#cw: skeletons

[oddthesungod]

Dancing with death 💀🩸

[ominouspuff]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like)

Tagged by @rooksunday

WIP Symbolic (ish?) Anakin/Padme

Technically my last line was on an emoji of Rex Blushing, but this was the last line for artworks so we’re going with that. Last line was a color-layer blend of red and orange for the background.

No-pressure tagging @gaeasun @alwayskote @frostbitebakery @razzbberry @chiliger @ddeck @denimscotch

[livesinyesterday]

Post-Halloween Thoughts on Why Dressing Up as a Skeleton Means so Much to Me as a Person with One Eye [CW: Discussion of Eyes/Artificial Eyes]

So for a good many years my favorite costume has been painting my face either wholly or partially in skeleton makeup. Not cute colorful sugar skull makeup, I mean simple straightforward your-flesh-is-gone-you-are-bones skeleton makeup. There’s a few reasons for this: 

1. I love painting my face (which is ironic given I hate wearing any form of makeup)  2. It’s one of the only times I ever get to be intimidating haha.  and 

3. It satisfies something in me that desperately wants to incorporate my one-eyedness into a costume. 

Now, I don’t have a clean or simple way of explaining why and for people who weren’t born with a missing eye and an empty left socket, a lot of this may just be out of reach, but let me give it a shot.

For the whole of my life I have had immediate access to my own empty eye socket. I had the ability to remove my prosthetic eye and see what was behind it, and as a result I’ve always been highly aware of the structure and presence of my skull/my bone structure. This was further enhanced by the fact that I was born with a crooked jaw that needed surgery in my early teens and an uncooperative spine. My bones and I have a deep intimate and complicated relationship haha. But another element of this was a lack of trauma or feelings of horror or shame around my artificial eye. I don’t want to oversimplify the experiences of others with ocular prosthetics, but many people who have prosthetic eyes have them as a result of deeply upsetting experiences. Injuries, accidents, illness, etc. and as a result they have a wide range of feelings about their prosthetics that I have often found are very different from my own. Because I was born with a missing eye and a fully formed socket, this is all I’ve ever known. It is my default. True when I was a small child I would often hide my face in photos because I was embarrassed by the fact that my eyes never looked in the same direction and my smile was crooked, but that was something I became aware of because other people (often my parents) would point it out to me and so I became self conscious. But that feeling wasn’t actually connected to my eye itself, I wasn’t ashamed or upset that I had a fake eye to begin with, instead it was the same kind of image insecurities most people go through as a young person realizing they look different from the person next to them.

As I grew older, however, and my self-confidence really bloomed, I found myself delighting in the fact that I had this part of myself that was different/unique/a piece of art/and an amazing source for so many wonderful eye-based jokes. But almost every time any media showed a character with one eye it was almost always tied to trauma or villainy. Think Mad-Eye Moody from Harry Potter, think Subaru Sumeragi from X/1999, Chichiri from Fushigi Yugi, Xander from Buffy, etc etc etc. and I just never saw depictions of one-eyed folks who seemed to reflect my own attitude towards the whole situation.

With two exceptions who stepped onto the scene during very formative years of my childhood:

Ragetti from Pirates of the Caribbean

and Bonejangles from The Corpse Bride

A couple of one-eyed, adventure having, joke making, kindhearted, mischievous, not-defined-by-the-trauma-of-losing-their-eye bone bros. These were characters I enjoyed. Who I wanted to relate to as a kid who was always more interested in being a wise cracking sidekick than a protagonist. And who, at least for me, removed the grotesque and frightening from the image of the skeleton and made them something capable of being cheeky or delightful, silly or eccentric.

And ever since, for me at least, painting my face like a skeleton on Halloween makes me feel like I’m part of my own elaborate joke. Something that finds delight and humor in parts of me that people often immediately associate with tragedy or misfortune,

 And I love it. It absolutely frustrates my mother who wishes I would “be something pretty for halloween” but dammit I am just having too much fun.

[spookyweaselbones]

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[pmpwbrrs]

I am absolutely in love with the interpretation that over time Artificer's grief has turned into just bloodlust. That it stopped being about her kids a long time ago.

She can't stop chasing the blood, the adrenaline. She's too consumed with the very feeling of hatred, the very feeling of violence.

[themeeplord]

Blessed with two minds.

Cursed to never use them.

[coulsonlives]

This is an ocean sunfish skeleton, you're welcome

[stonerexicfaery]

literally

[yellowvixen]

silly doodles :]

[acorviart]

red tide (riso)

available in da shoppe

[rosebunnys]

let's play maiden dissection

[loudclan-clangen]

Loudclan - Moon 18: Bonus

It gets worse:

When a child makes a mistake who is there to blame but yourself for not teaching them better?

[shout out to @heart-in-the-web for nailing the prediction. I wonder whose goodbye got lost on the wind? (Okay I know that her body wouldn’t be skeletal yet but I am a nerd at heart and couldn’t pass up on the Hamlet imagery. Also the flowers are forget-me-nots which grow on the mountainside where Loudclan lay their dead to rest, dogwood blooms, and rosehips, of course.)]

[spaceistheplaceart]

Final Battle

ok so... I've got a lot to say about Benrey's Final Boss Fight in my Splatoon AU... I'll put it under the cut but take the time to read it pls :)

(Please REBLOG!!! These took a long time to make!)

okay so here's how I think the final boss fight is going down:

so Gordon wants to leave the digital space and get back to his life, also 'free' everyone else from the digital space as well. They've all tried, of course, before, but have been stopped by Benrey.

Benrey is the one in control of the simulation, but if Gordon can seize that control from him, then he could possibly escape back to the real world and free the rest. In order to do this, Gordon needs to find several Terminals hidden around the digital space and shoot them with his ink (aka linking it to his DNA)

He fights Benrey by traversing up his body and avoiding the skeleton enemies to reach a launchpad that will take him to a terminal. Benrey sets up elaborate playspaces around the Terminals to try and hide them/convince Gordon to stop fighting and just be friends. But once he refuses, the objects in the space will try and trap him.

You progress until you find the shoot the terminal, then you're back at the main area and have to climb Benrey again to get somewhere else. This repeats until ALL terminals have been given over to Gordon and he is now In Control. With this, Benrey is finally shrunken back down to a normal size, glitching etc.

Then Gordon escapes back into the real world...

and what happens then... I will show in a comic very soon ;) so stay updated! and let me know what you think! rebloggggg pls :)

[chemilico]

It'll go into the skeleton collection in the closet

[fruitypiestims]

Stimboard for when iTS TOO FUCKING HOT!!!! ITS TOO FUCKING HOT AND I AM GOING TO DIE

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[girlscoutgiselle]

bb school is starting... be that girl