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vaguely mentioned this in my recap but those things are long and just me live-blogging
celia is the ONLY tea drinker in the OIAR, everyone else drinks coffee
i think this goes on the list of evidence for why she's from the TMA universe
the magnus institute was tea centered, it was martin's whole thing and all of them drank tea
actually, elias drank coffee didn't he? sorry vaguely off topic but he had coffee when melanie poisoned him. i wonder if that's also symbolic of him not belonging either, he was out of place because his ass was not elias. that's DEFINITELY a reach but it's interesting
the OIAR is coffee centered, but celia drinks tea, because she does not belong there, she's from Somewhere Else
very interesting to use the drinks as symbolism, unless i'm reaching
#idk i could be wrong#i love symbolism though#and i think celia is really interesting#i mean even her being celia ripley is evidence of her being from the TMA verse#because her name is not celia ripley its lynne.. hammond? is that right?#so her counterpart should be named lynne hammond??#idk it could also be celia picked her name after her memory loss because it was drawn to her from alternate universes#who knows#the magnus protocol#tmagp#magnus protocol#tmagp spoilers#the magnus pod#tma spoilers#celia ripley#lynne hammond
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ok so did anyone else jump at the lore potential and imagery and symbolism of joel walking down a long narrow corridor to a red door he created to end his series completely of his own volition only for the trap to not work and embarrass him in front of the spectators who were all watching at the time btw. so he just had to go off and kill himself with ender pearl spam. anyone else
#like ok. symbolism cancelled i guess#but also it was so insanely fucking funny like joel never change oh my god#bonus points if you are also a tma fan and started thinking about the spiral. you get it. not anymore though hashtag failwizard#like thats sooooo embarrassing i love it. imagine winning but youre so cringefail you cant even kill yourself with your own trap so you just#have to start literally throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks (will kill you)#wild life spoilers#trafficblr#elfy talks#life series#life series spoilers#life series smp#smallishbeans#joel smallishbeans#wild life#wild life smp#mcyt
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#dont even get me started on the cat/animal symbolism in Aeon Social Link#anyway. all this to say that though hes designed and shown to be a sadboy#i think Minato was happy at the end :) thats all that matters to me#persona 3 reload#makoto yuki#persona 3#minato arisato#p3#p3re#p3p#aishi.docx#my favorite character who's meant to be a silent protagonist but says so much through actions......#i love him so much.#this game quite literally changed my life idk how it did it#so efficiently
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my piece for @thecodywanzine! thanks to the mods who let me go completely ham and cheese on this bad boy. this one's about living longer than you ever expected and not knowing what to do with it
#they're having a leftover sale with free shipping if you want a ridiculous amount of art and merch for an insanely low price#codywan#commander cody#obi-wan kenobi#star wars#comics#codywan zine#i went kinda nuts with the sun symbolism on this one. even i feel like its hamfisted but like listen am i not going to self-indulge#if not in a shipping zine piece then where#hope and love and the sun and etc can be an. omelette. spanish omelette specifically. that you share with your fambly#food cw#its also about looking at your best friend over a table and going. i lvoe you. i love you. i want to spend the rest of my life with you#i want to see the future with you. im so glad we're both alive even though i thought we'd both be dead by now#bytebun draws#lets not talk about the way there is zero consistency in my art style. <3
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#kingdom hearts dream drop distance#khddd#sora#riku#nightmare's end#mirage split#my gif#i was going to write up a whole thing in the tags about my thoughts on this keyblade#but i just know it'll be an incoherent essay because i can't properly articulate my thoughts#the x-blade must be forged through a clash of light and darkness#but i find it so highly significant that sora and riku can create their own keyblade which is so unheard of#this keyblade isn't created with a clash but rather through harmony and balance#not with conflict but with understanding and connection and love#and i always felt as though that's how the x-blade SHOULD be forged. that master xehanort went about it all wrong#because balance and connections are such important themes in these games#it has two handles and looks so regal when combined. all of the shapes feel reminiscent of the x-blade too#it shines so brilliantly with both sora and riku's symbols. the heart and crown which is the iconic logo for the entire series#also the way stained glass is always used to represent hearts. it's so significant!#and yeah the paupu fruit keychain is its own thing to unpack#okay so i ended up writing something anyway but there's still so much more#i just really hope we get to see more of this in future games because it would be shocking if it was nothing more than a cool combo attack
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i would like to imagine that after machete dies, vasco starts collecting red things. red, like the soles of machetes shoes and the hems of his cassocks, the front of his nightgowns after a heavy nosebleed. or maybe he collects pink things, like machete's nose and ears and paw pads, or things white like his fur. he never collects anything black, however. red like the hems but never black like the fabric. black is too sad. it's grief, it's unfathomable loss and it means admitting machete is actually gone, stolen from the world. but ludovica is there, and she indulges his collections in little ways on the occasion. it's a small comfort, her love for her husband in their lavender way.
