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drakens-tattoo-artist · 3 years ago

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The Silhoutte Challenge and them|| Tokyo rev scenarios

Characters: Draken, Mikey, Mitsuya & Smiley

Warnings: Suggestive stuff and fluff hehe

A/N: Requested! Ahh the last time I saw this challenge I was just staring at people being so hot lmao. oooh I'll tag moi network @tokyorevmafia. there are amazing writers over there, check them out too!

Mitsuya

He was on his phone, walking towards his bike, trying to get home to you and that’s when he sees it. Opening the notification about your new video, his hands clutch his phone tighter, trying not to drop it as his eyes widen at your video. You were posing at your bedroom door in a hoodie; well his hoodie, but there was no return of it yet. He hears the familiar audio and his mouth just keeps falling open further as he sees you let loose to the music and your hoodie quickly vanishing to show your figure and poses. The poses that have his mouth feeling dry all of a sudden.

You hear Mitsuya’s bike screech to a halt outside your house and stroll to the door to say hi. But he stormed through the door first, greeting you a little too quickly, a soft peck on your forehead, eyeing the hoodie you were wearing and taking hold of your wrist, walking you to your bedroom in hurried steps.

"You okay?" You giggle as he pulled you towards him by your waist, your hands resting against his chest as he sends you a lewd look through his hooded eyes.

"Your video," he starts softly, stroking his fingers along your waistline, getting your breathing to quicken. You raise your eyebrows, nodding slowly, understanding his line of thought and about to ask him if he liked it. But he cut you short, his lips trailing kisses from your cheek and moving to your ear.

“Think you can do it again?” He whispered, sending a shiver down your spine. “I wanna see the full show this time.” He squeezed your waist, eliciting a gasp from you as he kissed along your jawline.

You were in for a long night.

Draken

It’s not like he didn’t watch the video when he got the notification for it. He actually watched it more than once actually, and then a couple too many times. Until the way your body moved to the music, the way your curves were accentuated in the red light was etched in his mind. But he didn't wanna show you how bad of a hold it had on him.

You didn’t say anything either, not knowing if he saw the video and didn’t really mind. Or he didn’t see it at all, at which you wanted to show it to him.

But you hesitated and he had to let you know, with the way he kept playing it again at home too.

He was pointing at the screen, the slow song playing, and your figure touching yourself to the rhythm. “What is this?” He arched an eyebrow at you, voice rough and a little possessive.

“Oooh so you saw it?” You said, eyes lighting up and smiling at him naively.

No reply.

“Okayy, did you like it then?” You blink at him, waiting for his answer.

He let out a repressed groan; like he was fed of how much love he had for you. His face got closer to you, his hand brushing the hair around your neck aside, and gripping the back of it to nudge your face closer. You feel your stomach drop a bit at how close the both of you suddenly were, confused also flustered You move into his touch instinctively. Letting a small grin move across his face, he whispers next to your ear, before pressing a kiss underneath the shell, “Something like that.”

Mikey

He had headed off for a meeting, leaving you at his place. You were scrolling through your phone and you quickly find yourself in a rabbit hole of watching beautiful people doing the silhouette challenge, bathed in red light, and having fun with the new trend. With an empty house and no company, you choose to do it too.

He saw it alright, ending the meeting abruptly and making snap decisions and letting Draken handle the rest of the issues. With a muttering Draken in the background, he sped to you on his bike and strolled home to you, his usual soft eyes a little different. He was quiet, approaching you a little too fast.

You notice him dropping his jacket on the counter clumsily and wave a little hi to him, sitting up from your relaxed position on the couch. He doesn't say anything back and bends till he's level with your sitting figure, foreheads almost touching and his scent greeting you warmly. You raise your eyebrows questioningly, “Hi?”

“Had fun while I was away?” He asked with a sweet smile on his face, but his eyes were the complete opposite: lustful and a hint of mischief behind them.

Your eyes dart side to side, and blink, trying to think about something you might have forgotten or something he said. And your mind clicks back to the video and a small smirk climbs your face but you decide to play, tilting your head to the side and replying, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

He sighs and cups your face in one hand, his eyes assuming a dark gaze, but his smile still the same. "You sure?"

His forehead was against yours, his soft breaths brushing your strands of hair, and letting you nudge your face closer to his, brushing a kiss on his lips with a small smile on yours.

"Yeah."

He huffed a laugh into the kiss. He settles next to you, moving you onto his lap, and letting you make excuses as his hands move under your clothes.

Smiley

It was pretty hard for him to keep a straight face as he watched the video. Well, he watched it the first time with a straight face and then another time to make sure it was you and then took his time seeing you have fun with the music and yourself with his bedroom in the background.

He really didn't want to let you know how he felt about the video but seeing you in the same fit that you were in during the video had his whole composure thrown out the window.

It's hard to tell if he's mad with the bright smile he had on as he dropped his bike keys on the counter, and walked to you say his hellos. But his low voice as he said, "You did the challenge too huh?" said something completely different.

And as his gaze moved along your body, almost making you feel naked again, you swallow and put your hands around his neck, trying to make an offer.

"I can do it again," you say slowly, playing with the collar of his uniform, getting a tiny groan from him. "Just for you."

With that, you turn on your heels, chuckling at his eyes that were full of lust, with his figure following you pretty quick

Reblogs and comments are appreciated! <3

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lemonlurkrr · 3 years ago

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What is ur geniune opinion on warriors?

Hi anon I'm gonna use this ask an excuse to talk about hyrule warriors in general (but if you wanna hear just about Warrs read the first chunk)

I just,, thoroughly enjoy this Link's vibe (LU+LOZ)

I still haven't figure out what exactly I like about this incarnation of Link

Kinda like TP Link he just seems like a regular dude (although just a little diff since he was a soldier beforehand BUT STILL, that's not the same as signing up to be the hero of courage)

And gHHHHH that one line about him not feeling worthy of the hero's garb 👌👌👌🤌🤌 got me right in the heart tysm nintendo

I enjoy him getting a little too confident with the mastersword and that biting him in the ass later. I think the game wanted it to be more like a lesson on the power of friendship but I like viewing it as a harsh reminder that Link lonk is still human

Chill OUT my guy HDHDJCND

When it comes to LU, I like his older brother vibe (also like twilight?? I'm sensing a trend)

This has definitely been said before but yeah he slots in pretty well with the rest of the LU gang, I can see him getting along well with everyone

Even with general loz HW Link I feel like there’s a lot of potential for exploring a wide variety of relationships between him and the rest of the HW cast

I like the scarf. It adds to his silhouette and I am all for small additions to help distinguish between the Links

That little hair antenna???

Out of all the Links, I think I like drawing his outfif the most

HW is just a big ol group of friends who could beat the shit out of me

The blue from the scarf sprinkled throughout, the gold trim, and the single pauldron 😩👌

I feel like Warriors would listen to doja cat

Reminds me of TP :)

Give!!! Link!!! FRIENDS!!!!!

Being alone (BOTW) has its own vibe that I also thoroughly enjoy BUT HAVING A BUNCH OF FRIENDS?????

Good shit.

The nature of the relationships between Link and all the other warriors in-game aren't suuuper fleshed out (i think?? I always struggle to pay attention to the dialogue from the characters during each level lmao) but ayo isn't it fun to imagine what kind of conversations they'd have between battles?

What kind of jokes do they make? Who do they always chat with/gravitate towards?

What kind of stories do they share?

Do they even share stories? How secretive are they about their lives off the battlefield?

All of the animations in-game are over the top and i love it so much

It would have felt weird if they half-assed it or had only a couple crazy ones HHDJDJC

They went feral with the animations that honestly wouldn't really make too much sense in a battlefield BUT IT LOOKS COOL AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS

music music msic

booyah now we’re really getting into “general thoughts on HW” territory

GOOD SHIT.

everything just feels so,,, beefy

it’s either big rock band electric guitar stuff or big orchestra stuff and I love it so much

atm Focal Line is my favourite 👌

I also enjoy Linkle’s theme, I think it’s cute how they quoted the theme from Link’s crossbow training in there

I’m easily pleased when it comes to music stuff so literally any time the OST quotes a theme from the previous games I lose my shit

It's such a simple thing but DAMN do I love doing stuff like booting up a level, hearing the music, and going !!!!!!! INSIDE A HOUSE THEME?????

The whole ost is pretty high energy and god knows I've been craving mind numbing upbeat music lately

I very very much love Link with the fire rod

Speaking of the wack animations, the stuff with Link and the fire rod always come to mind first

That thing just looks so powerful and it's a nice change from his regular ol sword

I wanna draw so much fanart of him using that thing!!!

HHHHNGHH BOTW Link is usually pegged as the arsonist BUT HEY whabout HW Link

Multiple realms coming together, time fuckery

Feels weird tbh

But also doesn't??

Like contained within the HW bubble it's fine and I like it, it's fun getting to see different locations and music from the other games

BUT, when you get to thinking about what would happen if this game were considered to be canon,,

Do the characters from the other timelines remember these things when they go back to their time? When exactly in the big zelda timeline is all of this taking place?

What stories of the hero of legend did this Link grow up listening to??

I think I've seen some folks place it before BOTW as the merger of the timelines but tbh I like its ambiguity and won't be HCing it in a specific spot

canon???????????????

Isn't it fun imagining the sort of angst/fuckery you could get from HW not being canon??

I think about this post a lot

I am a sucker for trippy/dream-like stuff so questioning whether HW is real or not is 👌👌👌 (for general LOZ and in LU)

I also think about this fic a lot (it's an AOC fic and I know we're talking about HW rn but GODT DAMN. The funky "is all of this a dream?" stuff is so good, I would literally go feral if someone made something like this for the OG hyrule warriors)

I want to make a comic/animatic or something with this idea but aaaa this is a funky idea to communicate visually

Link, who ARE you? Are you a unique incarnation of the hero of courage stuck in a void where your actions don’t affect anyone else on the timeline? Or are you and your adventure an amalgamation of random elements from the rest of the real heroes on the timeline?

The false hero, not in the sense that he is undeserving of the title, but that he just doesn’t. exist.

#lemonreplyrr #if you read all of that thaNKS HSHDJFJGJVNG #i couldn't think of aything else so I guess we're ending it off with angst HHDHDHJFFNJD

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collisiondiscourse · 4 years ago

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my art process: a simple(ish) guide to how i (kinda) do things

okay!! so, i said i was gonna post my art process after i finished doing the danny phantom piece so... here it is! the drawing i used for a step by step process explanation is actually... simpler? less clunky than how i usually do things. i must preface this entire post by saying that i am fully self-taught for anything to do with art so if there are some things here that are exceeding no-nos... very sorry OOPS

The drawing took an estimated 4 hours total and for software I used FireAlpaca. My tablet is One by Wacom (aka the tiny ass red one). Without further ado... here’s my narrated guide on how i kind of do art!

1. Sketch Layers

sketches, are ofc, one of the fundamental steps in art. Some artists do them differently, whether they do color blocking/splotches first or silhouettes or your standard messy-lineart-before-the-actual-lineart

i personally do 2-3 different lineart/sketch layers, each layer specializing in different aspects. i took this technique from julia lepetit, a host from the drawfee show--a channel that i really recommend watching if youre an artist, like art, or just generally like having fun background noise while you work on something because... untreated adhd lol

this is the first sketch layer! i color coded them for reference and i use the yellow sketch layer to figure out poses. i use this gesture sketch layer to figure out where i want limbs to go and how i want the body to twist.

after i figure out the posing, i move on to my second sketch layer. the green layer is my refined sketch layer where i figure out the form and anatomy of the sketch. this is also where i start planning how expressions, special costume bits, and hands work!!

the red layer is my last and final sketch layer. technically, the red layer sometimes also doubles as my final lineart! the reason why i do this final step instead of doing the final lineart simply is so i can work on details of the costume. i end up refining certain portions, or even stretching/free transforming the whole body.

