#essie 🎨

[intrepidacious]

A Cornucopia for You!

From: @levans44

Bucky Barnes; grumpy/sunshine, enemies to lovers; modern AU neighbors; fluff

You sat on your knees in the garden, your plush grass pairing nicely with the new petunias you were planting in rows at the corner of your house near the property line.

As you looked in front of you, you could see the way your well-treated lawn contrasted with the brown patches in that of your neighbor’s. Since he moved in, you watched as a once beautiful piece of land became a little overgrown. What confused you about it most, though, was the fact that you had never really seen him leave his house. Sure, every now and then, you’d hear the roar of a motorcycle and peek through your curtains to see the Beefcake riding away, but it was few and far between.

But the bike hadn’t left the driveway in some time, and as you looked down at the plethora of greens before you, you figured you had some to spare. Brushing your knees free of dirt and removing your gardening gloves, you decided to pay your reclusive neighbor a visit.

As you knocked on the door, you were caught by surprise when it whipped open, revealing him in all of his brooding glory. He wore a white tank, too tight for your sanity, as it clung to his abs and chest. And oh man, did he have abs for days.

You swallowed at the sight, but quickly averted your gaze to his face in response to this low grunt of, “what?”

That view wasn’t much better. The light stubble on his chiseled jaw had you fighting the urge to reach out and see if it would cut your finger.

“H-hi. I’ve got some extra petunias. I was wondering if you might want them? I-I’ll plant them if you want. I also have some lawn feeder if you’re interested. Not that your lawn is bad, it’s just, I thought I could help you care for it—not that you don’t know how to care for it! Just…”

You wanted to facepalm with the word vomit that was spilling out of your mouth, except…. the stranger started to smile, laugh lightly even. He saved you from making a further fool of yourself, too.

“I think that all sounds great, neighbor. I really appreciate it.”

He rubbed the back of his neck and looked out to his front yard. “Not really used to the whole ‘having my own home’ thing yet. I grew up in the city, so thank you for your offer.”

His smile had you bashfully blushing. “I’m Bucky by the way. And I just made lunch. You wanna, uh, come inside for some and we can discuss the grass that I don’t know how to take care of?”

You laughed and hid your face behind your hands. “I’m sorry about that. I told you I wasn’t assuming, though!”

He laughed at that and it was like music to your ears, as he held the door open for you and you became enveloped in the most homey aromas.

PLEASE I ABSOLUTELY ADORED THIS 😭😭 big city boy bucky!! could let me ride on his motorcycle 👉🏼👈🏼

this was such a lovely surprise omg thank you @levans44 for requesting this for me?? 🥺 and essie you're an artist omg i'm swooning !!! thank you thank you thank you 💛

[intrepidacious]

when i say i need him biblically i'm not exaggerating

A Cornucopia for You!

From: @levans44

Ransom Drysdale; secret dating, hand kink, size kink; bookstore, academia; smut

You came here all the time, a small bookstore just off campus that held a few copies of books that the library didn’t. And, of course, some novels you’d purchase here and there for your own private reading collection. It was your haven, your safe space, a place where your heart beat slower despite the iced coffee you’d sip as you skimmed though pages at your usual table.

Except, something was distracting you out of the corner of your eye. The gold glint of a pinky ring attached to a big hand holding an old leather-bound book. Thick and surprisingly nimble fingers flipped the pages, although you knew that wasn’t a reading pace, and when you looked up, icy blue eyes weren’t even on the novel. They were on you.

Your cheeks instantly grew warm and your thighs pressed together on instinct as you pushed yourself out of your chair. Perhaps a walk through the aisles would be good to help you cool down, except your racing heartbeat had you moving swiftly. You looked behind you to make sure no one had followed just as you had reached the end of a shelf. As you turned the corner you were abruptly stopped by a wall.

Except…it was actually a chest. A broad, firm chest, covered in a sweater. The one you wore last week when you might’ve made him breakfast in his dorm while his roommates were out.

In a blink, your back was pressed up against the stacks, a warm hand brushing up the stocking on your thigh, reaching the bare skin under your skirt. You threw your head back, eyes threatening to flutter shut, but your logical brain was fighting to stay at the surface.

“Ransom. What are you doing here?” Your whisper was bordering on a little too loud.

He smirked so slyly, his eyebrow raising in tandem with a shrug. “Missed you, Princess. That a crime? Plus you look so cute when you wear your reading glasses.”

Your hand darted to his wrist as his finger began to trace over your slit in your cotton panties.

“No, but public indecency is. And I thought we couldn’t risk anyone seeing us together. Not yet at least.”

