#he doesn't have wrinkles

[kstarlitchaotics]

Why does it look reversed with the aging of him

Then and now.

[carmillas-vampiric-rage]

smooth astarion scares me- bc legit who is that

that is NOT my astarion i only know him

[bumblingbabooshka]

Older Tuvoks

[chatonyant]

One more, im in a mood

look i need people to draw plum blossom sword saint as an old man oK?? OK??? HE IS 80 SMTH CAN HE HAVE WRINKLES PLEASE

[morrigan-sims]

the whole "family"

I made Rook's mom in the sims because I was bored and wanted to see what she'd look like. Gorgeous, as it turns out!! Which isn't surprising given her son is the most beautiful man of all time. Rook doesn't even know her name or anything about her, and has never met her, since she handed him off to Alistair at the first chance she got. Rook has no interest in meeting her because of that, plus the fact that in his mind, all birth/legal family is awful and fucked. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't have a mother.

[the-busy-ghost]

Me normally: Let people love what they love

Me, after a Test Match Special commentator expresses their belief that the new All Creatures Great and Small is somehow "better" than the 1978 version: This is pure insanity and TMS can no longer be trusted on anything, how can they even be trusted to know about cricket, do they have no TASTE

[linaxart]

Ever the gentleman

[glysaturn]

i remembered i had some kimono CC lying around so i made genji dress up as swordsman and of course he's the cutest and i love him

bonus genjicass

[unreadpoppy]

I'm gonna try and explain this theory in a way that makes sense so bear with me

We know that Haarlep can take the form of whoever they fuck. Okay. But like, does their copy get updated or is it stuck in time?

Like, let's say Haarlep fucks someone with long hair, and then two weeks later, that person cuts all their hair off. Will Haarlep's version still have the hair or does it get magically updated? Would the person have to have sex with Haarlep again for it to get updated?

Because if Haarlep only keeps a copy of the original, maybe that's the reason they look younger than the actual Raphael.

[irelandseyeonmythology]

One thing I'm mildly obsessed with is the idea, that we see in a couple of texts, that the Tuatha Dé regularly "put on" another form, even though might have a "true" face or appearance.

Like, how much of that image of perfection that they convey is them naturally looking like/obviously medieval writers writing them to conform to a specific image, and how much of that is them very consciously projecting the image that they WANT to project?

Do they have stretch marks? Do they have lines under their eyes, or dark circles? Do they have scars from battles that took place centuries ago? Do they have laugh lines or frown lines? Like.

[pinkfey]

wip wednesday :D

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have a depressing oddly interpreted take on the taint affecting alistair and rowena 😘

The taint came for his hands first.

A side effect of days spent clutching a sword and shield no doubt. His veins went fast, running black and blue overnight. He didn't like looking at them, but Rowena traced them over every night. Hardened bones were next. Protruding metacarpals and thinned knuckles and a noticeable creak in the mornings. Then the pain began. The ache. Days where his joints stiffened to stone, where a grasp clenched too tight refused to come undone, where splaying fingers to their fullest extent proved too much.

Rowena often caught him staring at his hands in the corner of her eye. Busy hands, curious hands, hands made to fidget and gesture and move above all else, now immobile. His worry token went untouched for months, as did many of the things he loved to hold. Flowers in the garden. The mabari's paws. Rowena.

There was a time when Alistair couldn't keep his hands off of her. Affection of the physical kind was a bright and shiny concept and it took time for him to adjust. Rowena could touch him anywhere, after all. It came easy to her, the affection, the initiation. His cheek, his chin, his collarbone--anywhere would do. Eventually, he came to reciprocate. Tentatively at first, as if asking for permission, but confidence came with the security of her affection. Touch became a comfort. A hand around her waist, on her jaw, in her hair. Anywhere would do.

It couldn't have been more different now. He shied away when she reached for his arm to hold, twitched when she kissed his neck in the mornings. Evening baths became sparser until they no longer existed at all, and this Rowena could hardly bear--facing this truth that the old rituals had died, so she clung to the last of them.

No amount of massage relieved the pain, but Rowena would be damned if she didn't try. Nightly, he let her take his hands in her own.

It was a relief each time to see that despite the Taint, Alistair's hands were still his own, broad and square-fingered and devastatingly gentle. Calloused on the underside and scarred by his earliest days with a blade, too young and eager to know any better. And those nights by the firelight, nights where she took his palm in her hands and massaged the ache away, she could see that Alistair's hands were still freckled, just barely. The sun could still shine on him and leave honeyed kisses against his skin and this was one thing the taint could never take. No darkspawn could take the sun.

The night she realized this, she wept silently. She'd stopped him before he could speak, pressed his freckled hand to her cheek before he could pull away, and whispered, "Bathe with me."

Months later, the taint came for her.

For Rowena, it was her vision and it was swift. [reduntant fix this queen lol]

[shiawasekai]

Before I go to sleep, remaining bits i want to cover in the Endless Reference Sheet:

-Act 1 and Act 2 designs, which are for the most part iterations on material I already have. So that's not particularly hard.

-Pre-game (aka teenager) design, together with Samel's teenager design.

-Post-recovery (in other words, years post-game) design, + Samel's design as an elder man.

Which is a bare minimum on 3 extra "slides."

The post-game stuff is the scariest because I need to find a proper way to fit the feathers (she IS supposed to be embracing them, so just making a hole for the longer ones won't do) and I need to figure out an ellaborate design for a man that looks like a spry elder in his 70s despite being actually on his 90s, high-level spellcaster benefits

That's a lot of designing from zero and i'm tired just thinking in it.

[astudyintheburningofhearts]

The fact that my friends aren't liking the Barbie movie is so annoying because PLEASE MA'AM, LET ME LEAD THE CLASS TODAY AND DO A DEEP DIVE ON WHY THIS MOVIE IS EXTREMELY VALID IN TODAY'S DAY AND AGE AND WHY RYAN GOSLING WAS A GOOD KEN. PLEASE.

[lisbonsteresa]

spiraling again

[welcometogrouchland]

well idk about anyone else but i- as the anon who sent u the darius camila ask in the first place, would be elated

I'M WORKIN ON IT FOR U ANON 🫡

[ryanthedemiboy]

If NASCAR can make stock cars (this means chassis and shape that are the same as yours) that can go 200mph and wreck head-on and do a dozen flips in the air, and the worst that happens is a concussion, with the car even still almost intact, then you can make a street legal car do the same at 40% of that speed.

Here's one of the wrecks btw. He was taken to a local hospital for observation, not even a concussion (NASCAR reports injuries to everyone for transparency), and he raced the next week. (Although he did have a couple bruised eyes iirc)

He climbed out of the car almost completely under his own power.