#i'm very intuitive

[maxdibert]

In Rowling's first books, Snape is older than 50 years old and in the illustrations he looks 50 years old, not 31 years old. After the third book, she began to come up with the Snape Lily line. Rowling's drawing shows a man of about 50 years old, not 31 years old.

I actually disagree. I think that, at first, Rowling intended for James and Severus to have a rivalry over Lily, but she hadn’t planned out the full backstory between Lily and Severus, nor had she decided that James would be a bully. That’s why James’s initial portrayal is so different from how he’s later shown. We know that Lily was a self-insert for Rowling and that James was inspired by her then-husband (in fact, if you look at photos of Rowling’s ex, he is James Potter—I was shocked when I saw him because he looked exactly like how I had imagined James in my head). And what better way to insert herself into the story than as the saintly, Mother Teresa-like figure who gives her life for her son and becomes a venerated icon, with two men fighting over her, but ultimately choosing the handsome, popular athlete? From a psychological analysis standpoint, it’s crystal clear what’s going on here.

But what a coincidence that Rowling not only changed her portrayal of James, but also started to considerably soften Severus’s character exactly when she divorced Jorge Arantes? And what a coincidence that after having a million problems with him and publicly accusing him of being an abusive husband, she suddenly releases Order of the Phoenix and James is portrayed as a bully with no clear reason, and the whole subplot of Severus being a victim of the Marauders begins?

My personal intuition (and I’m rarely wrong) is that Rowling initially didn’t plan for James to be a bully, but after divorcing Arantes and realizing that he had been a terrible person, she projected that onto James and turned him into someone just as abusive as her ex. Obviously, by then, she had already established a lot of the story and couldn’t change everything, but it’s pretty clear from how the first two books are written that the original idea wasn’t for James to bully Severus, but rather for them to be rivals over Lily (hence Lupin’s comment about Severus envying James for Quidditch, which makes no sense even for him to say because Remus knew the real backstory). But in the end, she changed it so that James was just a complete bully for no reason.

That’s why this supposed “transformation” of James is extremely inconsistent, and why it’s hard to understand how Lily and James ended up together after everything she witnessed. That’s why Lily’s sanctimonious, ultra-moral personality doesn’t make any sense when you consider that she willingly married an abusive man—because that probably wasn’t the original plan, so it either ended up being a plot hole or just an inconsistency between the character and what we’re told about her.

[floating-goblin-art]

A humble offering, I haven't played in ages but this one was fun

[sysig]

Growing closer than expected (Patreon)

[ave-immaculata]

fellas we're once again wrestling with imperfect vs. perfect contrition and why imperfect contrition with a firm resolution to not sin again and promptly receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation doesn't save

[13eyond13]

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

[soranker]

Hiiii not sure if anyone's asked this yet but any advice on how to improve on art & anatomy? I use to draw a lot wayyyy back in high school but then stopped because of life getting in the way but now I really wanted to get back into art but realized my art isn't as good as it use to be & I never really cared too much about studying anatomy so all my anatomy/proportions are really wack & I'd like to get better at it. Hope you're having a good day!!! 💞💞💞

HI!!! i dont have any formal training in anatomy nor have i really done any studies, so unfortunately i think i can only offer general advice, but hopefully you can still find it helpful! here's what i'd recommend based on my own experience...

focus on proportions BEFORE anatomy! nailing down the size/length of each body part in relation to each other will give you a good foundation before getting into the specifics of anatomy, since you can practice this with simple shapes (circles, boxes, tubes, etc.). then practice anatomy/build on top of that, rather than trying to figure them out in parallel

practice from real life observation/references (ex. figure drawing)! even if you want to draw stylized, it'll be much more helpful in the long run if you study from real life. you'll be a lot more informed in how body parts actually connect to each other or how they move. observe observe observe! take pics of yourself/watch how your body moves--you can be your own most accessible resource, and a mirror and camera can be your best friends

find a way to keep yourself motivated to practice anatomy! everyone says that you only get better with practice and time... and it's true! but i can understand that sometimes it's hard to motivate yourself. if you ask me, draw your favorite characters :) it's literally all i do HAHA. my mentality is that... if i'm drawing something that i like then the practice feels less of a chore lol

[vaguely-concerned]

to the cooking sites that include temperature in celcius and metric system measurements in their recipes: I owe you my life. the rest of you are on thin fucking ice with me right now

[lelelego]

i'm also now on INPRNT for those who wanted prints! :D if you would like to see something specific on there feel free to reach out!!

