recovery stage now. I'm actually very proud of the puppy designs, they're such cute little goobers, and especially had a lot of fun with the curly haired one- Just a mop hopping across krang rubble don't worry about it.

COME BE SO INCREDIBLY NORMAL ABOUT RABBIT PAWS WITH MEEEE every single time I draw them I imbue in them all the insanity I feel from not being able to touch them. Fantasy is a cruel, cruel mistress my friend.

I'M SO SO HAPPY WITH THAT SPICY TETSUTOSHI, I was taking pose reference from a photograph but dang, I didn't imagine it turning out SO pretty and on-model, I couldn't even decide on which palette to use with it, which is why I just posted two versions. Fun fact, the ref actually didn't have clothing, but I decided to add clothes after the fact cause get this: ruffled clothing actually makes the whole thing so much more sensual. Just trust me on this, it suddenly made everything x10 times better. Listen, the posing gets you in the moment, but the clothing is the story. It tells you where those hands have been before and what they've done. Same with the places where fur is ruffled. This is one of the reasons I don't often draw the strands of fur on my rabbits (even though I love doing it), cause I want them to be purposeful when I do draw them, to really convey that idea of untidyness. AND SO I CONTINUE ON MY QUEST TO DRAW STUFF I WISH TO TOUCH- ahem ahem

Gosh I'm so completely OVERJOYED that you're liking H&H, that one's a bit of a drama fest compared to ROTMR but it's truly a labor of love, I put all the care I possibly can in crafting every chapter. I'm aware my chapters are very chonky and intense, they're full stories more than they are individual scenes; I think that's a style that suits me well, but I also know it's a bit of a daunting task to discuss them in length. Just knowing that you're sticking with us in our madness makes me so warm and fuzzy inside 💕💕💕💕 I treasure every comment and I love you FOREVER!! Pop in anytime so I can infodump at you some more! 🥰

[elaichoi]

gasp 🔴 live viewing of soulmates au unfolding irl

yes in fact i am (confirmed)

to be fair i haven't been on tumblr that long i joined somewhere btwn jan-mar of this year and so i don't think ive experienced many of your themes (blog profile wise), but i remember stalking the tags and it was easy to spot what works were yours based on the header edit, it stands out and is v eyecatching among other stuffs in the tags ^_^

mhm i think your style is very deviantart fs hehe,,, NAUR FR they r the ogs i used to want to be them so bad. for reference i started getting into kpop around 2/2.5 gen,, i was an admin on a facebook snsd fanpage and posted like png shadow/swirl edits 😭😭😭 simple times

hell i'd love to! i don't think i'm mentally there i fr lack the creative capacity, its in very rare circumstances do i see something that i kind of envision and edit in my head and ill usually screenshot it to keep the idea there but i even more rarely ever jump into starting the edit.

yes it is! i still have and use it, it was the 'it' app for photo editors back then me thinks, kind of like the ae of photo editing... at least from my viewpoint on the ig fanpage editing scene. it was the hotter sister to picsart lmaoo

see soulmates au!! we couldve crossed paths but we didn't!! until now!! 😾

omg wait stop it cus i used to love reading imagines n shit on ig but im pretty sure i stopped because i felt like it wasn't a popular content type esp since its a photography platform. i browsed the tags for imagines n stuff but it was meh,, i only followed ONE imagines account 🥲

wait so to clarify, u also edited on ig alongside writing?? imagine if we crossed paths on the algorithm dats crazy 😭 you're the cool one i wish i could be skilled in both literature and art ?? i simply do not have enough brain cells for that ^_^

canva on phone is my enemy‼️ at least the last time i used the mobile app,, bc i now use it only on desktop, sometimes on ipad... cus u alr cannot see the layers i cannot be doing anything complex bc i will def tap on the wrong layer and thats annoying -_- the patience u have ㅠㅠ well assuming the app is still like that idk maybe it changed

HAHAH i used to draw before like pencil paper shit so i thought i could do it digitally....and after years of not drawing on pencil paper too 💀💀

u are so much more articulate than me goodbye thats embarrassing 4 me T_T

soulmate does exist <3 look at us being prime example!!

actually i think ive active with my account within the time frame as well, probably feb-march i think, but before that i didn't care about the account that much but like slowly started make headers im a tryhard ( only after i stopped obsessing tumblr themes bc i couldn't figure it out) ARE you fr?? like u could tell my works in the tags of my header?! dude that's so,,, that's like such a huge compliment that I've got something that makes someone go ah yes it's that same. author like it feels so fulfilling, YOURE REALLY BUTTERING ME UP ILYSM!!! thousand consentual kisses!!!!