The red helps with the refinement of the drawing bc the ink being a color that isnt black kinda,,,, tricks my brain into not believing that its all permanent. its easier for me to go back and erase/change some parts when my brain doesnt think that everythings final. when im finished, i simply go back and change the color of the lineart to black with the protect alpha function.

this is how the final lineart looks! be sure to close the lineart (aka make sure that everythings connected) so that the bucket tool can work and make your life 2000% easier.

2. Coloring

my coloring process is kind of... a mess LMAO its super dependent on how i feel like coloring on that day, but this is the usual method i use when im not thinking too much about it.

first are the flats! i use the magic wand tool to select all the areas around the lineart and reverse the selection so that all the areas inside your lineart is selected. color it with a base color, turn on protect alpha, and begin chunking in all the colors.

all of the flats excluding the pupils, background, ectoplasm rings, and danny phantom logo are on one layer. once that is done, we move on to shading!

for shading, i use a combination of the normal pen tool and the airbrush tool to smooth out the edges of the cell shading. since all the flats are on one layer, i simply set this one to clipping mask so that i dont have to worry about coloring within the lines. I only use one color really for shading (here, i used purple) and then protect alpha and add splotches of other colors (pink, orange) in relevant areas.

once i finish doing that, i set the layer to multiply and adjust the opacity so that it looks softer and more attuned to the colors of the actual piece

its at this point that i fiddle with the hue/saturation/brightness settings on the flat color layers to my taste, seeing what works and what doesnt.

i then lightly go over the piece with a bright color (very very very light cyan) and put focus on the areas i think should glow like his freckles, eyes, and ectoplasm rings from where he’s coming out of a wall.

i rlly rlly love layer effects, so i set that one to add and again adjust the opacity to how i want it to look.

3. Finishing Touches

...yeah i know it looks like a hot mess but hear me out.

on a new layer, make a CRAP TON OF GEOMETRIC SHAPES. ALL OF THEM IN NEON OR PASTEL. i get comments about my coloring methods sometimes and honestly im pretty sure its all due to this step. i make all these goddamn weird shapes, colored according to levels of lighting (yellow in lighter areas, turquoise in areas affected by the glow, purple in shaded areas etc. etc.) and also clip this layer.

i then set the layer effect to either hue, overlay, or add and set its opacity really low to make it unobvious and cleaner to look at. this is a method that i learned from tumblr user zephyrine-gale who is... exceedingly talented and pulls this off way better than i can WKSDJSKKS

after that... ur basically done!! i add a few more layers like the noise layer for extra texture and sometimes some very light gradients (usually yellow to purple bc of something something color theory)--but after that, the piece is basically finished!

thanks for sticking around and reading this monstrous thing!! i might do more posts like this in the future, so who knows?

if you enjoyed this tutorial, want to support me and my art, or just wish for a way to pay for me to shut up... you can tip me 3 dollars or commission me here at ko-fi

(also reblogs are much appreciated. thanks <3)

#codi.png #codi gives advice #artists on tumblr #art #art tutorials #art process

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datastate · 3 years ago

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For the ask game, 💢 or 💎

(In case one of those have been answered already)

💢 what do you NOT like about your hyperfixation? is there something you would want to change about it?

for hk:

the mechanics - i really do wish there was a way to make the base game a bit more accessible lmao (idc much abt godmaster or the path of pain wrt this). it's got SUCH a good story but it took me months to actually get through the game because, being disabled, i got frustrated a fair bit with it sometimes which is unfortunate. while i do love the track objectively, there are some songs i just do Not want to listen to bc they remind of a battle i struggled w where the song played on loop too much ;-; or not even battle - the white palace sucked, and i eventually put on my misc playlists in the bg while i was working through it ahgmsgs

the designs - salubra was. uncomfortable for me. while i do appreciate her role as a shopkeeper and an interesting npc with how she obtained her charms, her design embodying an antiblack stereotype that is just. impossible to ignore if you want to reasonably get through the game with charms just sucks

the story - i actually don't have much issue w the story? it got across what it meant to. most of my issues come when people misinterpret what is presented / coded there (hallownest's imperialism, especially, when it comes to white fans. though it also comes with (malicious) misinterpretations of deepnest and its people, ignoring the point of the higher beings and the normal bugs (pale king vs. soul master // pk vs. radiance and how they both destroyed the others' mortal people though there's obvious nuance there w the moths and first blood etc // etc), and then of course the few who completely abandon the themes in-game when they try to set up who is the 'true' victim when there are multiple answers to that and, even if you tried to flatten it, you are literally playing as one of the main victims of the antagonists within the story).

but! that's just fan whatever. within the game itself i really appreciate the subtlety. it's very cool being able to dig through it and discover things for myself that was established in the art, or by dreamnailing something (or in the fact you're unable to), and just. it's cool! i really like the exploration you as a player/viewer have to go through to find out most of this and how it's up to you to connect it

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share?

speaking of being able to dig through for lore!!! i believe i've mentioned this before, but it's really cool to me how hk sets up the implication that hegemol, at least, held importance within the city (isma and ogrim it's... a bit more nebulous? ogrim's presumably more within the palace as pk's most loyal, and isma has her grove but that's not necessarily involved in city affairs)

although he is never really mentioned, and he doesn't even have any lines in-game as he's assumed to be dead, there are still symbols such as the statue within the city and the fact his armor still holds the city crest that indicates his importance during hallownest's prime as the capital's protector. they set up his role so easily, and with the added line from sheo like "large but surprisingly soft-spoken" it really helps you figure out who he used to be even though he never appears in-game other than a silhouette.

#ty!!!#ask #anonymous #hk posting #long post

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wolfcha1k · 4 years ago

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As soon as I started practicing kisses I suddenly can't help adding them now lmao something fluffy and firey for you heathens. Still sfw content tho ofc. Based on the new fanart I did recently so some of it doesn't match the art in hindsight :"D I think now its just gonna be a new tradition to write something to go along with my pieces.

They were taking one of their occasional adventures away from the Betterman Farm, where they would hunker down in the wilderness for several days at a time. For a while, Guy and Eep would forget there was an entire world that they shared with other people; their family. It was just the two of them, hunting and foraging and seeing the beauty the land itself provided.

She knew her home was the Farm now but her heart would never deny she was always meant for the untamed wild where the sun stretched on forever. She wasn't sure why Guy had lead her towards the desert as an area for camp, it was hot and unspeakably dry during the day, sweltering even. Her entire life had been the dusty desert and the canyon with that awful cave as the only escape from the heat.

As dusk fell, Guy had only grinned at her. They'd set up camp not long after the daytime sun joined the many nighttime suns in the sky. The sight of how many slept above her still was awe striking. Guy skinned a boar they'd hunted together, something Eep wanted to teach Dawn about someday. She knew as much as Guy enjoyed his safer, more pampered life with the Bettermans, he was still that adventurous nomad born and raised. He lived for the thrill his skills provided him and how all his ideas saved him from many obstacles.

Eep watched the fire flicker and sway, it was still surprising how alive looked. She leaned her hands out to toast her palms, the desert chilled now the sun set. She didn’t understand that either, how such a mercilessly hot place can become so cold.

The embers glowed in her green eyes when she felt Guy touch her wrist. Eep turned to him, seeing the fire reflecting in his dark gaze. He was beautiful, one of the most wonderful things she ever saw even after everything he'd shown her.

"I got the boar skinned, just need help putting a skewer through it," Guy said, gesturing towards the beast. They had parked themselves by an oasis, giving Guy a way to wash off the blood from his hands.

Eep had offered to do it, blood never phased her but Guy insisted she just rest. In the meantime she had bathed in the spring, the sand and sweat on her uncomfortable before settling down by the fire to wait on her mate. She hadn't wanted to admit it but she felt rather tired after the long trek. Guy had his reasons for picking this place but he could be so strange and peculiar about it in a way she never understood.

Perhaps that was why she loved him so much. There was nobody else in the world like him, even if she could only count the amount of people she knew on both hands.

Eep stood up from her crouching position. "Sure, I'm starving," she exclaimed, eying the pig carcass greedily. "Are you absolutely certain we can't just - "

"No, you are not sinking your teeth into that thing without cooking it first," Guy scolded her, it was more akin to when Ugga was telling off her children for causing mischief. "You'll get sick. I need to bring you back to Grug in one piece or I'll be in pieces."

"Fineeeee," Eep compromised with a dramatic sigh, leaning her neck back before walking over to help her mate spear the pig.

Eep with Guy’s help, well, mostly Eep but she liked making him feel useful, carried the spitted animal towards the campfire and held it over it. Guy had crafted some little makeshift contraption with wood and rope he'd packed, so they could use a pulley system to rotate the roasting boar

The two took alternating shifts.

"It's funny," Eep couldn’t help but muse suddenly, taking in the view. The fire made the golden sandstone burn a brilliant red color, reminding her of amber.

"What's funny?" Guy asked from his post by the pig, rotating it with a careful eye so it cooked evenly.

"Well…" Eep leaned her elbow on her bent knee, her chin on her hand. "We met in a desert and you asked me to marry you in one too."

Guy tried hiding his smile by turning back to cooking but Eep saw it, perceptive as always. He pretended to ignore her narrow eyed look. "Funny how fate works," he quipped and heard Eep snort in a very unadulterated fashion.

"You planned this," Eep accused him and Guy finally was forced to face the music because the boar didn't need this much turning on the spit.

"Me? Plan things? You must be mistaken," Guy quipped, his tone betraying him. His grin was wide. "Okay, you got me. Happy anniversary, or have you forgotten?"

"As if I can forget the night I nearly dashed your brains out with a rock," she said with more fondness than any normal person should, jumping to her feet.

Guy held her hands, leaning forward to nuzzle his nose against hers. "Me either, you're a hard one to forget."

"Well, I did call you back."

"You did," he agreed before pouting. "Not my smoothest pick up line though."

"So you didn't tell every girl that line? 'If you survive, call me?'" Eep quoted, exposing her teeth in a teasing smirk.

"Nope, you were the first and only," Guy assured her, winking. "It worked."

"It did," she agreed back, shaking her head with a giggle. "So…" Eep began coyly, averting her eyes towards the landscape colored black in silhouette.

"So…?" Guy urged her, knowing that Eep didn't need the coaxing but somehow it had just become their thing.

"What if I did come with you that night," Eep asked him, turning back to bat her eyelashes at him. "I think this is the perfect spot to humor the thought." She gazed around the desert, the ground hard with stone, much like the one she had followed Guy's fire that night.

"Well for one, your dad would have killed me because I didn't know he was part of the equation yet," Guy replied, both joking and serious as he said it. "This little journey would have definitely been way more interesting though if I had stolen you away from him."

"Stolen me," she echoed with a laugh though her ears burned from a mixture of the fire and thought. There had been an obvious attraction and two teenagers journeying alone, well, it didn't take a Betterman to figure it out. "You make this sound scandalous, Guy."

"It's not now though so that means when you took my hand, I'd do this." He lifted her palm to his lips, gently kissing a scar that led down to the pulse point of her wrist.

"No, you wouldn't have," Eep teased him. "You were too scared of me to try it."