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#whh#why must you wound me like this anon#coming to my inbox and saying this to my face like it's nothing#/j#no I do love this headcanon#especially since red and pink are practically absent from Vasco's intended color scheme#red is Machete's theme color and his personal favorite in-universe#but it's also sort of a symbol of his ambition and obsession with his career which eventually got him trapped and led to his demise#so even though I believe Vasco finds him dashing in red he would also feel attached to pale pinks and whites#because if you strip Machete of his red and black work persona that's what's left#and I'd imagine moments like those are what he cherishes the most#answered#anonymous#Vaschete scenarios#Ludovica ;o;#I love her I need to draw her again >:T
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you know im unable to shut up when i have any opinion on zelda (though i try and have thus far succeeded at not commenting on any other concept from the darn book)- i find most totk ganondorf concept art worse than what we got to insulting even (of those i have seen) ..... this one though
much more the one in the background than the one up front, still at least he has the collar and the weapon we saw in the first trailer of things that never happen in the end (like so much else)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#it looks like he got actual shoes in the bg one#which i like#also the big flowing robe is jsut cool as fuck#i like old japanese aesthetic but i still dont think it fits at all in totk#like its so clearly done to other him from the gerudo despite wearing their symbol all over#idk it looks so much more unique and memorable#sorry but totk gan normal looks a lil boring though i like the pattern in the robe#and his deeeemon form looks more like they tried to do demise again but not quite#like yeah lets use the design things on the uncool and forgotten and possibly retconned villain#and staple it too the much more known one :)#like yes he looks different from the gerudo still and very much still japanese in this concept#but it .... just kinda looks more unique and interesting to me#like in an either go all the way or leave it kinda way#yes i am biased#i love both demise and gan#anyway- i am still a prisoner of art (cant draw weeeee)#(plus IRL stress with my parents and weather change thus migraine yippiiie)
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canary tree
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#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi canaries#dunmeshi#they're so fun to draw i love them#fleki is so fluffy... and she's being gentle with the canary don't worry#it also occurs to me that this looks like it has symbolic intent. i don't know what my intent was though#canary elf... canary bird... bird cage... prison?? i honestly can't remember the thought process#maybe i just thought it looked cool#i also tried a new coloring style on this! it's like vaguely glowy#not that it means much. basically everything i draw has a different coloring style whether i want it to or not pfft#but i did it on purpose this time#fan art#my art#mithrun#pattadol#cithis#lycion#fleki#otta
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fortified by age-old condolences
drawings of the northern lights
god, give us clearer skies
open-eyed, entangled in promises
furthering the questions asked
hands tied behind our backs
bared fangs behind a mask
shaking violently. hey guys. aur. aura mirabelle animatic. can anyone hear me in here. c
ok. i’m not actually making any promises here. i don’t know video editing and also!!!! ive got weird fucked up motivation. the last time i tried to make an animatic was like 4 years ago and i forgot about it after a day. but the Temptations. so for now (indeterminate amount of time) you’re just getting the intro tarot cards. For Now.
