#i will sit here having thoughts tho

[dogcollarpunk]

urge to draw smth I have absolutely 0 reason to draw

[demaparbat-hp]

Oh, Lala...

[ryllen]

When he saved me on Glorious Masquerade, I finally understand why people like him (so thoughtful huhu .. TT TT)

[puppyeared]

axolotl

[ink-the-artist]

forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol

[b4kuch1n]

the legends speak of it as a kind of enthrallment: the life ended by the tiger is tied to the tiger. in this way there is a line of souls following the beast, for no reason except to show that they were killed. that they could be saved - if only the beast would die [...] in the dark of the wood you see it walk, shadow to shadow, followed by loss after loss after loss, a tail trailing seemingly into the deep death of night [...]

[jpegsthatmove]

So many of the people we meet in the dragon age series are working to move their world backwards, to restore something lost. They remember or read and long for how it used to be. It reminds me of my grandparents, always complaining about how much better things were when they were growing up in the Great Depression. The ones powerful enough to act on it (Solas, Corypheus, Harrowmont, Patrice, Loghain even the Chantry and the Wardens) bring violence and oppression with them. They are desperate and robbed of hope.

Contrast them with Varric, Cassandra, Dagna, Dorian, and even Iron Bull. They may be cynical, brash, and even violent, but they look forward to what can be. They remember the past, but do not idolize it. Instead, mistakes reassure them that this too can be overcome and galvanize them to make the future better. They don't waste energy fighting the current of time, they invest it forward. I think of the banter between Solas and Varric about the dwarves Solas saw in the Fade. Varric reads the stories as hopeful and content. Solas sees them as melancholic, yearning for the past.

Every character has experienced profound loss. They have been cut off, amputated from what has been. The first set sees themselves as the severed limb, the other the rest of the body; they mourn but continue to nourish themselves. The Tranquil and how others view their humanity, or personhood, echoes this dichotomy. The robbing them of emotions and agency, infantialization and lack of empathy. They are treated as vestigial persons - the limb cut from the body. Those who advocate and care for them are treated as oddities, but even they are guilty of the same views at times. But they still want to live, if you ask them. They have desires and aspirations and purpose the same as anyone.

If Solas views this world as effectively made Tranquil, what does his drive to end it say about his character. Do Tranquil not deserve a chance at life? Does someone like Sandal deserve to be put down? He removed the Inquisitor's arm to save their body. Does that make them any less valuable? These people, so stuck on what used to be, they blind themselves to the value of what is and the possibility of what will be.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Honestly your tags are so fun to read every time, i'm almost more excited for them than the actual post (but not entirely because your art is SO GOOD!!!! i adore it). If you don't mind me asking, what are you studying?

i am studying psychology because i refuse to see a therapist so ill figure out whats wrong with me myself !!!!!!!

[sxcret-garden]

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[nobodybetterlookatme]

How do you ask someone out with plausible deniability lmao like do you just ask them to dinner or something or is that too obvious ahskamskls

[wormy-worm]

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

[paula-in-dreamland]

Am I crazy or is acting seen and valued as a career in the UK so much more than the US?! Like, the amount of actors who not only started young in plays/theater companies then went onto specialized drama schools is astronomical? I feel like in the US, there are not a lot of theatre companies aside from major cities (and even then, its hard to get your foot in the door for these productions or you need $$$$). Other than that, you’re taking advantage of your school’s theater programs and hope they are good/well-funded. For example, my brother’s school also had acting as an elective, which he took as it was an easy A as a naturally talented actor. But, my school did not. Just had theatre tech. And yes, we had a strong theater program but I also was way too anxious to audition except for the Middle School musical twice and DramaFest my junior year. Also please note - both of these schools were prestigious private schools. ALL OF THIS TO SAY - Am I crazy? Do we devalue the arts more than the UK?