"I wouldn’t," he agreed. "But this is a fantasy so anything can happen."

"Okay," she amused him, letting Guy continue his little story.

Guy seemed to realize a dark implication in this what if and since it was a fantasy, he could change that. "The world isn't ending, I'm still a nomad but you're just a stir crazy teenage girl instead."

"I am a stir crazy teenage girl," Eep corrected him, leaning up on her toes to brush his cheek with her nose. "And I'll remind you everyday, babe."

"You make telling this story harder than it needs to be," Guy lamented in mock offense, drawing her closer to eye her down. Eep just grinned innocently. "Stop putting plot holes."

Eep just giggled, feeling him turn her hand over to kiss her knuckles and each finger delicately. It was like having a butterfly touch her skin.

"Fine, then what?"

"We'd run away together," he continued, looking up at her with loving eyes. "Somehow outsmart your dad because Sandy would totally have sniffed us out in the morning."

Eep smirked, fighting off a broad smile in her amusement. "Would you have fought him?"

"I mean…" Sure, it was a fantasy but he was also just stronger, bigger and scarier than Guy was. Besides, hindsight wasn't twenty twenty and this caveman was now a second father to him. As annoying and abrasive as Grug had been in all the time Guy knew him, he also had a begrudging respect and admiration for him too. "Maybe we'd just bring him along anyway, save us the trouble."

"Is the log ride magic now?" Eep asked him with a wicked grin. "Does it fly us to Tomorrow? I'm sure it could if dad kicked it hard enough for us."

Guy scoffed, "This is my fantasy so there is no log."

"Aw, you're no fun," she sniggered, lifting his hand to press his palm into her nose fondly. "The log brought us together."

"Yeah but in this story you already came with me," Guy reminded her with a gentle tug, taking her hand back to stroke his thumbs fondly over her knuckles.

Eep tried hard not to laugh again, blushing as well under the soft look he gave her. He smiled at her and she melted like ice. It was intimate and vulnerable, more so than anything they'd done in all the time proceeding to this moment.

"Alright," she murmured, stroking his chest after laying her palm flat against his heart. She fiddled with the seashells dangling around his neck, idly stroking his throat and felt him swallow. "Then what?"

"I'd show you the world and since there's no The End… we wouldn't rush through it. You know, actually do some sight seeing. Fall slowly in love with each beautiful thing I show you but never seems to compare to you." Eep couldn’t help the giddy giggle as he called her beautiful, beaming bright like a sun ray at his compliment. Guy's eyes almost glazed over as he gave the silly romantic escapade story more thought, he chuckled. "Your dad would ruin all our little moments though, so it's kinda hard."

"So even in this little I went with you story, dad still keeps us apart?" Eep pouted.

"Every story needs conflict," Guy teased her. "Dad was going to catch up eventually, family in tow. We were taking the scenic route, it was bound to happen, Eep."

Eep rolled her eyes at him, tugging Guy down so they could sit with their backs to the fire. She leaned her weight against his side, feeling Guy rest his arm behind her back. "I hope things start getting more romantic for us, Guy."

Guy pressed a kiss to her temple, grinning. "It does. After hauling our crazy family cross country, we find the sun hidden on a mountain."

Eep remembered Guy's mountain, two tall twin peaks that extended high above the sky, swathed in clouds and extending out to a meadow after climbing the outcrop. They were supposed to ride it to Tomorrow, joining it among the many sleeping suns above. "How are we going to ride it to Tomorrow if I'm your Tomorrow?"

"I'm retconning stuff, stop spoiling the story," Guy scolded her, just resting his head on hers, taking in her smokey wild scent. "I realize this sooner, because the sun isn't really attainable. We go after it but it just gets farther and farther away." He extended his hand out in a reaching gesture. This meant Guy was really getting into the story.

"Are you sad for awhile?" Eep inquired, absently hugging his bicep now that Guy no longer held her hands.

"For a bit," he admitted. "I mean, my parents said to follow the sun but you really can't but…" Guy paused and gazed fondly at his wife tucked into his side, body warm, familiar and supple.

"But…?"

"I found you, light led me to you. I realize this and tell you I love you after this little journey." Guy nuzzled her cheek with a blissful little sigh. "Also then we find the Bettermans and live happily ever after in their treehouse with the punch monkeys."

Eep poked him in the chest, not really the reaction he was expecting after that happy ending. "You can't just skip an entire chapter like that and tack 'the end!'"

Guy took her hand in both of his, cupping it tender in-between his palms. "It works when your dad tells stories," he joked.

"Well, that was before you started telling better stories," Eep exclaimed with a childish huff that was so her it made Guy muffle a laugh into her shoulder.

"Did you tell Grug that?"

"You know how dad is," she replied a bit more sheepishly this time. "Least everybody doesn't die at the end anymore."

"They don't," he agreed, gazing at her fondly once again. "He's getting better though, I like happy endings."

"I like happy endings. I like you," Eep added, cuddling herself cozy as a cat under his arm and against his chest. She listened to his heartbeat, soothed by the gentle thump.

Guy stroked her back, gentle as he rested his chin above her head. "Only like?" He murmured.

"Maybe if you don't rush your endings then I'll say something else," she told him, Guy feeling her lips as she spoke against his heart.

Guy hugged her, adjusting his position so he could tug his wife onto his lap. She immediately curled up there, warm and safe as he draped his arms around her like a cocoon. "What if there is no ending yet? I like leaving our story open ended, Eep."

He suddenly found himself on his back and he gave a soft oof in surprise. Eep leaned over him, hands braced above his head as she looked down at him. The firelight made her already bright red hair even more so, blazing like the sun with the dark shadows making her eyes and face seem more intense.

"Then… I guess I can accept that," she relented after several moments, a smile crossing her face. She pressed her forehead against his, nose touching his.

Guy's eyes fluttered closed, knowing the intimate implications of the gesture amongst her people. He felt her breath fan his face before something soft touched his lips.

Immediately he wrapped his arms around her, letting his palms gently stroke the strong muscles of her back as they flexed beneath them. He'd never tired of her, beautiful and feral as she was. There was a soft gasp against his lips and he gave a quiet little growl, pressing up to mold his body with hers.

He found his words despite wanting to just keep kissing her. The moment was too right to neglect however. It took a few long moments of trading kiss after kiss that Guy had an idea to put his lips to good use in a way he wouldn't need to stop. Trailing a few heated kisses down the soft slope of her neck, he mumbled, "Eep?"

She hummed, "Mhm?" It was hardly the most direct of words but he took it.

"You lit a fire in me when we met," Guy confessed though he knew it was obvious at this point. It was no secret despite the circumstances of their relationship's beginning, he'd been infatuated and found her cute. Scary habits despite that, of course. "And you were in my every thought since then, I really was hoping you'd call me, Eep."

"I really wanted to go with you," she said, pushing him away to graze a palm down his bicep, tracing a stripe fondly before finding his hand to lace their fingers together. Her touch singed him more than the embers behind him did from where he lay. "I just…"

"You came with me eventually though," he reminded her though found he needed to remind himself to focus when she lifted his hand to her lips to kiss his longer fingers. He closed his eyes, sighing. "You gave me something even better than any Tomorrow I thought I'd find out there."

"Even if you were a stupid boy?" She teased him through the haze, bracing her weight against his again. She still sometimes made fun of him for that but in the moment he hardly cared, caging her in his arms.

"Yes," he grunted, Guy would agree to anything she said right now so long as she kept touching him like this.

Their lips met again but she suddenly paused, her roaming hands no longer roaming. He huffed against her lips, confused and a bit frustrated that she stopped.

"Guy?" Eep murmured against his lips breathily.

"Mhm?" It wasn't an intelligible response but having Eep so close to him like this always rendered him a useless fool.

"Do you smell something burning?" Eep drew away, ignoring Guy's protesting whine as their lips no longer brushed.

"Just my love for you," he told her, sitting up with what he hoped was a winning smile.

Eep flared her nostrils at the smell and eyes widening looked past Guy towards their camp fire, having completely forgotten about the cooking boar during their recent activities.

"Guy, the boar is on fire," she exclaimed.

Guy in an instant scrambled to his feet to try salvaging their dinner. "Oh crap!" He ran for a waterskin and a blanket but to Eep it was probably a fruitless endeavor.

She was never much of a picky eater anyway. Sometimes some burning did a meal good, she thought, touching her lips with a grin.

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nonebutyou · 5 years ago

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Do you have any advice for getting better at AC clothing designs?

hello! i’m 100% still learning when it comes to designs so i’ll try my best!

so the first thing i’ve found myself doing more often than not is watching the mannequin in the corner, rather than the pixel display itself. i think it’s because when i did watch the pixels i found myself trying to create patterns or assuming what the design should look like, rather than taking into account how the design gets stretched and warped on the actual garment.

so i designed this while watching howl’s moving castle netflix party style w my friend so my bad it’s so poor

when it comes to parts in longer skirts especially, i’d tend to follow the line down to create a triangle, when in actuality smoothing the line down in a more staggered way takes into account stretching.

shading while watching the mannequin also helps to smooth sharpness in lines a lot too.

on shading, i found that keeping the vividness the same while altering the brightness helps to create a natural gradient, and being able to use as many shades as possible definitely helps. so here i was able to use four tones, with the darkest being used the least. the lightest shadow tone i tend to use quite frequently.

bodices/tops: i stick to my reference pictures as much as possible when i’m attempting recreations. so here, sophie’s mother’s dress has a lot of front boning/seams which i had to put into the top. when it comes to creating tops where corseting/stays would ~historically~ be worn underneath i find that curving the boning lines as i go down to the waistline a useful way to imitate a similar silhouette. while shading underneath each arm (up to the first lines in this example) helps to draw the waist line inwards, as if corsetted/stayed.

when it comes to frills/ hems, shading definitely helped me try and figure it out as it was definitely a trial and error moment for me lmao. using all the shading colours at hand definitely will help to puzzle it out but these patterns are the ones i tend to stick to now.

with sleeves i always copy the design and maybe make just minor changes so that there’s more dynamics to the creases. i tend to do this with the front and the back too, depending on whether the back is massively different to the front.

so with this dress for example, the back lace panel goes down further than the front which is the only major change, so i copied the front to the back so i wouldn’t have to go back and forth trying to line up hems, etc.

the only thing i’d recommend hecking with this method is if you decide on a hem like this, the pattern may have to be altered so that creases are not cut off on the sides:

and with bows i always use the mirror tool and draw with one continuous stroke to create the full curve of the bow, this way i can easily undo the full line and it’s also just fun to create really big bows this way lool

i hope i haven’t forgotten anything and if this is at all helpful to you i’ll be so relieved💀

have a great day n happy designing💕��

#ask #acnh designs #this was so badly done im sorry #i know ive forgotten something #acnh #studio ghibli #acnh dresses #howl’s noving castle

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jean----ralphio · 4 years ago

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BoB liveblog ep 3

Feelings. I’m having them.

Episode 3: Carentan, but I’m renaming it my heart hurts because this ep is so heavy but also I’m happy cos the best thing possible happens AKA the return of Rich

00:01 THE MUSIC. UGH. WHISKEY STAT.

03:02 These men, I can’t, stop doing this to me Tom Hanks, I feel personally attacked by the pain

03:18 My husband has just informed me I shouldn’t drink while doing these liveblogs because it’s “unhealthy” and “dangerous” and “please stop drinking my whiskey and crying about Gabriel from Supernatural.” First of all, he’s fucking lucky I’m not filing for divorce. Secondly, I need to cope SOMEHOW! “Yes, but I really don’t think alcohol is the best choice as a coping mechanism.” WRONG ALCOHOL IS THE ONLY CHOICE.

