#in the city of dust

[realtalk127]

thinking about how the best case scenario that elphaba can imagine in the wizard and i is that finally someone will come along who will be able to change everything about her. even in her wildest dreams, she views that as her best option.

and then.

along comes galinda. who - after spending an entire night attempting to give her a makeover - settles on: ‘actually, you’re perfect just the way you are. i wouldn’t change a thing. except maybe to tuck a little piece of myself in with you, just there.’

and i just think that’s neat.

[dieselocelot]

monsieur maison's big day. you get both because im indecisive (x)

[justasuta]

🎶 🔥 Hell could be a Musical 🔥 🎶

Thanks to @theroselens for inspiring me with your animatic of Alastor and Husk getting drunk and jazzin'. I just want everyone to have fun <3

And yes I WILL have this as a print at ECCC ;D

[vasira96]

me doing a boring 8 hour shift after 4 years of not having a normal type of job got me like

like damn, the 40 hour work week is really fucking inhumane tbh

[a-whispering-echo]

...Human?

hehe, if i say this is fanart for a fic, do you think it'd get more reads? lol

No, this is art for my OWN fic! hehe. this of for The Forgotten City on AO3, my current fic! :) and this is, of course, Dust! or as i call him to differentiate him from other Dust's, Spore!

hes just a baby <3 *squishes his cheeks*

you'll notice if i tell you; i pixilated the skin hand here, because i was drawing it nd realised it looked TOO Trypo un-safe. so, pixilated the straight up version, and ill post the version WITH the clear hand just below the cut, if you want to see the HOLE Drawing, hehe, get it?

this took AGES btw. at the very least, upwards of 9 hours. ive done most of it just today too, lmao. my wrist hurts :( lmao

here the fic! :)

and heres the Holes :) <3

hands are hard to render, okay? i tried

[mtvscreengrabs]

Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees (1986)

[bassboosted-moon-chao]

Our friends have all but left us. They departed many years ago.

Alt versions under the cut!

[tigirl-and-co]

Specks of Dust in Hallowed Halls

pt. 1

This first part is just an introductory piece, to try to help me get the flavour down. To get me used to writing Metroplex. Also bc nobody writes anything for him but I love him so much. My beautiful sonsband who is three times the size of the Chicago metropolitan area <333

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There was only one holoform who was a regular at the human's game nights. Sure, a lot of Cybertronians were curious about their organic allies, and quite a few of them counted the humans among their friends and would show up on occasion. But they were busy, they had other diversions, and quite frankly they just didn't 'get' it.

But every Tuesday night, as far as Tuesday nights can exist on a planet with a completely different solar calendar, Metroplex found himself in the company of mammals.

Metropex had been alive for so, so long, and he had lacked any intimacy for most of his lifespan. Being so large, close connections weren't really in the cards. He had tried, over the eons, to mix among the Cybertronians with a mech holoform, but they treated him too reverently. He could not be 'one of them.' He was an Other. A respected and revered Other, but an Other just the same.

But the humans... once they had become accustomed to him being truly sapient, a person in his own right, they even treated his city mode as casually as one of their own. When asking for assistance getting around they called him nicknames like 'Metty' and 'Plexiglass', and they had allowed him access to their private texting groups. There were occasional 'Let's go Mets!' memes, with images of his buildings over top the sports team logo, sent to him in displays of camaraderie.

He truly enjoyed every ephemeral klik of it.

So he would join them once a week to play their games. The silent scribbling during Boggle, the drama of Betrayal at the House on the Hill, and the playful trash-talk during a heated round of Mario Kart... all of it filled his spark. He especially enjoyed video game game nights, where a large portion of the humans would be packed in on the couches and chairs and he would often find someone's legs draped over his own. After so long spent being unable to touch anybody, the simple heat of shoulders pressing him in and backs leaned against his legs from those seated on the floor was holy. Every now and again one of the humans would fall asleep and lean harder against him, and he felt love pulsate through his circuits.

This was what he was protecting. What he was fighting for. All kind creatures in the universe were his fellow beings and his charges, and he would protect them. It was what he had been built to do, but more importantly, it was what he chose to do.

To reward love and compassion in kind.

[mine-fujiko]

Lupin and co. are so popular that they pop up, sometimes unexpectedly, in different places. Sometimes it’s them (like in City Hunter) sometimes it’s just random characters that look like them as if they were actors playing different roles 😁

1972 Panda Kopanda ~ Lupin and Jigen (and Miyazaki)

1979 Gundam ~ Lupin and Jigen

And, from left to right: Jigen, Lupin, Goemon and Zenigata on the sax! Again from Gundam.

1982 Minky Momo ~ Lupin and Jigen (thanks @runawaycarouselhorse for the info)

1983 SDF Macross (thanks @mikailborg)

1985 Megazone 23 ~ Lupin and Jigen

1985 Urusei Yatsura ~ Lupin and Jigen

1992 Kinkyuu Hasshin Saver Kids ~ Lupin, Jigen, Goemon and Zenigata

2004 Keroro Gunsou (thanks @soulguibo)

2023 City Hunter Angel Dust ~ Lupin and Jigen

[blueiscoool]

Avdiivka, Ukraine

Avdiivka after the Russian occupation.

The city was completely destroyed by the Russian army.

Putin calls this “help for the people of Donbass.” In fact, this is genocide of the people of Donbass.

[pierppasolini]

City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust (2023) // dir. Kazuyoshi Takeuchi

[venndaai]

TFW you hear a real banger of a song on the grocery store playlist that you know you loved and then forgot about for years and you have to desperately try to comprehend the lyrics so you can look it up

[a-whispering-echo]

Drawing dump

because i couldnt get out of bed for more than 10 minutes today <3

unfinished cus i thought i could do better now from when i started it. but band Dust is babie <3

tinkerbell, cus why not. i grew up on like, the first three of the tinkerbell movies, and recently watched a react video to them, so bam, drew her

ref for Forgotten city's Dusts' skirt cus i was trying to figure his layers out.

[lanaswansblog]

[fuumiku]

I’ve learned to hold my alcohol better than I can hold most people

Color pallette called "my wife fucking left me" from this game-challenge, I simply had to

[retrotunes]

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