#i am SO normal about this woman

[kate-bishops-waifu]

Ohh no more comics Carol -

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[irradiatedrosegarden]

sometimes you just gotta lick the homies

[eddiegettingshot]

i am going to make a dni but with 911 opinions

[doverstar]

actually I love Tentoo and he is the Doctor and it was the only ending for Rose that worked and it is a huge gift to be able to have the man she loves grow old with her, they were always heading for that, y'all be quiet. I 100% understand the angst but it's okay, they're okay, good ending-

[coke-vapor]

three weeks before jason grace died, he promised percy that after this quest he’d take a break from the camps and come stay with him in manhattan at the jackson-blofis household. percy was ecstatic he finally convinced jason to prioritize himself over the gods and he and annabeth couldn’t wait for jason to arrive in new york. he told sally all about jason, all his heroics and went on and on about how much admiration he had for the son of jupiter, along with how much effort jason put into anything and everything he was passionate about. sally hears it all. sally also hears percys sobs as will calls him to tell him jason died on that quest. that he was never going to make it to manhattan. that yet another of percys friends was ripped away from him by the fates. sally hears his sobs and her heart breaks for the kind hearted boy she never got to meet.

she still sets a plate on the table for jason the night he was supposed to arrive at the jackson-blofis household. percy tears up and excuses himself early. annabeth stares at it all dinner long before retreating after percy. sally finds them both curled up in percys bed a hour later, dried tears on their faces with an open photo album in annabeths lap. its open to a photo of percy, annabeth, nico, hazel and jason in the centre, with about 20 random necklaces on him. jasons smile is beaming as he looks at the camera. sally hopes jasons last moments weren’t spent in pain, but she knows they probably were.

[wavebf]

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

every time a woman dies in a story is not fridging every time a woman dies in a story does not inherently make it fridging fridging is not inherently bad or misogynistic it is a PLOT DEVICE that can be used to good or poor effect just like every other plot device PLEASE can we learn nuance

[vaguely-concerned]

*sobbing quietly into my hands*

"Perfect."

*sobbing into my hands like an emotionally compromised fog horn*

[fangerine]

all my sofia falcone lovers, sing it with me

MAMA, I'M IN LOVE WITH A CRIMINAL AND THIS TYPE OF LOVE ISN'T RATIONAL, IT'S PHYSICAL-

[benveydraws]

i can't love you in this skin

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

omg you people suck

[yoosung-ah]

this you?

[nessatism]

amy hughes or something, nothing special :3 tbh i’m just posting whatevfurrr i’m more active on twitter (@/vanessatism)

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)