03:46 Blithe! Whatcha doing baby?

03:55 Shifty! My angel son is here!

04:21 Real talk, the first thing I ever saw Marc Warren in was this hot as fuck movie with Lee Williams, I’ll google it hang on. OK it’s called ‘No night is too long’, its based off a book. Marc Warren plays this hot professor and Lee Williams is a uni student and the sex scene montage is seared in my memory forever, and there’s a kiss in elevator and it is something else. That’s all I remember when I see Marc. His character in it was super intense and kinda scary, so it’s funny to see him playing Blithe, who is baby.

05:17 Aw Shift, my little angel baby son

05:32 Perco! <3

05:41 Lieb I’ve missed you <3 Luz <3

06:11 Oh Blithe, sweetie.

06:38 Like. He’s functioning. But he’s also not functioning. Same tbh

06:58 Harrrrryyyy <3

07:18 “No talking, no smoking, and no playing grab-fanny with the guy in front of you, Luz!” Iconic.

08:01 “And another thing to remember, boys, flies spread disease! So keep yours closed!” Oh Luz, never change

08:15 Love these few seconds, the fire and the water and the silhouettes

09:11 What do you mean again! How many times have you lost them, Harry?!

09:44 Yay the husbands are here. I’ve missed them. BUT YOU KNOW WHO I MISS THE MOST? RICH. WHERE IS HE?

10:40 You’re the yokel, sweetie

10:50 It’s OK, baby Blithe!

11:02 Look, Dad and his husband are here, you’re safe

11:27 Ugh that scene

12:00 I don’t like this, Dick

12:35 “WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO!”

“I HAVE NO IDEA!”

Iconic.

12:45 Move, boys! Listen to Dad!

13:11 BABY NO DON’T TAKE YOUR HELMET OFF!

13:31 Angel son, be careful

13:45 God how do they even know where to shoot?

14:08 Shifty! I said be careful!

14:09 God he’s good

14:23 No baby!

14:40 That was boss, random dude. Tipper?

14:50 Angel son

15:01 Boys. God.

15:40 Was that necessary?

15:41 Well, it led to that boss scene for one, I guess. Iconic.

15:57 Naw, Luz had a feeling <3 And he was right!

16:08 Leave them, baby

16:46 Buck lmao

16:57 Sweetie it’s OK! Oh no, baby ☹

17:10 Roe <3

17:18 Me too, babe

17:38 Ah, Lip! Speirs, come save him!

17:53 Lol poor Lip! Oh no, not the goods!

18:01 I’m happy for you, and Speirs, lmao

18:39 Yeah, you show that outhouse, Tip. It was looking shady as fuck to be fair

18:48 Oh fuck.

18:56 This bit though, the distorted sound… fuck

19:25 Oh Lieb <3

19:35 Lieb, you always try to pretend you don’t care and that you’re badass but you’re not fooling me <3

19:44 Baby, no, wtf are you doing?

19:53 IT’S RICH! OH THANK FUCK! I’VE BEEN SO FUCKING WORRIED. I’M SO PHYSICALLY RELEIEVED LMAO

20:02 My heart

20:27 God

20:34 Where tf did you find that horse?!

20:50 You named him fat boy??

21:02 Oh, honey. I can’t make jokes. It’s a stressful time for us all, me especially, due to the lack of Rich.

21:06 Nix. No.

21:10 Husbands <3

21:14 Baby! Nix go back and help.

21:23 He’s like ugh tf I don’t have time for this! Mood

21:34 This is the first time we hear Roe speak <3

21:43 Listen to him, Dick!

21:45 Hey Buck

22:22 Lord, thank you for Shane’s face.

22:31 Roe’s like wtf you gonna do?

22:55 Baby don’t cry!

23:32 You didn’t let anyone down! It’s OK!

23:43 Oh Dick called him son, I can’t

23:57 Dad healing vibes.

24:11 Dick is legit a Dad now. Is this how the adoption process works?

24:41 Roe is like tf just happened

24:53 RICH! RICH!!!! <3

24:59 Ew

25:05 Don’t touch it, Rich, yucky.

25:21 Oh God. Terrifying.

25:22 Riiiiich, I’ve missed you so much

25:30 Speirs just wants to get back to killing ASAP

25:37 Terrifying. Pretty. But terrifying.

25:41 Mood, Penk

25:56 Riiiich <3 He looks so golden in the sunlight <3

25:58 Paused here a while. His face is beneficial to my health and well-being, OK? Also, third whiskey

26:04 RIIICCH <3 He’s such a wind up. He’s so pretty and golden! Look at his eyes and his little lock of hair and his stubble, I can’t even.

26:17 I can’t. His eyes. Even in the shade you can see they’re so pretty <3

26:36 So much Rich content. I’m so happy.

26:59 Lord. I love Rich. But Matthew is a freaking fox.

27:10 *happy sigh*

27:20 Rich’s hair is so blonde here

27:28 Rich stop throwing things at people!

27:37 Blithe is still a wee bit batshit, but he’s still the only voice of reason in this little party, which is concerning.

28:19 LMAO LUZ “Oh Jesus Christ, Frank, I don’t know, until they tell us to stop.” He’s always such a mood.

28:38 Hoob looks like he needs a bath.

29:02 Move, babies, move

29:38 That day-night transition tho

29:52 Hey Johnny

30:02 Mood

30:07 Harry. Stop. Cute.

30:30 Johnny, I’m not sure I appreciate your little “You can count on ME sir” as if Harry can’t count on Blithe! Don’t be rude.

30:33 Harry! Fucking fall on him why don’t you!

31:06 Tell that to Ross

31:34 Dad’s here

32:37 Oh Harry

32:38 “War is hell” You little shit! Iconic

33:08 Oh God

33:21 Roe <3 He got there quick! I feel like he doesn’t sleep, that he just hangs around in the back waiting to run in and save people <3

33:27 Oh, baby ☹

33:32 Blithe, it’s OK. He looks so scared!

33:55 Johnny, I have several things to say to you. Number 1, how dare you look so hot in this lighting. Number 2, don’t be so freaking lazy! Number 3, leave poor Blithe alone! He is having a Difficult Time. God Johnny is so unimpressed with him tho.

34:35 I would be more scared to run into Speirs, rather than the enemy. He is more terrifying tbh.

34:46 So. Intimidating.

34:54 Nervous? Yes, case in point.

35:01 Oh Christ here we go. Welcome to the Speirs is batshit and murder-hungry show.

35:27 Lol at Johnny suddenly waking up cos he heard gossip

35:40 Goodnight Johnny ‘Unimpressed’ Martin ILY

36:06 Don’t kill him, please

36:33 GDI Speirs

36:53 Literally no one else wants to be like that, Speirs, just you.

37:58 God

38:33 I need to see Rich. I feel like he was back in that field with Malark but I couldn’t make him out properly and I am now Upset.

38:52 Dick is so boss.

39:18 Oh, baby, oh dear

39:42 Ugh, oh no

40:02 Noooo don’t abandon Easy

40:22 Dad’s here, it’s OK

40:57 Dick get down from up there, you’ll get hit

42:08 Lol at Harry

43:18 RICH

43:48 Nix just chillin with his binoculars on his hill the whole time

44:20 Naw Rich just got back with the ammo and now the party is over

45:05 Oh

45:29 I got chills, the way he just disappears

48:11 So touching

48:46 Harry’s not happy

48:57 lol they’re all like nope, don’t make eye contact

48:58 Aw Blithe levelled up, plus 1 courage

49:00 No, not my angel son, you leave him back where it’s safe Harry

49:28 Aw, Harry’s smile <3

49:59 Nix don’t be so crass

51:00 ROE <3

51:28 Aw Harry, it’s not your fault

51:52 I love this. Harry and Dick in the shade, the boys all chillin in the sun. It feels peaceful and like they’re getting some rest, but like it’s not comfortable. Both legit because they’re lying about on rocks and rubble, and like the general mood and tension. It’s not safe yet, and the environment reflects that and this show, I can’t with this fucking masterpiece of a show sometimes I swear

52:25 “That’s why I came to France. To please General Taylor.” Another zinger from Harry! Give me one line of his that is not iconic and I will give you my firstborn

53:34 Oh Blithe <3

53:56 Aw Malark <3

54:15 Dorks

54:53 RICH

55:14 Lol at Malark stealing Rich’s cigarette

55:19 Oh Lord, the way Dick’s face falls. God, that look. Also do you two husbands need to be that close? No, but please continue.

55:27 Babe <3

55:37 Aw the Dad club assembling is never good. Fun’s over.

55:44 Laughing Rich is all I need in this world

56:00 Bill stop groping him, that’s Roe’s job

56:04 Rich <3

56:13 Aw Babe has a new friend

56:16 Rich in the background <3

56:28 Oh Lip

56:31 That’s sweet of you Smokey

56:49 Lip <3

57:02 RICH’S FACE OMG

57:25 Poor Lip, having to do this.

57:29 RICH

57:36 OMG it’s an actual woman

57:48 Good on you Malark

58:07 Cute

58:17 So sweet

58:32 Oh God, this scene. It’s actually a little surprising she’s not figuring it out on her own

58:37 Oh, his face

58:57 Scott does such a beautiful job in this scene, portraying the emotion without much dialogue, not quite meeting her eyes when he should because he’s trying to hide his shock and sadness

59:40 Oh Blithe.

In conclusion I am happy and sad. It’s a very confusing time.

#band of brothers #liveblog #rsj #this one hits right in the feels

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sunflowersteves · 5 years ago

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The Price of Freedom

Modern Mob!AU

2/11 Sam Wilson

Steve Rogers x fem!reader

Author: @cap-n-stuff

Chapter summary: Steve has agreed to help you escape the treacherous Russian mob. Now, you’ll need Sam’s help to escape. What happens when the Council figures out your plan? [Heavily based on John Wick]

Ба́ба-Яга́ means the boogyman.

Also for those of you who don’t know, “bumpy” Johnson was a real mobster and the biggest in Harlem!

Song for Chapter: Death On Two Legs by Queen

Word Count: 3.4K

Author’s Note: LMAO I’m sorry I ended it on a little bit of a cliff hanger. I really enjoy this series. It’s so fun to write! Anyway, I hope you all enjoy! I’m not adding any links accept my masterlist so we’ll see if this works. I also tagged my own self but maybe that’s the issue too. I’m not sure. Hope it works!

Warnings: angst, some fluff, swearing, mentions of murder and illegal activities, mentions of minor character death, eventual smut, VIOLENCE AND BLOOD!!!

Masterlist // Series Masterlist // Next Chapter

You are now sitting in Steve’s car and driving to Harlem to meet Sam. The car ride was ridden with complete silence. He had one hand on the wheel and the other was gripping his knee. You sat in the passenger seat and tried to look anywhere but him. Honestly? You were a fidgety, nervous mess. Normally, you were an unresponsive, apathetic assassin that had blank expressions on your face at all times but Steve’s presence just makes you nervous. Especially considering the last time you saw him, really saw him, was the day you left.

His eyes drift onto your silhouette and you quickly looked out the window watching the sunset. Right now, you wanted nothing to do with confrontation. You wanted out of this disgusting corrupt world and start a family of your own. Of course, this leads to you thinking about Steve.

Being with him was one of the happiest memories you had other than your family. Steve showed you a life above the violence and killing. He showed you that despite learning more than five ways to kill somebody, you were still capable of normal romantic emotions. Damn, you remembered the night you left him pretty clearly.