also for anyone who’s curious, the cards shown here are the sun reversed, the moon upright, and the stars reversed!! i just kept them the same as they were in the mv. from my Extremely Surface Level understanding, the sun reversed can represent pessimism and ignorance, the moon can represent mystery and self-deception, and the stars reversed can represent a loss of faith! again though, i’m not well versed in tarot card readings in Any Way, please let me know if i’m wrong about anything here!
also for convenience and stuff, here’s the flipped version!! again, no idea if i’m ever going to do more with this idea lol. dddon’t get your hopes up or anything
#marshdoodles#isat#in stars and time#isat spoilers#i love making mira’s hair Fucking Massive but god it’s going to make placing that halo such a pain in the ass if i go through with this#im actually really proud of how i drew mira’s hair here though. idk why???#also the halos are supposed to like. resemble the change symbol a little? with the rings?#iii dunno. i’ll have to figure that out later#anyways. trembling. do you guys see the vision.#also!!!! it’ll be my birthday soon!!!! like. 24 hours soon!!!!!#i should finish up my isatsona for that. teehees
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David holding his Celebrity Ally of the Year award at the 2024 British LGBT Awards today.
#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#2024 British LGBT Awards#that suit though#he’s our butterfly sugar baby#so much symbolism#his fashion choices just keep getting queerer#and i am here for it#saying a lot by saying very little#love this so much#and so well deserved#happy pride month indeed#<3
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These aren't full ref sheets but I was trying to take some clear pictures of Hephaistos for later art reasons and then got side tracked doing all of the Pandaemonium bosses so here they are in order. Also for anyone following who doesn't play FFXIV and knows it as the catgirl game, enjoy this instead? VISUAL SPOILERS obviously.
Asphodelos
Warder of the Condemned: Erichthonios
Mythic Creation: The Hippokampos
Mythic Creation: The Phoinix
(+ familiars)
Hemitheos: Hesperos
(+ sexy fanfic redesign by Nemjiji)
To be brutally honest I never really liked either of these designs compared to every other Hemitheos we get, I think the really brutal black and red of the Phoinix is weakened by gold accents, but I still am always down for gay vampire surf rock. The Savage version kind of looks like Ultimalius as well if you've played XVI.
Abyssos
Mythic Creation: Proto-Carbuncle
Hrgrhhgrhrgrh
Hemitheos: Hegemone
^ My favourite detail on this is you can see the parasite's outlines in her robes and in her legs, then right through the eye holes on the mask to wrap around the torso. I'm convinced this version of Hegemone is functionally an ant being piloted by a cordyceps infection.
Hemitheos: Agdistis
She's very big
Perfect Imperfection: Hephaistos
I'm probably biased by Abyssos being the first raid I was there for day of release but these really are all fantastic. It's also when the story abandons all pretense of not being (at least partly) about family abuse and is loudly using the body horror and shackle motifs to talk about that. It's great. Hephaistos specifically is constantly bulging and twisting in and out of different forms like a highly unstable chimera and the more I look at these the more I notice parts that just should not be there. He's giving everything.
As for the Savage design It's a hard thing to rate as such but my favourite part is the veins that grow down from the eyeholes in his mask like bloody tears.
Thanks Abyssos I love you
Anabaseios
Mythic Creation: Kokytos
Dæmoniac Dungeon: Pandæmonium
It's really hard to communicate how huge this nasty tumor crab I zoomed out as far as physically possible in the game engine and subsequently ended up at a goofy angle staring up his nose.
Ephemeral Justice: Themis
Best boy. The double ended lance and second pair of arms are fantastic for this character.
Theos: Athena
In.. almost every final fantasy adventure you're fighting the real villain not at the very end but a little beforehand, the big iconic end boss is often more a metaphorical figure representing everything wrong with that first person's ideals. Athena cut out the middle man and became her own JENOVA.
