#drawn brow

[dearchristinehahn]

[pralinesims]

Pink lemonade

[spacedlexi]

i thought we were gonna kiss up here are you still not over your dead girlfriend

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

[margoshamangolord]

Too tired for words

Waaagh sniffs sobs hhh.... cries sniffles sniff... wahh... starts rolling on the floor crying...... wahgh

[curioscurio]

what if I told you johnlock was real in 2024

[demonslayedher]

Low-Key Married AU fluff

Kochou said that I was disliked, so I asked her if she disliked me too. For someone so quick to have a smiling response to everything, she struggled to reply. She was the one who proposed marriage and swayed me, so I had thought that meant she had feelings for me. There would be no other way to read it. However, with as unbothered as she is by my absence, I have to wonder.

It’s been ten days since I had last contact with her. I went home to the Butterfly Mansion, but she had just departed for a mission, so I didn’t stay long so as not to trouble the girls. It may still be a few days before I can return again, but it’s always likely she’ll be busy. She’s incredible in that way, taking on all the care of our injured Corp members in addition to her Pillar missions. It must be in her personality to keep adding to what keeps her busy, like taking me in as though I looked like I needed the care. Although the times we’ve spent together have been nice, I don’t require it. My duties call for me to always be ready for battle, and I’ve always kept my heart steady.

So has she. We are Pillars first, and no amount of affection can sway us—whether an abundance or a lack.

I’m not bothered by lacking something I didn’t deserve in the first place.

Last night again, I was too late to prevent a family from being slaughtered. There were no survivors this time, aside from the eldest child who was still ravenous with a recent transformation. Having to chase him down and keep him from harming anyone else kept me off the trail of the progenitor of demons, who had to have been close by. For centuries, he’s evaded us this way over and over, sacrificing entire families to throw us off his trail. If I were to chide myself over every failure, I would have lost the ability to do anything ages ago. Each time, the anger is something I carry with me, to push myself harder the next time, and the next. Any extent more that I can push myself may be the difference to someone’s survival, no one can afford to lose their life over any of my own lost confidence.

“CAW!! TOMIOKA GIYUUUU! NEWS FOR TOMIOKA GIYUUUU!”

Each time it's a crow I think I recognize, my stomach drops. My mind is already playing the words I dread to hear, as though trying to protect my mind once I someday hear them.

"Kochou Shinobu has died."

Even if I hear them, I'm a Pillar first. That was what we promised each other. I'll always do as I must.

The crow says nothing as it delivers a letter.

YES, YES, I KNOW, THIS FANDOM HAS TURNED ME INTO SHIPPER TRASH. For this pairing, it was more specifically my own joke AU which later bit me in the back and made me start really, really enjoying GiyuShino (which, for the record, I do not consider canon). Was throwing ideas back and forth with @reicchel again the other day and so here we are with ship content!

Part of the reason I love the Low-Key Married AU (in which it's mostly canon as usual, except that Shinobu and Giyuu have been married for over a year or so, and it's not a secret but they make such little deal about it that many people don't even know they're married) is that it's a frame through which to see every interaction and either make it really, really funny, or very, very, sad. Everything was supposed to be funny, but it keeps hurting, hahaha... aaahhhh.

For instance, in a regular romcom situation, it should be funny that Kanzaburo doesn't deliver all of Giyuu's letters. Knowing these two, who might had started this whole "well, we'll be a couple when we have time" thing by actively writing regular letters, this could had simply given the impression that the other person wasn't writing as much, so they both naturally decreased frequency to match. It's a little lonely, but neither one is going to push the other for more attention.

No!! I refuse to let this post end with angst! Time for omake!!!

[jichanxo]

can't remember the last time i've sat down and drawn the umineko dads

[diamondjester]

Killua either asked him to make his eyes red cause he thought it’d make them look cooler (correct), or kurapika for real does not wanna be here

[serpentface]

Do qiliks ever artificially colour their feathers?

Yes, it's VERY common, but there's huge variation in how/how much/when/why

It's very typical across qilik cultures for males to dye specific areas of their feathers in a way functionally similar to wearing makeup. There are usually complicated and specific standards as to how much is 'too much', and it's most common for dyeing to be limited to the brow feathers. In some circumstances males will stain their feathers in naturalistic shades if their own coloration is not sufficiently bright for their cultural beauty standards.