Even that day had even been one of the best.

Steve had promised to show you aspects of Brooklyn since you were raised in Manhattan and in Harlem. So, you were going to a Cyclone game. You had never really watched baseball but before your parents passed, they considerably enjoyed the sport. Steve also reassured that he would teach you. You and Steve stood near the front of Calvert Vaux Park, near the MCU stadium in Coney Island. Clouds rolled into the area, casting shadows on the two of you.

Steve smiled and pulled you into an opened mouthed kiss, tongue swirling sweetly. He put a hand on the small of your back and pulled you in closer. Your hands came up and cupped his cheeks, feeling the slight gruff of his subtle coming in. Your lips tangled with love and passion, getting lost in the smell of sandalwood and cinnamon, aka, him. He pulled away making you whine. You stood there still entangled in his arms and watched him smirk.

You pick up your hand, and gently caress his cheek. “C’mon, мой сладкий [my sweet], let’s go watch the game.” He chuckled and interlaced his hand with yours. “God, you speaking Russian is the single most sexist thing.” You laughed wholeheartedly at his comment and shook your head. “Whatever, Залупа [dickhead].” Your lips slid into a smirk as he pestered you the whole walk about the meaning of that word. After a couple of blocks, you both walk into the stadium and sit down in your seats.

Being born into a Mafia had made both, you and Steve, forget what normal life was like. Until you found each other. Steve had then promised to show you that life. Steve told you that after the game, you were going to walk around Coney island and ride some of his favorite rides like the Cyclone Roller and the Soarin’ Eagle. To say you were jumping with giddiness was an understatement. Even, the next week, Steve was going to take you to a Brooklyn Nets game in Barclay stadium and he said while watching, you both had to have hotdogs and beer.

You were excited about this new life with Steve. You were both carefree and happy. Something you only found with Gamora and when Wanda was born. Never had you left love before this.

Now, sitting in your seats, Steve was yelling at some of the players for a ball settling on foul territory. His arm was around you while you snuggled into his side, enjoying some stadium nachos. And occasionally you’d slip a nacho in his mouth when he begged. Then, Steve was full of anger, making your seat wiggle slightly and you laughed at his demeanor. He poked his tongue at you but then one of the players scored a home run and the anger vanished into cheering. Your laugh was soon interrupted by your phone buzzing with an incoming call. You didn’t answer it at first but they kept calling. Steve watches as you check it.

No Caller ID. You knew it was your director, wanting some information on the next target they assigned you. You looked at Steve with sorrowful eyes but he understood, nodding his head and slightly waving his hand dismissively. As you walked away to a more private area, Steve was now furiously standing and continuing to yell at the poor players.

You pick up the phone, looking around for others so they don’t hear your conversation. “Да?” “Ба́ба-Яга́, you are to be reassigned immediately. You are to have no distractions. Leave for Senegal at 9 pm.” They immediately hung up and your stomach plummeted to the ground. You quickly return to your seat and don’t say a word, suppressing any tears that wanted to roll down your face.

How were you supposed to tell Steve? How were you supposed to tell the man you loved that you could no longer see him? You knew the ‘no distractions’ was a quip at Steve. They knew you were here. They always knew. God, your heart aches at the thought of telling him.

You could only look ahead, acting like you were intently watching the game but Steve could sense your displeasure. His hands slid onto your back, trying to comfort you. “Who was that? You okay, doll?” You nodded and you both continued to watch the game in silence. You just told yourself that this was for the best. There is no love in the world you two live in. Did you both really think that? Did you both really think you could be together? Have a happy life together?

That night you packed your bags and left for Senegal, never looking back.

Your mind was soon interrupted by Steve’s voice. “We’re here.” By this time it was dusk, the warm kisses of the sun split into the darkened twilight signifying that night has only begun. While the dimmed sky sits as if cushioned upon pure charcoal velvet, Steve finally pulls up into a hidden alleyway. He puts the car in park and slowly turns to you, eyes trying to lock with yours.

“Y/N.” You first don’t meet his but your eyes ultimately gravitate and clasp with him. “Look, Y/N, I think I-” He was interrupted by a figure tapping on the window. He sighed up pushed the button that rolls down the window. A masked man tells Steve to continue to drive into the parking garage. You pull up into a parking spot and get out.

You both walk towards the elevators of the garage to see a man in a purple suit and a bunch of men behind him.

You grinned widely at the man in front of you. “Hey, Cottonmouth.” Sam walked up to you and wrapped his arms around you, giving you a tight squeeze. “Hey, little pumpkin.” You snorted at the nickname. And gave him a ‘whatever I can kill you.’ He punched you lightly in the shoulder and laughed. He then looked at you and Steve with a raised eyebrow. “Thought you two weren’t a thing anymore.” Steve was quick to defend you both. “We aren’t togeth-” Sam immediately interrupted Steve and gestured towards you. “It’s so good to see you! Thought you were in Saudi?” Steve just rolled his eyes playfully.

You nodded, “I was but I was relocated back to New York.” He nodded in understanding but quickly pulled you into another hug, sniffling a bit. “I’m sorry about your family, little pumpkin. Gamora was always a good business partner and friend. Wanda was a burst of sunshine too.” You sighed a bit at his words, lucky to have a friend like Sam in this grim life. He patted your back and guided the two of you inside.

You stared in awe at the inside of Apollo Theater, long ago, the Tarasov and “Bumpy’s” Mob did a lot of business in the theater together. “Bumpy” Johnson was the first really big mobster in Harlem, which coincidentally was Sam’s grandfather. The two mobs doing business resulted in you and Sam being trained together for their benefit which is why the two of you became good friends. “Damn, I didn’t realize how much I miss this place.” Sam chuckled and continued to guide you both to a table at the center of the theatres’ stage. The red and gold accents striking to the eye. “It’s a place easily missed.” The three of you sat down at the rounded table and continued to talk business.

“So you do the big weapons now, Cottonmouth?” You teased Sam slightly while he just playfully gasped. “I’ll have you know I’ve been doing this for a while!” Steve was pretty quiet when the two of you caught up which then made Sam tease him even further.

“I gotta admit, little pumpkin, this is not going to be an easy ride but I’ll be dammed if I don’t help you. One of us has to have a happy life.” He paused looking at his men, prompting them to go get the weaponry. “The Council can actually fuck itself. They’ve been corrupt for far too long.” You and Steve agree with him and he continues. “Now, to be able to get through the council’s reign and possibly the Tarasov, you’ll need some fine weaponry.”

Sam has his men pulls out a table from backstage that has a long line of weapons from grenades, AK-47’s, different types of daggers and blades, revolvers, battle rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, pistols, grenade launchers, push blades, machetes, and polearms. You clapped your hands and rubbed them together as you stood up and gravitated towards the weapons.

“Woah there, little pumpkin.” Sam chuckled at your eagerness. “These are for Steve to pick from. I got something special for you.” As Steve grabbed what he wanted and placed them in duffle bags, Sam snapped his fingers towards one of his men and they came back with a velvet case. Sam had the man open it and your eyes widened at the set of gold daggers in front of you. “Sam. These are 2 million dollar knives I-” “oh, shit up and take it.” He rolled his eyes and paused, pushing the case of daggers towards you. “Think of it as thanks for all these years.” You nodded and picked up the golden knives in awe. “Thank you, Sam. You’ve always been like a big brother to me.” He smiled brightly and ruffled your hair endearingly.

Your talk was quickly disturbed by the sound of explosions in the distance. The three of you both look at each other but quickly take action as a redheaded woman came barreling inside the main theatre, shooting at anything that moves. She yelled at her men to come inside and they came rushing in. They were all able to get quite a few of Sam’s men. Steve throws the table on the ground, blocking the bullets that come hurtling towards you.

You quickly grab two of the knives and attach them to your waist and take ahold of a pistol that fell onto the ground. Checking the ammunition, you then swiftly shoved back the chamber of the gun. Steve does the same on his end with an AK-47 in his hands. Sam retreats towards backstage, a pillar blocking the bullets.

You look behind the table to see the woman fighting off more of Sam’s men and then with every chance, shooting at the table or pillar. Her aim was clearly all three of you. You brace yourself for a quick second. Steve’s eyes widened at your demeanor. “Cover me, Steve.” “Wait, Y/N, don’t-” You cut Steve off by you running from the table to the strange woman. He curses to himself and jumps above the table, shooting anyone that comes near you.

In that success, you grab ahold of the red-headed woman’s shoulders and lift yourself onto her back, triumphantly putting her in a chokehold and throwing the pistol she has away from her. She’s only caught off guard for a second as she then wraps her other hand around you and grabs your head yanking it to the ground.

You were able to catch yourself from falling and you waste zero time by aiming your gun at her but she quickly blocked the bullets with a dead body. She then runs up to you, aiming to punch your sides and legs but you blocked them. You were just about able to pull the trigger again when she kicks the gun out of your hand.

You took that opportunity to grab her by the neck, holding her in place, and repeatedly kick her stomach. She staggered a bit but got out of your hold by punching your jaw. You quickly try to reprimand her again but she instantaneously pulls out a dagger and throws it, lodging into your shoulder. You yell out in pain but your composure was fast and quick.

Steve was trying to get to you and give you help, especially when he heard you yelp in pain. He knew you could handle yourself quite well but he still wanted to help. For now, there were a bunch of this woman’s men surrounding him and he just kept fighting them off.

Steve looked over a quick second to see Sam help some of the men that were still alive, all while fighting off some men that come barreling towards him.

You quickly took the dagger out of your shoulder and slice down her arms in a zig-zag. Blood splatters onto you, thick and warm but this woman doesn’t want to back down. You went to cut her again but she blocks you and puts you in an arm hold. You use your leg and raise it high to kick her in the head. She stumbles at the impact which releases the grip she has on you.

She looks at the three of you, Sam and Steve fighting off her men that keep getting closer and closer to you both, and then she looks at you. She knew that if she continued she wouldn’t last. You were too good, the Tarasov’s ‘best.’ You were about to attack again but she suddenly runs, trying to escape to one of the balconies. You ran after her, wanting as many answers from her as possible but she escapes through a small window. You look out the window, panting as she runs across the street, disappearing in the distance.

She was able to get away, unsuccessful at killing the three of you. Sam looks around, counting how many of his brethren had died from one woman. “I swear, I know her from somewhere.”

Sam turned towards the two of you, holding pressure on a gun wound. “I think you should visit T’Challa in Toronto. He’s there on business and may have some information about the Council and what the fuck they’re up to. Or even the Tarasov. I bet they both know you want to leave.” You nodded and made your way towards the car in the garage, both you and Steve getting in. You were still trying to figure out why that woman looked to familiar.

The car was indefinite in its silence. You just couldn’t believe that someone knew you were there. It was clear she was in the Tarasov but how did they know. How did Sam know?

You knew word travels fast in this world and secrets are practically nonexistent but the only person you’ve told is-

You whipped your head towards Steve which made him slightly jump at your action. “Jesus, Y/N-” You narrowed your eyes. “Did you tell them?” He quickly shook his head, trying to defend himself but you growled at his defiance to confess and continued to talk. “Fuck, Steve, I just want to know why? I thought I could trust you, I thought you could trust me.”

Steve’s face quickly looked at yours and then turned back towards the road. “I didn’t tell anyone, Y/N. I’m just as perplexed as you are. The only one I’ve told is Sam but there’s no way that he would rat you out nor let that many of his men die.” You nodded, knowing his statement was true. “Then how did they know?” he wiped a hand across his face, smearing some dried blood. “I don’t know-” You interrupted him, fury covering your eyes.