[atopvisenyashill]

got tagged to name my top 10 favorite characters by @allyriadayne thank you 💜💜

i want to preface this with “favorite” does not mean “good” or “i recommend this series” or “i love this author” it literally just means these are my favorite characters ajsjdj

john crichton from farscape

bran stark from asoiaf

eugenides attolis from the queen's thief

athena agathon from battlestar galactica

jem carstairs from the infernal devices

martha jones from doctor who

make mori from pacific rim

mal bertha from descendants (not the george clooney movie, the disney series directed by gay icon kenny ortega)

hai cobriana from the kiesha'ra series

aila from rhymes for young ghouls

mimi marquez from rent the musical she’s tied with aila okay i couldn’t decide between them leave me alone 😭😭

i tag @riana-one @thewaaywetalk @saltywinteradult @kingcunny @fantasynovel @transdimensional-void

[castielafflicted]

what is it w christians and demonizing various forms of pleasure. like the fuck. if god created the human body why would he give it the ability to experience various forms of pleasure (not just sex) if you werent allowed it. like they could make the argument abt the fruit in the garden or the devil being the one that caused it but like. why the fuck are you interested in a god that doesnt like you enjoying yourself and being happy.

[lesbiansanemi]

Still thinking about the conversation I had with my roommate’s bf like two weeks ago where he said he was scared of furries but also didn’t even know enough about furries to know they were called furries I had to figure out wtf he was talking about. The urge to become a full blown furry now. Despite having all the makings of a furry I for some reason have never ended up enthusiastically becoming one despite my best efforts. Well. With spite as my motivator here we are. Where are the furry artists, I’m commissioning both my tentative ideas for my fursonas. I’m inviting all my friends who are furries over and we’re gonna work on making fursuits. I will also make this a hostile living situation for you AND I will get the added bonus of doing fun furry stuff

[chibishortdeath]

Simon derangement page number um I lost count!!! Time to explain things and transcribe my handwriting lol >:3

I put a photo of the whole page here because some things were hard to single out into separate images :)

A pose study! I was trying to work on foreshortening with that arm position. Just imagine that he’s talking to someone off screen and sweating cause he’s been working out or something d(^^ )

Two of these are based on some reaction image doodles I ran into on Pinterest that I’m pretty certain originated on tumblr lol. The bottom left one says “*realization*” and the top right one says “deranged —>” with the arrow pointing to our Mr. Deranged in question, Simon. The Simon and Richter one is kinda poking fun at the general Smash Bros fandom depiction of them and is also based on a doodle I saw on Pinterest.

Bottom left says “he has 97 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces” lol. Dw! He is your friend! I just forgot to write that part :). I hope the tbh creature doodle is appreciated, I’ve drawn him like that more times than I’d like to admit—

This one is based on a photo of this guy (gotta be a Snapchat one idk I’ve never had Snapchat) with a monster energy and caption “KILL”. I think it fits the vibe.

Bottom left says “monsert!”, a silly bastardizarion of “monster”, again the energy drink. I feel like Simon would be the kind of guy to have caffeine at like 6PM and then wonder why he can’t sleep later lmao. Or worse have caffeine to avoid sleeping 💀. The other two doodles I drew because I woke up one morning and immediately imagined Simon with raccoon stripe hair for no reason.

This one is based on a tumblr post, it says “(Simon) the psychiatrist diagnosed me with divine madness” “(Christopher) any other diagnosises you’d like to share?” “(Simon) Autism”. That ending panel of Simon saying autism ended up a sticker in a discord server I’m in lmaooooo. Also I need to have more Simon and Christopher interactions cause I think they’d be friends aaaaa

The top doodle is based on a Simon MMD model I found of him as a Vocaloid and I thought that was hilarious and banger, we need more people making fun crossover stuff like that in the world lol. The bottom one is just him vibin(?). Idk he seems pretty distressed, but that’s his usual state so uh—

Another little pose doodle. I think his preferred sitting position is like criss cross applesauce on the floor. I don’t think he’d sit normally in chairs at all. I am now picturing him leaning a chair back too far help 💀.

This one is based on this meme that’s kinda poking fun at the art styles commonly found in yaoi with the last one being left blank for putting whatever you like there and implying in a comedic way that it’s ‘straight man yaoi’, I’ve seen ones with things like football players or idk Breaking Bad put there lol. Basically I saw the meme and realized that all the different styles kinda lined up too well with some Simon designs and well yeah this happened 💀💀💀. So we got Ayami Kojima’s design as “straight woman yaoi”, the NES cover art/X68000 as “gay man yaoi”, Simon’s Quest as “lesbian yaoi”, and Captain N thrown into “straight man yaoi” lmaooo.

Okie that’s all for this one, I will make more inevitably lol