[kiwi-luminaryofthestars]

03/20/2025 Progress Update:

TLDR: Went over draft one more time and got another 600-ish words down. It's editing time.

Just fucking polished the draft with some spit today, idk honestly where the 600 words went. Probably dialogue? I moved around/tweaked a lot of it. It's the most important thing to me, when I draft, to get the dialogue nearly completely solidified before editing. It's gotta sound like the characters in my head first and foremost. And I like when the prose flows around the dialogue, not the other way around.

I'm so fucking tired so apologies if this is wildly incoherent ramblings but another important thing to me when I write is flooowwwwww. When your eyes naturally move from sentence to sentence, like one big stream of thought. That way, it's more of an impact when the flow is interrupted. Puts more weight on certain phrases/words. Like a poem, I guess? A 75K word poem lmao

This is dumb and wildly off-topic (brain doing cartwheels rn) but I don't think I ever said how fucking funny I found it to give Shuichi a resume in chapter 4 lolll. It's like not the important information in that chapter at all, but just imagining Shuichi goddamn Saihara, Ultimate Detective, having a fucking resume was hilarious to me. In early drafts, I had three paragraphs talking about what he included on his resume because I liked it so much, then realized it was probably boring lol and scrapped it.

Y'know what I'm thinking now, though, is Kokichi resume would be even funnier. Not like thwwich Kokichi ('cause it'd probably actually be crazy desirable for an employer lol) but canon Kokichi. I'm gonna put that together eventually for no one's amusement but my own.

Anyway. Fucking Lord I'm tired.

(Void journal, and it's complainy so I'm sorry in advance) I haven't been sleeping well at all these past couple of weeks. Don't know why. It's not even nightmares this time (which I mean, that's nice, I usually have pretty bad nightmares so I'm grateful) but I'm just not sure what else is causing it. Maybe anxiety? That's been pretty bad lately, too. But then I gotta find the source of the anxiety and I'm even less certain of where that's coming from (work? school? family? moving? all of it?? idkkk). Just a general sense of dread all the time. Yay?

I'm wondering if it's just the time of year, though. My mental health tends to follow a predictable pattern, which I honestly should track one of these days so I can be like "Yeah, depression is scheduled for next week, gotta prep for that". But then I'm sure all I'll learn is it follows my menstrual cycle lmao because of course that's what it'll be. Kiwi gets crabby.

I'm gonna shut up and go to bed now. And then edit tomorrow. Hopefully won't take too long. Just gotta put that 115 wpm typing speed to work and it'll be great (subtlest brag ever, look at how humble she is)

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I know I've talked about the issues with indigenous languages and their inaccessibility for people from their cultures and how easily outsiders learning those languages can become disrespectful and even colonialist

but if Duolingo started offering Anishinaabemowin courses (made by actual Anishinaabe speakers and educators who are WELL COMPENSATED and TREATED FAIRLY), I would be on that shit in a fucking heartbeat.

[shitpostingkats]

You ever draw your character in an outfit that absolutely slays and then sit back and go

"Shit. The allos might read this the wrong way."

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

i know creative types say this all the time but it really does feel less like i am designing characters and more like they are already people revealing themselves to me piecemeal

[aliusfrater]

who r ur fav spn directors

the only director i've ever particularly noticed and enjoyed is kim manners and while robert singer's stuff is typically the 'standard', i think he's pretty good about intention. robert duncan mcneill has done some good stuff it's just unfortunate that one of his only two works for the show was written by bedlund

[epicstreathoard]

My very first attempt at a Vtuber rig! This was 100% drawn and rigged by me. There's some jank going on but overall I'm really happy with it!

[cosmogyros]

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[fallloverfic]

hey hey so glad to have found you on tumblr. it was a bit hard for me to find content creators for ennead on this site, oddly enough

i saw some of your ask me prompts and i was wondering if you could do 4 and 10?