“You know, I can do this on my own. I don’t need you.” You cringed a little at Steve’s slight broken face. He wouldn’t lie saying your words didn’t hurt him. However, he quickly masked his face back to an emotionless one. “I swear to you, Y/N. I didn’t know. Even if I do have resentment towards you, I don’t hate you. I would never put you in danger.” He paused, knuckles tightening slightly on the steering wheel. “I owe you that.”

Then it clicked. Oh. Of course, he was just doing this to repay his debt to you. You’re fucking ridiculous to think otherwise. That’s how this world worked. If one had a debt, one kept that promise to fulfill it.

Steve pulled into a cheap motel as it was around 4 in the morning and because the road to Toronto was long, he knew you both needed some sleep. God, how could he say that to you? He wasn’t just doing this because he owed you. He knew that. He genuinely cared for you despite the deep internal wound that you left, which made him angrier than ever. How could the woman that left him, the woman that he was going to ask to marry still have so much effect on him?

He parked and you grabbed your belongings while Steve went to convince the concierge to give you both two rooms. He came back in success and gave you a key. You both immediately went on your separate ways. Although, without the two of you knowing, you both look at each other’s backs with anguish.

Once you get inside your hotel room, you immediately strip off your clothes and take a long steamy shower. Your thoughts came caving in about today. Fuck. How did they know? You thought you could trust Steve but was he just ratting you out for revenge? You really wanted to trust Steve and believe you meant as much to him as he means to you but something it doesn’t look like he’s telling you everything he knows.

Was it Sam? Was it just some spy that the Tarasov had assigned to you? One thing for sure was that you needed to find Nick Fury, an ex-council member and old friend.

After standing in the shower for a long time, you turn off the water and get out, put on a robe, and let your hair drip dry while sitting on the bed. Your head was buried deep into your hands as your mind continued to race.

There was no way a close and old friend like Sam would tell the council, however, people change. But you just refused to believe it. And Steve? You knew you were a bit resentful at yourself so your anger was just portrayed onto him. You honestly didn’t think Steve was the rat.

Your whole body tenses at the sound of a knock at your door. The only word going through your brain was ‘The Council.’ So, you instantly grab the Glock and magazine loader on your nightstand. You knew it had a full round of bullets so you quickly insert the loader and the clicking sound of the bullets being locked in followed.

You slowly make your way towards the door and as quietly as possible, shift back the chamber. Several more knocks have already sounded behind the door by this point. You hold the Glock slightly hidden on your side. You don’t even open the door, crouching near the side of it in case the intruder comes whisking inside. “Yes?” “It’s me.”

Your eyebrows shot up in surprise. It was Steve. You open the door to see a freshly showered Steve. He nervously rubbed the back of his neck with his hand and you lowered the gun, putting it on the table next to you. “Hey...Can we talk?”

Next Chapter

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mintyjin · 7 years ago

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mermaid au: jooheon

I’ve heard your cries for part two of mermaid! au changkyun and shownu (seriously, guys, you’ve flooded my ask box lmao), but listen, this concept is vibing with me tonight. enjoy!

once, a long time ago, there was a war between two cities

no one knows for sure why it started, but everyone agrees on one thing: it had something to do with magic

one city specialized in magic capable of moving and creating fire and earth, the other in taming the wind and water

you can kinda see where the conflict arose

years passed, bringing bloodshed and loss to everyone involved

to this day, it is the ugliest war to take place on the grounds and in the waters of your kingdom

and with all ugly wars come stories

this war is no exception, but the stories have a bit more of a peculiar tone

you see, it’s rumored that, to protect their magic and their lives, citizens of the wind and water city did something strange

they dove into the ocean and their legs morphed into tails, their necks creating small gills

and there, in the ocean, is where they dwelled as the earth and fire lineage took the throne, afraid of persecution, of further genocide

and there, it’s said, they remain

no one can definitively prove they exist, but every now and then, there are sightings of these mythical, magical people

and everywhere you go, there are murmurs saying one day, perhaps someday soon, they will grow weary of the ocean and walk back onto land

and on that day, the age-old war will continue

you see, the current monarch is a wielder of fire and earth

and he hasn’t forgotten the stories of his grandfathers

how do you know this so certainly?

well, you’re his only child, the first in line to the throne

while the story entertains you, you’re not so sure it’s entirely accurate

would generation after generation really subject themselves to a life of constant concealment?

magic, too, has its limitations. you know of gill spells and swimming potions, but could there really be a magic powerful enough to allow an large group of people to survive for so long underwater?

that said, you can’t just shrug off the legends completely. the war, after all, did happen

one day, during a particularly heinous arithmetic lesson, you gaze in boredom out of your window, which overlooks the sea

the sight of the rolling sea, ornamented with birds diving in and out of the water, gives you an idea

you should escape this lesson for a little while and go let the water run over your toes

the castle gets so stuffy, and not just because nearly everyone within it is a fire wielder

you excuse yourself to the bathroom, quickly ducking into the hallway of servants’ quarters and slipping through the door at the end

you leave your shoes at the door and dash over to the sand, relishing the way it shifts beneath your feet

and then you sprint as fast as your legs allow so that no one sees you leaving

and when the castle is out of sight, your lungs are burning and your feet feel heavy but you’re so exhilarated at the feeling of freedom that you throw off your unnecessary layers of clothing and hurl yourself into the ocean

with strong strokes, you pull yourself to the calmness of the deeper waters

you turn so that you’re floating on your back, feeling the cool, gentle lull of the waves beneath you, closing your eyes against the sun

and it’s so warm and peaceful that you just lay like that for a while, feeling your stresses melt away

when you grow bored of that, you watch the sun send specks of light dancing along the waves and you decide to try to mimic that light with your magic

you conjure up some small sparks in your palm and lightly blow, casting them onto the sea

they spark and pop like tiny fireworks, the ashes crumbling in the water

not exactly what you wanted

but then you hear a splash behind you, followed by a voice

“Woah... that was actually very pretty.”

you whip around, hand raised, ready to fend for yourself if need be

but the sight that greets you forces you to falter

there, in front of you, is a boy. a very handsome boy, to be exact. with small, dark scales on the sides of his eyes and neck

and unless your eyes are tricking you, you can see the beginnings of a silvery tail beneath the water

mermaid... he’s a mermaid

you shake off your surprise, still poised and on guard. “Who are you?” you ask

“Jooheon. You don’t have to be so tense, I won’t hurt you.”

you still hold your stance, aware that his people don’t have a great relationship with yours

he just sighs and narrows his eyes and says, “Just because our ancestors fought means we have to? And here I thought this could be a fun conversation.”

and you finally put your hand down but you’re still unsure

this could be a trick. he could be waiting for you to relax.

“What do you want?” you ask

he shrugs. “Not sure. I’ve never spoken to a human before.”

and you're like... huh

“I’ve never spoken to a... mermaid... before.”

and to your surprise, he laughs, throwing his head back a bit, his smile magnificent

“Then this should be interesting. Have you ever seen water wielding before?”

you shake your head, no, and he smirks

he dips one hand into the ocean and cups some water in his palm, blowing a bit of air into it not unlike how you did

and then the water seemingly comes to life, taking the shape of a dragonfly and flying to you, landing on your shoulder

and it’s beautiful magic, you can’t deny it

you also can’t fight back the astonished smile that spreads across your face

what you don’t know is that jooheon is like, wow.... she's cute...

“This is amazing!” you exclaim, your previous hesitation forgotten

and jooheon’s like, “Naturally.”

you roll your eyes but seriously, you’re impressed

“Ok, Jooheon,” you say, noticing how he starts when you say his name, “but can you do this?”

you hold your hand palm up, concentrating

and then a flame bursts from your hand and you focus harder, controlling its movements so that it forms a small orb of fire floating a few inches above your palm

and jooheon is already transfixed because he’s never seen fire this close before, but then you snap your fingers and he watches in amazement as it blows away in some invisible wind

and naturally, he has to one-up that, so he shows you another trick of his

which leads to a whole thing where you’re each showing off your magic to the other

you end up laughing a lot, half at this boy’s antics and half in amazement as he conjures things you never could’ve imagined possible

but then you notice he’s giving you a funny look and you ask why and he goes, “You never told me your name.”

“Oh, it’s Y/N.”

“Ok, Y/N, do you trust me?”

“Depends. Why?”

he points behind you, towards the direction of the palace. “I think someone is looking for you.”

you turn and he’s right- even from a distance you recognize the silhouette of your teacher and groan

“I know a place you can hide out,” jooheon says, “but you have to trust me.”

and you’re a little hesitant again but you nod and he pulls you underwater with him

your eyes fling open, bearing the sting of saltwater so that you can see what jooheon is doing

he makes a fist with one hand and then brings it to your mouth, motioning for you to open

when you do, he pushes what feels like a small bubble into your mouth and, to your surprise, you can feel yourself breathing

breathing..... underwater

you even notice the sting in your eyes disappearing

you’re sure your surprise is written all over your face because jooheon laughs, but when you go to open your mouth, he clasps a hand over your lips and shakes his head

you take the hint- don’t open your mouth

from here you can see the entirety of his tail, which is gorgeous

it’s silver, like you thought, but with dark translucent fins

he gently grabs your wrist and pulls you towards him, wrapping an arm around your waist so that you’re pulled right up against him

and it’s not like you mind,,, he’s very warm,,, and uhhhh also very attractive

then he places his mouth above your ear and whispers, “Don’t panic, ok?”

and starts swimming, still holding you

and you’re just looking around in amazement because on one hand, there’s jooheon, who is very fun to look at, but then there’s also schools of fish you’ve never seen up close before swimming by

and you’ve never seen the sun through water like this

it’s all so beautiful and fascinating and you can’t believe you’ve gone your whole life without seeing it

but before long, jooheon swims to the surface and you emerge from the water to find that you’re in a small sort of enclosure

like a small cave

“Where is this?” you ask

“Right behind the castle,” he says

you can’t conceal your surprise, saying, “What? I never knew-” before catching yourself

jooheon has been friendly enough, but that might change if he finds out you’re a member of the royal family

the family that caused his people to jump into the water in the first place

thankfully, he doesn’t seem to have any suspicions

“So, what’s human life like?”

“Kind of boring, to be honest,” you say, launching into descriptions of your teacher and various classes

and you think it’s horribly monotonous but he’s hanging on to your every word and asking questions left and right

he’ll interrupt a story to ask what a bathtub is

and you're like oh yeah I guess you wouldn’t really have a use for one would you

he tells you stories of his life, too

of exploring sunken shipwrecks and huge, expansive corals with his friends

and it’s all so alien and interesting that you figure you could listen all day

but before long, it gets dark and a bit cold, so you think you should go

he notices your glances and is like, “Ah, they’re probably looking for you back at the palace, aren’t they?”

you flinch. “How did you know I live at the palace?”

“I get that our societies are a little separated, but my people know of your family.”

“Oh.”

and he senses that you’re uncomfortable so he takes your hand in his, a blush dusting his cheeks

“I think you’re a good person. Regardless of what our families did to each other, you’re good,” he says

and you squeeze his hand, not meeting his gaze

“Y/N,” he says, oddly serious, “I don’t want this to be the last time I see you.”

and you’re like.... yeah, me neither

and you agree to meet him in that small cave behind the palace wednesday night

you pull yourself out of the water, jooheon’s hand steadying you to keep you from falling

and once you’re on dry land, you bend down to kiss his cheek, smiling to yourself as it turns bright red

“Goodbye, Jooheon.”