His presence was looming and you couldn’t deny that your stomach did a delightful swoop at the way he caged you in. The way you could tell his fiery blue eyes wanted you so badly. Which is why you didn’t contest as he pushed the gusset aside and slid a thick finger into your slick entrance as his head fell into your neck and he placed a gentle kiss to your collarbone.

“Right now, I don’t care if anybody sees. I just want you.”

i have so many questions!!!! why are we hiding 🥺 is he telling us the truth? maybe he never thought he'd go public and was fully intending on this being a secret one-sided thing and then he caught feelings??

"princess" is killing me, ugh ransom big hand signet ring EYE CONTACT??? i love him obsessed and confronting his feelings >:3

ty @bigtreefest, your cornucopias are bringing me so much joy!!! i hope u are having just as much fun writing and sharing them!!! and thank you @levans44 for the gift 🥺💕💕 mwah mwah you're all so dear to me

[horizon-verizon]

I adore you drives into house Martell/Dorne and they not being poc. As a fanfiction writter and a woman who studies in college the medieval history of the iberian peninsula I try to Stay Away from writting house Martell fics because I do not believe they are poc the way fandom describes them (especially not as dark skinned) but I fear the backlash.

But I add my two cents to it because I feel the need to say it. (Sorry you'll be the one getting it)

I think the smallfolk around certain parts of Dorne are poc. Not the nobility. Nymeria and her descendents intermarried with the Andals many times. And if all dorne nobility is poc... How is Aegon V (grandson of Myriah Martell and son of Dyanna Dayne) isn't? Or his siblings. We meet all the men - no sign of a different "Race" in any of them.

I'm a little confused by this ask, ngl. You lost me here:

I think the smallfolk around certain parts of Dorne are poc. Not the nobility. Nymeria and her descendents intermarried with the Andals many times.

If the peasants, as you say, are PoC bc the Rhoynar female soldiers intermarried w/Andal-First Men Dornish people...are you saying they did with both Dornish peasant men AND nobles? Or they only did with peasants? If the latter, that wouldn't make much sense bc the petty nobles around or those "vassals"/oathed to the Martells at the time Nymeria arrived wouldn't go umarried to any of her soldiers, therefore we'd be forced to say that yes some nobles are PoC...and only if we assume that the Martells have become as PoC as them since Nymeria married Mors.

So it sounds like you're just saying that they, the nobility, are PoC.

A)

from GRRM's blog:

GRRM doesn't distinguish b/t peasants and nobility when it comes him saying that he imagined them as more Mediterranean than African in appearance (and he's talking the white Med, not North Africans or Middle Easterners).

This is amok's Oberyn:

And this is the Magali Villeneuve's Arianne Martell:

B)

If you're implying that there were still a few Rhoynar female soldier who married the smaller number of male Rhoynar male soldiers while the others married the Andal Dornish nobles (whether they be petty lords or the "high" lords), yeah it's possible some peasants--and a few here and there to this current time period of the main series--are what we'd call "PoC" if they lived amongst us.

But Dornish people, peasant or noble, are still monolithic to the people we'd call "white"/"BR/Germanic/NorthWestern European" white--the nonDornish Westerosi. Even they cannot be said to be PoC within the relationship of the Dornish to the Westerosi I described and discussed HERE.

Not all soldiers or warriors were peasants; some were/would be petty nobles, we simply don't have the details. A few of those female Dornish women could have married actually peasant soldiers and in the U.S. system of race, those kids' be considered "PoC", and so on so on. But this isn't the U.S.

🎨: NUTCHAPOL THITINUNTHAKO

Even if you are a Salty Dornish [3] (the Martells), a Stony Dornish [1] (the paler ones closest to the border b/t Dorne and the rest/the Dornish Marches), or a Sandy Dornish [2], the nonDornish people actively think of them all as "Dornish" and are xenophobic to all of them. We have seen no canon different behavior towards the paler stony Dornish.

We also don't know where exactly in Dorne Sylvenna Sand (a peasant) was from or what she looked like, but she was known as Dornish and the "laws" that Gaemon Palehair/his mother Essie laid out in KL are thought to have come from Sylvenna's background and closeness influencing those laws to protect women. Those Gyldayn calls "outrageous":

Skin color is definitely something these nonDornish make to orientalize or fetishize some Dornish people or to identify them bc you do find the darkest kind tones more in Dorne than anywhere else. But again, some Dornish people (and I mean entire populations) are pale, have the accents, may even practice male primogeniture but are still subject to xenophobia from nonDornish people in text.

And if all dorne nobility is poc... How is Aegon V (grandson of Myriah Martell and son of Dyanna Dayne) isn't? Or his siblings. We meet all the men - no sign of a different "Race" in any of them.