YOURE SO COOL WTH YOU'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 2/2.5 GEN PLS THATS SO awesome ive been into kpop since mid 2017 so most of my groups like og ones were third gen but I listened to 2nd gens too and SNSD my beloved!!! genie was my introduction of kpop tbh and replay by shinee is what made me stay so i can say im a child of 2nd gens too lmao but holy shit I want YOUR PLAYLIST!!!!!!!! GIVE ME SONG RECS!

tbh i get you i only edit for my headers or blog too tbh like usually if there is no purpose you don't really feel like editing bc it's like what are you even gonna do with it? and you've said that you've always posted them so maybe the fact you don't have anywhere to showcase your art has you feeling like that too?

"hotter sister of picsart" this is so real bc all the hot editorson Instagram ( the western artists collage style specially) all used superimpose and thr fact they used to pay for it too.

bro like imagine if we did cross paths i think i was more active on ig during 2019-2021? imagine if we had ever crossed paths since we both worked on kpop lmao, okay but if you like posted your work under #kpopgfx im pretty sure i have came across at least once!

did kpop have imagine accounts? i knew a lot of dating door accounts tho lmao but then again i was stuck in wattpad, and that's all the delulu you need lmao.

lmao yeah i always wrote with my works, most of my edits were based on stuff i wrote basically like love stories based on songs, certain ideas (was BIG on mythologies and all the other things.) but really fr tho i wonder if I actually ever saw your work tho because i never had the guts to interact with other editors.

lmao im the same with canva but on laptop i for the life of me cant do that plus i just use it get pngs and other stuff also when i want to do masking lmao. i usually collect shit on there and then manipulate those on my own app.

bro that is insane that you used to actually drawing like as someone who can't draw a single straight line this is so cool to me i really wish i could draw tbh

articulate and me? lmao im literally all over the place but it's so sooo fun to talk to you!!

[shrinkthisviolet]

Yep yep, referring to s5 Nora as the “other Nora” is…something. Especially how casual s7 Nora is about it. You’re telling me she’s totally cool with being a replacement??

And yeah i know her parents don’t think of her that way, but…narratively speaking, and to the audience, she is. And that’s a real shame. I personally like s7+/post-Crisis Nora, but she was done dirty. Really, I wish they’d just made her Dawn post-Crisis (and made her and Bart the Tornado Twins)

Nope, Mirror Iris and Eva were 6b! 6a was Bloodwork in the lead-up to Crisis. I actually really liked the Temptation of Barry Allen 2-parter and the exploration of Barry’s feelings, that would be the only sad part of making this change*. Along with losing the Barrisco drama of Cisco doing something drastic to try to save Barry’s life—I loved that

Yeah…there’s a reason I tend to write Nora as 18-20 mostly, because s5 really tends to treat her more like a teenager/new adult and not the 25+-year-old she is. And her villain arc (for ONE EPISODE omg) is definitely a prime example of that. I love her dearly, but that episode was such a letdown—she had legitimate reason to be angry at Barry, but they framed it as her being a brat throwing a tantrum, which a) diminished the gravitas of the NSF and b) diminished Nora’s gravitas/intimidation factor as a villain.

*tho 6a majorly dropped the ball with Iris’s feelings 💀 I’ll never forgive them for deleting the only scene when she really got to talk about her grief about having to not only lose Barry, but essentially write his obituary (the article)

YESSS EXACTLY the drama would be immaculate!! I think “this isn’t you!”/power of love is great when done right, and it definitely could be here—there would be tangible proof of how much the NSF is corrupting Nora’s mind, there’s nothing redeemable about it, it’s basically whammying her. It’s very literally not Nora in her right mind…and the tough choice between leaving her that way or pulling her out to basically die would be so heartwrenching 😭 Nora would, in the end, be compelled to give it up for her heroic legacy…which hits so much harder if she gave into it in the first place tbh.

YESSS exactly! Barry would blame himself…and so would Iris, because she insisted that Nora do this and that they could get it out of her 😭 a lose-lose/bittersweet situation fr

Not sure if you’ve made a post about this alr but how would Reyna save Nora from disappearing? You said something about Reyna being a breather. So like Cisco?

I was so so sad when Nora died (and actually wondered what would happen if she ran into the negative sf) but we never got to see that. Ie, her personality with the negative sf being apart of her.