“Nononono don’t say it like that it sounds so depressing and as if I’ll never ever see you ever again-”

you just laugh and wave goodbye

as you leave, you turn around and jooheon is just staring at you, watching you leave with his chin resting on his hand

he gives you a smile and waves goodbye with the ferociousness of a little kid

and you’re like.... if the rest of the kingdom could see this, peace would stand a fighting chance

but for now, you’re just excited to see jooheon wednesday night

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taytaybooks · 7 years ago

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WHAT I LOVE ABOUT MUSICALS THREAD #1: ANASTASIA

So I know heaps of people do/have done this but I really enjoy picking at and analysing things & I’d like to do something for myself rather than just reblogging once in a while, so I’ve decided every Tuesday I’ll post a “What I Love About Musicals” post and it’ll be sort of like a thread (all of them will be under a tag #what I love about musicals thread). So off we go!

*I HAVE EDITED THIS AFTER FINDING AN OBC BOOT*

PROLOGUE: ONCE UPON A DECEMBER

The haunting sort of “ahhs” at the start of the song

The costumes!!! (Romanov’s Last Dance)

The lighting!! It’s so cool, during the Romanov’s Last Dance, the lighting is red and when it goes dark after the last streak of red light (it’s like lightning!)

THE SNOW!! It’s such a pretty touch😍

A RUMOUR IN ST. PETERSBURG

The sound of a busy town at the start of A Rumour in St. Petersburg

DEREK KLENA AND JOHN BOLTON IN GENERAL

“It’s really very friendly if you don’t mind spies”

LIGHTBULB😂

Vlad hitting Dimitry with his hat oml😂

Anya’s “NO”, showing her PTSD

“I could never part with it” “2 cans of beans comrade?” “Done"😂😂

“There’s more to being Anastasia than wearing a tiara, Dmitry” “Not much, look how many people you fooled"😂 I AM SHOOKETH

“And with luck we won’t be shot” then the thud that represents a gun shot straight after- that’s clever af

The way Derek sings “The biggest con in hisTORY”

IN MY DREAMS

“Her? Have you gone crazy too??”

CHRISTY ALTOMARE IN GENERAL WHAT A SMOL BEAN

“In my dreams shadows call” 😍😍

Again the haunting “ahhs” right after “But I know it all will come back one day”

“Is it Paris? …Paris”

“I’ll meet you right there, in Paris” the way she sings this oml

“I’ve seen flashes of fire Heard the echoes of screams” 😍

The crescendo of the orchestra at “don’t give up hope come what may”

Christy Altomare is a powerhouse tbh

ALSO THE SETS ARE 100% BETTER

LEARN TO DO IT

“Could it be?”

“Am I floating?” “Like a sinking boat” THE DYNAMIC OF THE TWO AHH DIMYA

When Vlad moves his arms so it’s like he’s flapping wings😂

“You’re the ones who don’t stand straight”

“It’s all his years of bowing and katowing”

“Bowing is a sign of respect”

“I bowed to someone once”

“There, you admit it!”

“I was a boy, I didn’t know any better. That was the first and last time-"😍😍 the end of In a Crowd of Thousands makes this interaction 1000x better

“I never cared for stroganoff”

“Your best friend is?” “My little brother Alexei” “Wrong! Your best friend is-” “I know who my best friend is!” “What a temper!” “I don’t like being contradicted!” “Well that makes two of us!” And poor Vlad is like fuckkkkkk why? It just shows their whole dynamic and I love it

“I’ve had it, and I hate you both!”

“Get out and let me be!”

Dima getting hit with the chalkboard lmaooo

Anya & Dima stepping on each other’s toes

The dancing!!! This trio is GOLDEN.

"Tomorrow we begin again”

“In Russian…for the common man”

THE NEVA FLOWS

“A Russian telephone that works”

“…that was a joke…yes we have wonderful telephones”

Gleb low key gets everyone to leave him and Anya alone haha

The intro to The Neva Flows

“The world stopped breathing"😍

“But I believe he did a proud and vital task” his voice gets stronger and then at “The Neva Flows” the orchestra gets stronger/crescendoes

“Could I have pulled the trigger if I’d been told” I loved the way it was shouted in the Hartford production but I also love how tender it is in the Broadway Cast Recording

MY PETERSBURG

Anya chasing people & fighting them what a girl

HER BATTLE SCREEEEEAM

"Wanna see what else I can do!!”

“Black and blue welcome to my Petersburg” and then her jump lmao

“Funny how a boyyyy can grow”

“There’s a sky and quite a view Welcome toooo My Petersbuuuuuuurg”

ONCE UPON A DECEMBER

I love the costumes and dancers in Once Upon a December

THE GHOSTLY SILHOUTTES

Again the haunting “ahhs” after “figures dancing gracefully across my memory”

Just Christy Altomare in this performance in general- she’s amazing in this song

How tender and soft it gets at “things it yearns to remember”

STAY I PRAY YOU

In “Stay I Pray You” the ensemble hums and ahhs again and it’s different from “Once Upon a December” but still haunting in a way and it gives me chills

“How to go where I have never gone before” - it starts off emotional but their voices go down and softer towards the end😍

“I’ll bless my homeland” I love how it starts off as the trio then one by one they leave Anya alone to sing the last line

WE’LL GO FROM THERE

is so jaunty I love it

“Hands shaking, heart thundering, meet the Royal mess” the whole vibe changes and I love it

Those women who are low key very annoyed with Dima for standing on their bench

The canon effect of dmitry and anya

“For a totally illegal lovely getaway” makes me smile every time

The part where they all sing their respective parts 😍

Their long as note at the end

“With orders to arrest two men and a young woman”

“That could be anyone”

“I don’t think so”

*holds up a wanted poster with their faces on it* lmaooo

Anya leading the jump off the train

“Anya can’t go on any further. She’s exhausted”- Vlad

STILL

“is it innocence or guile”

“A son becomes a man!”

“To fulfill!”

“I’m innocent she cries but then you see her eyes and something in them tells you that she absolutely lies”

“Still” at the end because that note

JOURNEY TO THE PAST

When she sits down on the suitcase but gets up at “How the world seems so vast”

The way Christy sings “fear” in Journey to the Past

“Home love family I’ll never be complete until I find youuuuu”

The whole last verse

“And bring me home at laaaaaaast!”- the iconic set change where the scene changes & the Eiffel Tower comes into view

PARIS HOLDS THE KEY (TO YOUR HEART)

Ok the Hartford version of “Paris holds the key (to your heart)” was hilarious- I loved Gertrude Stein and her “rose is a rose is a rose” quotes

“Paris holds the key to her fate We won’t have much longer to wait And then come what may We will each go our way…” The mood/vibe shifts and it sounds slightly magical (I assume this is when she wears the pink dress?)

I love Anya’s new part in it, it sounds so magical

VLAD “At last, there’s a future”

DMITRY “There’s freedom”

ANYA “There’s hope”

ALL THREE “In the air!” - these lyrics are so optimistic and I adore it

The fucking dancing lmaooooo

CROSSING A BRIDGE

“Somebody’s daughter” I just love the way this is sung I don’t know why

her voice Oml

“In between wondering why and finally knowing”

“Me on the left bank you on the right” again the way she sings it

“Almost in siiiiiiight”

“One of them might be you” again she sings it so beautifully gah

CLOSE THE DOOR

“The Grand Duchess Anastasia is dead. The Dowager Empress is dead with her” this breaks my heart every time

The emotion in “Close the Door” always breaks my heart

The repetition of “to me” in the first verse 😭

It’s just all so raw and it’s beautifully sung with equal amounts talent and raw emotion

“In my heart I know you’re a lie I’ve waited for” I cry man

“Tell them all no more Tell them I close the door” 😍😭

LAND OF YESTERDAY

“No caviar”

“And Russians are mad” never fails to amuse me

“In dire circumstances” I love the way this is sung

The small dance bit with the aristocrats just chatting and watching etc😍 and then the music gets faster

“Let’s live in the land of yesterday” it’s almost as if she’s whispering and it sounds so good

“And let’s hold the world at bay” that note tho and she just danced 😍

THE COUNTESS AND THE COMMON MAN

is hilarious, Catherine O’ Connor is amazing as Lily

“We tiptoed off to Peter Hoff” the way he sings it

THE DANCE SECTION and how they act tired afterwards

THE KISS

“And how my heart beat when you sent me our sign”

“I loved you You loved me”

VLAD GIVES LILY HIS JACKET WHAT

Also Land of Yesterday Reprise is awesome

IN A CROWD OF THOUSANDS

The ahhs and ghostly silhouettes again before Dima comes in

THE WHOLE SONG. JUST ALL OF IT.

The introduction

“How they cheered How I stared"😍

“And then she smiled” the way it’s sung and the lyric itself

“But if I were still ten In that crowd of thousands I’d find her again"😍😍😭

“Then a boy caught my eye” that head lean he does like wtf

“He was thin Not too clean"😂😍 and they both laugh

“I tried not to smile But I smiled And then he bowed”

“I didn’t tell you that” “You didn’t have to. I remember!” The pure emotion in their voices😍

Then when they hold each other ahhh

And then “in a crowd of thousands I’d find you again”

Ok so in the broadway boot he cups her cheek & they almost kiss, like why do you have to play with my emotions like that

“Your highness” then he bows ahhhh it’s so cute especially since he made fun of Vlad for bowing in Court in “Learn to Do It”

MEANT TO BE

Ok so this is super smart: when the Parisians/Russians etc come on stage the instrumental to “Paris Holds the Key (to Your Heart)” plays, then when the Dowager Empress walks on to the stage, the instrumental to ”Close the Door” plays, and when Dmitry walks on, the instrumental to “In a Crowd of Thousands” plays 😍

Vlad and Lily doing their ‘signs’ lmao

Vlad trying to clean Dima’s cheek bahaha then Dmitry is like shove off

The way it turns sort of magical/enchanting when Anya comes out in that iconic blue dress and Dmitry is shining his shoes and he looks up slowly in awe then quickly holds his arm out for her after he gets up and she takes it and they walk in to the ballet ahhh

QUARTET AT THE BALLET

The dancers are top notch and deserve more recognition

IT IS UNDERRATED

“Am I only dreaming Looking at her face” is sung so beautifully

Dmitry’s part in it (second verse)

The Dowager and her raw emotion and denial in the third verse

“Don’t be ridiculous”

“My heart and mind at war The times must change The world must change And love is not what revolution’s for”

“It’s fate that brought us here"😍 Derek and Ramin singing together gah

When they’re all singing their respective parts

Especially Dmitry’s part when it’s chaos tho “Home, Love, Family She will have all of it! I will help her Find a way Anastasia”

And that last note as all the parts merge into one part “find a way Anastasia” plus the fact that DIma looks at Anya when singing this

EVERYTHING TO WIN

THE WHOLE SONG

“Why should I worry Worrying’s not like me”

“I wonder if our paths Will ever cross again The way they Did when you were eight and I was ten”

“We said this was goodbye But even so You never know You never knowwww”

“I didn’t know she mattered to me But now I can see she does”

“Funny the one small part I never knew… With everything to win The only thing I lose *instrumental to the ‘home love family’ part of Journey to the Past plays* Is you”

Those are some of my fave parts and lyrics because it’s such a cute song

Dmitry stomping on the Dowager Empress’ dress and the Empress slapping him

ONCE UPON A DECEMBER (REPRISE)

“Save it for your next Anastai- your Imperial Majesty”

I love the new addition of Anya’s new dress

It’s so simple- there isn’t a huge orchestral presence yet it’s so effective

“It’s never too late to come home, Nana”

The “Anastasia!” The Dowager Empress says at the end- it’s so emotional

THE PRESS CONFERENCE

“P-O-P-O-V” Vlad is great, this always makes me smile

“Suffice to say You’ll meet today The little lost princess” and the uproar from both the press and Lily herself, I find it hilarious. Good old Vlad

“We’re nearly read to begiiiin” Love how she sings this honestly

“Is she the princess anastasiaaaaaa” I love how they hold this note because it’s this huge question everyone has, and it’s been on their minds for so long.

