#burst believers

[deebeeus]

1959 Gibson ES-335 TDN, from my buddy's collection.

This was an outtake from our photo session for Vic DaPra and David Plues' "ES Believers" book. I just got my copy and it's pretty packed with incredible stuff! Sadly this specific guitar didn't make it into print, but I was tickled to see that the authors did use our photos for several double-page spreads showing other guitars from this collection, including a couple of natural 175s, a natural ES330, a natural ES350, and a couple of cherry ES335s!

The long-guard ES-335 is quite a rare guitar, especially in "natural" finish, so I was surprised this one didn't make it into the book. But just thumbing through it now, I think I can see why they didn't need to use it: they apparently were spoiled for choice on natural 3xx thinlines! There is a veritable plethora of them in the book - at least a dozen (including a super rare, very early, 1958 model!), which is pretty insane considering how few of them there are out there.

So, I can sort of see why the authors didn't need to use this guitar, especially after they used so many of our other shots (for which, I thank them sincerely!) 🙂

[erabu-san]

Burning going to be my new gender i afraid

+ a doodle i made yesterday before sleeping

[pallanophblargh]

I have a disproportionately loud mess of a head for no discernible reason* so it’s kind of a miracle that I spent the last month and some change willing myself to wield watercolor again. Witness the struggle! A long overdue color sketch for a (super patient) client.

Just watercolor with a boop of gouache.

*they are a mush of small but immense problems??? Executive dysfunction being maximized by meds the main culprit…

[dawnpours]

I might have pulled an all-nighter for this

[avanii]

Typhlosions again, now with bonus Quilava and Cyndaquil! Their shapes are just SO satisfying to draw. Hope ya enjoy my more realistic take on these Pokemon :D

[gojoest]

i think after you fall asleep in satoru’s arms at nights he stays awake for a while, just to hold you consciously and watch you sleep, brush the hair off your face and softly kiss you on the forehead, whisper a very quiet “thank you for loving me” while he looks at you, eyes welled up. he’s so happy, he’s never imagined anyone would ever want a future with him. but here you are, proving him wrong — giving him your bed, your warmth, your heart, your all 🤍

[oppositemangos]

Eating oppo art whole OMNOMNOM

Anyway consider: Zane cooling off Kai when he overhears from using his powers too much? 👀

Additionally , perhaps for fluff, baking shenanigans :D

Kai constantly needs to cool off, luckily Zane is the definition of cool :3

I HOPE THESE FIT THE REQUEST

I didn't really know how to draw him cooling Kai off but we ball (•̀ᴗ•́) و ̑̑

[loulovingho]

Okay but don’t think about tommy getting injured and waking up in the hospital to not only evan in the room, but the entire 118 and their spouses in the waiting room and buck tells him there’s a lot of people waiting to see him and they were all worried and tommy’s eyes get a little misty as his face scrunches up all confused and he says “me? They were worried about me?”

And buck holds his hand tight and says “of course they were, you’re family.”

[unusual-ly]

I am Thinking About The Implications regarding Ted’s love interests

With Jenny, they were best friends, there was genuine affection and mutual feelings for each other but neither of them acted on it because they both assumed they didn’t have a chance, and then it was too late

With Charlotte, Ted was in love with her but she didn’t reciprocate, he was just one of the men she was having an affair with behind her husband’s back. He never lets himself be too vulnerable and open with her about his feelings, resorting to either yelling at her or just deflecting whenever she starts to talk about Sam. He’ll just take whatever he can get with her

With Lucy, he can actually express his feelings and be affectionate, but only because he’s playing the role of Konk. He has something to hide behind instead of being truly vulnerable. Even when he’s only talking to Hidgens, at least later in the episode, he stays in character, he falls into Konk’s speech patterns because he’d rather be him, in part because Lucy likes Konk. He even asks that she let him die as Konk just so he can feel loved by her

And then, before he’s approached by Sheila, we learn he does actually want to someday start a family, get married and have kids

After the misunderstanding with Jenny, Ted no longer feels he can be open and vulnerable about his feelings, puts up this front of only being interested in sex when he really does want a relationship beyond that, and only feels safe expressing himself truthfully to others when he’s someone else

Ted please for the love of god learn how to express your feelings in a healthy way I am begging you

[warlenys]

(lying)

[deebeeus]

Gibson's Golden Age.

