#how to improve sleep

[divine-nonchalance]

Rosemary Tea

Amazing stuff, since I started drinking it I sleep like a mountain. Improves cognitive function, memory and concentration. It contains several potent antioxidants. It smells and tastes angelic. Natural anti-depressant. Helps with digestion. And so much more...

[cerulapis]

An illustration for @azertyjf 's text post

[an-internet-introvert]

Reaching out to you

[untitled-tmnt-blog]

I absolutely HAD to draw something for @phoebepheebsphibs's DTIYS (based on this pose)! I decided to mix things up a bit by experimenting with a more limited color palette, which was a pretty fun challenge.

[celerydays]

☁️ Five months art progression (HL edition) ☁️

Ominis | Aug 2023 – Jan 2024

Sebastian | Aug 2023 – Jan 2024

[sidewalk-cracks]

literally please give Battison a Dick Grayson in the Batman Part II.

The first movie was about Bruce's journey from not wanting to be Bruce Wayne, to realizing that he does in fact need to be Bruce Wayne, and that Bruce Wayne can be a force used for good just like Batman. Logically then, the second movie should explore the next immediate question on the table: okay, he needs to be Bruce Wayne. So who is Bruce Wayne? What kind of man is Bruce Wayne going to be? Bruce still feels defined by his trauma of his parent's death. Bruce Wayne still feels defined by his parents' shadows, by his father's legacy. He still feels defined by his grief. How does he make Bruce Wayne be something different?

Dick Grayson would serve as the PERFECT device for Bruce to discover who he can be. Because Dick Grayson is literally just a young Bruce, and Bruce sees that instantly (it's why he takes him in in the first place). So throughout the movie, as Bruce tries to help Dick process his grief, he's inadvertently processing his OWN grief. Dick Grayson unknowingly helps Bruce process his own trauma, and through their developing relationship shows him that Bruce Wayne can be more than a recluse, a failure, a man drowning in his own head- he can be a protector, a friend, a parent.

When Dick points a gun at Tony Zucco's head, Bruce talks him down, and all the words that he gives him are words he had wanted when he was a kid and his grief was fresh. Even though they're gone, you're not alone. I understand.

BATTISON NEEDS DICK GRAYSON TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP OF HIS CHARACTER GROWTH.

[4chtungb4by]

Tomothy Selleck for my drawing classssss sketchbook woohoo

[cherrywhite]

I know Faulkner's ever increasing body count is a running joke as if it's something he's purposefully racking up but Rane's murder is such a stark contrast compared to every other one that's come before. And that difference marks such a monumental shift in Faulkner's character.

Like, he runs from the hotelier immediately after sainting him (I know his whole I'm going to make you a saint mirrors what he tells Rane this episode, but he still ultimately runs), he can't bring himself to use the Withermark at Marcel's Crossing, and Mason and Thurrocks' deaths were done in a fit of rage, the horror evident by the time he comes to his senses. Even Daggler's was caused by the Angel Faulkner summoned, not something Faulkner committed to up close. And I imagine however Charlie drowned, well. There's a lot of ambiguity in how it could have gone down, something we'll never really know the scope of, purely because Faulkner is such an unreliable narrator.

Then there's this.

I would argue that Rane's death is much more violent than the ones that came before purely for the fact that Faulkner seems to revel in their suffering as he does it. He needlessly pulls them back up to get a breath of air before plunging them back in the water. He strikes them with his staff so hard that it breaks. And he does this all while laughing and mocking at them. He's needlessly cruel to the point of terrifying. This part was so well done and it really shows just how far Faulkner has gone.

I'm so hesitant to say there's no way back from this simply because of how TSV writes its characters but my knee-jerk reaction as I was listening to this the first time is that there isn't. This was him, fully aware, crossing over the threshold.

[yuri-is-online]

Random ass thought for Leona!Yuri little Future AU alternate.

Namely, that Future Cheka, without ANYONE'S permission, managed to go to the past as well upon learning about the plan. He already slipped his guards as a toddler on the regular. As an adult? With the hope of changing the future for the better alongside ensuring his uncle and nephew get to live happily with Yuu in Twisted Wonderland? Those guards would have no chance in keeping him contained.

That, and he can be wearing a mask whilst Yutu wears their hood. After all, it's far more necessary to avoid people linking this mysterious stranger with the young prince of the Sunset Savanna.

Leona! Yuri... hmm. I was struck with an image of myself with a very cheap lion ear headband. heehee

This idea is so good, perfection even. From what we know about Checka + mixing some adult Simba into it... Cheka has a good heart but he is a bit dumb about these sorts of things. Big of heart, dumb of ass, and a little bit lazy just like his Uncle, he was still young enough when the world ended that he genuinely believed in his version of Leona. He has no problem saying he wants to be like him, and it's even easier to say that in the past. Leona has a lot of fans for his magishift performance so he's able to pass off his fan boying as normal.

I think this version of Cheka sort of understands where his Uncle is coming from. He might not like the way his Uncle talks about him, or like the idea of giving up the throne, but he understands. His own nephew (oh Leona would hate hearing Cheka say that) provided a lot of perspective for him. He's seen things he wishes he hadn't, that's why he's here.

Meeting his own child is sobering enough but seeing Cheka... Leona likes to avoid thinking about things more than he has to. Seeing a grown Cheka makes him think about the future of the Sunset Savannah outside of his own spouse and child being alive. He'd be stupid to not take advantage of it.