Reyna is indeed a breacher, like her parents, Cisco and Cynthia. The issue, and why I don’t really have much of an answer to your question, is that I don’t really know how Reyna would actually go about doing this 😅

It seems like their powers are vibration-based—they can sense other timelines that way, but can’t necessarily interact with those other timelines (their breaches can traverse universes, but not timelines…at least not on the show). I know Cisco’s powers are way more OP in the comics, but idk if they’re OP enough that someone with his powers could pull someone from a different timeline into this one. So it’s a fun thought experiment, but uh…I have no idea how it would actually happen 😅 because the whole point of this idea is that Nora is in the wrong timeline, so she’d have to be pulled from her old timeline before she could actually be erased, into this new timeline that she’s already been erased from (hopefully that wording makes sense)

Yeah, I was sad when Nora died too. Mostly it rubbed me kinda the wrong way when they brought her back in s7 and just…treated her like “replacement Nora”—this isn’t just Nora revived, this is literally just “oh she died, but it’s okay, Westallen had another version of her and everything is fine!” It felt a little cheap to me (tbh having the two Nora’s interact has been swirling around in my head as a fic concept but…that’s for a different post 😂)

I also think that having her merge with the NSF in the s5 finale would’ve been way better than her “villain arc” in 5x20. Of course, the ultimate end would be “this isn’t you!” and pulling the NSF out of her but…idk, imagine if she raced off at the end of s5, was teased as a new villain for 6a, and Barry has to grapple with fighting his own daughter, knowing that if he pulls the NSF out of her, it’ll kill her instantly. It could make for some great drama (and maybe they could give Nora more villain gravitas instead of just her throwing a tantrum). Though ofc in the end they would ultimately do it…and 6a would end with the immediate onset of Crisis.

Idk. Something like that. It’s not a perfect idea, but it intrigues me nonetheless

[doiefy]

fight or flight // kim doyoung // masterlist

[3 PARTS, COMPLETED MAY 20, 2022. FULL SERIES COMING SOON...]

In which compromised anonymity of the city's most notorious kingpin sucks you and your best contract killers into dangerous territory: crime syndicates in the dark underbelly of the city, black markets fueled by tyranny, illicit substances meant for those who are more animal than they are human. In which the only way to escape with your lives is to tear it all down from within.

genre: sci-fi, cyberpunk, biopunk, crime, contract killers, enemies to lovers, I've got a jar of crack, angst

pairing: kim doyoung x gn. reader, johnny seo x reader

total word count: 60.5k (I know, I know, don't scream, please bear with me, I'll go touch grass in a second)

warnings: heavy language, blood and slight gore, violence, minor character death, implied sex and sexual innuendos (like. a lot of them, i couldn't stop myself), alcohol, drugs and substance abuse

other notes: I know I've always framed this fic to be a joke, and for the most part it is a lot of crack and humorous content. but do be warned that there are still a lot of darker undertones and mature themes that get progressively heavier as the story progresses. I've marked disturbing scenes with asterisks (***) but from what I remember, there are only one or two. this type of narrative is a first for me, and I definitely have a lot of things I would do differently if I rewrote it; honestly might make a post just about that for myself and for future reference. please bear with me if there appear to be plot holes or things that don't make sense, and feel free to ask! I promise I have all this stuff thought out, some of it just couldn't make the cut because, well. hellish word count :) finally, thank you yoona for beta reading again, I'm sorry for dragging you through fic hell literally every single time I come up with an idea 💀 (ooh last thing, this took a lot of inspiration from league of legend's arcane and the region of zaun so. good show, y'all should give it a watch I don't care if you don't play the game)

taglist: @suhncity @ncityrave @nakamotohrs @revehosh @babyksworld @kjmsupremacist @neonun-au

I. DYNASTIES

In this gothic underground city, we all sin If I bring a couple rounds with me, then we all win I came back and brought the crown with me, the king's den Break your nexus and your neck, 'cause everybody's on your head dynasties and dystopia - Bren Joy, Denzel Curry, and Glenda Proby

playlist word count: 16k

READ HERE

II. DOWNFALLS

Throw your head back, make you feel alive The kind of bad that make you feel good God, the kinda wrong that make you feel right The little death that make you feel alive dirty little animals - Bones UK

playlist word count: 19k

READ HERE

III. DYSTOPIAS

You got my blood running Turn the heat to six hundred Wish I could knock your skull in But I'm rising above it snakes - PVRIS, MIYAVI

playlist word count: 25k

READ HERE

[antiloreolympus]

8 Anti LO Asks

1. LO might be the only series ive seen where people actively beg for it /not/ to try to be diverse, bc every time rachel tries the result is either racist, misogynistic, fatphobic, classist, or queerphobic, like how does she even do that every time.

