#it feels like a fucking cave

[pocket-bears]

i think what i want more than anything at this point is to live in a house with windows

[lesbianmaxevans]

1.06 || 1.25 || 1.40

[ef-1]

'I was cute :D' + 'I still see this kid in me today [...] I weirdly still feel very close to this version of me '

[seldompathic]

I feel like I'm gonna throw up :))))

Being a trans individual during election season is fucking terrifying. I'm literally watching my rights slip down the drain in real-time.

[youredreamingofroo]

Obsession, Desperation

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Do you ever get so obsessed with someone that you dream of kissing them, proceed to call them as often as possible to try and talk things out with them and end up booking an entire flight because they won't talk to you? (/nsrs - don't actually do this 💀)

[ Transcript + Creds under the cut <3 ]

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Panel 1 : I've tried to call you, time and time again, i think you know this by now / I don't know what to say anymore... I don't know if you've even heard my voicemails / Listen, I just need to talk to you, talk things through, it's been so, so long, please

Panel 2 : I'm desperate for an answer / And like the rest of my desperation in my life, intrusive became impulsive / This is all very abrupt, but Rylan will look after my apartment in my absence

Panel 3 : I'll be back in a week's time

Panel 4 : - $158

Panel 5 : Cause I just hate the way you spoke / Green eyes make everything numb

Panel 6 : (I'm not writing everything that's on that ticket I'm sorry 😭)

Panel 7 : Gate 4 has just departed

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Scene 1 : Old Motel Room by Villareal Scenes Scene 2 : Mini Airport Lobby by Heritage

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7.15.23

[the-desert-beast]

"frightened little prince, keep living, for you can become king one day."

so. funfact. Maelgwyn was a prematurely awakened sapling. he was so sad and wet. for five years, he tried and failed to make his presumed dead by him tree's cave a home. the cave screamers, cave-ins, and scarcity of food made that impossible. eventually he had spent so much time failing to make it work, stressed, scared to death, crying every night, he decided risking his life trying to find somewhere better he could actually live at, was far preferable to certain death in that cave with a tree he could not hear nor understand.

[intergalacticphysicist]

hello portal fandom

[eeriefeelingsat3amuwu]

Okay Okay Okay I just saw a post where Dean (16) made Sam (12) breakfast and it was a pancake with an egg and bacon face and Sam went ‘I’m a bit too old for breakfast faces don’t you think?’ and now I’m thinking about Sam watching Dean cook in the bunker and like, Claire and Cas or Charlie are over and he makes them all breakfast and everyone gets a breakfast face except for Sam and it just suddenly hits him and he might just be kind of jealous, in the way your four year old kid will get jealous if you spend too long cooing over another child and Dean notices that Sam’s sort of just pushing his food around and he’s NOT pouting, no sir, and he elbows him and raises an eyebrow and it means ‘are you good?’ And Sam. Sam can’t tell him he’s upset because Dean stopped making him breakfast faces after he said he was too old for them AGES ago, that’s just stupid and dumb, but his eyes do flash over to the other plates.

And look, Dean knows his brother. Maybe not faultlessly, maybe not always in the things that are big or world saving, they’re still just people and they fuck up, but he knows his brother in the ways that matter, and the next morning, Sam walks into the kitchen and Dean smiles, gives him a cup of coffee and Sam murmurs a Thanks, it’s just the two of them because they wake up ridiculously early due to trauma, insomnia and just straight up habit and Dean is humming a soft rock song under his breath. Sam’s shoulders drop just a fraction and he holds the coffee mug in his hands and enjoys the warmth and he breathes deeply, something soft settling in his chest at the domesticity, fammiliarity, the unspoken love floating around in the air in the form of the smell of coffee and a cooking breakfast. And Dean places a bowl of oatmeal in front of him and it has a blueberry smile and banana eyes and a Single almond as a nose and two drops of maple syrup for cheeks and nothing else matters.

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[ariariari-freehounreal]

There You Are

Chapter 1 prologue: Do test subjects dream of robotic sheep?