[ancientbygone]

rings i made for the vessels, in their order. gonna be giving them to my dear @fivewholeminutes so that she can get them to the band, hopefully.

details under the cut:

Vessel's ring is resin (red w/ imitation gold leaf flakes + black w/ color shift pigment), sides & back painted with gold enamel. ii, iii and iv's rings are polymer clay, partially painted, partially dyed before baking. ii's is gilded with imitation gold leaf, iv's has flakes mixed in. all of them are varnished and coated with UV resin. the ring bands aren't the highest quality, but they're all i could afford. you can't see them here anyway lol

[benevolenterrancy]

you know, I really wasn't expecting Jin Guangyao to win the most spots on my art summary this year but you know what he deserves it, probably, maybe... I think I did less art than usual this year though because I spent most of the spring frantically writing a couple massive fanfics, and then most of July I was traveling, so it was rather feast or famine art-wise for me

and now for the breakdown!

This year SVSSS managed to pull into the lead as the fandom I drew the most art for which... is honestly pretty impressive given that I started that series in August? my apologies to literally everyone who could not have expected this sudden deluge... very different from Hogan's Heroes and Torchwood which were my most prolific fandoms last year (ᵕ—ᴗ—);;;

The other fandoms I drew at least several pieces of art for this year include: MDZS, TGCF, Hogan's Heroes and The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish.

The fandoms I drew only 1 or 2 pieces for were: The 10th Kingdom, MASH, The Apothecary Diaries, Back to the Future, Cybersix, Discworld, Dungeon Meshi, Final Fantasy, Lost in Space, The Salt Grows Heavy, Torchwood, Tintin, and Wicked.

The actual breakdown of art for anyone interested

PLUS a bonus gideon and harrow that i was told i had to include u.u

[catenary-chad]

I've alluded to the concept a number of times, but here's my redesign for OLC Belle the Sleeping Car wildly roleswapped into a Momma/Poppa figure for Electra, as Belle the GG1. You could probably give her a better name, but Belle is passable enough since all locomotives in the US have bells, I mainly kept it to preserve the flow of her song (see below cut for her version!). Based on their status and appearance in their absolute final running days in 1984. They may look glossy and pretty (if a WILD time warp) but they were on their absolute last gasp physically at this point after running for nearly 50 years, due to a lack of suitable replacement. Her dress follows a similar logic to Greaseball's outfit in that it represents the streamlined cowl, which is why she's less mechanical than most.

Personality-wise, she's also oooooold and based on Ella Fitzgerald, even more heavily than OLC Belle since she's fits perfectly with the time/place/personality of the GG1s. Both started in the mid-30s in New York City, and were noted for being "effortless" and almost unparalleled in their field. I tend to imagine her playing more on the "cute, humble, and improvisational" side of Ella, entering the big race just to have one last good run before she retires, and forgetting lyrics and making up something that sounds natural. In my mind she wins because the tracks are rough and winding, which she's far more used to that the other Nationals, with how decrepit parts of her Northeast Corridor were in the 80s and still are now- experience is a quality that counts for a lot!

She toes the line between OC and AU since she's such a twist on the original but stays largely true to her general concept. I'll call her more of an AU and say anyone is free to use this interpretation if they want, I'm not possessive of it at all.

Realistically she'd be dead as a doornail after 1984 (GG1s will just never run in preservation, they were in such bad shape and would need so much work to function on modern systems you may as well build a new replica). But make a cheeky joke about Controls' mom "sticking the old shell on a new body and not telling the kid" and she can come back. I like to think she'd have a flirty, playful rivalry with Momma/Poppa, she'd make Light At The End Of The Tunnel a duet about how steam is great.... for power plants! The Pennsylvania Railroad just stopped getting more steam engines when it electrified lines vs axing them so she wouldn't have any historical antagonism with them.

Here's my rewrite of Belle's Song largely following the original format, but now about the real history of the GG1s

Speed and youth ain't everything

Experience is a quality that counts for a lot

The sad thing 'bout experience is

By the time you've got it

It's usually all you've got...

I'm Belle, Belle, Belle, the GG1

Had my fifty years of fun

My frame is cracked, I’m almost done

Though in my heart, I long to run

I hauled the folks, I hauled the freight

I made good time, no need to wait

Just couple up and ride with me

I’d get you where you want to be

Once I was the hope for the future, wires run from coast to coast

Service every hour, to everywhere, hauling the post!

Now it’s just tragic…

The war then came, it all fell down

Restriction made the new tech drown

Let autos win, pave over it all

Watched the railroads slowly fall

Still I was a real mainliner, they struggled to replace me

Ran commuter trains into the ground

Down by the sea…. At least it was scenic

Oh, Belle, Belle, Belle, the GG-LOST

I’m worn down, yet I’m still boss

I may not be first class, but I'm not yet worst class

I can still take you when the night is dark

I’m withered, but I ain’t lost my spark

[yeehawitsjakee]

The prophet of the end🔪🩸

Aka baby durge and slightly less baby durge, Bhaal really gave his chosen the biggest saddest puppy eyes.

[almostvermin]

(searches up symptoms of chronic fatigue) hm. oh well. (continues to push through until i pass out)

[dseval]

I have to say I learned how to draw hoods just so I can draw Dust Sans. And, Epic Sans. And maybe Reaper.