2. how do the colors in LO have symbolism when the majority of them are ripped straight from the disney movie anyway lmao

3. the official webtoons instagram asking if youd play ddakji with lo hades (in reference to squid game, where the rich literally watch the poor kill each other to pay off their debts via asking them to play a game of ddakji) is so like ... you guys know the people in that show who created the game are evil capitalists, right? like yeah lo hades fits that description perfectly and would totally see the game as a good thing bc he can make the dead his slaves but please, connect the dots here 💀

4. I don’t know why but the whole comparison hades made between Thanatos and persephone REALLY pissed me off, with the whole “special treatment” argument. Thanatos was legit a little child who was dropped off by his mother who proceeded to just not raise him??? Like that’s his fault?? And to be fair persephone is practically a child as well if we’re being completely honest but she had far more of a choice (Hera gives her so much special treatment I swear) and it’s not like hades was sacrificing work time for Thanatos (who is an adult now and does his own thing taking up hades’ time unlike persephone) and the poor guy is literally shit talked by everyone else for literally just existing, unlike persephone who literally is loved by everyone except for the select few who are demonized in comparison to their actual mythological counterparts (cough cough Apollo Demeter Thetis Leto COUGH COUGH)?? (Which is technically accurate to myth, as many deities didn’t like him due to his whole personification of death thing but, I highly doubt RS intended for that to be accurate)

5. Lol the title alone makes me want to gag. Hypocrite? Really! Also I see the use of Hera number one classist to try and frame Thanatos as the bad guy worthy of disdain. The comic ain't slick. But really Thanos is a hypocrite for making factual statements and being abandoned as a child and forced into servitude? What?

6. Someone really needs to make a post with all the instances of blatant nepotism/favoritism Persephone profited from. I mean she got paid because Hades thought she was cute and needed money for cute girly things (like that idea isn't just sexist and utterly infantilizing all at once) when other interns weren't. Shoot are there interns in other departments not getting paid. We know Hades uses slaves so likely.

7. i hope rachel realizes that if the way lo hades "spoiling" thanatos as a child is supposed to be proof his nepotism is ok then shes also implying that at some point hades will eventually tire of persephone and start mistreating her too, just off the history of how he treated a literal /child/ in his care. jfc, what a terrible chapter, and thats saying something.

-----FP Spoilers/Mention-----

8. FP Spoilers//I feel like maybe there was a time when Smythe cared about telling a good story, but now it's all about dragging this comic out for money or God knows what reason. And now there's a 2 day break in the trial???? Jfc this trial is going to last well into the next year at this rate oml

[1eos]

hellooo miss kendra!!!

firstly your nails look absolutely stunning and your hands are . so pretty wtf omg 😭😭😭

okay secondly i had a question bc i was just a lil curious if that’s okay!! i saw you talking abt vedic astrology earlier and how you’re actually a scorpio moon in vedic astrology and . i got curious abt myself and i went and looked up my vedic astrology chart and…. got a lil confused jsfjskd

basically my question is, like, was your moon sign the only thing that was different when you checked your vedic chart? because out of my big 6, 4 of them are different…….. and out of all 13 of the placements they named, of the 10 i could like actively cross-reference w my western (??) birth chart, eight of them are different (and i’m p sure my nodes from the vedic chart were diff too) …..like it seems to me that the only placements that stayed the same for me are my aries sun and scorpio moon…

bye i’m SO sorry for how long this is and if you don’t wanna answer i’ll totally understand djfjsjdjd i just was trying to see if maybe i wasn’t alone in this? it was a little surprising and i couldn’t recall if you mentioned your vedic chart being almost entirely diff from your western one? again, v sorry for how long this is and if you don’t wanna answer i understand and hope you have a great day regardless!!

thank u <3 nd yeah that's totally normal! vedic uses a whole different time frame for the placements so while there's gonna be overlap most ppl will have at LEAST 4-5 placements that are different! i just havent studied my vedic chart all that much yet so i just remember how it felt to realize that i have more scorpio in me that i thot 💀but yeah ure not alone at all!!!