Authors note: heyyyy so this is. The very first part of the chelldos fanfic‼️ ummm I hope y’all like this I usually don’t write for others or stories so my writing style is probably really weird ignore it haha.

[bapple117]

The air is starting to smell like isolating myself and avoiding all contact with everyone again and I’m not sure if I really want that but I am

o v e r w h e l m e d

[mysticalcats]

ok fellas this post is really different from my other stuff so i'm putting it under the cut for people who don't care and also because i'm slightly embarrassed

ok so. is it unusual for a girl to want to have a deep voice and a flat chest and a more square face and also feel slightly jealous of men and want to sound like them and look like them

and also is it unusual to want to be all that, but also simultaneously not be very bothered very much by how you look right now or by being referred to with she/her except for sometimes when you think about it too much. because i usually don't think about it except for sometimes where i suddenly just get really sad about being a girl or i'll always have this faint feeling that i am just unhappy about it

and also is it unusual to try to ignore it and go about your life being unbothered by it even though deep down it does kinda bother you but you can't really. like. say anything to anyone because your family won't react well and neither will your friends because they'll think it's weird and uncomfortable. i feel afraid to ever feel this way because i know the people in my life won't react well to it

so like. genuine question please lmk wtf is goin on because i'm unsure if it's normal and i've felt like this for a long time and it's confusing me and i don't even know what i'm going to do with the information once i know i'm just sort of lost LMAO

[necrotic-nephilim]

i recently remembered DickTim Week 2024 is happening very soon and i looked at the prompts again to see if i could get anything out for it and. the Hades & Persephone AU prompt for day 1 has got me really thinking so here's a vague concept i plan to write.

i've been pretty burnt out on modern Hades & Persephone retellings because of how they always seem to fall into the same generic "innocent wide-eyed girl runs from her evil mean mother into the arms of a dark mysterious man because actually she went willingly and chose to marry him" which has gotten repetitive for my tastes. (for clarity i don't care if this retelling is your cup of tea personally, so long as you're not actively trying to rewrite the original myth and claim untrue things about it, if this is your favorite flavor i sincerely hope you enjoy the buffet i just have little interest in it since it feels overdone for me and exhausted of it's supposed commentary atp)

but? but. biblically accurate Hades & Persephone AU has me all kinds of interested. because wait listen so hear me out right. Hades!Dick and Persephone!Tim, obviously. i feel it'd be more loosely inspired by with themes and imagery (though playing with death and nature powers could be interesting, i haven't decided) rather than explicitly making them gods and all. but. something dark and fucked up where Dick and Bruce are especially estranged. maybe to do with Jason's return, maybe to do with them just clashing and having their usual explosive arguments. and Bruce knows the peace needs to be kept, if he and Dick are at odds then everyone starts to pick sides and things just fracture so he needs a peace offering.

and the peace offering is Tim.

Bruce (the stand-in for Zeus) offers up Tim. agrees to have Tim move to Bludhaven and be Dick's... whatever Dick wants him to be. knowing that with the implication comes the likelihood of Dick grooming Tim. and Tim has no real say and is hesitant to put up a real fight. he doesn't want this, he knows what this is going to imply Dick will do to him, but he also knows if he says no things have the possibility to just... fall apart. so he's the unwilling bride, dragged off to the metaphorical underworld (Bludhaven) with Dick, away from his family, his friends, the life he built.

and on the flip side, i think weirdly enough, your best pick for the Demeter stand-in is *Jason*. just, hear me out on that. not necessarily on the side of it being motherly, but on Jason being just estranged enough from the Batfamily to be the one willing to call it out for being bad and wrong and raising bloody hell to get Tim back. maybe it's because Jason wants Tim for himself, maybe it's truly out of a concern for Tim to have autonomy, i'm toying with the idea of it primarily being Tim's POV and him genuinely not knowing which of these is true. (and the truth possibly ends up being a complicated middle ground) and because i like Helena, i think you can use her as the Hekate stand in, the one who strikes a tentative alliance with Jason and tries to go find Tim and bring him back. Tim stuck with Dick, getting groomed and hyperaware of it, possibly even getting fucked the whole time as well, knowing he can't go back without causing massive issues for Dick and Bruce because well, Bruce did promise him to Dick. so he has to adjust his whole life, try to figure out being a vigilante in this new city with Dick breathing down his neck the whole time.