Some qilik peoples uniformly (or uniformly by gender) stain their colors as a culture/clan/etc identifier, or have males dye their feathers unnatural shades during the breeding seasons (often as means of advertising wealth via access to rare and expensive dyes).

Gender is predominantly assigned based on coloration, so gender/sexual variance in qilik often manifests in dying feathers brighter or duller. For example there's a gender identity in the Chit-Sut-Susit where naturally bright colored individuals dye their feathers black, this is reckoned as a 'fourth' gender (in addition to the typical gender trinary of bright males and dull brown-gray females and faeder).

The value of dye for personal ornamentation makes pigmented materials widely sought after and a core trade material, to the point that full scale wars have erupted over rare dye resources and several plant/insect/mollusk species have been driven to extinction due to overexploitation for their pigments.

[wolfofartblock]

I've been planning a small project and wanted to draw out all the characters!

Caleb Redd: A young Witch who is later employed by the King of Pasdenuit

Camilla Mourning: Caleb's Human mother whose village was ravaged by disease, narrowly avoiding death by the sudden appearance of the mysterious Doctor Redd

Marbuer "Mary" Redd: A Demon posing as a traveling Human doctor. He saved the village of Hogsden and stayed longer than he should've after meeting and falling in love with Camilla.

Emily Wake: A clairvoyant Witch who uses The Disasters as her chance to escape persecution in Pasdenuit

Kai Sigu: A shapeshifter who appeared mysteriously in the Temple of Souls at the height of The Disasters. She has no memories of her life, but has a strong bond with Sei and a connection to the God Tri.

Sei Kangae: A greater youkai who appeared mysteriously in the Temple of Souls at the height of The Disasters. He has no memories of his life, but has a strong bond with Kai and a connection to the Goddess Wo.

Thoughts on Marbuer now that he's a new character:

While I have a lot of quiet characters, I would say most of them are quiet out of being stoic/distrusting/reserved, but Marbuer is just soft-spoken. He doesn't quite whisper, but it's hard to hear him all the same. His laughs are breathy and his smiles are small.

He's well-liked not only for having saved the village of Hogsden, but because he's also a good listener and giver of advice. He likes teaching people new things.

He's pale, like many other blood magic users. Many of the older villagers would leave him with iron-rich foods thinking he's anemic

Emily thoughts:

She managed to get to the Faayom swamps after escaping Pasdenuit. She's making the most of it and is very enthusiastic about her new home, but she'll probably come to realize life in the wilds is too drastic a change compared to her former life as a noblewoman and leave. Eventually.

Just like all Witch children, she inherits her clairvoyance from her demonic parent the same way Caleb inherits blood magic from Marbuer

She is in constant contact with her demonic parent through means of magic and communication via her familiar. So while he could not see her physically most of her life for risk of putting her in danger of the executioner, they are very close

Demon kisses leave moles. If her father were less careful, she'd have many more on her forehead or cheeks, but as of now she only has the one on the bridge of her nose from when she was a baby

Camilla thoughts:

She didn't have any moles before she was sick and met Marbuer. After they had gotten together, quite a few appeared on her face and body, all of them explained away as after-effects of the disease.

I want her to be a barmaid who's also very charismatic. Before she had married Marbuer, she was considered to be the most wanted woman in the village

[dearchristinehahn]

[dennisboobs]

i'm going to start demanding financial compensation for y'all taking my charden posts and yapping about mac or macdennis or charmac in the tags. it's literally happened twice today. get that man away from me. i will not be held responsible for what i do to him if you keep waving him around like that.

[netherzon]

Who knew Alfred was so bad at roasting marshmallows….

[huldrabitch]

A doodled idea of how The Barista might look based on our relatives appearance and color-scheme!

I probably used a reference but its been years since i drew this so i dont have the file anymore!

[arctic-reptile]

sukekiyo Shibuya Cultural Center (10.03.2024)! happy 10 years!!!!!!

all from twitter