Hello!! And welcome :3 Thank you for the ask!! And yeah, tumblr is very quiet for the fandom. Twitter, pixiv, Ao3, and instagram are far more hopping.

I think this is for the ENNEAD ask me meme, so I'll answer based on that!

4. Who is your favorite character (if you have one)?

Shockingly I know, after publishing 48 fanfics that star or otherwise feature him in some fashion... it is Seth alkdjaldja he is best boi for me. Sad man, angry man. Love him. He's beautiful, he's tragic, he's fun. I love the way Mojito is exploring so many things with him, whether it's suicidal ideation, self-destructive tendencies, self-blame for things that are out of your control, cycles of violence, anxiety, responsibility... Just a lot of things. I love his power set (no pun intended). Shapeshifter characters have been my favorites since I was little (big fan of werewolves and shifters generally, and always have been, pretty sure it's why The Little Mermaid and other similar stories about water people who can change their shape have always stuck with me), especially when they can like dissolve into particles and reform. And I love his relationship with Horus. He's also really smart and can be quite thoughtful and I love how creative he is. Also I love when he gets into Situations. Angsty, whumpy man.

Second place is Horus. I love him so much. He's gorgeous, he's such a fun character, and he's hilarious. And his wings are so gorgeous T-T He and Seth are so cute and I go feral whenever I see them.

I like most of the cast, though.

10. How do you think ENNEAD will end?

I don't have good luck with guessing what Mojito will do intentionally, so take this with a lot of grains of salt lol I do have some luck doing it unintentionally when I write things into fics with like, "This would be cool if it happened", and then it kind of does lol And I do have some luck guessing what she won't do, so. Anywho.

We know Horuseth is the endgame ship, so they'll end up together. I assume they'll rule Egypt together in some fashion or, worst case, go off into the sunset together. Seth will fully get his powers back and the curse will be resolved. I imagine whatever's going on with Hathor's mirror will also be resolved (I think Nephthys was split into two people, and she'll be recombined and get all her memories back, and I think Hathor did it to take revenge for Ra). I'm still on the fence for whether Horus will actually "ascend" properly or not, or what that'll look like. He's kind of a strange demigod (Nut calls him the "link between the gods and humankind" (S02E44)), so I wonder if he won't actually ascend/he already has. But his ascension might also just be different than other gods, at which point I think Isis will step aside and let him rule fully on his own, with her help as needed. He doesn't marry Hathor. She gets booted out of Heliopolis. I also don't personally think he's going to lose his memory. He could, but on top of the circumstances around the whole "ascension involves memory loss" thing being still kind of unclear and questionable, he's a special kind of demigod/god, and his power involves knowing things. I think he'll be fine.

I assume Osiris will be defeated in Duat in some fashion (possibly by Seth, Horus, Anubis, and maybe FG) and just be stuck down there, stewing (Mojito likes sticking to the original mythology in a lot of ways, and I don't think she'd like... perma-dissolve Osiris of all people), and he and Anubis will be on more of a balanced power stance, and just sort of share a power domain. I feel like part of ENNEAD's conclusion will involve Anubis leaving his control and just coming into his own power entirely. And he gets his memories of Seth back to some degree.

I assume FG will head home after/around when we learn his name and the Egyptians will be like "huh, well idk who that was, but whatever, I guess we'll keep an eye on [FG's home country], though." Which... if it's Greece or Rome... -cringes a little-

I also hope that Anubis will have a heavily implied partner of some kind. It's not gonna be Seth, and I don't really think it'll be Khnum, much as I love that ship (though I'm rooting for it fully and he's as likely as anyone), but it could be Isis, too. Mojito did do some Anubis/Isis art years ago. I just want him to not be so alone.

I think Isis, Seth, and Nephthys will reconcile to some degree. I don't know that they'll be very close, but I think they will be on speaking terms, though I honestly think Seth and Nephthys are the least likely of the group for this to happen with. It depends on whatever is actually happening with the mirror. Seth and Isis are already on the path to reconciliation. Nephthys is the only actually sort of static one.

If anyone would like to ask more questions, here's the meme again :D

(If this is for the fanfiction author ask me meme I linked, I can answer that one, too! I just didn't know which meme it was, and assumed based on context it was the ENNEAD one)