#element inks

[inkskinned]

in internet posts it is easy to cut them out of your life. they are hurting you! they aren't listening to you!

they held your hair back. they lent you lipstick. they held your hand at the train station and got you home safe. they rounded on your bully, got loud, said get fucked, spitting-mad in your defense.

they also cut the hair off again. told you that you should really think twice before wearing something like that. took you for granted. took your insecurities and threw them in your face again.

you know logically it should be easy. all the internet advice comments always read it will feel better. like an equation - if a person is rotten, you just remove them. you pull the tooth that's hurting.

but it was never a big flare-up moment. you don't live in a sitcom. they never tried to take your boyfriend or steal from your apartment. they showed up to birthdays and they wrote songs about you and bring you water without you asking. once you found out they carry an emergency inhaler for you, even though you haven't had an asthma attack in years - just in case.

where is the line? people fuck up. sometimes they fuck up badly. sometimes people have raw personalities, like a powerline, and being around them is dangerous. addicting. sometimes they can't help themselves, but you know they're trying. sometimes they are just rough-around-the-edges. sometimes they don't even realize how they sounded when they said that. sometimes it's just - you've both loved each other for so long now, the way this thing hurts goes back to the root.

and that's the fucked up part. you have pushed your fingers against the sweetheart of memory. things these days are electric, tense, harrowing. they didn't used to be. there were a lot of good days in there. sometimes you want to just close your eyes and say can this be over yet? do we still need to be fighting?

doing that would give up any chance you get of getting an apology, but you don't always know that you need an apology, you love them. once they flaked on your birthday party. once they told you to get over it, people are always dying. they also let you crash on their couch for a week after the breakup, handfeeding you when you were so sad you couldn't eat. they are also judgmental about everything, occasionally react to banal statements with an attitude that is weird and fiery. they also love you like a lighthouse sometimes, so strong they cut the storm like lightning.

but the problem is that you might be storm. you might be the thing that needs breaking. what if you are two forces who are desperately, horribly drawn to each other, shaped by the other person's passions, and both good for each other and bad in equal measure.

what if you're both just people, and you're no saint neither.

just cut them off! swallowing the saltwater, you catch yourself in the mirror. you've been shaking more than usual. there's an ache in you that is oblique, loud, impossible to soothe. is this what it looks like? when life is "easier"?

your mouth will always have a hole, is the thing, if you remove the tooth.

[malacandrax]

Every few months I'm like oh yeah! I can paint! Some hurt/comfort speedpaints >:)

[a-light-seeking-dream]

wanimal

[small-small-slime]

Did a few little drawings of @coulsart's OC Pierrot/Jacques!!!

[t00thpasteface]

better put it all in present tenses

[gudgurkan]

Corrupted tree elemental

Another commission for and adventure zine for ZdravkoMinchev !

[dragons-wine]

Doug Jones, Alan Rickman, Johnny Depp, Gary Oldman. Paper, pen & dots.

[eeveelikessoda]

The Ink Demonth Day 24: Obsession

“Yes…yes, my lord…he will set us free…”

Oooh this one is angsty. At this point in the AU, Sammy has completely lost it. Poor guy needs a snickers.

[the-ninjago-historian]

Guys! Help me out! What are some things that the Ninja's probably could do with their elemental powers, but so far haven't been seen doing it on screen? I need as many of these as possible! It's for a big Ninjago project I'm working on. Trust me. You won't regret it. - ✒️🐉

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

RGB

been wanting to make characters based on RGB and CMYK for a while, i'll probably work on the CMYK one later :)

[hersurvival]

We are each arched backs and bent elbows,

Awkward angles,

Interlocked fingers and points in time

Marked by breaths.

Smooth, pale surfaces with gentle curves,

Fingertips tenderly grazing,

Familiarizing the area, tracing your perimeter,

Exploring your edges.

Euclidean geometry in postulate,

In practice.

Simple mathematical treatise,

Thirteen Elements.

@nosebleedclub May 3rd - Geometry

[a-light-seeking-dream]

mary nabokova in bali

[mrpicasso-face]

I am at peace

I have found

Precious refuge

In the scathing wind

In the untouched snow

In the black,

Expressionless sky

I see the lights below,

Warm and inviting as they are,

I dare not go near them.

Keep your warm fires

Your warm beds

Your peaceful sleep,

Out here belongs to me.

I am the cold

I am the ice

I am the black,

Expressionless sky.

[ragewrites]

last poems of 2023, both holiday gifts meant for the same friend.

[chiropteracupola]

neon flirtation

[I saw a tie-tack shaped like handcuffs at the antique store a few days ago and I wanted to draw something about it]

[a-dream-seeking-light]

grimes by brian ziff