The Daynes are the paler "stony" Dornish.

Aegon was also never going to be considered PoC or Dornish or Dornish adjacent bc he came out with pale skin, violet eyes, and silverish-goldish hair.

And he is not a Dornish-raised person, but was born and raised outside of Dorne in the royal family.

So yeah.

[did-i-do-this-write]

For Paragon, how about 🎀 and ‍🎨 please! -Essie

Thank you for the ask, Essie! I appreciate you playing this little ask game with me 😄

🎀 [Bow] How many named characters are in this WIP? How many do get a POV?‍

Rough estimate, I think there's about 20 named characters. And the main team is made up of seven characters, who all get POV at least a couple times each :D

🎨 [Palette] If your WIP was a color, which color would it be?

I always associate Paragon with oranges, reds, and yellows because the main character can control fire XD

This ask motivated me to write 105 words for a prompt request.

Experiment Total: 75,778

[callofthxvoid]

🎨 Amirah "Ames" Shehadi - 24 y/o - 5'9" - FC: Jihane Almira Chedid [ BIO ] 🍔 Celia de la Luna - 35 y/o - 5'6" - FC: Ana de Armas [ BIO ] 🩹 Dahlia Cruz-Dutton - 37 y/o - 5'7" - FC: Shay Mitchell [ BIO ] 🎮 Esperanza "Essie" Calloway - 25 y/o - 5'1" - FC: Becky G [ BIO ] 💸 Fleur Villiers - 25 y/o - 5'5" - FC: Paris Berelc [ BIO ] 🐈‍⬛ Georgette "Georgie" Hicks - 23 y/o - 5'1" - FC: Antonia Gentry [ BIO ] 🍎 Imogen Griffiths - 39 y/o - 5'6" - FC: Natalie Dormer [ BIO ] 💊 Julianne "Julie" Davenport - 21 y/o - 5'5" - FC: Natalie Alyn Lind [ BIO ] 🔍 Karma Free - 27 y/o - 5'4" - FC: Zoey Deutch [ BIO ] 🚔 Leila Williams - 38 y/o - 5'4" - FC: Candice Patton [ BIO ] 🎊 Marisol de la Luna - 18 y/o - 5'1" - FC: Isabela Merced [ BIO ] ✨ Minnie Garcia - 28 y/o - 5'2" - FC: Dove Cameron [ BIO ] 💰 Nadia Shehadi - 30 y/o - 5'6" - FC: Pinar Deniz [ BIO ] 🎀 Paisley Pardeshi - 19 y/o - 5'8" - FC: Avantika [ BIO ] 🖊️ Rosa Milovanovic - 28 y/o - 5'5" - FC: Emilija Baranac [ BIO ] 🌟 Scarlette Albright - 30 y/o - 5'6" - FC: Chloe Bennet [ BIO ] 🧨 Trixie Vos - 32 y/o - 5'6" - FC: Skyler Samuels [ BIO ] 🌳 Valeria "Val" Moreno - 24 y/o - 5'3" - FC: Maia Reficco [ BIO ] 🏗️ Veronica "Vero" de la Luna - 32 y/o - 5'9" - FC: Bianca Santos [ BIO ] 🔬 Zarina Knightley - 28 y/o - 5'5" - FC: Kat McNamara [ BIO ]

[intrepidacious]

woooo congrats!!! <3

Essie’s 500 Follower Thank You For Being A Friend Cornucopia Event🦃🍗🌽🥔🍁🍾🌰🥧🥳🥰

Thank you all so much for 500 followers!! In celebration of this milestone, as well as my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, join me in my appreciation of you!! Send a cornucopia to a friend or request one for yourself!!

This will be a bouquet-style event, similar to that run by @thezombieprostitute where I will be writing small blurbs about our favorite babes per your request!! That’s right! You send me what you’d like and I’ll make it!!! How exactly does that work? I’m glad you asked! Rules and regulations below:

How to Join:

- Fill out this google form to request your babe blurb cornucopia!!

- Keeping with the Thanksgiving theme, fill your plate/basket with all your favorite things so I can put them together and gift them to you!

- This event will take place between now and end when the form will close on Sunday, December 1, although written requests may be released after that.

Cornucopia Request Masterlist

Other bits of info and rules:

- you can send these as gifts to other people!! Make sure to list your username (unless you’d like to remain anonymous) as well as the username of who you would like to gift it to so that they get sent their gift!!

- you can request anonymously, but I ask that you be considerate of my time and writing ability, as well as others who are requesting. Please refrain from sending more than one ask for yourself unless I make a statement opening up the requests for more, but send as many gifts to others as you’d like! Anonymous requests will be posted on my own page.

