#especially in connection with that song

[loofol]

OMG I love this so so much! It’s absolutely brilliant 😍😊❤️

[psychomusic]

induced to me by my contemporary art exam AND a rewatch of rebels after years that. got me into sabezra unexpectedly AND i updated krita and there were many new brushes i wanted to try

refs (IF U CAN PLS HELP ME FIND THE ORIGINAL COSPLAYERS i can't find anything EDIT: found them!! they're starwars_irl on insta and @rebelartistwren / lionesscosplay on insta. thank you guys <3) and ✨colored version✨ under the cut

i can't find themmmmm I've been looking for 2 days but all i found were uncredited reposts

anyway they look amazing

i really wanted to try greyscaling but I'm not sure it looks good. idk. + while i was making it i was listening to i love you by fontaines d.c. (GREAT SONG FROM A GREAT UNDERRATED BAND) and. the grey fit into that mood much better

also two versions without the sketch lines. where ezra looks happier even if they're uglier

[moussedoodles]

Real talk though, even though I draw a lot of silly stuff from the Mafia x Gang leader au, this is by no means a happy story. No one is gonna die (I'm not as strong as Tay 😭) But nevertheless, it won't end in the "best" way, at least not for Nezha.

Anyways more Mafia x Gang leader lore ramble below

Again, Ao Bing is a mafia heir. Despite his family's goal to keep the public at large safe and unaware of the worst parts of humanity, they don't do so through the most legal or moral of means. Every member of the Loong family has had blood on their hands, every member of the Loong family has had to pull a few strings to get what they want, and that includes Ao Bing.

Whether it be because an enemy gang or mafia decides to target Ao Bing to get the upper hand over the fallen Loong family, or because the Li family finds out about the new residents' insidious background, either way, Nezha will find out who Ao Bing truly is. He's done his fair share of crime in his years haunting the streets of Chentang Guan: Theft, property damage– a broken nose or bone here or there– but Nezha hasn't done the things Ao Bing has had to do. Nezha has never killed.

(Admittedly, he's conflicted about this. Who wouldn't be when the man you've been head over heels for, the man who seems to share the same feelings you do, turns out to be a member of a mafia? And one of the most infamous and influencial families at that, especially during the height of their power)

(He doesn't know how to feel about this, doesn't know how to feel about Ao Bing. And the worst part about this- he believes- is the terrifying thought that this doesn't change the way he sees him. Nezha, still high on the ecstacy of young love, can't seem to pull back rose tinted lenses whenever Ao Bing is near, can't stop the way his pulse thrums at every, airy laugh, every soft smile, every small act and drop of attention Ao Bing generously spares his poor heart)

(Ao Bing made him feel seen, dared him to feel vulnerable for what must have been the first time in what felt like forever. He was his equal in almost every way, and looked past that rough exterior and delinquent past he bore proudly to protect himself, and instead saw a lonely boy– much like himself– who desperately needed someone who understood him.)

Even still, Nezha is distanced from Ao Bing. But whether it's by his own doing or by his family's insistence though doesn't matter, because the two won't stay apart for long. When news of Ao Guang's youngest, surviving heir and his newfound weakness becomes known, word spread from the angry whispers of the enemy gangs surrounding the small town of Chentang Guan, up, up until it finds the ears of the members of the Chan Sect, a well-known group of law enforcers that- despite the image they uphold of morality and safety for all- are no better, if not worse than the Loong family who once ruled the city the Chan Sect now watch over.

Seeing some way to extinguish the still burning remnants of the crime family, the members of the Chan Sect make their way to Chentang Guan and striked.

Nezha had always been the target of injustice, but at least a majority of the hardship and shame were thrown at him.

Now though, with not only his family but the families of his members on the line, alongside the threat of losing their livelihoods and future due to the Chan Sect's influence solely because he chose to love the wrong person, Nezha disowns himself, sparing his family from the Chan Sect's threats of blacklisting both his parents and brothers from the entire legal industry and tarnishing their good name. He also disbands his gang, before running away to the only person who he could possibly turn to in a time where he had no one left, and no place to go.

Damning himself to a life of danger and crime, Nezha becomes Ao Bing's right hand, and joins the ranks of the Loong crime family.

[alackofghosts]

great are the sounds of all that live and all that man can hold

[cleo-serotonin]

die your daughter // emma & ms. chatham

[dirtytransmasc]

cw - minor vent/irl grief

[red-icarus]

Anything is a Hannibal reference if you are insane and gay enough

Your telling me i have high levels of empathy? omg im Will Graham

Wait i gotta get a psychiatrist? damn, hope its Dr Lecter

Had a dream where i stab my own clone to death, and Hannibal helps me dissolve of the body? just another of Will's hallucinations at this point

A river stream? the perfect place to lay my head to rest

[faceglitchsworld]

KIK - 'Timer' Live Clip

[hajihiko]

Oh i forgot w the last ask. Here's a song I like that really held my hand today

[roots-symphony]

what's so interesting is that agatha and nicky clearly had their cons well-oiled, and at the end it seems they even started turning their song into a part of it as well, like i don't think that was the first time nicky sang that song for an audience and they used it to lure witches (i do think it's the first time that it /technically/ didn't work), and how after nicky died it continued to gain popularity and be so well-known it became a legend, and along with that agatha being known as the only survivor of the road and people (like billy) seeking her out to walk it or just for knowledge of it. and i think that had been the idea when they first started using it as a con. making it so they no longer had to travel and scavenge, using it as a lure to bring the witches to them in order to keep nicky alive, but only one small misstep and rio got him anyway

and then thinking about how lorna, who had a generational curse placed upon her family that is going to kill both her and her daughter and who desperately wants to see her daughter survive, heard this song and created her own version to use as a protection spell for her daughter and, like agatha did before her, she made her version so well-known and so popular that years and years after death it's still protecting her daughter, until ultimately her daughter was finally able to use it to break the curse and save herself

idk just.. they're like two sides of the same coin, or distorted mirrors of each other

agathas love was so powerful and so strong that death gave nicky time

lornas love was so powerful and so strong that the ballad gave alice time and even freed her

if nicky hadnt been taken that night, could it have eventually freed him as well? rio said agatha used the dark magic of the darkhold to hide herself from rio, so was that the end goal? they'd continue to lure witches to both keep nicky alive and to have agatha become powerful enough to forever keep them hidden?

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…

[littlebittyhollowbugs]

What do you think of the fact that there's no day-night cycle in Hollow Knight? Is it because of the maybe-stasis on Hallownest, or do you think it has something to do with the fact the sun is evil? Or do you think it's due to something else entirely? (I don't really have thoughts on this. I have 0 clue what to make of it and it's actually really bothering me)

I found these developer notes on this subject

The implication here seems to be that the stasis has the kingdom in one eternal night.

That's how I've depicted the lack of a day-night cycle in my work.

[i-reblog-castiel]

and if I said Willard by Will Wood is a very castiel song

[technicalthinker]

Seong Gi-hun | Luck Runs Out (Epic: The Musical)

(Spoilers for Squid Game Season 2)

"Don't forget how dangerous the gods are."

"Have faith, friend, we've come this far."

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I think dragon crews (especially on heavyweight dragons) should have their own working songs as well.

Call them sky shanties

[dirtytransmasc]

cw - minor vent/irl grief