“Members of the press This waaaaaaay” Caroline is a goddess her voice ahhh this is sung so well I love it

EVERYTHING TO WIN (REPRISE)

“I didn’t know he mattered to me But now I can see he does..” So cute

“The only thing I lose Is…” *gets cut off by Gleb* but still cute

STILL/THE NEVA FLOWS (REPRISE)

“Gleb” the emotion in her voice Oml

“If you really are Anastasia Do you think history wants you to have lived?” This is so important because that’s actually such a big part of her story- there are those who kept those rumours going to get through the day and those who tried to stop the rumours and hunt down any Anastasias so they could kill her and finish off the Romanov bloodline.

“Yes! why don’t you?” The emotion in their voices

“I am my fathers daughter” “And I am my fathers son!!” Again emotion

The ahhs from the ensemble it’s so haunting and chilling

And how the lighting changes to red to show the danger she’s facing 😍😍 and the ghosts of the fallen Romanovs walking in to show impending death but when she doesn’t get shot they slowly back away to show the danger is no longer there

“Imagine their terrors See their blood” SO EMOTIONAL

“We have a past to bury Anyaaaaa” THE EMOTION & THE LYRIC AND THE WAY ITS SUNG IN GENERAL

The ensemble when they sing “and the Neva flows, a new wind blows” it’s so chilling

And in the Hartford production when Christy shouts “I AM THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA NIKOLAEVNA ROMANOV”

“Be careful what a wish may bring A revolution is a simple thing!” It’s so emotional, the crescendo of music kind of stops and then there’s silence- we expect a gunshot but he still couldn’t do it - Broadway Gleb is nicer I guess? Like you can’t help but sympathize with him so when he whispers “I can’t” afterwards it’s sort of sad & heartbreaking

FINALE

“She was a dream” “A beautiful dream” symbolises that for so long no one knew what happened and then we found out she really did die- so her survival and Anastasia herself were really part of this beautiful dream.

“Still…” Symbolises those who still had hope she lived.

The ensemble singing the Once Upon a December verse

“Once upon a Deceeembeeeeer” is honestly such a beautiful way to end the musical and with Dimya just standing there together ahhhh so cute

And how there’s a spotlight on Dimya just before all the lights go out at the end

So basically I LOVE THIS WHOLE MUSICAL

Feel free to add anything guys xx💙💙

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bunnipuff · 8 years ago

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Do you have any advice on drawing omnics? I've been seeing a ton of cool omnic OCs (including yours!) and I was wondering how you design them and such.

FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU SO MUCH!! im glad you like my designs enough to come to me for advice its super nice of you!!!

but as for ur question: be ready . long omnic design musing under the cut. im very passionate about character design lol

personally i think omnics as a whole are a ton of fun to design because of their simplicity: they have just enough guidelines so you have a solid base to build off of, but are malleable enough to be fun to play with. especially with all the canon omnic designs we have so far, even if you cant come up with a lot, its very easy to pick and choose from bits that are already available, and to make yourself a very original omnic from just those!!

case in point: look at all these wonderful, canon omnics

this isnt all of them i dont think, but its a good enough sampling to start to see some patterns in the designs as well as the variety in them. you can see a lot of them have a similar :3 sort of face, the forehead optics, the angular arms; a few of them have much sleeker and more organic lines, like the carekeeper for the children, or the two single-eyed ones, so thats a good starting point to see where your design can begin. a good way to make them very recognizable as an omnic is to keep those neck pistons, the prominent chin, and the optics.

now the way i make my ocs is that i get an idea for a concept first, and then design a body around it. (its absolutely not the only way to do things but ive found its easiest for me as it gives me sort of a starting point!) for instance rose is made to be a field model so shes like. bulkier, stronger, looks tougher and less humanoid, and looks like she was made for practicality rather than design. czar is an artist and a music producer and he’s meant to stand out, to be loud and flashy and fancy, so hes one of the newer and more unique looking models, and has vivid colors. salome is supposed to be big and intimidating so i kept her more angular, used colors with more negative connotations (black, gold, red) and tried to make her look fancy. i personally like designs that reflect how a character is in general

now for 93, the idea i had was an assassin omnic who disguises himself in crowds by being a very generic-looking kind of model - and if we look at the omnics above, the more angular, silvery, blue-opticed model comes up the most, so since i wanted him to look as “generic” as possible, i tried to stay within that design.

if u look at the crowd in the alive short, youd be hard pressed to pick him out of it quickly. which is what i wanted design wise!

now if you want something a little more visually interesting (and really, who wouldnt. common omnics are cute but they dont make for the best characters, usually), you can either take some canon elements and change them to your tastes. for instance: you can take that :3 face humanoid omnics have, and just change it a little bit to make it really yours. like this:

just by changing a few things on their faces you can immediately give an omnic personality. just how zenyatta looks nonthreatening and friendly because of his downturned eyes you can do the same to yours: angling them forward (like in the 2nd row) makes them seem happy and friendly, keeping them straight (like this: -_-) might make them seem a little less approachable, and giving them “open” lit up eyes can either make them look friendlier or more threatening, depending on the size, the shape, and the color. (see how rose, in row 1, looks more awake, more open, than salome in row 3, who looks tired bc of the eye shape?)

you can also play around with face plate shapes; compare zenyatta and mondatta’s if you want a good example. zenyatta has a smooth round face which makes him look younger; mondatta has sunken in eyes, prominent cheekbones, an angular chin. he looks older, more tired, more wise. all that from just adding a few more angles!

now for color its all up to you. a few design elements i feel are very interesting to play with in omnics are body lights, contrasting joint colors, colored jaws, and wire placement. but again its all up to you what you decide to do with those, and what you personally like to draw. going with what you think is pretty rarely turns out badly so just go nuts!

as for drawing them; i personally am absolute garbage at drawing non-organic things, lmfao. a good way to hide that fact is to use the bends and shapes already present in omnic designs and pushing those to the max; omnics are meant to look humanoid, so dont be afraid to use human bodies as reference and just exaggerating the shapes! make an omnic meant to look sleek and organic! add wires or synthetic muscle! give them inhuman feet, or claws, or extra limbs! fuck anatomy. youre here to have fun, not to figure out an actual working robot, right?

some good guidelines for omnic bodies are these:

(again, this is just the base stuff. you can easily expand on it and modify the basic shapes to get a more interesting silhouette or more interesting elements.)

other than that its pretty much all up to you! experiment with lines, strip them of their plates, add pistons, put holes in the silhouette, try to figure out how it all fits together; its all about experimentation and throwing stuff at them and seeing what sticks, lmao. ocs are there for fun!

a good way to get ideas too is to gather up some research material. i have some tags on my main blog that are just for that: robots, mechs, and technology. ive gleaned design elements from a lot of things that way (but make sure not to outright copy. make it your own, yknow?)

otherwise just have fun!!! and id be glad 2 help design if u need any assistance ocs are my shit i lov 2 talk about them ✌️

#overwatch #omnic #omnic oc #THIS GOT A LOTTTT BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE....#hope it answers your question... feel free 2 ask more if u need this was fun 2 write #but ya usually like #either i see a new canon omnic with a design element i like and i make 1 based on that #or i get an idea for a character and design around that #or i see a piece of tech that looks cool and i build around that #it always has to stem from somewhere #either way... good luck with your designs...#show me when ur done im gonna love them i know i will!!!#Anonymous #asks #tutorial

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discountalien-pancake · 3 years ago

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Did someone send me an ask about The Irregulars at some point bc i vaguely recall getting one but *gestures at inbox*. Anyway, very scatterbrained review under the cut

Tw for mentions of suicide, gore, etc

Anyway I watched the entirety of it yesterday and it was imo an easy, fun watch but with some unfortunate pitfalls in their casting decisions. Colorism and the flaws of colorblind casting strike again!

Deeply annoyed that the villain was a dark-skinned black man from Louisiana and they pitted him against the white teenage girl and then did the whole Person Is Evil For Using Bad Means To Prevent Future Atrocities and then also slipped in a tiny thing at the end of his arc to establish that this man was also gay. Somehow still less offensive than whatever the fuck was going on with Bridgerton.

It was still really nice to see so many leads and supporting actors of color, especially a female asian lead who doesn’t have to face any racism, since some people had complaints about that in S&B.

Also props to them for making Certain Decisions about what not to show on screen. They weren’t at all shy about showing violence and some pretty brutal body horror and gore onscreen, so it really stood out that the only corpse never seen was that of a (presumably) black man who was strongly implied to have hanged himself. I say presumably because his daughter was black, but there were many mixed race families in the show.

The costumes were hit or miss but Watson was always impeccably dressed and even the tomboy who always wore pants also had a visible corset-like garment of some kind for much of her screentime. The silhouettes got a bit wonky because at one point one of the characters was in a distinctly Edwardian long-line esque corset thingy but then one of them was in a bustle gown and another was wearing something 1850s?? But I liked how colorful it was without being too modern or losing the “grittiness” that fantasy shows are so obsessed with. Leo’s blue ulster coat was a particular favorite. Tbh all of Leo’s costumes were great. Jessie’s were a hot mess, emphasis on mess.

Unfortunately there was some love triangle nonsense but. Could have been much worse. They were really allergic to allowing the gays to Get The Guy but at least our main gay doesn’t get buried? Which is an abysmally low bar lmao. I think this actually is the first adaptation I’ve seen where they had the guts to explicitly make Watson gay for Sherlock. No, he and Sherlock don’t end up together. They did Watson dirty for a while but his character ended alive and on a high note, so I’ll take it. Also he’s played by the same guy who plays Istred(?) in the Witcher.

Disability rep!! Leo is one of Queen Victoria’s children and thus has hemophilia. He either uses a cane or walks with a pronounced limp for the entire show. We can assume he has a lighter case than Alexei of the Romanovs, but he spends most of the show dealing with severe bruising to multiple parts of his body. And we love a boy who jumps off a fucking balcony to make it to an appointment with his crush. He’s late and high out of his mind, but he very much does jump off a balcony. His romance arc with Bea was super cute even with the love triangle nonsense, and we love to see a boy instantly fall head over heels for a girl when she verbally eviscerates his asshole guardian. That’s the only kind of love at first sight I want to see.

Lots of lovely found family vibes, lots of redemption for characters who let their grief or jealousy get the better of them. Almost all the monsters were people whose grief had been twisted by the magic they were accessing, and a lot of the episodic plots were resolved through compassion. I could not figure out if I was watching an adult show or a kids show but not in a bad way. Some of the dialogue was a little stilted or explainy but there was A Lot Of Gore. The teens looked and acted like teens, and the adults in their lives (Sherlock and Watson) were major fuckups but tried their best at the end.

There were hints at a potential season 2, and I’m actually looking forward to seeing where they go with that. I’d give the show a solid 7/10 overall. It wasn’t doing anything we haven’t seen before but all the characters were compelling enough that it didn’t matter.

#the irregulars

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