- feel free to chose more than one from any of the categories in the form!! The more the merrier, but also keep in mind I can only fit so much into a blurb

- I reserve the right to not fulfill any requests at my own discretion. There are no guarantees of a timeline for when each ficlet will be released or if special requests can be filled

- feel free to reach out to me with any questions, and again, thank you so much for being a friend, supporter, follower, and a beautiful person for celebrating this milestone with me!!😘

[trascapades]

🖤🎨#ArtIsAWeapon

Thank you @RichardBeaversGallery for compiling this list of Black-owned art galleries!

UJAMAA

BLACK OWNED ART GALLERIES

Compiled by Richard Beavers Gallery, December 2022

Above Art Studios, NJ | @aboveartstudios

Addis Fine Art, LDN | @addisfineart

Anderson Brickler Gallery, FL | @andersonbricklergallery

Annie’s Art Gallery, MD | @anniesartgallery

Anthony Gallery, IL | @galleryanthony

Artlanta Gallery, GA | @artlantagallery

Akwaaba Gallery, NJ | @akwaabagallery

Arnika Dawkins, GA | @arnikadawkins

Art Lead Her, NY | @artleadher

Art for the Soul Gallery, MA | @artforthesoulgallery

Art of Noize, DC | @artofnoizedmv

Art Melanated, CA | @artmelanated

Astah’s Art Gallery, NJ | @astahsartgallery

Axiom Fine Art Gallery, LA | @axiomartgallery

Band of Vices, CA | @bandofvices

Baar Art, | @barartjourney

Bill Hodges Gallery, NY | @billhodgesgallery

Bisong Art Gallery, TX | @bisongart

Black Artists+Designers Guild | @badguild

Black Art In America, GA | @blackartinamerica_

Black Gotham, NY | @blackgotham

Black Wall Street Gallery, NY | @bws.gallery

BlkMrkt, NC | @blkmrktclt

Boom Concepts, PA | @boom_concepts

Bridge Art Gallery, DE | @bridgeartgallery

Calabar Gallery, NY | @calabargallery

Cane Roots Art Gallery, USVI | @canerootsartgallery

Carter Fine Art Services | @carterfineart

Chela Mitchell Gallery, DC | @chelamitchellgallery

Ciera Britton Gallery, NY | @cierrabrittongallery

Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY | @ruckergallery

Curtiss Jacobs Gallery, NY | @curtissjacobsgallery_harlem

Dada Art Gallery, LDN | @thedadagallery

Daisha Board Gallery, TX | @daishaboardgallery

Dominque Gallery, CA | @dominique.gallery

Dorsey’s Art Gallery, NY | @dorseysfineartgallery

Dupp & Swat, NC | @duppandswat

E&S Gallery, KY | @eandsgallery

Essie Green Gallery, NY | @essie.green.gall

11:Eleven Gallery, DC | @11eleven_gallery

5 Points Art Gallery & Studios, WI | @5ptsartgallery

Galerie Myrtis, MD | @galeriemyrtis

Gallery 90220, CA | @gallery90220

Gallery Chuma, SC

Gallery Guichard, IL | @gallery_guichard

Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, NY | @gallerykendrajaynepatrick

Ground Floor Gallery, NY | @groundfloorbk

Hausen, NY | @welcometohausen

Hannah Traore Gallery, NY | @hannahtraoregallery

Harper Galleries of Art, MI | @harpergoaai

Hearne Fine Art, AR | @hearnefineart

HMAAC, TX | @houstonmaac

Homme DC, DC | @homme_dc

Housing, NY | @housingny

Jac Forbes Gallery, CA | @jacforbes

Jenkins Johnson, NY | @jenkinsjohnsongallery

Johnathan Carver Moore, CA | @johnathancarvermoore

June Kelly Gallery, NY | @junekellygallery

KAWD Art Gallery, LA | @kawdartgallery

Kente Royal Gallery, NY | @kente_royal_gallery

Knowhere, MA | @knowhereart

Left of Center Art Gallery, NV | @leftofcentergallery

Legendary Art Gallery, IL | @legendaryartgallery

Long Gallery, NY | @longgallery

Mackey Twins Art Gallery, NY | @mackeytwinsart

Mahogany Gallery, WI | @mahoganygallery

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, IL | @marianeibrahimgallery

