#in the proccess.

[bisexualmcqueen]

btw i found and read cars origins storm chasing the other day and im very mentally ill about it

[kinerxy]

food chain

[spite-made-me]

Guys, listen. Can i lick him? The answer is no, I can't.

But my Durge sure as shit can

[reluctanttrabbit]

something that still drives me insane since ruins anniversary is coming up

[zingaplanet]

This retirement was, dare I say it--...a bit too humble? Nothing to blame from Rafa's side, he is as he always is, very generous and dedicated to tennis and the Spanish team, he feels lucky just being able to retire on court with his teammates and as he mentioned many times in the presser, he wants the focus to be on the spanish team and not on him.

This is such an amazing display of selflessness, as usual, but it might've undermined his last chance to enjoy time on court. Perhaps it was his wish not to have any mega farewell at all, but he insisted on focusing on the team so much that he might not have been able to fully claim his retirement night as his, the way so many athletes who retire on singles might, and even the way Federer did, by doing it in an exhibition and allowing everyone to zoom in on him without anything major at stake.

Maybe nobody anticipated Spain to lose in the first round? It could also be that ITF is not in on the usual mega retirement party thing ATP is keen on. My guess is some players might not even have had the chance to arrive yet (Novak explicitly said he'd come) because even Andy had bigger farewells on his SECOND retirement ceremony in wimbledon and Fed and Novak tried so hard to be there. Players are generally not involved at all in their own retirement celebrations - so it's a bit of a shame that the organiser took Rafa's humbleness too literally and not churn out a better ending for one of the best athletes of the sport.

This whole retirement saga has been quite chaotic and disatisfying. I guess it does make sense, Rafa is a person who embraces practicality and doesn't believe in perfect/ideal things. Federer, as much as he wants to deny it, did plan his sendoff perfectly. It's the ongoing contrast between the two, but even at the end of their career they stayed true to themselves.

The plus side tho is he did get to retire in Spain, with his Spanish teammates, speaking Spanish, which is a very fitting ending for someone who loves his country wholeheartedly and has always felt proudest playing for spain.

[samysamsam16]

きれいなおじいさん、、

[invisiblegarabgetruck]

I'm feeling very normal about the upcoming episode.

(Jerry complaining about the rake with Rick is so like a child telling his teacher 😭😭😭 ohhh jerjer I love you)

But please, the way Rick's mind immediately being miserable in Jerry's brain is very much to think about (💋💋💋💋)

Like, It's either

Jerry's brain cannot handle Rick's mind

Or

Rick's mind cannot handle Jerry's brain

😭😭😭😭😭

[pistachiozombie]

[Warm Hearts] Rough Draft -> First Concept -> Finalized Concept

[aychama]

Guys Im not a big account with a lot of experience, don't treat me as such...

[zero-mori]

goofy vid of all my mirrors :) i have like 9 now or something

[viscerealista]

Struck by lightning / Sprouting evil

idk if i'll ever finish/paint this but i think it looks cool as it is....

[lovecraftian-trash]

Commissioned Piece~

this pairing really tempts me to try Reverse1999.The only thing that is stopping me is that I played too much gacha games already...

Commission Open~ Please check them out. If you're not interested a like and reblog is always appreciated.

[danieyells]

"Boss, this is an intervention. A medical intervention."

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What if I exploded into blood and gore and viscera just real quick and then reconstituted like nothing happened and then everyone can get back to what they're doing. I just feel it would be fun to do.

[b33tlejules]

How to rhargent in 10 easy steps (aka the b33tlejules workflow as of 2/1/25)

inspired by @reapersmarch 's post here

step 1: find some lesbians on pinterest

step 2: trace! but only for initial guidelines. tracing isn't evil and it will not kill you, but it will be noticeable by artists who recognize your reference.

step 3: flip canvas and retrace your own sketch with more accurate character details (hair, proportions, facial expressions, etc)

step 4: lineart <3333333 my favorite <33333 linework is like breathing to me sorry if you struggle i am not among you.

step 5: add base values, and on top of that add two layers of light tones (soft light blendmode) and two layers of darker tones (hard light blendmode). vaguely reference the reference photo for light direction and shadows. keep it loose and blobby. The blue is there mainly for fun but what I'm really looking at is Value.

step 6: blend! keep some spots solid for sharp contrast and blend out where light occludes. I make it up 99% of the time. just do what looks good idk. added a bg so the values are closer together.

step 7: my 2nd favorite!! duplicate all of the layers and flatten them into one solid image (minus lineart). Slap a gradient map down on that bad boy and bring the % down to around 50% if you wanna keep the blue.

Step 8: Turn down the opacity a bit of the above layer

Step 9: add the Original Colors Of The Characters (Rhan's medium skintone, argent's silver skintone and pink dress) back on top of the color layers and set the blend mode to overlay or some shit. boom. Then make a new layer on top of everything and throw colors everywhere until it looks good.