1958 #Gibson #ES295 from my friend's collection.

Here's an outtake from my photo session for Vic DaPra and David Plues' upcoming book "ES Believers". Look for this guitar and several others from the same collection when the book comes out later this year (or early next year...David assures me if it's not out by Christmas it will definitely be out in time for NAMM!).

[erabu-san]

Burning going to be my new gender i afraid

+ a doodle i made yesterday before sleeping

[bluespiritshonour]

here's 18-19 year old aang sketches. been hearing aang is ugly discourse—no he ain't. he was just 12.

[kwyw]

Welp,I just saw our next president in person, no biggie. 😁

[three-realms-archive]

Relent

Belphegor waking up early isn’t entirely a normal thing.

Not unless it’s his turn.

Seven days in a week. And seven brothers spend their school vacation living in one Serenity Manor, with the human they love usually busy on errands. In the human world, the way the clothing shops, the grocery stores and the public transport all worked was so different to the Devildom - so it was typically up to you to go out in the morning and run chores. It was just faster that way; since not even Lucifer enjoyed fiddling with the buttons on the self-checkout screen very much.

That meant your mornings were packed. And, after much debate - and an enchantment preventing anyone from covertly changing the schedule hung up on the fridge for just this purpose - it was decided that you would wake up one brother each day of the week.

And today was Sunday. A whole six days, Belphie had to wait.

So he would make sure to milk his day for all it was worth - with the new, super-smart, super-sneaky plan he had spent all of yesterday putting together. It was concrete, fool-proof - and did he mention super-smart?

Because it was super, super smart.

“MC…” He whined as the door creaked open, slowly sitting up in bed. Out of the corner of his eye, Belphie peeked at the clock on the wall. 7am; two hours after he had actually woken up. You walked into his room, soft-footed as to not disturb the usually-asleep Avatar of Sloth.

Right on time.

He feigned sluggishness, nudging his blanket off his body with slow, deliberate movements. He even threw in a few, throaty coughs, for good measure. “MC… I don’t feel so well…”

He watched as your eyes widened, placing what you held in your hands down on his desk and immediately rushing to his side. The butterflies in his stomach fluttered with glee when he realised you had set down a tray of breakfast, made just for him… and he thanked the stars he could pass the blush spreading like wildfire on his cheeks as part of his pretend fever. Sighing contentedly, he let you coo and hover over him, not even needing to persuade you to climb under the covers and cradle him in your arms. He snuggled his head into your chest and squeezed you as tight as he could, savouring his success. Victory!

And the best part was, you had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

…

… You one-hundred percent knew what Belphegor was doing. It was his ‘super-smart’ plan; the one he always used when he wanted you to get into bed with him, or when he wanted an excuse to cuddle you longer. The first, few times he had feigned ignorance. Stubborn in denial, he insisted that he had a very, very bad fever; that he was very, very ill; and that he very, very much needed someone to take care of him.

So, like now, you relent and play along. After all - it’s not an entirely bad thing to have the demon you love press feather-light kisses up your neck, tracing his nose along your jaw. Groggy mumbles about how warm you are and how amazing you are made your face heat up and your heart beat faster.

And when Belphie smiled up at you, with a boyish smile shining as bright and beautiful as starlight, you both forgot to keep up your silly, little, pretend acts.

And you both realised that, when it comes to one another, you would always relent.

(current second place in the poll is fluff, so here it is - giving Belphie some love after starting an entire series dedicated to lesson 16 lollll. it's belphie being sleepy, petty and cuddle-y; and, really, what more could you ask for?)

[wat-zu]

Not ava related but woe stickman oc be upon ye

I remember these ocs of mine and i lowkey really miss them so much