Martyr Sauce, WA | @martysauce

Medium Tings, NY | @mediumtings

Mehari Sequar Gallery, DC | @meharisequargallery

Mitochondria Gallery, TX | mitochondria.gallery

Moody Jones Gallery, PA | @moodyjonesgallery

Muse GR, MI | @mymusegr

Nicola Vassell Gallery | @nicolavassellgallery

N’Namdi Center for Conetemporary Art, MI | @nnamdicenter

N’Namdi Contemporary, FL | @nnamdi_gallery

Neema Gallery, SC | @neemagallery

NoName Gallery, PA | @nonamegalleryphilly

Norwest Gallery of Art, MI | @norwestgallery

Overdue Recognition Gallery, MD | @overduerecognitionart

Peg Alston Fine Arts, NY | @pegalston

Pencil on Paper Gallery, TX | @pencilonpapergallery

Prizm Art Fair, FL | @prizm

Residency Art Gallery, CA | @residencyart

RichesArt Gallery and Studio, TX | @richesartgallery

Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn

Richard Beavers Gallery, Soho | @richardbeaversgallery

Rush Arts Philanthropic, PA | @rushartphilly

Sabree’s Gallery of the Arts, GA | @sabreesgallery

September Gray Fine Art, GA | @septembergrayart

SK ArtSpace, NY | @sk.ArtSpace

Skoto Gallery, NY | @skoto_gallery

Stella Jones Gallery, LA | @stellajonesgallery

Superposition, CA | @superpositiongallery

Terrance Osbourne Gallery, LA | @terranceosborne

The Bishop Gallery, NY | @thebishopgallery

The Compound Gallery, NY | @compoundgallery

The Heath Gallery, NY | @heathgallery

The Sold Firm, DE | @thesoldfirm

The Spite Haus, PA | @thespitehaus

Thelma Harris Gallery, CA | @thelmaharrisgallery

Tripoli Gallery, NY | @tripoligallery

Urban Art Gallery, PA | @urbanartgallery

Wa Na Wari, WA | @wanawariseattle

Waller Gallery, MD | @wallergallery

WaterKolours Fine Art Gallery, TN

Welancora, NY | @welancora

Worth Gallery, | @worth_gallery

Youth Concept Gallery, FL | @youthconceptgallery

Zimstone Gallery, DC | @jeffbrown_zimstonegallery

ZuCot Gallery, GA | @zucotgallery

#BlackOwnedArtGalleries

#BlackArtGalleries #BlackGallerists #BlackArt #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks #BlackArtLovers #BlackArtCollectors

[killmondaygames]

Get to know the team behind Killmonday Games in our blog series "The Story Behind" 💬 Let us introduce our 2D and 3D artist Essi! 🦖🎨 📝Read the full story here: 👉 https://killmondaygames.com/?p=5161

[nobodysystem]

🎨✅

🎨 How do you feel about fanart?

95% fine which i guess is probably a good thing. it being wildly divergent from us mostly makes us go haha thats not right (rolling eyes smile emoji) and the only exceptions are, like, localized down to one or two people

for whatever reason "haha that's not right" is easily most pronounced on other peoples art of the bachelor, which i guess reflects that we're used to seeing essie p fanart but do not get as many reminders that danko is a real video game character who exists outside our head, as well as the obvious issue that most people do not exactly draw him as a goth girl

✅ What does the fandom usually get right?

we're so good at complaining and so bad at expressing contentment and have such limited exomemories but to be honest people mostly get... the broad strokes fine? we've never had any moments of seeing someone else's specific headcanons and going oh my god, you GET it but having sharp moments of "lol you're wrong i wouldn't ever do that" (or whatever) isnt the majority of our experiences with fan content either. idk :shrug:

[intrepidacious]

yesss just all the comfy coziness 🥺 all the tension seeping out of him in your hold 🥺🥺

Curtis + blanket burrito

let's hide from the world | c.e.

a/n: soft!curtis is something that's so important to me actually

"Now what do we have here?"

You blink awake groggily, one single finger softly stroking your cheek; Curtis is hovering over you, his eyes cast in shadow in the low light. You must’ve fallen asleep reading again, huddled underneath a pile of blankets on the couch as you waited for him to get home.

"Hey," you mumble, wriggling your hands free to reach for him, pull him closer; you feel him inhale into your neck, some tension falling off his shoulders when he does so, his arms encircling you.

"Hiya, darlin’," he breathes against your skin, all of his weight sinking into you; he’s always so tired, this man of yours. You could’ve sunk back into sleep right then and there, perfectly content, your fingers gently scratching the back of his shoulders the way he likes, feeling his muscles slowly relax; finally, he nudges his nose against the curve of your jaw, chuckling, "I almost didn’t see you under all that."

You huff, pushing him away from you just a little, but before he can make a discontented noise, you open up your blankets for him: "You know, there’s room for two in here."