Step 10: Crop it! You're done! Yippee! Rhargent completed!

[total-drama-brainrot]

TD World Tour Alenoah AU... Where Noah is immune to Alejandro's fake charm... Instead, Noah gets charmed by the true Alejandro's quirks and dorky interests like dinosaurs and puppets... How would Alejandro feel about Noah only liking Alejandro, when Alejandro is being himself?... Especially since Alejandro's family shuns him for being himself? 🦕🦖🦕

Now you're speaking my language.

One of the most common running themes in all/near enough all Alenoah central AUs is having Noah be the first person to see past Alejandro's persona and actually appreciate the person he is, or at the very least prefer the real Alejandro to his mask of perfection. It's one of the draws of the ship itself; the idea that Noah, being the blunt person that he is, can and will wage a war of attrition against the walls Alejandro has built up around himself- not just to keep others out, but also to repress the more authentic aspects of himself to himself- in order to reveal the person beneath.

I touched on this a little bit in a previous post concerning this AU, but Alejandro and Noah both see glimpses of the other that they try so valiantly to hide- in Noah's case, Alejandro sees hints of the scheming mindset he's pretty much supressed under layers of apathy and sloth (as Noah's laziness is one of his biggest character foils, alongside his snarky attitude), and in Alejandro's case he reveals tid bits of information about the Real Alejandro, not the persona he's usually portraying himself as, which is enough to humanise him in Noah's eyes.

They both become People Of Interest in each other's eyes, because they're both puzzles to be solved. Alejandro's curious and competitive to a fault so he'd dedicate himself to unravelling the layers behind Noah's stony exterior, as he'd see Noah's continued distance as a challenge. That's a given. But the topic at hand here is Noah's interest in Alejandro.

Because Noah's not exactly competitive, so why would he be so interested in unveiling the real Alejandro? That's simple; Noah values authenticity. Look at his friendship group, it consists of people who are unapologetically themselves. Noah is also unapologetically himself, in all of his sarcastic glory. So of course he's see flickers of the real, authentic Alejandro and his natural inquisitiveness would be piqued- a novelty for him, as Noah's staunch apathy generally tends to override any semblance of curiosity.

So Noah goes out of his way to make notes of the small interests Alejandro offhandedly mentions at one point or another, like palaeontology or puppetry or even his fifteen-step skincare routine- things that Alejandro shows genuine excitement or passion over that shines through the cracks of his perfect persona. He sees the dorky giddiness Alejandro experiences when Noah lets him ramble on about how Jurassic Park was incredibly inaccurate from a scientific standpoint but monumental for people's interest in palaeontology (or something along those lines, I don't know I'm not a dinosaur nerd) and suddenly the annoyingly flirtatious faker he's spent the better half of his time on the jet is A Whole Ass Person with interests and passions and a sense of depth he's been so bereft of until now. Suddenly Alejandro's more than just the antagonist of the show Noah's working on, he's an interesting person that the bookworm finds himself wanting to know more about. And, perhaps, he finds himself growing genuinely fond of the person behind the mask.

And he uses those notes to prompt Alejandro into sharing more of himself, the real authentic Alejandro, in the privacy of their interactions.

At first, Alejandro's fairly oblivious to what Noah's doing, since he's so caught up in his own enjoyment of Noah's company plans to essentially do the same to Noah that he barely notices his own tricks being used against him.

Of course, he's also just elated at being able to infodump to someone who isn't outright penalising him for doing so; not that I think Alejandro is even aware that what he's doing is infodumping, nor the fact that he's so obviously autistic, because his family is a particular brand of awful that would never let him get a proper diagnoses and in all likelihood forced him to mask/supress his symptoms.

It isn't until Alejandro realises that he's shared a lot of information about himself that he (as a Burromuerto) is expected to keep close to his chest, and he sees the glimmers of satisfaction in Noah's intelligent eyes, that the archvillain catches on to the fact that he's been played. But the thing that really catches him off-guard isn't the trickery, it's the fact that Noah's done nothing with the uncharacteristic displays of vulnerability.

Alejandro can't understand why Noah hasn't taken advantage of his "weakness" yet. Inevitably leading to him confronting the assistant, as Alejandro isn't the type to "let sleeping dogs lie" so to speak, and he's still very much so in the one-track mindset of winning the competition- thus he assumes that any show of vulnerability can and will lead to his untimely elimination. But when he practically demands that Noah reveal what he's been planning, why he's been sneakily collecting information on him, all Noah can do is shrug his shoulders and say;

"I guess I just like seeing the real you. That's all."

And Alejandro doesn't know how to respond to that. No one's ever wanted the real him, he's always had to play the role of the perfect son, the perfect brother. He doesn't understand.

And like most people when they're faced with a foreign concept they have no basis of behaviour for, he lashes out.