I do like the moth angel, especially the hollow body full of dubious orbs, but with her eyes closed all the time it gives off the impression of this not even being the true body but some kind of anglerfish lure in the shape of a fairy... which might be true because this exists:
I really really love her twitchy anemone feelers and how the moth body ends up grafted to the rest of it waist down.
Anyway there's the gang I did not specifically intend for this to be design reviews I just wanted to have clear photos because when you actually see them in game there's other things to focus on. In hindsight I can appreciate more the theming of each tier and then the series as a whole, but my only (extremely obvious) observation for now is that every character Athena had a personal hold over is decorated in chains somehow and so I should have seen the Hegemone thing coming lmao. Heph and Aggy are still my favourites I don't think that's changing any time soon. I'm also noticing that Anabaseios is now just old enough for random DF parties to fuck up severely and I find that fun so I'm going to go fight the crab mansion now.
#ffxiv#endwalker spoilers#pandaemonium#ff14#let him speak#dante plays catboy simulator#Erich's transformation is unlike everyone else here he can just do that normally#none of the body horror is present that's just what he looks like when he's not a little guy in a robe#but I do find it really fascinating that you get with these Ancient characters a second symbolic body#and his is completely wrapped up in chains there's a hole in his heart#and the little plinth on his head where his dad's mask sits#Heph's designs are all very unnatural though and I think the reason I love it so much is just how much all of it screams pain and misery#Not an outwardly depressive character but just look at this dude#fun in comparison to athena who has made herself into a glowing white angel with three different halos and one has a crown#it's such an egotistical design lmao
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“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#rottmnt leo#rise leo#listen it’s morning now and I haven’t slept so bear with me for the sudden unwarranted lyric analysis haha#a lotttt of the lyrics work so well for him#not even just the overall theme the words just work great#first lyric is literally ‘I can’t help it if I make a scene’ which is one to one with ‘Leo’s makin a scene’ from the rottmnt opening like-#‘I’m turning heads and I’m stopping traffic’ -> Leo has not made it a secret that he values his looks a LOT#-not just his looks but also his ability to get people’s attention#‘when I pose they scream when I joke they laugh’ -> I feel like this speaks for itself#-posing and joking for the crowd and himself#‘I’ve got them dazzled like a stage magician’ -> works both with Leo’s canonical love of magicians and his aptitude with tricks in general#‘well everybody needs a friend and I’ve got you and you and you’ -> I just think it’d be cute to imagine his friends here just as his bros#‘I got you and you and you’ = ‘my brainy guy my smashing guy and eats peanut butter with his fingers guy’#‘haven’t you noticed that I’m a star?’ -> Leo loves attention and especially loves when his feats and efforts are acknowledged#+ he loves glam rock and sci-fi and being a champ and - listen he has a LOT of star symbolism with him#‘haven’t you noticed I made it this far’ - Leo is well aware of how dangerous situations get and thinks himself only a part of a whole#-so hey it’s notable that he’s survived this long yeah?#‘now everyone can see me burning’ -> self-sacrificing with his family bearing witness + all his star and flame symbolism in general#+ how attention naturally goes to him - including bad attention where his mistakes are highlighted and burn bright#also even the limo lyric-#obviously this boy has never and will never own a limo but one of his main secondary colors IS pink so even that#okay that one is just a joke but he would#(on that note though I think the other colors the boys gravitate to outside THEIR color are fun to notice)#I don’t actually know too much about Steven universe beyond the songs and some eps but I like the music#and this just came to my tired mind so here you go anyone who’s interested#may draw something with these lyrics dunno yet#it’s a good song in any case even though it’s super short
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#person's art#the magnus protocol#magnus protocol fanart#ink5oul#fanart#They're so cool#Maybe I'll develop this beyond a sketch#maybe I won't#Not sure rn#Magnus Protocol spoilers#TMP 21#Also I NEED to see what that snake tatt does#Though I do enjoy the hc of it extending along their fingers and acting as fangs#Man they're cool#art#Also the image of them having freckles/acne that leak black#I love them I hope they die#Honestly having a bit of trouble w their tatts#they're implied to be covered in the things but other than the snake and some alchemical symbols I'm not sure what to put on 'em#I'm open to suggestions
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MDZS Equineswap AU part 1: Bro we are horses. It’s okay to cry around me, we are best friends. Bro we are kissing.