and then much like the ending of the myth, a sort of compromise is struck that's a shaky deal for everyone involved. Tim is put on an essential timeshare, going back and forth between Gotham, where he has friends and family and a support system, then getting dragged right back to Bludhaven with Dick in this brutal cycle that he slowly gets used to and stockholm'd into even liking it. Dick isn't so bad, once he gets used to the quirks of their unbalanced 'relationship'. the sex is even something he can adjust to as well. not quite a happy ending but one that sits in this realistic grey area that becomes Tim's life.

i will write this, eventually, but i don't know if i'll get to it before DickTim Week ends so by posting the idea i'm essentially putting it out into the world so the peer pressure holds me accountable. i just. really like the potential of making Hades/Persephone AUs as fucked up as they can be simply by adhering to the source material and making it a raw story of being stolen away and forced to like this new home you didn't ask for.

also a less fleshed-out aspect of this idea i have ties into Persephone becoming the Queen of the Underworld when she's taken and how the transition from Kore to Persephone could be reflected in Tim. how he makes the best of the worst situation and becomes something far more dangerous and dark when he's in Bludhaven, possibly takes on a new vigilante name/identity and leans into the worst quirks of his personality he tries to tamper because there's no point in not going full tilt Obsessively Weird if he has no choice anyway and it being one small way he takes back his autonomy, and that inevitably making Dick *more* into him, because he gets to see Tim finally just. let loose.

[puppetmaster13u]

Oh boi even more of One au in like 3 hours lol

I like to think that like how in @phoenixcatch7's Doll au there's gas versions of like cures and such in the batfam's gas masks since they don't need to breath when possessing the puppets right? I like to think there's an organic version of that with the meat puppet bodies, at least with Bruce, where the plates on his neck opens up into vents of sorts, pictured here with a few spikes removed for visibility reasons.

This gas could be some cures for like Joker venom & Fear gas and such, or it could also be sedatives, paralytics, could even vary between each member. (For example in the Cryptidverse Steph has Anesthetics on her claws, Jason has reflective powder that mimics embers/sparks, Cass has paralytics, etc). Honestly I am just brainstorming so this could definitely change lmao

I do like to think they start developing their own venom though, gotta' have those fangs & tusks for some reason lol

[hptrash-lookaway]

There’s this thing I see on tiktok a lot (no idea if it’s also here on tumblr), where the Dumbledore bashing extends to it somehow being his fault that Regulus went to the cave and was killed, and I cannot fucking stand it

First off, not a fan where the tiniest bit of canon we get for those characters is rewritten, and second, that takes away from the coolest part of Regulus’ character, this was a guy, completely by himself, where the family he talked to and all his house members and any friends he possibly had were all loyal followers of Voldemort

And he decided, without that connection to Dumbledore or anyone light, to defy Voldemort in a huge way, and he also somehow figured out that the locket was crucial to Voldemort staying alive

(Voldemort letting his followers be aware of his horcruxes but not what they actually are seems to be a trend, if you believe he didn’t tell Lucius what the diary actually was, or Bellatrix what she was actually hiding, but Regulus figured out the locket on his own)

And he did all this for his house elf, a creature no one else would’ve even thought twice about letting Voldemort kill

Making it so that Regulus knew about the horcruxes and went to the cave because of Dumbledore takes away how amazing it was that he decided to do that on his own and how smart he was to have figured all that out

(On this note tho, real quick, I don’t think that just because Regulus found one and got close to destroying it, that it would make him this amazing horcrux hunter compared to Harry)