#i hope it turned out okay!

[lilybug-02]

Pain is a great motivator…

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Meanwhile Toriel:

(Loud noises don't wake her up usually.)

Artist note: I’m so proud of this :))) I know it’s a lot of dialogue and reading, but dialogue is grueling work for me. I’m glad with the art and for the amount of pages I made in such a relatively short time span -w- page 5 was super fun to work on. A lot of blood, sweat, and hours here... :) The backgrounds were a big bore tbh, but I finished them! Yippie!

[lady-whistledowns]

Rhaenyra & Vermithor

House of the Dragon 2.07 -> "The Red Sowing"

[vaguely-concerned]

the more I play the more I think lucanis basically knows it's illario who betrayed him right from the beginning (he's had a year in the ossuary to think. not that many people knew where he was going. when you ask him 'did Illario know you'd be on that ship' his only answer is the hardest flattest 'yes' you ever heard). so it's not so much about figuring out who the traitor is (because that's ludicrous. we all know. immediately. they didn't really bother to hide it lmao) as about methodically closing off every single avenue of denial lucanis has clung to that whole time with as much or little gentleness as you might prefer until he has no choice but to admit it. because the moment he has to admit it, he'll have to do something -- feel something -- about it. and that's such a catastrophic event in lucanis' inner landscape (he has had TWO people in this whole entire world up until now and will do anything to hold on to them with a heartbreaking child-like desperation, even at and especially through the detriment of his own self) that he'd rather just. not. what if we quite simply. didn't. what if we just stayed here in the emptiness where we can both pretend you didn't hurt me in a way I should never forgive. I have so much practice in that with caterina already it's always worked out great for everyone so far. (press x to fucking doubt but that's trauma logic for you lol)

after everything illario did, so much of the storm of lucanis' emotions around it is 'what the FUCK did you get yourself tangled up in this time and how do I get you out of this mess safely'. what's worse: the fact that your brother murdered you, or that he put himself in horrible danger doing so and thus exposed you to the risk of losing him forever. lucanis' heart certainly has an opinion here and it's fucking unhinged (affectionate)

the themes of dissociation in lucanis' character in general makes me feel nuts. allllll these contradictory messy things he needs to cut off from each other because they can't coexist or be easily reconciled inside him. but all remain stubbornly true separately anyway and will have their due one day. love and resentment. tenderness and fear and rage. terror and longing. love and freedom don't coexist. the burned out golden child anthem is playing in the background. he was always caterina's favourite and he has to keep striving to deserve that dubious honour with every breath he takes and then, presumably, mercifully, some day he will die and be excused and can rest. and until now he's suppressed all the -- natural, healthy, protective! -- negative feelings that threaten the few attachment relationships he actually has, at the cost of ever actually having his needs for connection and safety met and leaving his core self imprisoned and compromised. and spite goes 'what. no. that's dumb fuck that' (*spite voice* I do not understand that and even if I did I would not respect it) and does not allow him to fall back into that, which I think is what saves his life, ultimately. it took being possessed by a demon for lucanis to even contemplate telling anyone he loves 'no' in any way, but hey. whatever gets you there right lol

lucanis is dealing with the freeze response allll the way down baby. and he was even before the ossuary, that just turbo powered it and brought it to a breaking point way before it could happen naturally. but something was going to break eventually no matter what, and I'm just glad that in the end, through the power of friendship and also pure spite, it doesn't have to be him

[stoneserafina]

Photo ID: 8 images drawn in black and white. The ground is white, and the sky is black with white stars. Image 1: A person sits on a skateboard looking sad, with a teardrop on their face. A speech bubble coming from above the image says, "Hey."

Image 2: The person looks up to see a large star looking at them and smiling. The star says, "It's all gonna be okay." The person replies, "How do you know?"

Image 3: The star continues speaking, "Dude, I am so ('so' is spelled with 7 o's) old. I am old as balls. I've seen a lot ('lot has 3 t's) of shit. And I've seen a lot of people get through the shit. You will, too."

Image 4: The person has their arms up in frustration. They say, "I don't have the perspective of an old as balls star, though. This is all new to me! I feel like shit. I feel like the world is ending. And don't tell me everybody feels like this either. I know that, and it doesn't help."

Image 5: The star looks solemn and says, "Hey, I didn't say it wouldn't ('wouldn't' is in bold) suck. It sucks like hell, and that's part of it. With time, it will suck less. I promise." The person's speech bubble comes from below the star. They say, "What if it doesn't stop sucking?"

Image 6: The star says, "Take matters into your own hands! Maybe seek help! I'm a ball of gas, not a medical professional. I can only tell you that time tends to make things softer. Even pain."

Image 7: The person stands up from the skateboard and says, "I don't know if that makes me feel better, but thanks anyway."

Image 8: The star is smiling again and says, "You don't have to feel better right now. But you will. Trust me. I'm an old-ass star." The person steps onto their skateboard and replies, "ok, I guess."

End photo ID

i’m still drawing! sometimes! just not being good at posting it! i made this comic a few months ago thinking about the nature of positive reassurance when someone’s going through it, and how/when it can be helpful. what do you say to someone who’s still so deep in the tunnel they can’t even imagine the light at the end? i know when i was going through shit i didn’t wanna hear about some stupid fucking light because to me it just could not possibly exist. but it does. the tunnel is just stupid long. and it sucks! (i’m fine now ftr.)

[pocketgalaxies]

The silver color of the thread begins to fill with more golden light. (requested by @overnighttosunflowers)

[smile-files]

based off one of my favorite scenes from the jeeves & wooster books

(objectober 2024 day 3: cider)

[ph-cutie]

its blokesday

[gkdmts]

may I ask for riddle? Your art is lovely ❤️❤️❤️

ay thanks! <3 <3 and here you go! the scribbles have a nice day : )

gee the last one is totally effortless but he looks funny here so ill show this one too

[stationoneeighteen]

CHIMNEY HAN ➝ 6.11 'In Another Life'

[ourobores]

DECEMBER

chandrama deshmukh, a teaspoon of stars / claude monet, snow scene at argenteuil, 1875 / counting crows, a long december / anna mary ‘grandma’ robertson moses, snow ball / natalie diaz, manhattan is a lenape word / laetitia de haas, birds in a winter garden / fritz ward, love letter from inside fatherhood / nate klug, advent / serhiy shyshko, saint volodymyr's hill / w. s. merwin, song of three smiles / charlotte joan sternberg, home through the pines ii / mike chasar, conches on christmas / alfred sisley, la maison sous la neige, 1878 / robert creeley, the door / claude monet, the magpie / sarah kay, winter without you

[rjshope]

Amazing Jin | W Korea

[tazmiilly]

theyre sending me new wires for my tablet all the way from Tennessee...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Daughter of delta Yu, show them that you're no fool!

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[raycatzdraws]

I saw an opportunity to make a meme and I took it.

Turtle shirt!

[pocketgalaxies]

Me and my friends are going are going on a mission that is important and could change a lot of stuff, and I feel like something bad is gonna happen. There's doom on the horizon. But I still think it's right that we're going. (for @overnighttosunflowers)

[kenna-cube]

Bumblebee yeeting himself off the bridge was something I really wanted to draw after I saw @moonlight-tmd post here ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ the scenario was just so cute!

I left it up to your guy’s imagination on what song blitzwing blasting. XD

This hyperfixation is serious my dudes, I haven’t sat at my desk for hours simply drawing/finishing a comic in forever. The rate I’m drawing and posting content has not been seen in years ｡ﾟ(>ヮ<)ﾟ