[girl side of the swap]
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#equineswap au#that first teen wwx is so clearly a warm up i almost want to ‘accidently’ let the pasture gates open and let him roam#I really love how YLLZ pony came out though! All of them were made with love and thats what counts#I feel very strongly about teen wangji in dressage braids#its a neat and proper look! Almost overly formal and constricted! He lets it go free as Big Horse Wangji as *Symbolism*#and yes they have cutie marks in this AU. WWX’s used to be a lotus flower#designated chilling in the lake pony#lwj brands himself later on. in memorium for when wwx got his cutie mark branded as well#HGJ pony really *should be an alicorn but I was defeated by the wings#part two (the otherside of the swap) tomorrow!#This is my 3 month anniversary and follower milestone thank you#’OP why’ its my blog and I get to make the equine AU
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It's so weird that in angel s5e2 they do a little flashback to Spike's blaze of glory moment in the last episode of Buffy... but they leave out Buffy saying "I love you". It's such a blatant omission, the ONLY omission from that scene, that it feels totally deliberate and kind of dishonest. Considering a lot of the Spike and Angel moments in S5 revolve around their jealousy and rivalry towards each other, and a LOT of that is to do with Buffy like... Why would you leave it out? It's a pretty big moment for Spike's character in general.
As far as I recall they don't even mention it, they just mention the fact that Spike and Buffy have had a lot of sex compared to bangel's ONE disastrous time (that they remember) but it does kind of cheapen it for Spike. A big motivation for him not leaving LA could have been him not wanting to hold Buffy to her words, since he clearly doesn't believe that she loves him (even though she does, as per Whedon). He presumably thinks she only said that to make him feel better in his final moments, because she wouldn't have to actually follow through on her words. Which is sad. But it makes much more sense as a motivation than the weird 'it cheapens my moment of glory' excuse like since when does spike give a shit about that
#spuffy#idk missed opportunity for sure. maybe it's brought up later in the season? I can't remember rn#but they do kind of shunt spike's complexity and make his character all about angel's feelings#though don't get me wrong i LOVE their fight over the cup#i love the symbolism of spike being able to hold the cross while angel can't.#spike pointing out that he fought for his soul while angel had to be forced to change is sooooo cathartic#because that's the thing about angel is he's not inherently a good person. he has to continually fight to be better#he's the faith to spike's buffy#btvs thoughts#btvs#anyway their continued insistence that buffy and angel are soulmates that transcend any other relationships#is rly detrimental to both buffy and angel as characters imo. as well as any other relationships they might have#cordelia and spike who actually put in the work to get to know them as people are automatically relegated to second fiddle#dont get me wrong i love bangel for the angst but i dont buy that buffy will always be in love w the same guy she barely knew at age 16
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I know I said I would do the fruit trio fanart like, a month ago, BUT I FINALLY FINISHED IT YAY.
I procrastinated a lot ngl T-T
but hey, angst.
#minecraft#mctv#minecraft rp#artists on tumblr#fanart#artistsupport#art#outsiders smp#owenjuicetv#outsiders smp fanart#owengejuice fanart#fruit trio#Apo outsiders smp#Rasbi outsiders smp#I swear if I wrote names wrong I'll cry#LOOK AT THEM#IM' SO NOT OVER IT#OWEN YOU ARE EVIL#/jk#BUT WHY#MY BELOVEDS#This is the reason I made a betrayal playlist#the symbolism is symbolisming#Yes Ik that's not a real word#my art#and I can't help but LOVE YOU#even though I try NOT TO#screaming crying sobbing#war of hearts#is killing me
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